Monthly Archives: January 2008

Digidesign complete Pro Tools studios All in One Box

Digidesign and M-Audio have joined together to create two special limited-edition packages that offer complete professional music studios, all in one box. The Pro Tools Music Creation Studio and Pro Tools Personal Studio both provide everything you need to record, edit, mix, and promote your music, including a complete Pro Tools audio system, microphone, and monitors. Take the guess work out of putting together your own home or project studio, and save hundreds of dollars in the process, simply choose the bundle that best suits your needs

Nomad introduces the Analog Strings Station

Nomad Factory and NUSofting Introduce the Analog Strings Station Virtual Instrument. Nomad Factory and NUSofting are proud to announce their collaboration in creating top-of-the-line virtual instruments. The first announced of this collaboration is the Analog Strings Station, an advanced emulation of vintage electronic keyboards.

EKS announces the OTUS dj controller

From the Dutch importer we got the news that EKS is working on Version 2 of it’s XP10 Dj Controller, called EKS OTUS. As far as we saw they only had a mockup but, … it looked like a million bucks! One detail that is very clear is that at the coming MusikMesse in Frankfurt the OTUS will be introduced to the general public.

Go MINIMAL with Ueberschall

Minimal House is a sophisticated specialists sample collection comprised of productions with condensed tonal intensity for maximum emphasis. This library comes with 900 Loops and Samples, gathered in 24 construction kits and contains over 1.6GB of sample content. Main tasks of this Ueberschall product are live use, DJ sets and behind the scenes sound commandos. Sound awakenings for novice and advanced mix makers.

A persistent, uncontrollable desire from Serato

‘ITCH (ich) noun. a persistent, uncontrollable desire’ – After more than two years in the making, Serato Audio Research today announced a new DJ technology called ITCH. Serato ITCH is an integrated software and hardware solution for digital music selectors and DJs. Serato is working closely with select hardware partners to offer a level of integration, ease of use, and reliability never before seen in the digital DJ realm.

Sonoma Wire Works introduces Riffworld.com

Sonoma Wire Works introduces RiffWorld.com, an online music collaboration community for RiffWorks users. RiffWorks easy-to-use guitar recording software with built-in online collaboration and podcasting has been updated and integrated with RiffWorld.com. During the beta test, over 600 songs were created by 200 collaborators worldwide (US, Canada, UK, EU, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil and more) with no latency or distance problems. RiffWorld.com is now out of beta, and 20,000 RiffWorks users are ready to play.

Vir2 release Elite Orchestral Percussion and Basis plugins

Vir2 Instruments is proud to debut the latest two products in its series of innovative and groundbreaking virtual instruments: Elite Orchestral Percussion and BASiS. Elite Orchestral Percussion offers 19 gigabytes of sterling orchestral percussion with a sophisticated script engine, and BASiS fills the low end with a large collection of electric, upright, fretless, and synth basses with the most features and artificial intelligence ever built into a virtual instrument.