FXpansion is proud to present Himalaya: Antiquity, a DCAM: Synth Squad Preset Pack produced by Electric Himalaya. The scope of Antiquity’s chunky, vintage sounds is breathtaking, and its musical character will keep you playing for hours.
Like it, love it or leave it, Nashville Tennessee is Music City USA. With more labels, publishers, writers, producers, musicians and artists per capita than any other city in North America, Nashville knows a thing or two about great music, and more importantly – great sounding music.
Imageline has released an update for FL Studio. FL Studio 9.1 includes some great new additions including Fruity Convolver (see below) & Drumpad. Below is a video explaining the top ten new features
Apogee Electronics is excited to announce the launch of its first music and recording blog Transport. From stories behind music making to tricks that made the hits, Transport is a one-stop informative and inspirational resource for anyone interested in the process of making music.
Recently ImageLine have released their Drumaxx drum software. The Drumaxx percussion modeling instrument gives you total control over 16 physically modeled drum pads that can be routed to independent outputs for external effects processing. Drumaxx is not based on samples or even commonly used ‘synthesis’ techniques, where oscillators are mixed and the result is always ‘electronic’. Drumaxx uses modeling algorithms to create bass drums, hi-hats, snares, realistic and electronic sounds too. But what about the traditional ‘Achilles’ heel’ of synthesis, cymbals? Drumaxx creates cymbals and metallic percussion also.
Just a few weeks ago we presented you the first controller app for iPad called Midipad. It is an exciting new app for the iPad/iPhone for music creation and live-performance. The striking feature of midipad is its ability to directly communicate via network-MIDI-protocol. So there is no need to install any communication-peer-software on the Mac! Simply plug-and-play via Apple Bonjour – wireless.
You guessed it: the DrumXchanger replaces drum sounds. What’s more surprising: based upon SPL’s proprietary Transient Designer technology, it can replace drum sounds irrespective of their level.
Six application-specific audio plug-ins, created in collaboration with iconic Grammy®-winning producer/mixing engineer Jack Joseph Puig.
Voxengo Voxformer version 2.4 update is now available for download. Voxformer is a multi-functional vocal channel strip plugin for professional audio and sound production applications, available in AudioUnit and VST plug-in formats, for Mac OS X and Windows computers.
Applied Acoustics Systems releases the String Studio VS-1 v1.1.3 Update for Windows. This is a maintenance update containing the following changes:
– Added native 64-bit VST plug-in
– Fixed minor bugs
Yesterday Native Instruments released MASCHINE 1.5, a major free update that significantly increases the functionality and creative potential of the acclaimed computer-based music production system. With more classic drum machine features, improved host integration, new sampling functions, an extended sound library, and even more efficient workflow, the 1.5 software expands on the concept of MASCHINE as the most integrated and intuitive groove production studio for producers, live musicians and DJs. Below is a video of Justin Myracks, aka F Major, who builds a beat from scratch on Maschine version 1.5. This is not a tutorial – it simply shows how fast and hands-on Maschine is for creating a great groove.
Native Instruments today released MASCHINE 1.5, a major free update that significantly increases the functionality and creative potential of the acclaimed computer-based music production system. With more classic drum machine features, improved host integration, new sampling functions, an extended sound library, and even more efficient workflow, the 1.5 software expands on the concept of MASCHINE as the most integrated and intuitive groove production studio for producers, live musicians and DJs.
With the advent of releasing its new advanced post, live and audio production system, Steinberg today is pleased to announce that it is presenting Nuendo 5 at certified Nuendo dealers and well-known post-production studios in more than twelve countries, from Japan to Europe over to the United States. Nuendo 5 will also be introduced at the AES Show in London, taking place on May 22–25. The tour’s initial leg begins on May 3, 2010, and will be under way for several weeks to come.
Spectrasonics today debuted a new online Artist Video Series to showcase world-class artists performing and creating new original music tracks with their award-winning virtual instruments Omnisphere, Trilian and Stylus RMX. http://bit.ly/90qQ8f The company’s software instruments and sounds are widely used in the professional community and its users cross every boundary of style and genre. http://ow.ly/1yLaG
de la Mancha announces the release of Urban Decay, a 3 band distortion plugin (VST, Windows) that brings 13 flavours of dirt, filth, noise and degradation for just $15.