Deckadance is a DJ mixing application that works either as a standalone program OR as a VSTi inside your favourite host. Deckadance itself can also host any VST compliant softsynth or effect. ImageLine has just released version 1.5. (Release Candidate).
Using a newly extended model, PIANOTEQ can now reproduce the beautiful sound of the vibraphone. Two virtual vibraphones, V-M and V-B, reproduce faithfully the characteristic sound of two well-known vibraphone brands. Thanks to the physical model the range of the vibraphones is extended from 3 to 5 octaves. Each instrument is provided with several variants and by using interface features, such as mallet hardness and tremolo, you can customize them to your own taste.
Effective immediately, Cycling ’74 will discontinue sales of prebuilt Max-based audio plug-in packages. This includes Pluggo, Mode, Hipno, and UpMix. We will still continue to support current users as best we can, but there will be no further development on either the plug-in packages or their supporting technology.
112dB announces that their high-end reverb plugin Redline Reverb has been updated to version 1.0.1. The updated demo and retail installer is available from http://112dB.com/download and is free for registered users.
Through their Analog Industries blog, Audio Damage revealed a few details of their algorithmic reverb effect called EOS, which is in full development at the moment.
Akai Professional, the name synonymous with music production, announces that it has launched APC40.com, the dedicated Web site for its APC40 Ableton Performance Controller.
You just NEED some Cohmpost in your music. Get it in AU for Mac, VST for Mac or VST for Windows. For your information, no kittens were harmed while creating the Cohmpost (just a bit ruffled, promise).
iZotope and Mute Records have collaborated to bring a Depeche Mode music application, iDrum: Depeche Mode Sounds of the Universe, to the iPhone and iPod touch. iZotope’s popular, interactive iDrum apps let iPhone and iPod touch users create music by tapping the touch screen and rearranging simple shapes and color combinations. The Depeche Mode edition of iDrum includes content from the band’s critically-acclaimed new album, Sounds of the Universe.
Rob Papen has announced the immediate availability of SubBoomBass, a new dedicated bass synth with presets designed by Rob Papen (and other guest artists) that will supply you with huge cone-rattling sounds.
NORTH INDIA is the first collection in the new Discovery Series, exploring diverse musical traditions of various regions of the world via the KORE SOUNDPACK range.
Voxengo is pleased to release version 2 of PHA-979 track phase alignment pro audio plug-in. PHA-979 allows professional mixing engineers to time- and phase-align any sound material to achieve better sonic coherence and clarity in the mix.
Rayzoon is pleased to announce the release of the drummer model ‘Mark’, which is available for free to show apprecation to all their customers for their business over the last four years.
Record gives you unlimited hard disk tracks, world class effects and mixing gear, and a whole new take on music recording. With an intuitive, straightforward interface and a hands-on approach to capturing performances, Record was designed for musicians – not audio engineers. This is recording done right.
Propellerhead Software today unveiled Record, the recording software that puts the musician in focus. Record combines effortless recording and a stunning software mixer console with a limitless rack of audio processing gear that builds itself or can be infinitely customized
Last week the rumours emerged on a new spectacular product from the boys from Sweden. It seems to be some new kind of DAW, not another version of Reason! Today (may 9th) the Producers Conferences are held, where this new DAW would be presented to the world. That they will come up with something new is now a fact as Propellerheads have posted a teaser video themselves on Youtube. See it for yourself below.