ATC is proud to announce that MPG Mastering Engineer of the Year Award-winner Matt Colton has installed a pair of SCM150ASL PRO three-way active loudspeakers for critical listening in his room at Alchemy Mastering in West London.
M4SONIC has proved that with nothing more than talent and a Launchpad, it’s possible to achieve worldwide fame and success. His track Virus has over 8 million views on YouTube – and for the first time you can get the Virus project and all the sounds FREE for Launchpad App to make your own remix and win big!
Camel Audio have released Iceland, their latest sound library for Alchemy, which is now on sale. Alchemy is the ultimate sample manipulation synthesizer which can turn your musical dreams into reality.
Korg is proud to announce that a faithful recreation of the legendary 1970s analog synthesiser, the ARP Odyssey, is being developed by Korg for release later in 2014.
This past weekend the whole Gearjunkies team, assisted by the DJ2DJ team, was present at the biggest Electronic Music Production fair in The Netherlands, Dancefair in Utrecht. Two days full of workshops, panel discussions and seminars on everything Electronic Music. It is the perfect opportunity to watch and learn from top DJs and producers, like Armin van Buuren and Hardwell, on how they build a track for example. At Dancefair there’s also an expo where you can see, feel and play with the latest new gear. Best example was the world premiere of the new Roland AIRA instruments.
Today, at Dancefair (Utrecht, The Netherlands) Roland will premiere the new AIRA series to the public for the first time. This presentation will streamed live (see details below). The first four products introduced in the AIRA series are the TR-8 Rhythm Performer, TB-3 Touch Bassline, VT-3 Voice Transformer, and SYSTEM-1 PLUG-OUT Synthesizer.
Below are some of the new 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.
Ok, final video of the day is the new take on the ‘very classic’ TB-303 by Roland. Our own Marc van den Hurk takes a swing to the new TB-3 from the new AIRA series. If there’s one iconic classic then it is probably that TB-303. Like we mentioned before after visiting Roland Europe yesterday we are convinced that Roland is on to something with this new series. No it’s not ‘analog’ but, damn, it sure sounds awesome!
Below the video of Paul Hellings (Kobuz) going through the sounds and performance of the TR-808 follow up, the TR-8. The Roland AIRA series starts off with four instruments: TR-8, TB-3, VT-3 and System-1. In the future the series will be extended with more instruments.
As you know yesterday we had our day at the Roland European headquarters. We saw a lot and heard a lot. Product specialist David Ahlund showed us all the new goodies that are coming in the AIRA series. Below is a short performance of all four instruments: TR-8, TB-3, VT-3 and System-1, in action together.
Two days before the world wide presentation of the new AIRA series of Roland, this saturday, we were invited to see for ourselves if our high expectations are met. Not only did we get some inside info on the Aira development, we als got to play with the new equipment and saw the rehearsal of dutch dj/live artist Sluwe Vos, together with Belgian dj Faisal and product specialist David Ahlund. We were able to make video’s for some exclusive footage of them performing with the new Roland TB-3 (acid), TR-8 (bassss), VT-3 (vocoder) and System-1 (synth).
Novation is proud to present 1992 – Today: Iconic synth sounds, a free soundpack for UltraNova and MiniNova users. 40 instantly recognisable sounds from tracks released over 22 years of Novation’s history give you the power to fill your productions and performances with tried, tested, and inspiring sounds.
In the line of focusing on one of the emulations of hardware compressors modelled for Universal Audio by Brainworx we’ll look at the Shadow Hills mastering compressor plug-in. The plug-in combines two compressors in series being an optical and a VCA compressor in stereo or dual mono mode.
As you will probably know, a modulator is a term that is used in synthesizers. They are various types of settings that can change and alter a sound. With RP-AMOD you can use it’s modulators to alter your audio in different ways.
Thirty years ago, nearly to the day, Manfred Ruerup and Karl Steinberg founded the company that has become one of the world’s largest manufacturers of music and audio software and hardware, with more than 1.5 million users worldwide, Steinberg.