Cakewalk, the world’s leading developer of powerful and easy to use products for music creation and recording, today announces a free update for SONAR X1 Producer, Studio, and Essential. All registered SONAR X1 customers can download the free SONAR X1A update at Cakewalk.com.
Liine announce new Cliip module for Griid – the ultimate iPad controller for Ableton Live adds full hands-on editing and control of MIDI clips. Cliip, the new module for Griid, is the first ever DAW controller to offer fully hands-on, smoothly scrolling, zooming, multitouch editing of MIDI clips. Discover an incredible new way to make music with Ableton Live and iPad.
Akai Professional, the name synonymous with music production, announces the immediate availability of MPK mini, portable keyboard controller. MPK mini strikes the perfect balance between portability and comprehensive software control by melding together the immediate control and grab-and-go convenience of the LPK25 and LPD8. The MPK mini is less than 13 inches across and weighs just over one pound and easily fits into a laptop case, backpack or messenger bag for extreme portability.
Richie Hawtin introduces Liine’s new interactive music concept with Remiix: Plastikman Replikants. Available on the iTunes App Store, Remiix lets you combine and transform original Plastikman tracks and reinterpretations from your iPhone or iPad. Richie Hawtin’s Plastikman alias is synonymous with blurring the concept of performance and experience, with stripping back the boundaries between music and technology and merging artist and audience.
The Denon DN-X600 is a highly spec’d 2-channel performance mixer, optimised for both traditional vinyl techniques and the latest digital media and computer DJ systems, that offers levels of technology and performance comparable with Denon’s flagship 4-channel models. Solid steel chassis construction, professional grade components and powerful USB MIDI capabilities make this a robust gigging tool, equally at home in the booth or the studio.
Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. Professional Sound and Visual Division today introduced a new pearl white version of its entry-level DJ system comprising of two CDJ-350-W digital media players and a DJM-350-W 2-channel mixer. As the popularity of music remixing increases, Pioneer continues to offer consumers the best way to engage in the art by offering innovative and fashionable DJ gear. The new pearl white CDJ-350-W and DJM-350-W models not only add a fashion statement to DJ performances but also offer two additional audio effects – Noise and Short Echo.
MIKRO PRISM is a new free instrument, based on the successful synthesizer REAKTOR PRISM. Using the same sound engine as its bigger brother and REAKTOR 5.5’s new dynamic ”Modal Bank” technology, this fully-playable instrument shines with a stunning range of brilliant sounds.
In time for the holiday season Steinberg are very happy to announce the release of three new service updates: the updates to WaveLab 7.0.1 and WaveLab Elements 7.0.1, and the CC121 1.6 update. All three updates are available as free downloads and add new functions.
Following the recent release of Native Instruments The Mouth, Tim’s voice-mangling, sound-controlled synth, here’s his first interactive audio-visual EP… the next step on Tim Exile’s quest to make music. A thing we do, not just a product you buy!
Mario Jurisch has done it again. After several other hardware controllers, he now has finished a controller for a Moog VSTi softsynth.This controller is special designed for the Voltwinkel MiniMogueVA softsynth (by Glen Stegner).
Daft Punk is BIG! Right? But with the release of Tron:Legacy their fame has become even bigger. Producing the OST for Tron they have ventured into new musical territories. When the news, that they would produce the OST, reached the internet (almost half a year ago), it was the buzz you just could not avoid. Everyone talked about it.
Behringer is taking the next step in the DJ Mixer market. At the coming NAMM they will introduce more of their NOX Series DJ Mixers. According to their PR chatter they won’t take any prisoners it seems. Well, … let’s wait till the NAMM, shall we?
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Kemper GmbH announce the new Kemper Profiling Amplifier to be unveiled at the NAMM Show 2011 in Los Angeles. The Kemper Profiling Amplifier is an entirely new concept for guitar amplification in the digital domain. Following the radical idea that every guitar player should be able to bring his personal sound of the tube amp setup he owns into a versatile, comfortable and most important reproducible format: The Kemper Profiling Amplifier “learns” the sonic behavior of any guitar amplifier and offers exactly the tone and feel the player knows from his “real” amp. The times of struggling to “re-find” that magic mic position in front of the speaker are over. Now there will be a profile available of basically any sonic condition the tube amp setup can provide.
The Octatrack DPS-1 is a 8 track dynamic performance sampler. The Octatrack is ideal for radical audio processing and performance oriented sampling. Every track features real-time pitch scaling & time stretch and the next generation Elektron step sequencer has been designed with maximum usability and efficiency in mind. And from this coming monday the 20th of December at 8.00 CET Elektron start taking pre-orders from the general public.