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Elektron announces new product!
Through the relase of the video below Elektron announces a new product for the 4th quarter of this year. So that means any day now (kinda). For us, Elektron is famous for not leaking any information before the official release date. And we expect that this time as well, so for now you can only listen to the new product and wait for any visual or detailed specifications information.
Novation MiniNova is Now Available – Video
MiniNova is a compact, super-cool performance synth with the same sound engine as its big brother: the UltraNova. It comes with 256 incredible onboard sounds which you can tweak with 5 knobs, or totally warp with 8 ‘animate’ buttons. MiniNova also has an onboard VocalTune™ effect as well as a classic vocoder so you can recreate iconic vocal sounds from Hip Hop, Urban and electronic music.
Modular Synth App Audulus for iPad
Subatomic Software has announced that Audulus – the modular music processing app for Mac OS X – is now available for iPad.
Whats New In Serato DJ? – Video
Yesterday the Serato DJ software is released. The software had been introduced last month together with the introduction of the Pioneer DDJ-SX. This newest DJ software from Serato offers the best feature set for all-in-one controllers and sets a new standard for controller DJs. With many new features including amazing new FX Powered by iZotope, MIDI mapping and a brand new user interface, Serato DJ delivers the most powerful all-in-one DJ solutions.
Livid Instruments Alias8 Controller announced
Very silently Livid Instruments has introduced another new controller called the Alias8. This controller is Livid’s take on making things simple again. Easier. Sometimes you just need to control a mixdown, latch onto some plugins, or setup some sliders and knobs to always do “just one thing.”
Steinberg Absolute VST instrument collection now shipping
Steinberg today announced the release of their Absolute VST instrument collection, comprising six state-of-the-art Virtual Studio Technology (VST) instruments that provide thousands of presets and sample content of electronic sounds.
Introducing Lavry Latency Killer
Lavry Engineering have announced, what they call a specialty product, the Latency Killer (LK-1). A specialty product as it doesn’t fit into any product category. The LK-1 will be used for overdubbing work and latency free real time monitoring of your DAW.
Brand-new feature in Mixed In Key 5.5 – Energy Levels
Yakov and Chad from Mixed In Key have informed us that an update for Mixed In Key 5.0 is on its way. Most important new feature within MIK5.5 will be the detection of ‘Energy Levels‘ in your tracks. It will show you the energy level of your tracks on a scale from 1 to 10. The value tells you how danceable that song is. House music is usually around 6-8. The biggest anthems will be 9-10. Deeper music might be 5.
Virsyn KLON 3.0 – The Vocal Designer Released
Virsyn informed us that version 3 of KLON is now available. The heart of the vocal designer plugin KLON is a harmonic pitch shifter for natural pitch and formant manipulation of vocal sounds in realtime.
Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 Audio Interface Now Available
Focusrite announced that the Scarlett 2i4 is now available worldwide. As the name suggests, 2i4 is a 2 in, 4 out audio interface with two of the award-winning Focusrite mic pres that are also found on the rest of the Scarlett and Saffire ranges, right up to the Liquid Saffire 56.
Denon DJ MC2000 Now Available
Word from Denon DJ is that their new MC2000 DJ controller is now available is stores right now. The MC2000 doesn’t need to be plugged into a mains power supply for you to get thrashing out tunes – it’s USB Bus powered which means if you want to show off your latest mix then you simply need to power up your laptop and plug in the MC2000 with a USB cable (supplied). Serato DJ Intro software detects the controller automatically and is ready to work from the moment you take out of the box and plug in – giving you true ‘plug & play’ functionality.
Tiny ESI UDJ6 USB audio interface is now shipping
The ESI UDJ6 is a new professional level 24-bit USB audio interface featuring 6 totally independent output channels. This tiny interface measures just 7cm in length making it ideal for digital DJs working on the road. Two stereo outputs (channels 3 to 6) are provided with RCA connectors on one side of the small and compact bus-powered interface, in its stylish aluminium case. The other side features a stereo headphone output for 1/4″ stereo connection (providing channel 1 and 2 signals).
Behringer Releases AX Control Software
BEHRINGER is pleased to announce its EUROCOM AX Series Amplifier Control Software is available for immediate download here.
Image Line FL Studio Mobile 2.0 Now Available
Image Line have just launched the mobile version (2.0) of FL Studio for iOS. FL Studio Mobile 2 introduces multi-track audio recording. FL Studio Mobile is a complete music production workstation application for iOS (Android is in development). FL Studio Mobile will allow users to create complete multi-track music projects on an iPod, iPhone or iPad and, if desired, load mobile projects into FL Studio (for Windows) and take them to the next level.
Plugin Alliance announces new partner and releases DSM V2, bx_limiter and bx_XL V2 plug-ins
Plugin Alliance is pleased to welcome fellow plug-in specialist Pro Audio DSP as its latest Alliance partner company, coinciding with the release of the latter’s extraordinary Dynamic Spectrum Mapper V2, plus two new plug-ins from Plugin Alliance founder member Dirk Ulrich’s renowned German M/S mastering tools and audio plug-ins company Brainworx.