To celebrate the New Year PSPaudioware has re-released and super sized their PSP sQuad bundle (includes 4 EQ plug-ins) (AudioUnit, VST and RTAS for Mac OSX UniversalBinary and VST and RTAS for Windows x32 and x64). It is a free update for registered PSP sQuad users. New users can take an advantage of Winter PSP sQuad Offer!
McDSP will introduce the All-New 6030 Ultimate Compressor at this years WinterNamm. McDSP has turned up the notch of dynamic range processing once again. Building on the entire award winning McDSP compression algorithm code base, the 6030 Ultimate Compressor adds new sonic capabilities, stunning new user interfaces and a collection of new designs mixed with unique twists on vintage emulations. The 6030 Ultimate Compressor will be available in May of 2010 (pricing TBD). The 6030 Ultimate Compressor will also be added to the Emerald Pack bundle, available to Emerald Pack 4 customers as an upgrade (pricing TBD).
On Wednesday, November 4, 2009, at the Low End Theory Club in Los Angeles, top beat-makers gathered to perform live with Ableton Live and compete for special prizes from Puma. The evening was a huge success, this movie captures the vibe for those that couldn’t be there.
A step-by-step tutorial with a conceptual overview of patch cables and a walkthrough creating two presets using patch cables. The video should shorten your learning curve with ACE and help you make sense of factory presets.
112dB announces that Redline Equalizer, the mastering-quality EQ plugin with many unique features, has been updated to version 1.0.3.?This maintenance release applies to both the retail and the trial version.
The Monologue Refill is a monophonic analogue synthesizer library for the Reason 4.0 NN-XT sampler. The sets include the standard sawtooth, square, triangle waves. Also included are a fixed rate pulse width modulation set, and hard sync sawtooth set. Other sources include, detuned pulses, frequency modulated oscillators, tuned oscillator layers, white noise, and sine wave samples from a self-oscillating resonant filter.
Rayzoon is pleased to announce that Jamstix 3 is now in a public beta for Jamstix 2 owners. Jamstix 2 users who are eligible for a free upgrade to Jamstix 3 (purchased after 05/11/2009) will automatically receive a separate mail with download links and license key when Jamstix 3 is released and do not need to buy the pre-order. Jamstix 3 is scheduled for release in Q1 2010.
Voxengo Voxformer version 2.3 update is now available for download. Voxengo 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.
Arturia has announced the release of the Hip-Hop Producer, a complete, ready-to-go solution that will get you started in Hip-Hop music production.
Yes, we know it is supposed to be posted on (sample) saturday, but with all the holidays, we post them today (sunday) for once! These are the releases we have encountered this past Christmas week on the Loops and Samples front. Just like the quality of the audio software we use these days the quality of the content we use (loops and samples) equally matches the high standards of this software. Below is this weeks selection.
SKYLIFE updates SampleRobot, SampleRobot Essentials and WaveRobot to version 3.08. Creating your own software instruments on sample base is now a lot easier with SampleRobot V3.08 and WaveRobot V3.08.
From humble beginnings as a party DJ in downtown New York, Paul D. Miller (a.k.a. DJ Spooky) is today a formidable force in hip hop. But he’s also an acclaimed multimedia artist who’s written on the subject of the history of hip hop and the aesthetics and art of the genre, and has criss-crossed the globe on the search for art and music. His latest Album, The Secret Song, is a fusion of hip hop, dub, rock, house and breakbeat, with snippets of the numerous genres moulded together to form what reviewers have said “may be the only concept recording of the 21st century that can be considered crucial listening”.
Arjen and Aram of Audio Ease went by Frank Zappa’s studio, the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen, to meet with Dweezil Zappa and together record the acoustics of both the tracking room and the famous Zappa echo chamber. Microphones and speaker in the echo chamber were set up just the way Frank had left them.
u-he has updated Uhbik to v1.1, which includes the addition of a new plug-in: Uhbik-G / GrainDad. GrainDad is a Granular pitch shifter and vast audio mangling device. Tape stop effects, reversing effects, weird metallic drones from otherwise harmless material. Try on drum loops first.
Harmless is an additive synthesizer doing subtractive synthesis. Or if you prefer, a subtractive synthesizer powered by an additive synthesis engine.