X7 is a four-channel, digital club DJ mixer. This groundbreaking MIDI and USB mixer is the ultimate companion to V7, the motorized DJ-software turntable controller. You can link V7s and X7 using X7’s elegant and powerful communication protocol, which enables system connection to your computer with a single USB cable. The link streams ultra high-resolution audio and control information between X7, V7s and software.
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.
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”.
Urs Heckman (U-He) recently announced his new synth ACE (Any Cable Everywhere). This software synthesizer delivers top quality sound at a highly competitive price. The selection of modules and clear layout make ACE the ideal instrument for newcomers delving into the fascinating world of modular synthesis. The number of ways to connect modules together is practically infinite, and you will soon discover how much more fun it is to make your own sounds in ACE than in a non-modular synthesizer. Urs now has posted a video which was initially thought to be a demo tune for the new ACE synthesizer, but turned into a pretty funny parody song.
Audio Damage’s first instrument, Tattoo, is a drum synthesizer where everything old is new again. Featuring 12 independent “voice-tuned” synthesizer topologies loosely based on the X0X series, and an incredibly sophisticated step/mod sequencer, Tattoo is at home in all forms of electronic music production. Tattoo is not out yet but will be released soon.
MixMeister software isn’t quite like anything else on the market. It’s designed for people who care enough about their music to refine a mix until it’s perfect, rather than throw everything together on the fly and hope that it sounds OK. You won’t be limited by on-screen simulations of turntables or CD players, either — you can “tweak” any part of your mix creation in a timeline instead. When you’ve got the mix just the way you want it, you can play it, burn it to CD, stream it over the Web, or reshape it in real-time for live performances.
This is an introduction to the MixMeister Control, which was design in partnership with Numark specifically for users of MixMeister Fusion and Studio.
Ableton and Cycling ’74 are pleased to announce the release of Max for Live, the long-awaited product that puts the power and potential of Max/MSP inside Live. Co-developed by Ableton and Cycling ’74 over a period of more than two years, Max for Live effectively opens up the Live platform, allowing users to create and edit their own devices. Create all the instruments, effects and extensions you’ve ever wanted.
FabFilter Pro-Q is an allround EQ plug-in for mixing and mastering, with up to 24 bands and a gorgeous interface for easy and precise editing. Pro-Q will be released on Novembber 16th. (Music by A La Shook: www.jessekoolhaas.com)
Vestax has teamed up with software maker Algoriddim to produce an entry level all-in-one digital DJ controller, SPIN. This controller will be sold exlusively in Apple stores throughout the US and Canada: http://www.djay-software.com. We have no information if SPIN will be available Europe as well in the future.
Past week Spectrasonics finally started shipping their new Trillian Bass Module. Trilian is designed from the ground up to be the most versatile bass virtual instrument available today with a new level of expressive, real-time performance for acoustic and electric basses – plus cutting-edge synth bass tones with powerful editing and extraordinary sound quality. Trilian is the successor to Spectrasonics’ award-winning Trilogy bass instrument, offering deeper control of musical expression and much greater flexibility of sound shaping. Trilian’s 34GB library is 10-times the size of Trilogy and features all new acoustic, electric and synth basses.
The world of DAWs doesn’t need another channel strip. What it needs is a better way of working with the essential tools you need for all of your tracks and busses. That’s why iZotope designed Alloy. Alloy provides the key dynamics and sound shaping effects you’ll use again and again, in a self-contained and completely configurable interface.
Rich Curtis demonstrates Cakewalk’s new Sonar 8.5 Matrix view as well as the V-Studio 100 (and the Sonar VS version).
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.
Rupert Neve Designs Portico II channel strip module at AES 2009 in New York City.