Loopseque is an incredibly simple app for creating music. With Loopseque making music is like playing a game. Create beats, switch fast between patterns and arrange compositions. You can access your music instantly and everywhere.
Camel Audio is really pleased to announce the release of the Planet Earth Sound Library for Alchemy and Alchemy Player. Planet Earth is a new Sound Library packed full of great sounds for electronica, ambient and dance music producers. Until the end of August you can choose what you want to pay for it, with at least 50% of the proceeds going to charity.
The IRCAM Tools products express the result of over twenty years of fundamental research within the realms of music related digital signal processing. First out, we present a series of products evolved from two major fields of technology, Acoustic & Cognitive Spaces, and Sound Analysis & Synthesis.
DJ Shiftee explains some of the special tricks and techniques he used in his live dubstep remix with Traktor Scratch Pro, Kontrol X1 and Maschine (see the original performance here. If you want to create a similar advanced routine with turntables and/or controllers, you should be able to get some inspiration from this video.
That’s right! Want Of The Century. Often you come across ‘stuff’ that looks neat or you would love to play with. But this is ten times more cool. DJ Pablo Martin pleasantly surprised us with his new project multitouch. He is using his new software Emulator on a Töken Concept table. Looking at the video you know this is just übercool!
The Mixed In Key team has been busy developing new software, first of which is DJ Tempo, available on the iPhone right now. DJ Tempo does automatic BPM detection on your iPhone. Simply select the amount of time you’d like it to analyze the music – 5, 10, or 20 seconds – and touch the Analyze Tempo button. Within seconds, the BPM appears on the screen.
Charles Scott is the resident ‘music guy’ at bad Robot Productions. In the video below he is taking us on a tour of the various Rob Papen softsynths he is using at Bad Robot.
Genobazz is a free monophonic bass synthesizer plugin, designed to be simple to use, for all your bass need, from simple sine bass to acid bassline.
Universal Audio, a leading manufacturer of high-quality audio recording hardware and developer of the award-winning UAD Powered Plug-Ins Platform, today announced a significant update to its popular UAD-2 DSP Accelerator Packages. All UAD-2 SOLO, DUO and QUAD DSP Accelerator Packages now feature smaller, “greener” packaging, and include the new “Analog Classics” Software Bundle at no additional cost — the perfect way to inject the true sound of analog gear into the digital domain.
VirSyn are happy to announce that iVoxel – “The singing vocoder” for the Apple iPhone/iPad/iPod touch platform is available in the App Store now. iVoxel is not only an amazingly sounding vocoder for iPhone/iPod and iPad, the unique concept of iVoxel turns this vocoder into a singing machine going far beyond the capabilities of traditional and software vocoders on any platform.
A tutorial demonstrating how to use the LIVID INSTRUMENTS “BLOCK” midi controller to control the DJ software SERATO. The video shows you how you can use only the BLOCK to control all the parameters of SERATO without having to use turntables or cdj’s. In a step by step guide the user is visually led thru the process culminating in a live demo of the controller.
Steinberg’s new mobile recording solutions, CI1 and CI2+, are now available at stores worldwide and can also be purchased from the Steinberg Online Shop.
Avatar ST is featuring a new generation of HG Fortune synths. Basically it is most suited for a large variety of pads, soundscapes, athmospheres or related FX sounds but can do other sounds like e.g. certain kinds of basses too. The 16 Step Modulator allows sounds to be fairly rhythmicated in various ways if wanted.
Musicians have many different goals when they acquire audio gear. Some are recording demos, some are looking only to perform live. Some perform to a devoted regional fan base while others perform on tour to crowds all over the world. Everyone has a unique story to tell.
Sugarbytes announce the most complete guitar software of all times. Absolutely convincing guitar riffs, combined with amps, wah pedals and effects. The actual guitar player has been transformed into a step sequencer system that allows control about playing styles, chord progressions and song structures. Guitarist can be played live as well, with just two fingers you can combine chords and patterns easily. You can choose from factory chords or just create your own chords on the fingerboard. The Action Section allows you to tweak the sequence in realtime and apply timestretch, looper or other crazy effects. Guitar players, keyboarders, producers, Guitarist is the new solution when guitar tracks are needed.