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XILS-lab announces Oxium
Oxium is a performance oriented synthesizer, offering both classic instruments with a pure analog sound and modern ones, and unseen real time modulations capabilities, allowing you to play a synthesizer in some musical ways you could never have imagined. It will come with more than 250 first class presets, done by famous sound designers, including Lotuzia, Kelvin Ford, Nori Ubukata, Ingo Weidner, Tzadi, Sami Rabia.
Propellerhead updates Figure to add recording, saving and exporting
Propellerhead has released an update to Figure, its best selling music app for iOS. Available immediately, Figure 1.1 now adds saving, browsing and loading of songs, as well as variable loop lengths and export of audio through iTunes file Sharing. These new enhancements provide users with the most requested additions.
Something For The Weekend: Ko Matsushita RMX-1000 Demo
Last year we had a video in this section from Ko Matsushita where he used a Pioneer DJM-900, CDJ-2000, EFX-1000, Ableton Live, an iPad, Korg Kaossilator and Touch OSC to do a ‘mash-up’ of “Diabla (Metrik Remix)” by Funk D’ Void and “Flashback (Accapella)” by Calvin Harris. And now he returned with a new demonstration video but this time he uses the new Pioneer RMX-1000 FX controller to show his magic. We wanted to post this video as it is a simple hands-on video showing and, for us, seeing the little tricks and moves he makes to create a live mash-up.
New Sounds and Samples on Sample Saturday
These are the 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.
Soniccouture Releases Crowdchoir – Profits to be Donated to The Red Cross
Soniccouture is very pleased to announce that their Crowdchoir project has been a great success.The ‘Crowd-choir’ was an idea for a crowd-sourced sampled instrument, partly inspired by the 10cc track ‘I’m not in love’, which famously featured a vocal pad sound created by painstakingly overdubbing a single vocal note over and over again.
Arturia announces Next Generation Analog Classic software
Arturia is proud to announce availability of ‘Next Generation’ versions of its Analog Classic software instruments as of July 6. Ten of Arturia’s most popular Mac (OS X 10.5 or higher) and Windows (7/Vista/XP) software instruments have had a complete makeover. Slick new packaging coincides with 64-bit compatibility for all, together with MIDI assignment improvements and better performance.
Allen & Heath iLive on global tour with Morrissey
Allen & Heath’s iLive digital mixing system has been selected by FOH engineer, David Millward, as the console of choice on Morrissey’s 2012 worldwide tour. Requiring a small, lightweight console to travel with the production, Millward selected an iLive-80 Control Surface and iDR10 modular MixRack fitted with a Dante Card for multitrack recording and virtual soundchecking.
Softube Summit Audio Grand Channel and EQF-100 Equalizer
The channel strip that always works. Take any track, any bus or any mix – the Summit Audio Grand Channel always sounds right. The Grand Channel combines the warm and smooth tone sculpting EQF-100 passive equalizer with the rich sounding and dead-easy-to-use TLA-100A compressor.
Two New e-pedals for the DigiTech iStomp app
The DigiTech iStomp is an entirely new concept in pedals. It works just like a traditional stompbox with one huge exception. It can be completely reconfigured by loading it with any of the 32 (and growing) e-pedals available in the Stomp Shop app.
Tekit Audio releases Genobazz Pro plug-in
Tek’it Audio has announced the release of Genobazz Pro, an advanced version of their monophonic synthesizer plug-in. Genobazz Pro is designed to be as simple to use as Genobazz but with more control over your sound, better filters and a more effective modulation system to create a new range of sound for your music.
Ableton Live goes 64 Bit with latest Beta version
Ableton are pleased to announce the beta version of Live 8.4, featuring native 64-bit support. With 64-bit support, Sets in Live 8 can now accommodate much larger memory usage, and third-party plugins that support 64-bit. Registered Live 8, Suite 8, Live Intro or Live Lite 8 users can download the beta now.
Behringer X32 Digital Console Available Soon
Announced last year already as a “Game Changer“, Behringer now have let us know that the X32 Digital Console will be available worlwide on (or just before) July 27th.
The Beat Junkies – For the Record – Documentary
The World Famous Beat Junkies, comprised of members J-Rocc, DJ Babu, D-Styles, DJ Rhettmatic, DJ What?!, Mr. Choc, Icy Ice, Curse, DJ Shortkut, Melo-D, Symphony and DJ Havik have been putting in work on the turntables since they were first established in 1992.
Andre Cato and DJ Wrigley Talk Denon – SC3900 Overview
Very soon to be released and a pair to arrive at our Gearjunkies Techlab any day now, the Denon SC3900 already made quite the buzz in the DJ scene lately. The stuff we hear is, to say the least, exciting. People who had already have a chance to play and work with them are very positive. We can’t wait!
First Sonnox AAX plug-ins for Pro Tools|HDX and Pro Tools 10 released
Award winning audio plug-in developer, Sonnox, has today released AAX DSP and AAX Native versions of its highly acclaimed Oxford EQ and Inflator plug-ins. In making the announcement, Sonnox Managing Director Rod Densham remarked, “We’re delighted to be supporting the next generation of Pro Tools users with AAX and are very optimistic about the Pro Tools|HDX platform. The new AAX format will undoubtedly become an established plug-in standard, just as TDM has been. The Sonnox development team has doubled in size in recent months, and is working hard to port all our remaining plug-ins to AAX as soon as possible.”