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Get knocked out with Behringer NOX Series DJ Mixers
Behringer is taking the next step in the DJ Mixer market. At the coming NAMM they will introduce more of their NOX Series DJ Mixers. According to their PR chatter they won’t take any prisoners it seems. Well, … let’s wait till the NAMM, shall we?
New Sounds and Samples on Sample Saturday
Loopmasters James Harcourt – Twisted Tech House Essential Dance Basses Ed Solo Presents Bass Lab Vol1 Primeloops Dirty South
NAMM 2011: The Kemper Profiling Amplifier
Kemper GmbH announce the new Kemper Profiling Amplifier to be unveiled at the NAMM Show 2011 in Los Angeles. The Kemper Profiling Amplifier is an entirely new concept for guitar amplification in the digital domain. Following the radical idea that every guitar player should be able to bring his personal sound of the tube amp setup he owns into a versatile, comfortable and most important reproducible format: The Kemper Profiling Amplifier “learns” the sonic behavior of any guitar amplifier and offers exactly the tone and feel the player knows from his “real” amp. The times of struggling to “re-find” that magic mic position in front of the speaker are over. Now there will be a profile available of basically any sonic condition the tube amp setup can provide.
A Machine That Makes Music? Yes, the Elektron Octatrack!
The Octatrack DPS-1 is a 8 track dynamic performance sampler. The Octatrack is ideal for radical audio processing and performance oriented sampling. Every track features real-time pitch scaling & time stretch and the next generation Elektron step sequencer has been designed with maximum usability and efficiency in mind. And from this coming monday the 20th of December at 8.00 CET Elektron start taking pre-orders from the general public.
Mixvibes releases Cross 1.5 DJ Software
MixVibes, leading company in DJ technologies for over 10 years announces the release of a new update of CROSS, digital DJ solution for professional and advanced DJs. The CROSS 1.5 update brings major improvements to this powerful solution.
Interesting Strategic Alliance Between Yamaha and Rupert Neve Designs
Yamaha announces a strategic partnership with Rupert Neve Designs, based on both parties involvement with VCM (Virtual Circuitry Modeling) Technology. VCM is an exclusive Yamaha digital technology, enabling engineers to achieve stunning sonic and musical performance by actually modeling the individual characteristics of a multitude of parts and components contributing to the final sound of original analog circuitry.
MiDi-to iPad MiDi controller for Serato Scratch
MiDi-to is a wireless DJ MiDi controller designed for Serato Scratch LiveTM. It is the first iPad MiDi controller designed for Serato that does not need any additional software to work. MiDi-to takes advantage of the new Core MIDI framework available with iOS 4.2 which minimizes setup and latency.
Karma-Lab releases Korg M3 Video Tutorial DVD set
Karma-Lab, the expert in Korg instructional content, is pleased to announce the release on DVD of its “House 101 Combi Creation Series,” a comprehensive Korg M3 training program. The two-DVD set contains 7 hours of in-depth video instruction, with 45 separate chapters – each a self-contained “lesson” you can work through at your own speed.
New iLok Available – 2nd Generation
You asked, iLok delivered. The new iLok is smaller, stronger, customizable and has a much higher capacity than the original. Together with iLok.com, it is the best portable software license solution available.
Free Guitar Refill from Propellerhead
It’s getting near Christmas / Hanukkah / Kwanza / Yule / Solstice / Festivus or just about any other reason to celebrate, eat too much and give gifts.
Analog Essentials, Ultra FX, and Starlight with free AAS Player plug-in
Applied Acoustics Systems announces the release of the Analog Essentials, Ultra FX and Starlight sound banks, which now includes the free AAS Player plug-in.
Touch Record and Reason with your iPad – Retouch Control
Retouch Control offers TouchOSC templates to control Propellerhead’s Record and Reason. So it is NOT an app but uses the TouchOSC app as a basis. TouchOSC is a universal iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad application that lets you send and receive Open Sound Control messages over a Wi-Fi network using the UDP protocol. Retouch Control is not available yet, more info is coming soon at www.retouchcontrol.com.
Rob Papen RP-Verb Explained – Video Tutorial
Rob has released a close-up look and tutorial on his reverb plugin RP-Verb. RP-Verb is the fruit of Rob Papen’s decades-long study of reverb and endless hours of exploring, testing, and tweaking by Rob and Jon Ayres. The result is exactly what you would expect: a stunning, musical reverb that brings unmatched dimension and fullness to your mixes.
Teenage Engineering OP-1 …. still waiting!
Allthough announced … oh so long ago, the OP-1 is still not released, however the project is still alive as this video shows us. John Eriksson from the band Peter Bjorn and John, got to have a go at the this Teenage Engineering‘s cutting-edge keyboard….. Still waiting though!
Teasing new DJ Controller … Mission accomplished!
Reloop DJ has started with a new teaser campagne for their MISSION III controller. With just a little banner on their website they are telling us that they will introduce this new MISSION III at the coming NAMM in january.