Free Ableton Live Pack – Time Designer
Time Designer is the debut Live Pack from extendlive.com containing 50 advanced multitap delays for Live 8 and a 10-step tutorial for creating and customizing your own delays using only Live’s built-in devices.
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Beatslicing is more FUN when you hold the sample in your hands
Still only in prototype stages, OTTO is an electronic musical instrument for realtime manual beat slicing of audio samples.
Apogee announces compatibility with Snow Leopard
Apogee Electronics is pleased to announce Snow Leopard compatibility for Duet, ONE, Mini-FW, USB and X-Firewire interfaces.
Best Service TITAN FREE now as a free download
Get your free copy of our brand new TITAN Synthesizer now and discover how to make a big sound experience in our Sample Player ENGINE based on 12 great TITAN multi samples! Did you know that you can even import up to 24 of your own samples (per layer) into ENGINE? Make your experience with this unlimited version of ENGINE – more than a sample player – and the free TITAN demo content now!
Propellerhead Record 12th micro video tutorial
In this tutorial Propellerhead is exploring some of the creative uses of pattern based effects that are available in the Reason sound bank. If you have Record and Reason, all of Reason’s effects can be used on audio tracks in Record.
MOTU ready for the Snow Leopard
Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard is due to ship on August 28th. To prepare for this major OS release, MOTU has worked closely with Apple to ensure a smooth transition for your MOTU products when you make the move to Snow Leopard.
Finalised design for the Denon DN-HC1000S Controller
Skratchworx has the scoop on this one. They are showing the final design of the Denon’s Scratch Live focused DN-HC1000S controller. Designed to interface and aid DVS systems (turntables / CD players) with today’s most popular DJ software program, Scratch Live, the DN-HC1000S provides DJs a comfortable plug and play, reliable hardware controller for all major features and commands of the Scratch Live software system.
Tech / Progressive House Pack Alert
Latest from Wolsfraektroes Music – Tech House & Progressive House Producer will give you 200MB of up to the moment Tech House and Progressive House Bass Loops, Synth/Lead Loops, Drum Tops and Sidechained Effects. Tech House & Progressive House Producer contains 35 Bass Loops, 56 Top Loops, 68 Synth/Lead Loops & Sidechained Effects. All loops are key and tempo labeled and are served as 44.1 kHz Wav files. Tech House & Progressive House Producer – creativity & inspiration injection for all Tech House & Progressive House producers.
Propellerhead Record 11th video tutorial
The Record micro tutorials is a series of short and focused tutorial videos that will highlight one aspect of Record in each installment. Part 11 – Send effects are the effect units that you feed from the mixer’s effect sends. These are useful for effects like reverb or delay where you want to feed several channels through the same effect unit.
Driver updates for Lexicon I-ONIX series
Lexicon today announced it has released new Windows and Mac software drivers for the I∙ONIX series of Desktop Recording Interfaces. With the new 64-bit Windows driver, these interfaces now operate seamlessly on computers running Windows 64-bit XP and Vista operating systems. The new Mac driver improves performance and now supports all Mac computers operating on OS X 10.4.9 or higher regardless of whether they are based on a PowerPC or Intel processor.
Scarbee Pre-Bass – New Kontakt Powered software instrument
Native Instruments today introduced SCARBEE PRE-BASS, a new software instrument that provides a meticulous, highly musical rendition of the iconic Fender Precision bass. PRE-BASS is derived from the acclaimed Scarbee Blue Bass library, and the first release in the recently established development partnership between sampling expert Thomas Hansen Skarbye and Native Instruments.
Jeroen Breebaart releases Room Simulator plugin
The perfect listening room – Many have experienced the difficulty to realize a listening environment free of standing waves, undesirable reflections, the perfect reverb time, perfect loudspeaker placement with a flat frequency response, and without any disturbance for others. With Isone pro, a virtual listening room can now be experienced simply using a high-quality headphones. Allowing for full control over loudspeaker type, loudspeaker distance, and room reverb time, the listening room can be fully customized.
Presonus Studio ONE demo available
Studio One is a groundbreaking music-creation and production application for Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista that makes audio recording, MIDI sequencing, and audio mastering ridiculously simple right out of the box, yet provides a wealth of professional features. Allthough still not available Presonus has released a DEMO version of this highly anticipated software.
Sonic Charge Synplant 1.0.1 and new patches available
It has been a bit quiet at Sonic Charge lately, but rest assure that it only means that they were concentrating harder. A few new projects and upgrades are slowly taking shape on their assembly line. Meanwhile they have decided to release a minor maintenance upgrade for Synplant that addresses some important issues. The version number is 1.0.1 and it will not bring any new features to Synplant but focuses on improving stability and compatibility.
New Sounds and Samples from Producer Loops
Ambient Glitch Volume 1 – This amazing collection features some of the darkest and most atmospheric loops and samples ever committed to a Sample Pack! It was produced by Jeff Rhodes who has been working as a professional sound designer and soundtrack producer for over a decade. “By using bit crushing techniques instead of just distortion,” he says, “plus ‘improper’ use of beat choppers to get a more lo-fi sound, and even learning to overuse compression as an effect, I was able to put together what you hear in this sample pack. Combining it all, along with some weird artefact-like percussion and some stuttery repeats, I was able to harness some of that elusive Glitch power.