Another great feature by The SoundWorks Collection in which they talk with the sound team of Director Ridley Scott’s latest science fiction film “Prometheus” including Supervising Sound Editors Mark Stoeckinger and Victor Ennis, Sound Re-recording Mixers Ron Bartlett and Doug Hemphill, Sound Designers Ann Scibelli and Alan Rankin, and Sound Effects Researcher Charlie Campagna.
Yesterday’s big news was the release of the release of Propellerhead‘s new Rack Extension technology with Reason 6.5 and Reason Essentials 1.5, thirteen established plug-in developers have publicly committed to the platform — many releasing products today. Ranging from tweakable pianos to massively modulated filters and classic compressors, a total of twenty new instruments, effects and utilities are already available in the Propellerhead Shop with new ones being added daily. With a number of additional developers developing in secret, the future looks bright for the rack.
Propellerhead today released new versions of their award-winning music making platform: Reason 6.5 and Reason Essentials 1.5. New in these versions is the introduction of Rack Extensions—a groundbreaking new technology from Propellerhead that opens up the rack to third parties, enabling developers to create their own instruments and effects for Reason and allowing users to expand their collection of instruments and effects with the Reason devices they want.
It has arrived: the 2.0 version of the Red Bull BPM DJ app. With this update, BPM takes another step in the development of touch device DJ’ing, adding social as well as technical features. BPM DJ 2.0 is now available in the App Store. DJ Julien Chaptal presents the new version in the second BPM tutorial video.
German producer and electronic artist Kris Menace, or Christophe Hoeffel as his mum knows him, has been one busy body in recent years. Not only has Kris released an impressive array of singles under this specific moniker and runs two highly successful record labels, but has also remixed his way through a vast catalog of tracks for Lana Del Ray, Kylie Minogue, Depeche Mode and Robbie Williams to name but a few. His latest long player Electric Horizon was released a few months ago and is deemed to become one of this year’s most distinguished albums associated with electronic music.
Denon DJ SC2900 marks a revolution for Professional, Club and Studio DJs by bringing Denon DJs first ever static-platter controller and media player combining the ultimate in ground-breaking design and the highest in industry-standard quality.
iZotope is one of those developers of software that keeps innovating and doesn’t release your ‘middle of the road’ software. Where many developers keep releasing adaptions on a theme, iZotope often comes up with something new, … really new! Their latest product, Iris is just that!
Liine and Livid have teamed up to create a truly unique Ableton Live control experience. Griid software and Code hardware can now be linked as a single controller via free scripts. This hybrid control concept represents an innovative combination of multitouch control and hardware.
Last week Denon DJ started to tease with the mysterious “29” video. Soon after that rumours emerged that it would be the new SC2900 Media Player. And today they made it public that it is the SC2900 indeed and published an pre-release overview video of this puppy! It’s time to see what’s really behind the shadows and LEDs…
Surf Dude with Attitude provides the perfect soundtrack for a weird and happy summer. What else can be said when ocean samples, hazy delay lines and bent FM-sounds are involved? When the quirky and upbeat sound gets accompanied by her special take on beach-themed lyrics, you just know the circle is complete. Surf’s up!
Irish electronic act, The Japanese Popstars, selected an Allen & Heath ZED-420 USB mixer as the permanent mixer in their tour set up.
A week after the (unvoluntary) release of the Traktor Pro 2.5 update, Native Instruments announce that the Kontrol F1 is now available worldwide.
The revolutionary Reactable instrument hits the stage with its new incarnation: The Reactable Live! It brings all the possibilities of the original Reactable and makes it portable and easy to setup. The Live! version of the instrument allows you to touch and see the music while performing. The different sound generation and manipulation modules, which are real physical objects, permit infinite flexibility and control in musical expression. Exploring and using modern techniques of music production has never been easier or more exciting.
For all those who feel that they have an instinct for mixing, and for everyone dreaming of getting behind the decks to host great parties with their own music and setting the dance floor on fire, Hercules is proud to unveil its new mixing console for computers: Hercules DJControl Instinct.
Almost at the same time as the release of the 2.2.1 update of Serato’s Itch, Vestax released their VCI-380 DJ Controller. The VCI-380 is a two channel DJ controller with a built-in Digital DJ mixer, powerful and creative, opening the door to limitless possibilities of controllerism. Mix, scratch, cue, effect, sample, trigger, loop and slice.