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.
For years, the C4 has been a favorite of studio engineers the world over, and in live sound, it’s quickly become a must-have for FOH and monitor professionals as well. To create the C6, we took the tried-and-true functions of the C4, and added two additional floating bands plus a sidechain feature, for one-stop vocal and instrument shaping.
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.
StompBox turns your iPad into a great sounding fully fledged digital effects unit, complete with chromatic guitar tuner, metronome and recording tools. And we have a teaser video!
The bolsterisers hark from a time before compression as we now know it. A long-obscure English experimentalist engineer and gentleman scientist by the name of Edwin Pierfax III derived his naive design of the original bolsteriser during a nap on the lawn with his cat Tiswold. He is said to have announced one day during afternoon-tea that he had “found a method to aid in the bolsterising of signals to an extent most satisfactory”.
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.
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.
The Beastie Boys could probably lay claim to a few very prestigious titles. They are one of the longest surviving acts in Hip Hop, one of the best selling, one of the most respected, and one of the most experimental. During the last 3 decades they have gone from Hardcore Punk to Rap and just about everywhere else in the genre catalog, spawning hit after hit in the process.
Steinberg is proud to announce the release of WaveLab’s latest incarnation, WaveLab 7. Adding new facilities to its previous versions for Windows, the seventh version now also sets a benchmark for audio editing and mastering under Mac OS X.
MODARTT releases Pianoteq add-on Xylo which includes a Xylophone and a Bass Marimba. Simultaneously, MODARTT announces two new add-ons collections: Chromatic Percussions (Vibes, Celeste, Xylo) and Rock collection (Electric Pianos, Clavinet, Rock Piano).
Meet the next-generation Pro Tools Mbox family, the highest quality, most flexible personal recording systems ever. Designed by the same engineering team behind our top-of-the-line Pro Tools|HD systems, the Mbox interface features advanced recording technology for exceptional quality. A premium analog signal path and high-performance converters deliver pristine 24-bit, 96kHz sound. Stringent testing standards ensure rock-solid performance in the most demanding environments. And of course, Mbox is designed for ultra-tight integration with the included Pro Tools LE® software, which is based on the same platform trusted by professional musicians, engineers, and producers around the world.
The new M-Audio MobilePre turns your Mac or PC computer into a powerful music recording and production studio. Building on the success of the bestselling MobilePre USB, this next-generation audio interface makes it easy to record guitar, vocals, keyboard, and more with pristine sound quality.
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.