Steinberg is elated to announce the immediate availability of Granular Symphonies. Created by the acclaimed composer and sound designer Simon Stockhausen, this expansion pack adds to Steinberg’s award-winning Padshop Pro and Padshop granular synthesizers.
Lots of news out of Sweden from Elektron. After last week with the release of Utility Kicks, they now release another soundpack for Octatrack, Hell Bent on Circuits. Furthermore, they launched Elektronauts this week. Developed ground up, Elektronauts is a meeting point for anyone interested in music production in general and Elektron gear in particular.
Water is overflowing with aquatic musical instruments, rippling pads, tidal soundscapes, rhythmic splashes, inventive water machines, and wave-like takes on traditional sounds – all with extensive remix variations for real-time performance.
Moog Music announced the discontinuation of the Little Phatty Stage II analog synthesizer. Moog plans to continue building a limited quantity of units at their factory in downtown Asheville while parts and materials last, which is not expected to be more than two months. The Little Phatty was released in 2006 as a tribute to the life and legacy of Moog Music founder and synthesizer pioneer, Bob Moog. Following the passing of Dr. Moog, The Little Phatty was the first Moog synthesizer designed by Moog Music’s Chief Engineer, Cyril Lance.
Virtual instrument and effects plug-in developer Rob Papen Soundware is proud to announce full compatibility with Avid Pro Tools 11 and Apple Logic Pro X.
With this free instrument from UVI, they bring back the sounds of the 60s and 70s. Mello is the latest addition to UVI’s stable of award-winning software instruments. As such, UVI has strove to deliver a complete and authentic-sounding software recreation of the popular music landscape-changing 350lb behemoth.
The second instalment of classic Supernova patches is now available for free download! Original sound designer Phill Macdonald has put together another 64 sounds to turn your UltraNova or MiniNova into the classic Novation virtual analogue monster.
Fairlight is proud to announce the partnership with Adobe, through its Technology Partner Program. This collaboration enables the development of tactile hardware control surfaces for Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Anywhere.
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.
This edition of ‘Something For The Weekend‘ is rather a special and personal one. This week Dick Raaymakers (a.ka. Kid Baltan) has passed at the age of 83 years old. We are pretty sure that very little of our readers and followers will know who Kid Baltan was, but for us it was an inspiring person and also an important person when it comes to electronic music. Dick Raaymakers was a pioneer in the field of electronic music and tape music but he has also realized numerous music theater pieces and has published many theoretical essays.
Korg is bringing back the classic rhythm machine as a mini drum machine. Energize your practices and performances with diverse rhythm patterns! The KR mini – an easy, simple and compact rhythm machine with a built-in speaker and optional battery power for play-anywhere convenience.
Happy Birthday to Korg! And that’s what they thought themselves to and continues its 50th anniversary celebration by offering a run of keyboards in limited edition colors: the MicroKorg and the 61-key Krome Music Workstation.
An Allen & Heath iLive system with 18 ME-1 personal mixers were employed for a special 21st anniversary show of UK band, Tindersticks. Part of a European summer tour, the band performed a special set at the Blue Balls Festival in Lucern, Switzerland, where a 17 piece string section played alongside the regular 6 piece band.
Today the Academy of Electronic Music has been launched, by Google, Armada Music, Point Blank and DJ Mag. The Academy of Electronic Music is a social music school that connects electronic music makers & lovers from around the globe, finding and developing the next generation of superstar DJ’s and producers. Discover new tracks from upcoming talents. If you are a producer: submit your own and take your chance to get your track released by Armada Music. Learn from the best via live Hangouts with famous DJ’s and producers and connect with each other through the AEM Google+ Community.
Urs Heckman has announced that coming september 9th, his anticipated new Tape Delay plugin Satin will be released. This tape effects plugin will be available for Mac OSX and Windows PC, with 64-bit support for both platforms. VST, VST3 and AU versions are included. The version for Pro Tools 11 (AAX support) is still in development.