With a career of more then 15 years which started with his first album Space Force (on cassette tape), Danny Wolfers alter ego Legowelt is one of the Netherlands most important but also stable sources of West Coast Sound electro.
When you grow up in a small Canadian prairie town with a population of under a hundred people you might set a goal for yourself to expand your horizons. Bass guitarist Shane Hendrickson has long left Crane Valley, Saskatchewan and currently juggles a roster of shows touring with fellow Canadians Natalie MacMaster and Aaron Pritchett and now also Nick and Sophie Tweed-Simmons. Mighty impressive for the completely self taught Hendrickson. (The closest music lessons were an hour drive from his childhood home.) Life is now anything from predictable and can change with one phone call..and Hendrickson wouldn’t have it any other way.
One DJ, is a totally customizable DJ software with revolutionary Timeline Edit Mode. Following a rigorous development project Audio Artery has launched One DJ software; an all-in-one solution for DJing and creating mixes and mashups. One DJ also features a fully customizable user interface with smart audio routing.
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.