Tek’it Audio have released Winkl which is a free foldback distortion for VST2, VST3 and Audio Unit plug-in formats. Winkl is not a subtle distortion, this is well suited for bass and leads, made to make your sounds scream!
Specialist analogue synthesiser and innovative musical hardware distributor ALEX4 Distribution is proud to announce that partner manufacturer MFB is now shipping its eagerly-awaited Tanzbär Analoger Drumcomputer as of July 8.
We just found out that the Native Instruments Traktor DJ app is available for … free! Just open up your iTunes app store and check it out. The app is free for the iPad version and the iPhone/iPod Touch version.
On Saturday the 3rd of August an attempt will be made to smash the current Guinness World Record for ‘LONGEST CLUB DJ SESSION RELAY‘ by djtechdirect.com – one of the UK’s leading DJ stores – and The Rainbow Venues – a leading name in the UK club scene.
Below are some of the new 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.
Steinberg is happy to announce the availability of an extensive maintenance update to the WaveLab 8 product family. Next to the maintenance update there’s now also a trial version available. The trial version comes with the same range of functionality as the full version.
Just a few weeks ago we brought your our story of our visit to the Galaxy Studios in Belgium, during the Focusrite Rednet Tour. Our reporters Marc van den Hurk and Wouter Veltmaat went to the Galaxy Studio where they got a hands-on demonstration of the Focusrite Rednet audio system. Now Focusrite have released a video of the demonstration at the Galaxy Studios.
ESI have announced that their two new midi helpers are now on their way to a store near you. The mikroMERGE is a convenient and small MIDI merger accessory. It features 4 MIDI inputs on one side and a single MIDI output on the other side. The mikroTHRU is a small MIDI Thru-Box accessory. It features a single MIDI input on one side and 4 MIDI outputs on the other side.
Native Instruments today released TRAKTOR KONTROL Z1, the world’s smallest professional mixer and audio interface for both TRAKTOR DJ for iPhone and iPad, and TRAKTOR PRO 2. When combined with the critically-acclaimed TRAKTOR DJ app, the sleek Z1 adds headphone cue and dedicated faders, filter and effects controls, and 3-band EQ for each channel.
Nord Keyboards have announced that an update for the iPad app Nord Beat is available now, for free. Nord Beat 2 is a 6-track CoreMIDI Step Sequencer for iPad and a perfect companion for the Nord Drum 2 Modeling Percussion Synthesizer. It can also be used with any external MIDI drum module, synth or sampler (or even other iPads app via Virtual MIDI).
Native Instruments launched the ‘MORE SOUND TO THE POUND’ sales special. For a limited-time, customers purchasing the MASCHINE or MASCHINE MIKRO groove production studios get MASCHINE Expansions for free.
With his latest collaboration single by Daft Punk, ‘Get Lucky’ reaching No.1 in over 50 countries around the globe, it was a huge honour for the International Music Summit (IMS), when Nile Rodgers agreed to create the IMS Anthem, which was then to be remixed by Eats Everything. After a hugely successful summit, it was agreed live by Nile Rodgers that the single would be put up for charity auction for licensing rights.
There is something special about the metal outfit In Flames and how they constantly challenge the unwritten rules of music. Unruly and difficult to pinpoint, each album different from the others. Metal with hint of death, layers of electronic wizardry and vocals oscillating between being harshly desperate and clear as crystal. Their signature sound is not something fixed, it is ever evolving and hard to describe as something else than In Flames in full effect.
Below are some of the new 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.
These past months we saw a few pictures on the Twitter feed of Junkie XL, showing some of the work he was doing with Hans Zimmer on the soundtrack for The Man Of Steel motion picture. The images were of a drum studio set up of twelve drum kits, all facing eachother. To us that looked very interesting.