Warm Audio, the award winning manufacturer of the WA12 and WA12-500 series Mic Pre’s has announced the new TB12 Tone Beast. The TB12 is hailed as potentially the highest quality microphone preamplifier on the market in its price range. It uses quality USA made components found in products with much higher price tags.
Apple today unveiled Logic® Pro X, the most advanced version of Logic Pro to date, featuring a new interface designed for pros, powerful new creative tools for musicians, and an expanded collection of instruments and effects. Logic Pro X includes Drummer, a revolutionary new feature that provides a virtual session player that automatically plays along with your song in a wide variety of drumming styles and techniques, and Flex Pitch, which provides integrated pitch editing for audio recordings. Apple also introduced Logic Remote, an innovative new way to play and control Logic Pro X from your iPad®, giving musicians the flexibility to create and mix their music from anywhere in the room.
The Slate Pro Audio RAVEN MTX Multi Touch Production consoles are shipping to some of the world’s finest studios and audio pros, and so it brings them great pride to announce a new RAVEN feature that they’ve been working on for quite some time.
Pioneer today announced that their flagship mediaplayer, the CDJ-2000nexus, now will connect with the Serato Scratch Live dj software. With the new version 1.13 firmware update for the CDJ-2000nexus you will get added support for the new Scratch Live Version 2.5.0 software.
Native Instruments today announced the updated TRAKTOR KONTROL X1, a new version of the compact and highly popular decks and effects controller. With the same size and robust product design as the original controller, the TRAKTOR KONTROL X1’s new features include touch-sensitive Browse and Loop encoders, 7-segment displays and LEDs for visual feedback, and an innovative multi-purpose touch strip for added tactile control. When combined with TRAKTOR PRO, KONTROL X1 MK2 delivers plug-and-play physical control over 2 track decks and 2 freely assignable TRAKTOR FX units – with or without the use of turntables or CDJs.
Designed to compliment an existing Scratch Live or Serato DJ setup, Serato Remote will connect seamlessly to your Serato laptop software and work with all supported Scratch Live and Serato DJ hardware.
Juno Lee formed the Korean based duo Casker in 2000. The outfit has since then released six albums, garnering much attention and critical acclaim. Their fusion of electronica, pop and world music is the soundtrack for the perfect cocktail party.
Here is another video by Exige. A electronic music mavrick from down under with some incredible skills on the Novation Launchpad. In a about four minutes he mashes up 60 tracks! For a complete tracklist check the Youtube page.
This past week we brought ypou the news that Universal Audio’s latest UAD Software v7.1 provides elegant enhancements to the Apollo Audio Interface. Key among them is Flex Routing, which allows inputs to be routed to hardware outputs, headphone bus routing, as well as selectable pre/post Aux send. Now they have released a video that covers this new feature.
Below are some of the new 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.
With a career of more then 15 years which started with his first album Space Force (on cassette tape), Danny Wolfers alter ego Legowelt is one of the Netherlands most important but also stable sources of West Coast Sound electro.
FabFilter has released a bug-fix update for all plug-ins to address a couple of small issues that have surfaced after the last update release in June.
This week at the SummerNAMM show TASCAM introduced their new TH-2000 headphones. TASCAM has been supplying and revolutionizing the market with professional grade products for decades. The TH-2000 Headphones are top of the line and provide a value that only TASCAM is able to reach. No matter what genre you prefer or what application you use them in, you’ll find in the TH-2000’s.
Brought to you by the Sample Magic team, the Chillwave Sound pack imbues the Octatrack with serenity and tranquillity. Beautiful sonic landscapes, meditative chords and hazy drums. This is a collection of sounds sprung out of sun-faded and thoughtful days.
When you grow up in a small Canadian prairie town with a population of under a hundred people you might set a goal for yourself to expand your horizons. Bass guitarist Shane Hendrickson has long left Crane Valley, Saskatchewan and currently juggles a roster of shows touring with fellow Canadians Natalie MacMaster and Aaron Pritchett and now also Nick and Sophie Tweed-Simmons. Mighty impressive for the completely self taught Hendrickson. (The closest music lessons were an hour drive from his childhood home.) Life is now anything from predictable and can change with one phone call..and Hendrickson wouldn’t have it any other way.