Novation Twitch in Action with LOPAZZ
Novation spent a day with Heidelberg based DJ, composer, mix-mastering-engineer and producer ‘LOPAZZ‘ as he showed us how he has integrated Novation’s Twitch in to his live setup.
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LinnStrument – Air on a G String – Video
Roger Linn performs “Air on a G String” by J.S. Bach on his prototype of the LinnStrument, a new musical instrument with 3D Note Expression, coming from Roger Linn Design.
Delora gbRemote iPhone application adds mobility to Garageband
Harmony Systems announced the worldwide availability of Delora gbRemote, an application for the iPhone or iPod touch that functions as a remote controller for Apple’s GarageBand music application for the Mac. gbRemote is a complementary product to the Delora gbTouch for GarageBand app for the iPad, and offers a subset of key features tailored for iPhone/iPod touch users.
Ableton LIVE Workshop – The Akai Edition – Amsterdam
This workshop will be focused on Akai’s dedicated Ableton Live APC Controllers. The APC 40 and APC 20 are the world’s finest Ableton Live control surfaces. Ableton and Akai Professional worked in a joint partnership to make the APC the perfect Ableton LIVE control surface. Whether you are an electronic music performance artist and LIVE is your canvass, a DJ using LIVE to mix tracks, or a traditional musician using LIVE on stage or in the studio, the APC is designed for intuitive, powerful control.
Automatic Generated Multiple Piano Melodies with Audiocubes
In this short demo video, Percussa AudioCubes is used to automatically generate multiple piano melodies, using the new generative music software created for the AudioCubes by Percussa. Keep an eye on this blog for the official release of the software.
XILS-lab SYNTHIX coming soon
Inspired from a old monster, aclaimed by a lot of synthesizer gurus, it is not only a new virtual analog: thanks to exclusive new features, the sound and the possibilities of this new polyphonic synthesizer enhance the XILS-lab inspiration tools.
LiveRemote App for Ableton Live – Give Away
Kiss goodbye to your mouse and keyboard, and let your fingertips do the work with LiveRemote. LiveRemote connects to Ableton via CoreMidi networking technology with incredibly low latency of between 1-3ms. Control your session from the comfort of your couch, or whilst walking around the room.
Introducing Avid Scorch for iPad
Avid is proud to announce that they have launched a brand new product for iPad on the iPad App Store called Avid Scorch. Building on the legacy of the desktop Scorch plug-in, already in use by millions of musicians around the world, Scorch for iPad allows you to view, play back, transpose, mix and perform Sibelius scores on the go. And it includes an in-app store with more than 250,000 titles available for download, including thousands of free scores.
Steinberg HALion 4 Now Shipping
After winning plaudits at the Frankfurt Musikmesse for presenting the new HALion 4 VST sampler and sound creation system, Steinberg is now shipping the latest version of its acclaimed virtual instrument.
Propellerheads Music Making Month an Unmitigated Success
Propellerhead just has capped off its tremendously successful “Music Making Month,” a series of activities that spanned the entire month of May to inspire and help people with their music creating endeavors. During the month, Propellerhead held 25 live streaming interviews, clinics and Q/A sessions plus an additional dozen tutorials and videos with music professional and insiders on topics as varied as song inspiration and lyric writing to synthesis techniques and mixing/effects tricks to promotional ideas and placement opportunities. All sessions and materials are now archived and can be viewed at: www.propellerheads.se/mmm.
Native Instruments Introduces VINTAGE COMPRESSORS
Native Instruments has just introduced VINTAGE COMPRESSORS, a set of faithfully modeled classic dynamic processors for use in GUITAR RIG 4 and in the free GUITAR RIG PLAYER. Produced in collaboration with DSP experts Softube, the collection comprises three of the most distinctive and revered high-end studio compressors, and can be used to creatively treat a comprehensive range of instruments and sounds with the highest level of sonic fidelity and profound vintage charm.
Soniccouture Morpheus – New Ableton Live Instrument
Soniccouture and Ableton present a unique take on a most unusual mallet percussion instrument. Named after the Greek god of dreams, the Freenotes Morpheus is a modular metallic instrument consisting of a series of metal bars, each attached to its own resonator. With no damping, the notes buzz freely, allowing for lush, ringing pads and sharp attacks alike.
Train your ears with Audiofile Engineering Quiztones App
Quiztones is a frequency identification ear training app for amateur and professional audio engineers and musicians. Quiztones uses frequency-altered tones, noise and musical loops to train your ears and help develop more acute listening and frequency recognition skills.
Keith McMillen Instruments SoftStep – Gearjunkies Review
More and more guitarists take the stage with their laptops and guitar software like Amplitube from IK Multimedia for example. Keyboard players, producers and studio engineers are used to the use of MIDI gear in their work, but what about the guitarist?
NI about to discontinue KORE Music System
Native Instruments has decided to discontinue the KORE product range, in order to utilize its development resources in the best interest of its wider userbase.