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John Bowen Solaris – Pre-order update
Pre-orders for the remaining units from the first production run are open again! Price for Solaris remains at $3999.00 or 3590 Euros (includes 19% VAT; adjust VAT per your country) in Euros (plus any shipping costs). They have a handful of units left to sell (10 or so), which will ship by end of June.
Steinberg VST PlugIn Zone Update
Steinberg is excited to welcome a new member and several additional plug-ins to its ever-increasing VST PlugIn Zone.
MOTU partners with Apple and Intel to develop for Thunderbolt
MOTU, a leading developer of video and audio I/O products, announced today that it is working closely with Apple and Intel to develop future products that take full advantage of Thunderbolt™, the new, very high-bandwidth, low-latency connectivity standard developed by Intel® and deployed by Apple® to worldwide markets on their latest generation MacBook Pro laptop computers.
FL Studio Harmor synth – Preview Video
Gol, creator of FL Studio, has posted a video of the upcoming Harmor synth for FL Studio, which is currently in alpha stage development. The video is just a pretty raw edited recording, but you sure can see that this new synth has some pretty interesting sounds. Reading some of the comments on the Youtube page, this synth will be a solid hit.
Yamaha i-MX1 – MIDI interface for Apple iPad announced
Yamaha introduced the i-MX1 on the recently held Frankfurter MusikMesse – a MIDI interface that‘s connected to the Apple iPad and thus offering vast possibilities to control MIDI equipment. The Apple iPad has proven itself as a very handy tool, combining a very nice touch panel with a reasonable size. It has sold in large quantities. On Winter NAMM 2011 Yamaha introduced a series of Apps that will allow a wireless controlling of the MOTIF XF Music Production Synthesizer.
HG Fortune Altair 4 – The SciFi Sounds Lab
Altair 4 The SciFi Sounds Lab – As the subname of this plugin synthesizer says this SciFi Sounds Lab will be of best service for all doing soundtracks for movies or games in the genres of SciFi, Suspense, Horror, Fantasy and alike needing special, spacey, wobbly FX sounds. Ok, it can do some more than these e.g. bell like stuff and even it does fit amazingly well in fairly conventional songs.
Sugar Bytes TURNADO announced
The makers of Effectrix have a new audio manipulation effect in the works: TURNADO! Turnado is your new multi-effect tool crafted especially for massive and real-time audio manipulation, providing countless truly unique effects, creating sounds unheard of every time you turn it on.
SSL X-Panda to be released in June
Solid State Logic, the world’s leading manufacturer of professional digital and analogue consoles, announced the release of X-Panda, a versatile new 24 channel compact SuperAnalogue™ mixer at the recent Music Messe 2011.
FabFilter releases Updates and new Pro-Q features
FabFilter have just released updates for all plug-ins, adding great new features to the Pro-Q EQ plug-in and the Timeless 2 delay plug-in, next to general improvements and bug fixes.
Gearjunkies MusikMesse 2011 Roundup
Another year with another MusikMesse in Frankfurt. We’re back home again, and it’s time for the traditional Gearjunkies MusikMesse Roundup. But before we continue, we have to say that we were confronted with lots of personal words of manufacturers about the consequences of the earthquake and tsunami of march 11th in Japan. The scale of what happened goes beyond imagination. It has affected the lives of so many people, and then it is only logical to see that it influences companies with ties to Japan, which are a lot of companies. We bear with them and wish them lots of strength in these difficult times.
Native Instruments Announces KOMPLETE AUDIO 6
Native Instruments has just announced KOMPLETE AUDIO 6, a high-performance six-channel audio interface for studio and live usage. As the successor to the acclaimed AUDIO KONTROL 1, it provides more connectivity, increased audio performance and a host of practical new features, complemented by a versatile software package for music production and DJing.
Harrison Launches New 950m Analog Console
After a decade focusing on digital consoles, Harrison presents a new pure-analog console for music capture and mixdown: the Harrison 950m Analog Console. The 950m incorporates nearly 40 years of analog innovations and refinement starting with the 32-Series in 1975 and continuing through the 80s, 90s, and into the 2000’s. The feature set of the 950m is geared to meet the unique requirements of a DAW-based studio. It provides all the features necessary to link professionals on both sides of the control room window while delivering the “classic sound” so often sought.
The Story Of Soundcloud
Some of you might know that the two SoundCloud founders are both Swedish and moved from Stockholm to Berlin to start working on SoundCloud full-time together with a team. A few weekends ago, adidas originals Sweden visited Alex & Eric on a sunny Saturday afternoon in Berlin to follow and capture their every moves. In this really cool video, they look back at how and why SoundCloud got started and ends with the two founders talking about startups to a group of entrepreneurs at the Berlin Startup Camp
Rhizome Feeltune VST Groove Station – Video
This year we visited our Friends at Feeltune again. Kindly they gave us another demonstration of their Rhizome Groove Station. The Rhizome is designed to allow musicians to freely express their creativity and for live expression, the Rhizome is both a real instrument and a full on production station. The Rhizome is the future of groove machines.
Arturia Spark Shipping June 1st
Arturia has announced that their hardware drum machine Spark will ship the 1st of June. Combining the power of analog synthesis, physical modelling and samples, through the intuitive workflow of a hardware drum machine, Spark is a highly creative beat production center.