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Ueberschall announces the availability of Pop Music
Pop Music offers music creators access to an extensive pop production workstation. Offering essential tools that make it easier than ever to assemble and fuse polished grooves. Pop Music assets include supremely recorded Pop music arrangements, hundreds of flawless loops and samples inspired by modern and classic Pop trends. An all new construction kit experience which offers 13 complete songs, with styles ranging from slow ballads up to fast rocking pop songs.
Tom Oberheim and a new SEM
Mr. Tom Oberheim did a presentation on his new SEM at the Red Bull Music Academy in Boston. Mr. Oberheim discusses the changes made to the new SEM and the reasons behind them, pricing, and demos a few sounds.
New Numark DJ Controls now shipping
When performing at a club, lounge or private event, DJs need to be ready to put on a show for any type of crowd. Numarks OMNI CONTROL and STEALTH CONTROL are perfect for DJs who want to get the crowd moving. Each unit provides all the equipment they need to do just that from the booth.
Focusrite Liquid Saffire 56 Audio Interface now shipping
Focusrite is proud to announce that the Liquid Saffire 56 is shipping and widely available in stores. The Liquid Saffire 56 is Focusrite’s new flagship Firewire interface. It has generated a great deal of excitement as it marries Focusrite’s celebrated Liquid technology with its new generation of Saffire interface technology (pioneered by the critically acclaimed Saffire Pro40).
Introducing the Livid Ohm64 controller
Introducing the Ohm64. After almost a year of development Livid is very excited to finally announce the release of the Ohm64. The Ohm64 is a complete re-engineering of the Ohm and they have expanded it massively.
Image Line Autogun synthesizer plugin for free
Image Line Software, the developer of FL Studio (formerly FruityLoops), released its newest synthesizer named Autogun. Available for download free of charge, Autogun offers 4 294 967 296 (Four Billion Two Hundred Ninety Four Million Nine Hundred Sixty Seven Thousand Two Hundred Ninety Six) presets, just waiting to be explored for their acoustic potential.
de la Mancha Scylla hybrid sampler – synth instrument released
de la Mancha is pleased to announce the arrival of Scylla, a new hybrid sampler/synth instrument, co-developed with Singing Crane, the same duo that developed Octav8r.
VST Instruments onstage with Nexoe ReSampler
RESAMPLER is a software designed to bring sounds of VST instruments into hardware sampler, esp. into Roland Fantom Series Sampler (in combination with Fantom YASE). It creates a collection of Microsoft Wave-Files and is able to save the complete sound in the Patch format of Fantom YASE. The sounds can be looped and normalized automatically during the record procedure.
A closer look at the SmartAV Tango MonARC functions
A combination of Features, Technology, Ergonomics, and Quality that will blow your mind, but not your budget. At an introductory price of US$7,990 Tango is real value for the audio professional and home user alike. SmartAV have combined patented ARC Technology with a huge 22″ wide (16:9) touch screen to produce the most versatile and intuitive workstation controller yet. With super fast control of Logic 8, Nuendo 4, Cubase 4/5, and Pyramix via a single 100MBit Ethernet (Cat 5) Cable, Tango offers music and post production features not available on any thing else.
Roland releases version 2.0 for V-Synth GT
The flagship V-Synth® GT Elastic Audio Synthesizer has achieved worldwide acclaim for its unprecedented expression and realism, as well as its ability to achieve never-before-heard sounds. Roland Corporation U.S. is now pleased to announce the release of the Version 2.0 system update for the V-Synth GT.
Cubase iC Remote Control Application for iPhone and iPod touch
Cubase iC transforms your iPhone and your iPod touch into a powerful remote control for Cubase 5 and Cubase Studio 5. Whether you are using Cubase in the studio or on stage, Cubase iC gives you fast and precise control of essential functions from anywhere within your Wi-Fi network’s range. Cubase iC gives you access to basic transport functions, allows you to monitor playback position and control the unique Arranger Track.
New tutorials from Future Audio Workshop for Circle synth
Circle is the powerful, easy to use software synthesizer from FAW. If you are not familiar with Circle yet, FAW have posted new tutorials on their website. Mo Volans, a regular contributor to EQ, Remix and Music Tech Magazine, presents a series of step by step tutorials for designing sounds with Circle. Tutorials 1 to 4 are available now, with more being added in the coming weeks.
Voxengo PHA-979 phase alignment plugin version 2.1 released
Voxengo PHA-979 version 2.1 update is now available for download. Voxengo PHA-979 is a track phase and time alignment audio plug-in, available in AudioUnit and VST plug-in formats, for Mac OS X, Windows XP and Windows Vista computers.
Akai Professional APC40 now shipping
As promised AKAI Pro announces that the APC40 Ableton Performance Controller is now available for purchase worldwide.
New phase and polarity tools for MOTU mk3 interface owners
CueMix FX has been updated yet again with two new visual diagnostic tools for stereo audio signals: an X-Y Plot and a Phase Analysis. These real time displays join three other recently introduced tools (the FFT, Spectrogram and Oscilloscope) for a total of five powerful new features now available as a free download for all owners of mk3 FireWire audio interface products. Phase and polarity are critical elements of any stereo mix or multi-mic recording session. Find out how you can improve your sound with these advanced, yet easy-to-use tools.