Propellerhead today announced Pulsar, the second Rack Extension from Propellerhead to be available at the launch of the next version of Reason, the company’s award-winning music making software. Comprised of two LFOs, cross-modulation, lag, shuffle and a flexible envelope, Pulsar brings a fresh take on modulation—from rigid and predictable to groovy and evolving.
Native Instruments today introduced THE GIANT, a new instrument based on the world’s biggest upright piano. For use in KONTAKT 5 or the free KONTAKT 5 PLAYER, THE GIANT features the intense sound of the Klavins Piano Model 370i, a super-sized instrument delivering a colossal sonic spectrum equally well-suited to urban pop projects, soft piano ballads, driving rock riffs and jazz numbers, as well as providing a separate ‘Cinematic’ version of the piano for darker, atmospheric projects and sound design.
Oh that looks pretty cool. Well, all new gear looks great to us. But Denon just released this exciting, mysterious video teaser of a new product they’re working on. Looking at the video it is not clear to say if it’s a new controller or media player, or even …..? What you see is what you get, so we will have to wait on more details on what this new product will be, when and how much!
IK Multimedia is now shipping the iRig™ MIX, the first ultra-compact DJ and audio mixer for the iPad, iPhone, and the iPod touch. When used with IK’s included DJ Rig FREE app, it is a complete, highly portable system for practicing, rehearsing, performing and recording.
Pioneer have another demonstration video released of their new remix station controller, the RMX-1000. The RMX-1000 incorporates four remixing functions: Isolate FX, Scene FX, X-Pad FX and Release FX for simple musical arrangements with intuitive control, all accessible at the user’s fingertips. The device includes Pioneer’s remixbox™ editing software to enable users to customize almost every function and feature of the unit. The system can also act as a USB controller when used with the included VST/AU RMX-1000 Plug-in software.
Crysonic today released the first details about their upcoming product INPRESSA. Providing Zero Latency, Stereo & Mono compatibility together with a unique proprietary Technology provides flexibility and total creative freedom. Transcending other similar plugins of it’s type, INPRESSA is set to achieve Vintage and Modern sounding professional results on individual busses and the final Master Mix. INPRESSA has full Double Precision Processing natively which employ very Steep 24 dB/Oct crossover filters virtually eliminating leakage into adjacent compression bands. All available parameters are variable supporting full automation with extreme precision control.
Pianoteq STAGE, formerly known as Pianoteq PLAY, is based on the same recently refined acoustic model as in version 4 of Pianoteq Standard and PRO. It includes the same instruments, sound and playability. The interface is scaled down, tailored to focus entirely on playing.
Recently Loopmasters released the 100th part of their Artist Series. The Freemasons 100% Remix Tools got that honour! LoopTV went to James Wiltshire for an interesting interview. They not only talked about the 100% Remix Tools pack but James let us in on what kind of tools they like in their studio, their production style and the work that went into the production of the loop and sample pack.
UK-based newcomers Sound Pressure Level are X Factor 2011 participant Roxy Yarnold, Sammie Ellard-King and Alex Wallace who have recently been recording their debut long player The Recipe in Soho Sonic Studios, situated in the heart of London. Production team UPIA, owned by OJ (Ofer Shabi) and Sefi Carmel, produced SPL’s entire album in Cubase 6. Steinberg met up with OJ to talk about the band and the many projects he’s previously been caught up in.
The heart of the vocal designer plugin KLON is a harmonic pitch shifter for natural pitch and formant manipulation of vocal sounds in realtime.
A few weeks back we came across this software from Stagecraft Software from San Francisco, CA. At the time we didn’t really know what to think as it we thought it would be another DJ software. But, as usual, after a while (and after watching some videos) we realised it is much more then just a DJ software. It is more like a software for live acts, actually. Livetronica Studio combines all the functionality of a traditional hardware looper (Rec,Stack,Reverse,A->B, etc..) with the more salient features of software loopers (syncing to a master bpm, independent bpm and freq shifting in real time, advanced beat splicing).
Tek’it Audio release a new software bundle, the “FX Bundle” a special offer that include all the Tek’it Audio commercial effect plugins at 15% off compared to price of individual plugin.
Reloop is proud to present it’s first digital mixing controller designed especially for Serato: Terminal Mix 4. By introducing the Terminal Mix 4, Reloop have broken new ground once again with this fully integrated 4-channel mixer* offering a wealth of features, including 3-fold EQ with intelligent kill technique* and filter modulation capabilities per channel. Any of the 4 channels can be easily assigned to the crossfader via the controls on the front panel, where you will also be able to adjust the curve of the crossfader.
The creative minds behind Mixed In Key software are proud to announce the release of Beyond Beatmatching: Take Your DJ Career to the Next Level, a book that gets deep into the craft and business of professional DJing. Authors Yakov Vorobyev and Eric Coomes have more than 20 years combined experience in the professional DJ business. Vorobyev is also president of Mixed In Key, makers of the industry-standard harmonic-mixing software for DJs.
Berlin-based plug-in developers u-he have updated their flagship VA synthesizer Diva (Dinosaur Impersonating Virtual Analogue) to version 1.1. The most intriguing changes address Diva’s notorious CPU-hunger in divine mode – more voices can now be played in realtime at the highest quality setting…