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Tutorials for SampleRobot online
Skylife has just put some tutorials online where you can find a lot of tips and tricks regarding SampleRobot. SampleRobot is the unique audio sampling software solution for musicians and sound designers. For the first time it is possible to very easily clone real musical instruments automatically. So you can transfer your musical instruments very easily to the digital domain and then play them with any available software sampler.
Electrix releases Repeater plugin plus 2008 announcements
Electrix has released Virtual Repeater Pro, a plug-in for live loop recording, sampling and overdubbing using your PC or Mac. Sync your loops to audio or MIDI and control them with your hands or feet. Record a loop and then speed it up or slow it down – without affecting the pitch. Other Effects and features include Time Stretching, Undo, Reverse, Slip, Overdub and Resample which allows you to bounce multiple tracks down to one.
Denon announces new double CD player the DN-HC4500
At the International DJ Expo in Atlantic City, NJ, Denon DJ will preview its breakthrough model DN-HC4500 USB MIDI/Audio Interface and Controller, the companys first USB MIDI/Audio interface designed exclusively for computer performance by club and mobile DJs.
New Electrix products at the Plasa in London
Electrix, a division of SBD Music, Inc., has announced its plan to release a new line of sound processors.
Moog updates OS Little Phatty Stage and Tribute edition synths
Moog announced the release of operating system version 1.03c for its Little Phatty Stage and Tribute edition synths.
FabFilter releases new FabFilter Pro-C compressor plug-in
FabFilter has released FabFilter Pro-C, a new professional compressor plug-in with very high
quality sound, flexible routing and side chain options, and various beautiful program dependent compression styles. The innovative user interface and animated level display make compression with FabFilter Pro-C easy to grasp for everyone.
Yamaha announced the TENORI-ON performance instrument
This September Yamaha proudly launch the TENORI-ON, a brand new and visually stunning performance controller at a worldwide exclusive at London’s premier independent record shop Phonica Records. This event will not only feature TENORI-ON performances from some of the finest talent in electronic music but also an introduction and discussion with the TENORI-ON’s inventor.
Numark premieres iDJ2 with color screen
Numark will debut the industry’s first DJ mixing console with Universal Dock for iPod, that features the ability to scratch, control pitch, key-lock, and simultaneously play two songs from a single iPod with a stunning full-color screen.
Free Blue Cat Gain Suite 2.0 released
Blue Cat just unleashed a new version of Blue Cat’s Gain Suite, a freeware gain adjustment plugins package for Windows, including mono, stereo and mid/side DirectX and VST plugins.
zplane.development announces version 1.1 of vielklang
Zplane.development announced the release of vielklang 1.1 in September 2007. They made vielklang an even more versatile and powerful tool in the production process. The release of version 1.1 will definitely extend vielklang’s lead as the quickest, easiest and most musical harmonization tool available.
Apogee Symphony driver and Maestro software updates available
Apogee has released updates to their Symphony PCI-E card driver and Maestro application.
No, not Lego but a Tangible Sequencer
Well at first glance it may look like a toy that your child would love to play with, and well … it could actually, but it is a musical sequencer. The Tangible Sequencer is a simple musical instrument. There are 8 colored boxes each with a large triangular play button that lights up in time with music. Press play on any box and it will play a sound. Put boxes next to each other and they become aware of one another. The boxes take turns playing their sounds one after another just as you have laid them out. Just follow the arrows!
Presonus announces MegaStudio Producer pack
PreSonus is pleased to announce the MegaStudio Producer, a complete audio and video production studio including the FP10 10×10 firewire recording interface (available in stores September 1, 2007).
DashSignature releases HQS Volume 1 – Ultimate FM
Ultimate FM is a unique sound library for all DASHsnd compatible VST instruments- an extensive collection of sounds from Yamaha’s classic, but notoriously difficult to program, FS1r. HQS Vol. 1 features all the character and sounds you would expect from a top-class FM sample set plus more thanks to the FS1r’s additional waveform features and formant filters. You will find basses, organs, electric pianos, brass, pluck, fx and synthesised sounds, as well as several formant sequences.
Mackie gives musicians desktop power to go…
The Mackie Onyx Satellite represents a breakthrough for computerbased audio and music production. As the world’s first two-piece FireWire recording system, Satellite consists of a portable recording Pod with premium Onyx mic preamps, and a desktop Base Station with additional inputs and outputs.