City of Drums and Beats expansion pack for GURU
FXpansion is proud to present City of Drums and Beats, a GURU expansion pack featuring an exclusive suite of sounds from Mike Acosta, a.k.a. DJ Michael Trance.
Monthly Archives: June 2010
PreSonus Releases Studio One 1.5.1
PreSonus announced that it is now shipping Studio One™ 1.5.1, the latest update to the company’s flagship music recording and production software. This is a free update for all registered users of Studio One Artist and Studio One Pro. To update their software, users should log into their PreSonus accounts and download the new version.
de la Mancha plugins updated to SynthEdit 1.1
de la Mancha just announced that his plugins have been updated using SynthEdit version 1.1. This update eliminates any problems of multiple plugin instances with some multi-core CPUs. More details here.
The Acess Virus Vuvuzela Song Contest
Your mission is to write a song featuring either the Virus Vuvuzela patch or alternatively the Virus Vuvuzela samples provided by us. There are no restriction to the style of the song, we would like to encourage you though to use the Vuvuzela in a creative way. You will recognize that both the Vuvuzela sample and patches provided are not necessarily in tune which keeps things more authentic. In case you would like to alter the patches or samples, feel free to do so. Use what you have – this is a sound design contest after all. It is not advisable though to alter the content beyond recognition since the contest is about the Vuvuzela’s sound.
Sneak peak of FL Studio 9.5.
This video shows the operation of the updated ‘Keep on disk‘ function to be available with FL Studio 9.5 (in testing). The new Keep on disk will allow FL Studio running on Windows 32 and 64 bit to load an almost unlimited Gb of sample data. Watch to learn more…
Adobe Audition for Mac – preview
Adobe Audition for Mac, coming in a future release, will bring modern audio post-production to the platform of your choice. Familiar tools for audio editing, multitrack mixing and recording will meet expanded device support, greater workflow flexibility, and optimized performance. Plus, best-of-breed audio restoration tools make it easy to clean up production audio. With the essential tools you rely on for fast-turn projects, Audition for the Mac brings a fresh face to audio post-production. Adobe expect to make a public beta of Audition for the Mac available in Winter 2010.
New Vermona synts arrived at Gearjunkies Holiday Lab
It’s vacation time at Gearjunkies, but that doesn’t mean we are without new gear. Today, on my vacation address, arrived two new synths from Vermona, the Mono Lancet, a two VCO monophonic synthesizer, and the Kick Lancet, for all your analogue kick needs.
112dB releases Big Blue Limiter
112dB announces that Big Blue Limiter, a tube-modelling character limiter, is now available in native RTAS/AS/VST/AU format for Windows and Mac OS X at the introductory price of €99/$99. Big Blue Limiter is a character limiter. It is neither transparent nor intended to be. In fact it adds a little mojo to everything you run through it, if desired even when no limiting is taking place.Big Blue Limiter uses analog tube modelling in its limiting circuitry, which makes any limited warmer and fatter by adding a pleasing amount of coloration. And as if that weren’t enough it also features an independent preamp that just loves to be overdriven. With its versatile sound, intuitive interface, easy operation, and negligible CPU load Big Blue Limiter feels equally at home during a mix session and a mastering session.
Daniel Stawczyk releases Light Impressions – a free bank for SubBoomBass
Light Impressions is a bank of free 45 presets being the light variations of SubBoomBass of Rob Papen’s factory presets. The bank also includes the new presets as a foretaste of the commercial bank to be released late August.
You can download Light Impressions here: www.stawczyk.com/freebies.htm
ROLAND GAIA SH-01 is now shipping
Roland U.S. is pleased to announce that the GAIA SH-01 is now shipping. This 37-key compact synthesizer brings serious sound, instant control, and ultimate flexibility to the synthesis experience. Combining a classic panel layout reminiscent of vintage Roland synthesizers with the latest in Roland’s analog-modeling technology, GAIA is perfect for any students, songwriters, session players, and live performers of all styles and skill levels.
Musicrow releases CS Vibes- a soundest for Arturia CS80 V
The CS Vibes is a collection of 200 extraordinary sounds for Arturia CS80 V. It is the fifth in Musicrow’s succesful series of soundsets for Arturia vintage synthesizer recreations.
Free 5.5 update for Cubase and Cubase Studio available
Steinberg released the free 5.5 update for Cubase and Cubase Studio – with a feature set that speeds up workflow and boosts creativity! The brand-new version delivers performance, automation and video enhancements, as well as refined beat tools and workflow improvements in key areas.
Project OP-X – Hardware Controller part 2
On this day (solstice) Mario Jurisch sends us a few pictures of his new project (in progress) the OP-X hardware controller. Just before the holidays begin the controller is ready for varnish. “Through the 4 octave keyboard, the controller looks more bigger then the impOSCar Controller. But I ´m happy with the finish look”, he says. Mario has still a lot of work ahead of him as you can see. Layout is all done but now “the details” have to be filled in so to speak.
Peavey AmpKit LiNK for your iPhone
Peavey Electronics and Agile Partners are proud to announce AmpKit, the ultimate amp and pedal studio with full recording capability for iPhone/iPod touch/iPad, and AmpKit LiNK, a high fidelity electric guitar interface. AmpKit is a free app with a built-in Gear Store that will be coming soon to the iTunes App Store. AmpKit LiNK is available for pre-orders now!
Total Music Production with the Zoom R24
Zoom takes its revolutionary R16 and turbocharges it with a sampler and drum machine, 8 additional recording tracks and 6 channels of phantom-power on the all-new R24. The R24 combines four production tools into one incredibly versatile device. In addition to 24-track playback and 8-track simultaneous recording using SD memory cards, the R24 is a digital multi-track recorder, an audio interface, a control surface and a pad sampler.