The CI2 Advanced Integration USB Studio is far more than just another interface – it’s an intelligently integrated system which has all you need for your recording and production projects at home, in your band’s rehearsal room or on the go with your laptop.
Akai Professional, the name synonymous with music production, announces that its MPD18 portable padcontroller is now shipping to retailers.
Denon DJ, a leading manufacturer of premium-grade DJ equipment, announces a partnership with Native Instruments, a leader in software and hardware for digital music production and performance, for a new software interface for Denon DJ’s popular DN-HC4500 USB MIDI/Audio Interface & Controller. All DN-HC4500 units are now shipping with Native Instruments Traktor LE software. Traktor LE is based on Native Instruments’ award-winning Traktor Pro software and offers two deck control, Crate Flick cover art browsing and an integrated two-channel mixer. Auto-sync, looping and a host of other useful, advanced features offer DJs inspiration and ease of operation. Subsequent software upgrade offers from LE to Traktor Duo and Traktor Pro can be found at www.native-instruments.com.
de la Mancha is excited to release a pair of vintage style muscle compressors, GTO and GTX, available now as a pair for $29 and for a limited time, GTA is included for free.
SONiVOX, Boston based virtual instrument manufacturer today announced the availability of Sampla – Hip Hop Production Sampler, an innovative new virtual sampler plug-in for MAC and PC designed for fast and professional quality sampling, and beat creation for hip hop producers everywhere.
Windows 7 has been available for a while now as the pre-installed OS on various new PCs, but the official ship date for accross-the-board availability is October 22. MOTU has worked closely with Microsoft to ensure a smooth transition for your MOTU products when you make the move to Windows 7.
XLN Audio announces the release of the free Addictive Drums 1.5 Adrenaline Update featuring full E-Drums Support, Beat Transformer, GM Support, New Beats, New Presets and more.
As you might know, one of Ohm Force’s most important goals has always been to deliver top quality audio plug-ins at attractive prices. That’s what they’ve been doing since the very first beginning nine years ago. Nevertheless, despite their internal Ohm values one external and global factor came to change these proportions. Last year’s financial collapse has been like a worldwide earthquake and, in addition of all its global consequences, at the Ohm Force headquarter it made them think a lot about how they’ve been managing their own activity as plug-in makers. And which directions they’d want to take from now. This message does not aim to perform any in-depth analysis of capitalism’s current situation: as a music software company they’d just want to tell you what have been their thoughts. And specially the actions coming from them.
Get ready for a perfect storm of ethnic, world, and cinematic percussion. Featuring a massive collection of varied percussion samples, World Impact spans the globe featuring percussion instruments from large to small, west to east, north to south, and traditional to rare.
PreSonus has released the first maintenance update for Studio One Pro and Studio One Artist, the groundbreaking music-creation and production applications for Mac OS X and Windows. The new version 1.0.1 provides 10 new features and fixes an assortment of issues.
This new product allow any musician to faithfully reproduce the sound and style of vintage video game music and sound effects in a convenient plugin format, usable inside any sequencer or DAW, or as a standalone virtual instrument.
At this year’s Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), 365LIVE and Media Satellite present a series of workshops and audiovisual jam sessions, including an introduction to Ableton Max for Live, a fully integrated tool kit for making your own instruments, effects and extensions in Ableton Live 8.
These are the releases we have encountered this 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.
Applied Acoustics Systems releases the Ultra Analog VA-1 v1.1.2 Update for Mac OS X and Windows.
It’s time to take a look at some ways to work creatively with REX files in Record. Record allows you to work with REX files in new, cool ways – in this tutorial, we learn a few of them.