Celemony is building a bridge between manual and practice with their video tutorials. Practical examples that put across knowledge as well as inspiration for own works and demonstrate the possibilities of Melodyne editor show how to use this mighty audio tool. Three new tutorials are now available.
Kiss goodbye to your mouse and keyboard, and let your fingertips do the work with LiveRemote for you iPad, iPod or iPhone. LiveRemote connects to Ableton via CoreMidi networking technology with incredibly low latency of between 1-3ms. Control your session from the comfort of your couch, or whilst walking around the room. LiveRemote gives you direct and precise control over the many Live features.
Apple® today announced that Mac OS® X Lion, the eighth major release of the world’s most advanced operating system with more than 250 new features and 3,000 new developer APIs, will be available to customers in July as a download from the Mac® App Store™ for $29.99. Some of the amazing features in Lion include: new Multi-Touch® gestures; system-wide support for full screen apps; Mission Control, an innovative view of everything running on your Mac; the Mac App Store, the best place to find and explore great software, built right into the OS; Launchpad, a new home for all your apps; and a completely redesigned Mail app.
Apple introduced iCloud®, a breakthrough set of free new cloud services that work seamlessly with applications on your iPhone®, iPad®, iPod touch®, Mac® or PC to automatically and wirelessly store your content in iCloud and automatically and wirelessly push it to all your devices. When anything changes on one of your devices, all of your devices are wirelessly updated almost instantly.
Since opening its doors in 2008, Germano Studios in New York City has hosted sessions for the who’s who of recording artists. In the studio´s short history, top artists such as Lady Gaga, The Black Eyed Peas, Kelly Clarkson, John Mayer, Justin Timberlake, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys, Carrie Underwood, Britney Spears, Rihanna, and T-Pain have all called Germano home.
A game-changing collaboration between Germany-based mp3 creator Fraunhofer IIS, and pioneering plug-in designer/manufacturer Sonnox Ltd., has produced a revolutionary solution for improving the quality of online music.
Roland has a long history when it comes to synthesizers, and with that heritage, the task to uphold that ‘good’ name. Ok, there have been some ‘mistakes’ in the past but with all their good products we can easily forgive those little mistakes. With the GAIA, released a short while back, Roland has another nice synthesizer in the middle class section available.
Dorit Chrysler dynamically plays an original composition on her customized Moog Etherwave Pro, a theremin manufactured by Moog Music between 2004-2006, for an ethereal Moog Sound Lab.
SmithsonMartin have posted a very interesting video of, what we believe, is a evolution of their Emulator DJ software. With this new version, Emulator Modular, multitouch capability will be added to your preferred software. In the video below they show us how this would work with Native Instruments Traktor software.
Like the rest of the world, the employees of Universal Audio were shocked and saddened by the devastation caused by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. To help the people of Japan rebuild, Universal Audio worked with its UAD Powered Plug-In customers in April, 2011, developing a promotion that resulted in a joint “customer and company” donation of $50,000 to American Red Cross relief efforts in Japan.
British singing phenomenon, Adele, has just completed a tour of Europe and is currently on tour in America with an Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system managing both FOH and monitor sound. Requested by the sound engineers, the system comprises two iLive-112 Control Surfaces with an iDR10 modular MixRack and iDR0 mini Rack, connected via ACE and input sharing over MADI.
Chris from Audio Damage let us know that his new plugin Panstation is now available for purchase. Panstation is, without question, the most sophisticated autopanner plug-in available. Audio Damage started with a loose model of the venerable Drawmer M500’s panning engine, then added the counting features from the Audio & Design PanScan (probably the most famous vintage autopanner, and the “secret weapon” of many well-known producers.)
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.
GCI Technologies is now shipping the MS-USB, an all-inclusive portable sound system with a USB memory port and SD card slot, allowing direct playback of media files from thumb drives and memory cards. For added convenience, a stereo RCA input also lets you connect a CD player or iPod. Ideal for speeches, assemblies, tradeshows, parties, outdoor events and even mobile music applications, the MS-USB offers a great sounding, supremely portable PA solution.
Serenity is a synthesizer aimed to create various choir and string pad sounds but it is not meant to emulate this or that vintage string and/or choir machine. Though you might get sounds resembling quite nice the flavours of the old machines.