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Focusrite Celebrates 25 Year Anniversary with Documentary and Competition
In honour of Focusrite Audio Engineering Ltd.’s 25th Anniversary (and 29 years since the creation of the Focusrite brand) the company are running a dream recording competition, giving you and three of your bandmates a once in a lifetime opportunity to record a track with Grammy award-winning Producer, Guy Massey at the world famous AIR Studios in London, UK.
Matt Colton loves the honesty of the ATC SCM150ASL Pro
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.
Interview with Launchpad Wizzard M4Sonic plus cool competition
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!
M-Audio introduces new M3 Series – Three-Way Studio Monitors
M-Audio just have announced the immediate release of their new additions to their industry-leading studio monitor line, the new 3-way M3 studio reference monitors, which are now available in stores. Featuring an innovative inline design and superior imaging, the M3 Series are compact yet deliver an immersive audio experience with dedicated low-, mid-, and high-frequency drivers, each with its own dedicated amplifier.
What Difference Does It Make? A Film About Making Music!
What Difference Does It Make? A Film About Making Music explores the challenges that a life in music can bring. Shot at the 2013 Red Bull Music Academy in New York by award-winning director Ralf Schmerberg, and produced by his Berlin based artist collective Mindpirates.
Introducing multi-effect plugin for heavy music styles: Dubshox H8
DUBSHOX H8 is unique VST effect combining various processors in one. It is designed for heavy music styles like: Dubstep, Dark Drum and Bass / Neurofunk, Electro, EBM, or experimental / minimal techno. Dubxhox H8 is best in combination with huge baselines and dubstep synths.
Evocative Icelandic Sounds for Alchemy from Camel Audio
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 announces recreation of the ARP Odyssey Synth
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.
Jeremy Ellis performances at Dancefair 2014 – Video
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.
MIDI Loops for Dummies – The Ultimate Guide on How To…
Are you new to MIDI drum loops? Are you wondering how to create arrangements using different loop grooves and fills? Then this is the video you’ve been waiting for. The Loop Loft show you how easy it is to drag and drop MIDI drum loops into any DAW (Logic X in this case) and create your own song arrangements. THey also go into detail about selecting drum sounds and layering multiple drum kits on multiple tracks.
It is official now: Roland AIRA Announced plus Live Stream Presentation
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.
New Sounds and Samples on Sample Saturday #191
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.
ONE DJ Software taking the next level with version 1.5
One DJ has reached the next major plateau in development and we are proud to introduce the 1.5 update. One DJ 1.5 has the complete Midi Learn System in place and now offers you mapping on steroids. The advanced yet super-intuitive Midi Learn makes creating even complex custom mappings easy.
Roland AIRA Series: TB-3 Video
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!
Roland AIRA Series: TR-8 Video
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.