Tone Projects updates Sonitex STX-1260 to v1.6
Tone Projects has updated their Lo-Fi VST plug-in Sonitex STX-1260 to version 1.6 and are announcing a 1-week Spring Special offering $20 off all products. The sale will end on March 21st, 2011.
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Artist Interview – Jakwob on Reason and Record
In January 2011 James Jacob, better known to his fans as Jakwob, went to the United States for his first major North American tour. The Propelleheads cameras met up with him in San Francisco, California to see him live in front of five thousand eager Dubstep fans.
Avid announced New MBox Family Options
Avid today introduced a series of new Mbox® family options—delivering innovative, professional features and flexible, open workflows so artists can create distinctive and compelling audio, in the studio or on stage.
Kraftwerk – KLING KLANG MACHINE App
Wow, how awesome is this? Interactive 24 hour music generator! Norman Fairbanks has developed a Kraftwerk app for the iPod and iPad. And to be clear it is an official Kraftwerk app as the ‘gentlemen’ from Kraftwerk have cooperated in the development!
Test Celemony Melodyne for 30 days and master it the easy way
Celemony is making entry into the world of Melodyne simpler than ever before: you can try out the current version of Melodyne editor now for 30 days without any limitations on its use. Furthermore, a multi-language “First Steps” video tutorial including a demo arrangement is provided to guide users swiftly to their first taste of Melodyne success.
Slate Digital VCC Available Now with Free iLOK2 This Week Only
It’s been called one of the most anticipated plugins of the decade. The Virtual Console Collection or “VCC” as it’s been known, captures the sound of some of the most legendary analog consoles in the industry. Using the VCC, your digital mixer will take on the life and vibe of these great desks and will give your music the depth, dimension, space, and 3D image that you have been craving!
IK Multimedia VocaLive app for iPhone Now Available
IK Multimedia is proud to announce that VocaLive™, the first professional performing and recording vocal processor app for the iPhone®, iPod touch® and iPad®, is now available for download from the iTunes App Store.
Richie Hawtin Plastikman Live stage tour
For as far I can remember Richie Hawtin a.k.a. Plastikman has been on the forefront when it comes to the usage of the latest gear innovations on stage. The video below is by Future Music. They took an exclusive tour around Plastikman’s very impressive live rig, captured here at Bestival 2010.
Wallander WI Guitar – New Music Guitar App
WI Guitar is the first truly playable virtual acoustic guitar app. Based on revolutionary patent-pending sample technology, WI Guitar has the dynamics and expressiveness of a real steel-stringed guitar, in high-quality stereo.
Drum with the world – Roland V-Drum Friend Jam
Interact with V-Drums users around the world while improving your drumming skills with fun play-along songs. The “ V-Drums Friend Jam” is the social networking tool for V-Drums you’ve been waiting for! Available now for both PC and Mac. Enjoy drum workout on V-Drums! Automatic downloading practice songs for free via the Internet is ready for you. You can share your workout record on Twitter! This is a social tool for drummers.
XILS-lab releases ‘lite’ version of PolyKB soft synth plug-in
XILS-lab is proud to announce availability of PolyKB II Player, a ‘lite’ (yet fully- featured) version of its acclaimed PolyKB II soft synth plug-in as of February 26, 2011.
Wave Arts Dialog spoken voice plug-in released
Dialog combines in one plug-in all the processing needed to clean up, adjust, and sweeten recordings of the spoken voice. It is perfect for voice-over, film/tv recordings on location or sound stage, and broadcast. Dialog includes brickwall filters, de-hum and de-buzz processing, broadband noise reduction, de-ploding, de-essing, 10-band equalization, compression, and limiting. Separate presets for each section allow you to get results fast.
Image Line FL Studio 9.9 Beta available – Video
Image-Line Software are pleased to announce the FL Studio 9.9 Beta is available for testing. You can find the download links here. The FL Studio 9.9 Beta introduces the ‘Chainer‘ plugin. In this video theFL Studio Guru runs though some basic operational principles. Chainer will load as an Instrument Channel or Effect and from there you can happily chain both instrument and effects plugins.
Novation Dicers – Turntables and Dicers in Technicolor!
Gizmo (Skratchworx) recently did a review on the Novation Dicers. As part of that review he made this video with DJ Woody who does a snippet of his 1 hour “Turntables In Technicolor” using Novation Dicers.
Serato Itch 2 coming next month?
According to a message on their Facebook wall Serato is about to reveal more on the next version of their DJ software Serato Itch. Features that night be included in this new version could be FLAC support, video support, 4-deck support for more controllers, a sampler, compatibility with Serato’s The Bridge to allow DJing with Ableton Live within ITCH (like Serato Scratch), vertical centre waveform option (like Serato Scratch).