Featuring exquisitely modeled VU meters with superfast refresh rates that recreate the accuracy, sensitivity, and ballistic behavior of physical analog meters, the HLS Channel & PIE Compressor are a tribute to the enduring legacy of these timeless pieces, and the timeless music channeled through them.
DMC World Champion DJ Fly came back at the last championship with a showcase, which by many of the top turntablists and aficionados has been described as the best routine ever. Through his aggressive style and his musicality, DJ Fly gave a memorable 10 minutes set of perfect scratching and beat juggling. Check it out and see how the S-120 just stays on track!
The RM.416 is the latest in Stanton’s RM (Rack Mount) series of mixers. Stanton, an industry leader in the design and manufacture of professional audio products for DJs, has created an exceptional mixer for the most demanding mobile or club DJ.
TRAKTOR KONTROL X1 – the first official TRAKTOR controller for use with any DJ software. Whether you are a DVS timecode or software DJ, simply connect the TRAKTOR KONTROL X1 to a computer running TRAKTOR (or other performance software) and gain instant control of your decks and effect parameters.
Traktor DJs like Craze, Klever, Kenny Larkin, Loco Dice, Martinez Brothers’ Stevie, Rafik and Treasure Fingers are early adopters of the Traktor Kontrol X1. In this video, they explain their decision to integrate the X1 into their setup.
FXpansion is proud to present BFD Heavy, a BFD2 expansion pack containing a pair of immaculately recorded Yamaha birch drumkits, supplied with a set of presets perfect for heavy rock, metal and other styles that require powerful, weighty drums.
bassbomb is a monophonic, bass synthesizer focused on creating a wide range of bass sounds from punchy to chunky via squelchy and fat with a sprinkling of dirt on top. It does everything from dubstep wobble, electro house dirt, funky bounce, breakbeat dirt, hiphop boom, acid squelch and more besides. As well as bass lines it’s also happy banging out kick drums and bass drops, with a pure sine sub osc to really nail that low end.
MODARTT releases a clavinet add-on, the famous electric clavichord from the seventies. It brings you the very characteristic sound featured in many rhythm & blues, pop, funk, disco and reggae songs. It also offers additional features not available in the original instrument.
Now with Custom UI Colors and Better Performance/Quality, third Generation industry Leading Professional Spectral Audio Vitality / Enhancement Processor with Countless New Features and improvements such as an 11 Band Look-ahead Soft limiter /EQ /Maximizer , New effect Mix Palette and can now be used with Mono sources with exceptional results! plus many other features and improvements. Spectralive NXT V3.5 Vitality processor available for PC & Mac OS X!
One year later, same city, different location. Music ALIVE 2010 hosted at the Hilton in Rotterdam by Media Satellite.
The location was very nice and well set up. At the entrance everyone got an Ableton goodie bag, with the obligatory promo pamflets, keychords, other goodies, but also a Dance Tunes voucher to download two tracks for free. Which is always nice of course!
Steinberg announces that its support for PowerPC systems is gradually coming to an end. Due to Apple’s decision not to support PowerPC processors in its latest operating system, Snow Leopard, Steinberg has decided to focus exclusively on Intel CPUs in the development and testing processes for its Mac-compatible products.
This means that the current versions of Steinberg products will be the last versions to officially support PowerPC processors. These product versions will support PowerPC processors for the full lifecycle of these versions.
The Nord Classics is a massive addition to the Nord Sample Library. The addition contains more than 370 samples with classic Nord sounds, from the original Nord Lead 2X, Nord Lead 3 and Nord Modular G2X. All the samples in the library are available for free to Nord users.
The addition to the big Nord Sample Library is a perfect fit for the Electro 3 user who wants classic synthesizer sounds to go along with the already much appreciated organ and piano sounds. Or why not se them in the Nord Wave as the foundation for new, great synthesizer sounds.
Bleu Cat Audio is happy to announce the update of their audio analysis plugins: the new versions include RTAS plugin format support for Pro Tools users as well as 64-bit applications support for both Mac (Audio Unit) and PC (DirectX and VST). We have aslo fixed a couple of issues (mainly on Mac/Snow Leopard).
Chairman and Co-Founder Victor Wong explains the new Open Labs’ Custom Shop and all that it entails. Also covers the new Legacy Upgrades and the exclusive 24 Karat Gold Polow Da Don Special Edition NeKo.
LittleOne is a faithful emulation of a new classic: the Moog Little Phatty analog synthesizer. To produce the same rich and warm sound of the original hardware, LittleOne emulates every single component of the Little Phatty (oscillators, filter, envelopes, LFO …), preserving the original frequency responses and frequency ranges. The result is an analog-sounding instrument – all in the digital domain. In addition to the Little Phatty synthesizer emulation, LittleOne encloses a full rack with a 16-step MIDI sequencer, a 16-step trancegate effect and two master effects slots.
The leading VST/AU Action Effect Artillery is now available in version 2.2. The unbeatable original now comes with more refinements and a new MidiMessage modulator. Why use a finger when you can put a hand on it!