Monthly Archives: February 2009

FREE Pro Vintage Keys Collections for Korg M3 Xpanded and M50

Korg USA recently released a collection of electric piano and clav programs for their EDS-based workstations (M3 and M50) as a “thank you” to their many loyal owners. These are some of the most in-demand types of sounds that they constantly get requests for from their users, and they notice so many keyboard/synth players always looking for the “perfect” recreations of these essential electro-mechanical keyboard giants from the past.

New Beatport website live

Beatport is the recognized leader of electronic music downloads by DJs and fans alike delivering content in premium-encoded formats that match the professional performance quality standards of the world’s leading sound systems. Beatport.com allows users to access the world of club music through secure, legal, hi-speed, high quality downloads in MP3, MP4 and WAV formats on a pay per download basis from an impressive library of the world’s leading independent labels.

NI Releases version 1.1 of TRAKTOR PRO and TRAKTOR SCRATCH PRO

Native Instruments today released TRAKTOR PRO 1.1, a free software update for the latest generation of its digital DJ products. The update brings a new “Advanced Relative Mode” for TRAKTOR SCRATCH PRO with many advantages for time-code control, a new high-quality time-stretching algorithm, high-resolution MIDI support, a
convenient hardware setup wizard, and many other improvements that make the new TRAKTOR generation even more powerful and convenient.

Mackie announces Vista Support for Onyx Compact Series Mixers

Mackie today announces Vista support for the Onyx FireWire Card and adds Vista 64 support for all FireWire devices. Users of Mackie FireWire interfaces such as the Onyx Satellite, d.Pro Series DJ Mixers and now the Onyx FireWire card can now enjoy support under the Windows Vista operating system. This update not only adds compatibility, but includes feature updates from the previous build. The following FireWire interfaces are compatible with Mackie Audio Driver V1.1.0: Onyx FireWire Card, Onyx Satellite, u.420, u.420d, d.2 Pro, d.4 Pro and TAPCO Link.FireWire.

A&H ships the first iLive-T

Allen & Heath ships the first batch of the new iLive-T digital mixing systems today. Launched last month at NAMM 2009, the British manufacturer has been overwhelmed as distributors have placed orders months in advance to cope with demand.