Ableton Amp is the result of a close cooperation between Softube and Ableton. Getting a great guitar sound or adding a bit of good dirt to electronic tracks within Ableton Live has never been this easy. Ableton Amp has the characteristic tone of legendary guitar amplifiers and cabinets without any of the hassles. Amp has a minimal but very powerful parameter set to make sure that you’ll get the quickest result possible.
Serato and Ableton are pleased to announce the release of The Bridge, a software partnership which brings together DJ performance and production. The new tools generated by this partnership emphasize ease and creativity while pushing the boundaries of live performance.
Enter Today and Show Them What You’ve Got! – Win an all-expenses-paid (transportation & hotel) trip to the Music & You show (Paris) to compete at the RCE Finals for the Grand Prize: a 750 € BOSS/Roland Product Voucher and an all-expenses-paid (air fare, hotel and meal budget) trip to Los Angeles, California to compete at the International Finals for the title of BOSS Loop Station World Champion 2010.
TRAKTOR’S 12 brings the intense buzz of the club to your studio productions or live stage performances. A dozen of TRAKTOR’s tried and tested floor-rocking effects have been adapted for easy use within your DAW. TRAKTOR’s 12 includes some of the most inspiring and contemporary sounds from TRAKTOR’s arsenal – effects that have been road tested by top DJs in the world’s biggest clubs. Incredible delays, reverbs, and filters join TRAKTOR’s unique and hugely popular Beatmasher, Transpose Stretch and Mulholland Drive, among others, to form a powerful studio tool with true club pedigree.
Crosley Radio, the premier vintage electronics manufacturer, has taken the turntable out of the box with its new USB portable, battery-powered, two-speed turntable – the Crosley Revolution.
This past week Red Bull had a luanch party in Amsterdam for the BPM app for DJ’s. Turn your mobile phone into a complete DJ set-up and hit the road with the new Red Bull BPM range of apps for your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Whether you’re a pro DJ mixing at a club or mixing music in your bedroom, the range of Red Bull BPM Player apps can put a complete mobile DJ booth in your pocket. Quick to install and easy to understand, the apps are compatible with a wide range of sound formats. You can use it on it’s own and even in harmony with your traditional vinyl decks or CD-player. Just add an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad.
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.
Denon DJ, a leading manufacturer of premium-grade DJ equipment, announces that its popular DN-X1600 Digital DJ Mixer has received Native Instruments TRAKTOR® SCRATCH PRO certification. “TRAKTOR SCRATCH PRO”-certified products are premium-quality mixers with integrated audio interfaces (sound cards) that meet the highest standards for professional sound quality and seamless integration within a TRAKTOR SCRATCH PRO setup. The certification will ensure that the DN-X1600 will work in perfect harmony with TRAKTOR SCRATCH PRO.
Here is a rumour (well kinda) that we can bring you! Because … it comes from Allen & Heath themselves. On their website they have started teasing us with the Xone:DB4. No picture, no details, just the name. We have to wait two weeks untill the DB4 will be released.
Recently I came across this video on Youtube. It is from Jason Donnelly (a.k.a. DJ Puzzle) who worked at Sonic Foundry in the early days. Sonic Foundry are the developers of the Acid Pro DAW software. Eventually, around 2000, the company was sold to Sony. Jason tells us his story how he worked there in the early days, untill he had to leave because of the market crash winter of 2000. This story appeals to me because Acid Pro (2.0) was the first real DAW software that I used, after playing around with some simple looptrackers and stuff. Allthough over the years I have switched to Steinberg’s Cubase I still have it installed on my computer. I seem unable to get rid of it. And I even use it from time to time as I still think when you work with samples and loops this software is one of the best.
In collaboration with Faderfox, Glanzmann Digital DJ Solutions has developed the new 4midiloop controller. It is the first controller which allows an entire and simultaneous control over four decks and four Effect-Slots in Traktor Pro.
With the generous support of Matthew Rose from Darktrain we can present this Tek Kit HD DJ app give-away contest. We have five iPad apps and five iPhone apps (Tek Kit XL) available. Tek Kit is a step sequencer DJ Mixer for the iPad and iPhone. We got it for our iPad article series and we loved it from the start. This app is really cool. And now you can get it too for free!
During the Amsterdam Dance Event 2010 Let’s mix joins forces with ADE Next to expand on the ADE roster, by one skillful producer. By introducing him- or herself into competition on Let’s mix and making a lasting impression on the ADE panel, the artist will get the opportunity to be featured in a showcase at the ADE conference!
This weekend at PLASA, Allen & Heath have launched several new products. Among them are three products that support the iLive digital mixing series. The xDR-16 expander unit provides remote analogue I/O expansion and networking options at FOH, on the other side of a large stage, in another room, or even in a different building during installations. Dante is a networking audio interface card for the iLive family of products. Together with Riedel Communications, leading manufacturer of intercom, audio, fiber and radio technology, A&H unveil the new RockNet RN.345.IL network plug-in card.
As a 17-year old, Blame’s first production was the legendary drum ‘n’ bass hit Music Takes You, and he hasn’t looked back since. He’s since mixed one of Moving Shadow’s famous Logical Progression albums, remixed bands including UB40 and The Jackson 5 and toured the world with LTJ Bukem.