Tired of your drum sounds? Want to mix electronic samples with acoustic drums? In the video below Ryan from The Looploft shows us how to quickly layer and “double” multitrack drums in Logic 9 with electronic samples. This same production technique can be used in almost any DAW (Pro Tools, Ableton, Cubase, etc.) with drum replacement plugins, like Drumagog or Steven Slate Drum Replacer.
For the adventurous DJ who likes to edit, or create ‘personal’ Traktor mappings for his DJ Midi controller there’s a tool for making this task a lot easier. However, only for Mac, Xtreme Mapping is an advanced editor that works like a ‘wizard’ for any Traktor mapping creation or editing.
Today Dell announced it is teaming up with music software provider Open Labs, LLC and award-winning rock band Linkin Park to offer Open Labs Music OS software for download on dell.com and on select Dell products, including a limited availability music solution called the Linkin Park Edition.
Beatport, the world’s largest dance music community and music store for DJs, today debuted a new service designed to sell mixtapes from the world’s leading DJs, called ‘Beatport Mixes.’ While other services have attempted to distribute mixtapes through overlay-heavy podcasts or ad-ridden Internet radio-like experiences, Beatport Mixes presents the entire long-form, continuous mixtape as the DJ intended it to be heard—in DRM-free, high-definition files.
Zynaptiq has announced the immediate availability of updates to its UNVEIL and PITCHMAP plug-ins for Mac OS X in the AudioUnits (AU) format.
Yes, … new from Moog Music but we (and you) have to wait till 22nd June to get the full details of what it will be. In the meantime they have released a teaser video on Youtube. So let the guessing begin!
All-new American pro audio plug-in company Plugin Alliance LLC is proud to announce availability of bx_rockrack, a guitar amp plug-in par excellence, developed by Plugin Alliance founder member Dirk Ulrich’s renowned German plug-ins company Brainworx, as of June 15, 2012.
Nomad Factory proudly introduces MAGMA, an entirely new category of audio effects processing featuring Virtual Studio Rack (VSR) Technology. Comprised of 65 ALL NEW Rack Effects, MAGMA is a Culmination of Years of R&D by Nomad Factory. MAGMA is Presented with Clear and Engaging Interfaces that Invite you to Experiment.
AIAIAI and Beatport share a lot of common ground. One common denominator is the love of electronic dance music in all shapes and forms and another is the global DJing scene, which both companies have steadily serviced over the last couple of years.
These are the releases we have encountered this week on the Loops and Samples front. Just like the quality of the audio software we use these days the quality of the content we use (loops and samples) equally matches the high standards of this software. Below is this weeks selection.
Another great feature by The SoundWorks Collection in which they talk with the sound team of Director Ridley Scott’s latest science fiction film “Prometheus” including Supervising Sound Editors Mark Stoeckinger and Victor Ennis, Sound Re-recording Mixers Ron Bartlett and Doug Hemphill, Sound Designers Ann Scibelli and Alan Rankin, and Sound Effects Researcher Charlie Campagna.
Hook up with Slash! Now you can with AmpliTube Slash, the official definitive virtual collection of Slash’s Signature guitar gear on your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Mac/PC.
DOMINION X is MFB’s latest synthesizer. It combines analogue synthesis, programmability and modular patching. With advanced circuits, increased functionality and a new design, DOMINION X is the first of MFB’s next generation musical instruments.
Yesterday’s big news was the release of the release of Propellerhead‘s new Rack Extension technology with Reason 6.5 and Reason Essentials 1.5, thirteen established plug-in developers have publicly committed to the platform — many releasing products today. Ranging from tweakable pianos to massively modulated filters and classic compressors, a total of twenty new instruments, effects and utilities are already available in the Propellerhead Shop with new ones being added daily. With a number of additional developers developing in secret, the future looks bright for the rack.
Arturia announces the end of an agreement with Moog Music that will see its Moog Modular V and Minimoog V soft synths soon remerging as the updated and renamed Modular V and Mini-V, and is marking the occasion by giving away a one-off ‘commemorative’ edition of the Minimoog-V on World Music Day…