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WANT of the century: Emulator on Token Concept
That’s right! Want Of The Century. Often you come across ‘stuff’ that looks neat or you would love to play with. But this is ten times more cool. DJ Pablo Martin pleasantly surprised us with his new project multitouch. He is using his new software Emulator on a Töken Concept table. Looking at the video you know this is just übercool!
Mixed In Key now on your iPhone
The Mixed In Key team has been busy developing new software, first of which is DJ Tempo, available on the iPhone right now. DJ Tempo does automatic BPM detection on your iPhone. Simply select the amount of time you’d like it to analyze the music – 5, 10, or 20 seconds – and touch the Analyze Tempo button. Within seconds, the BPM appears on the screen.
Charles Scott (Bad Robot) using Rob Papen synths – Video
Charles Scott is the resident ‘music guy’ at bad Robot Productions. In the video below he is taking us on a tour of the various Rob Papen softsynths he is using at Bad Robot.
Tek’it Audio release Genobazz to 1.2 – FREE
Genobazz is a free monophonic bass synthesizer plugin, designed to be simple to use, for all your bass need, from simple sine bass to acid bassline.
UA introduces Analog Classics Software Bundle for UAD-2
Universal Audio, a leading manufacturer of high-quality audio recording hardware and developer of the award-winning UAD Powered Plug-Ins Platform, today announced a significant update to its popular UAD-2 DSP Accelerator Packages. All UAD-2 SOLO, DUO and QUAD DSP Accelerator Packages now feature smaller, “greener” packaging, and include the new “Analog Classics” Software Bundle at no additional cost — the perfect way to inject the true sound of analog gear into the digital domain.
VirSyn iVoxel for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch released
VirSyn are happy to announce that iVoxel – “The singing vocoder” for the Apple iPhone/iPad/iPod touch platform is available in the App Store now. iVoxel is not only an amazingly sounding vocoder for iPhone/iPod and iPad, the unique concept of iVoxel turns this vocoder into a singing machine going far beyond the capabilities of traditional and software vocoders on any platform.
Numark iPad DJ Station
Following on the iPod DJ Station, Numark will introduce the iPad DJ Station soon. We’ve got some pictures of it.
Serato Turtorial for Livid Block – Video
A tutorial demonstrating how to use the LIVID INSTRUMENTS “BLOCK” midi controller to control the DJ software SERATO. The video shows you how you can use only the BLOCK to control all the parameters of SERATO without having to use turntables or cdj’s. In a step by step guide the user is visually led thru the process culminating in a live demo of the controller.
Steinberg CI1 AND CI2+ Now Available
Steinberg’s new mobile recording solutions, CI1 and CI2+, are now available at stores worldwide and can also be purchased from the Steinberg Online Shop.
Motu introduces new BPM 1.5.
BPM unites drum machine-style operation with advanced virtual instrument technology to give you the ultimate rhythm programming experience. Combine kits, patterns, and loops with instrument sounds, advanced mixing, and DSP effects to realize your rhythmic vision. BPM 1.5 adds many new features, plus 4 GB of additional sounds for over 19 GB of included kits, patterns, loops, and samples.
Yamaha introduces the new Motif XF series
Soon after the original MOTIF was released in 2001, it was recognized as the best sounding, top selling and most requested music workstation on the market. Over time, it has continued to evolve and improve its expressiveness and functionality. At the same time, the online community of end users, sound programmers, software developers and product support specialists at www.MOTIFATOR.com has expanded into a vibrant online music production community.
Synth-Project OP-X Controller ready for action – Video
Recently we showed you pictures of the OP-X Controller that Mario Jurisch has built for himself. With this controller he can control the OP-X softsynth from Sonic-Projects. He lets us know he just uploaded a video showing this cool controller in action.
Open Labs – Another victim to the economic downfall?
This is one of those posts we rather wouldn’t have to write, but sadly we got some information that another gear company went into bankrupcy. According to the Austin, TX news paper the Statesman, on august 4 2010, all assets of Open Labs, Inc. consisting primarily of the patents, trademarks, copyrights, and other IP associated with the most Open Labs products will be sold at a public foreclosure sale.
HGFortune releases Avatar ST VSTi Synthesizer
Avatar ST is featuring a new generation of HG Fortune synths. Basically it is most suited for a large variety of pads, soundscapes, athmospheres or related FX sounds but can do other sounds like e.g. certain kinds of basses too. The 16 Step Modulator allows sounds to be fairly rhythmicated in various ways if wanted.
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.