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Richie Hawtin Plastikman Live stage tour
For as far I can remember Richie Hawtin a.k.a. Plastikman has been on the forefront when it comes to the usage of the latest gear innovations on stage. The video below is by Future Music. They took an exclusive tour around Plastikman’s very impressive live rig, captured here at Bestival 2010.
Wallander WI Guitar – New Music Guitar App
WI Guitar is the first truly playable virtual acoustic guitar app. Based on revolutionary patent-pending sample technology, WI Guitar has the dynamics and expressiveness of a real steel-stringed guitar, in high-quality stereo.
MOTU announces Audio Express personal studio interface
MOTU has announced the Audio Express, a 6×6 hybrid FireWire/USB 2.0 audio interface and mixer for personal studio recording and live performance mixing. The Audio Express features studio-grade sound, hands-on mixing, MIDI connectivity, and all the audio I/O needed for a well-equipped personal studio. Advanced features include front-panel control of four stereo mix busses, stand-alone mixing, digitally controlled analog trim, DDS (Direct Digital Synthesis) audio clocking for exceptionally low jitter performance, and an instrument tuner.
Eventide Space Stompbox – Video
Earlier this year Eventide announced the newest addition to its stompbox product line: Space. Space features 12 of Eventide’s signature reverb combination effects taken from the H8000FW and Eclipse V4 along with some startling new magic. These unique effects, previously available only in Eventide rack processors, are now available in a compact, roadworthy package. Never before has there been a more dazzling collection of reverb algorithms combined with delays, pitch shifting, tremolo, modulation, and spatial effects in such a compact and affordable package.
The Haken Continuum – Demo Video
Below is a video demonstrating The Haken Continuum. Designed by Dr. Lippold Haken and manufactured by Haken Audio, the Continuum Fingerboard is a musical instrument that allows unprecedented realtime performance control. With a greater pitch range than a traditional 88 note Midi keyboard, the Continuum offers realtime continuous control in three dimensions for every finger that is placed on the playing surface.
Drum with the world – Roland V-Drum Friend Jam
Interact with V-Drums users around the world while improving your drumming skills with fun play-along songs. The “ V-Drums Friend Jam” is the social networking tool for V-Drums you’ve been waiting for! Available now for both PC and Mac. Enjoy drum workout on V-Drums! Automatic downloading practice songs for free via the Internet is ready for you. You can share your workout record on Twitter! This is a social tool for drummers.
New Mic Splitter with the Drawmer 4X4R
The 4x4R is a 4 in/16 out mic/line signal splitter. Its extremely high audio quality, robust build make it the ideal tool to provide multiple outputs for live sound, broadcast coverage, sports events, live recording, press conferences, corporate events and any situation where distribution of high quality audio is required. It incorporates 4 studio grade mic/line pre-amps, each providing up to 66dB of gain and 16 balanced output stages, each with the option of transformer isolation and comprehensive linking facilities.
XILS-lab releases ‘lite’ version of PolyKB soft synth plug-in
XILS-lab is proud to announce availability of PolyKB II Player, a ‘lite’ (yet fully- featured) version of its acclaimed PolyKB II soft synth plug-in as of February 26, 2011.
Wave Arts Dialog spoken voice plug-in released
Dialog combines in one plug-in all the processing needed to clean up, adjust, and sweeten recordings of the spoken voice. It is perfect for voice-over, film/tv recordings on location or sound stage, and broadcast. Dialog includes brickwall filters, de-hum and de-buzz processing, broadband noise reduction, de-ploding, de-essing, 10-band equalization, compression, and limiting. Separate presets for each section allow you to get results fast.
Image Line FL Studio 9.9 Beta available – Video
Image-Line Software are pleased to announce the FL Studio 9.9 Beta is available for testing. You can find the download links here. The FL Studio 9.9 Beta introduces the ‘Chainer‘ plugin. In this video theFL Studio Guru runs though some basic operational principles. Chainer will load as an Instrument Channel or Effect and from there you can happily chain both instrument and effects plugins.
Novation Dicers – Turntables and Dicers in Technicolor!
Gizmo (Skratchworx) recently did a review on the Novation Dicers. As part of that review he made this video with DJ Woody who does a snippet of his 1 hour “Turntables In Technicolor” using Novation Dicers.
Serato Itch 2 coming next month?
According to a message on their Facebook wall Serato is about to reveal more on the next version of their DJ software Serato Itch. Features that night be included in this new version could be FLAC support, video support, 4-deck support for more controllers, a sampler, compatibility with Serato’s The Bridge to allow DJing with Ableton Live within ITCH (like Serato Scratch), vertical centre waveform option (like Serato Scratch).
LoopTV Interview with House DJ Fedde Le Grand
LoopTV interviewed DJ Fedde Le Grand to find out about his label ‘Flamingo recordings’ and his production studio setup. Fedde’s parties have been rocking the Netherlands since 2001, his label ‘Flamingo Recordings’ has been pushing its unique sound since 2004, and then in 2006 ‘Put your hands up for Detroit’ happened…and the rest as they say is history!
Paul Oakenfolds Songwriter TC aka Spitfire on Cakewalk Sonar X1
Cakewalk‘s Jimmy Landry talks to TC a.k.a. Spitfire about his various roles as Paul Oakenfold’s songwriter, engineer, and assistant producer. TC also talks about who he is working with in the industry and how SONAR X1 helps him stay successful.