Native Instruments today launched a special 50% discount on many of its producer and DJ software products. For a period of five days, nearly 60 full versions and upgrades will be available at a strongly reduced price, including the majority of all KOMPLETE instruments and effects, all update and upgrade versions of the TRAKTOR DJ software, as well as the iMASCHINE groove sketchpad.
Stanton Magnetics, a member of the Stanton Group of companies and an industry leader in the design and manufacture of professional audio products for DJs, announces updated system software, SC-IX Version 2.0 and a new offline music file analyzer, QuickGrid software, for its innovative SCS.4DJ Fully Integrated Digital DJ Mixstation. Developed based on user’s feedback since the product’s launch earlier this year, both software applications look to further improve the SCS.4DJ user experience while DJing and preparing music files for performance.
Following the launch of the M-Waves option module for the iLive digital mixing system at PLASA, Allen & Heath and Waves are staging interactive online seminars to provide information and technical understanding about the card and the Waves SoundGrid protocol in general.
Acorn Instruments, developer of high-value, digital musical instruments has announced the availability of the Masterkey 61, the latest addition to their acclaimed Masterkey line of USB keyboard controllers. The Masterkey 61 offers 5-octaves of full-size, synth-action keys intended for more elaborate two-handed playing styles while its smaller siblings, the Masterkey 25 and Masterkey 49 introduced earlier this year, work great for tweaking and editing midi data during production or composition.
Roland’s new SPD-SX Sampling Pad, a multi-pad percussion instrument with 2 GB of onboard sampling memory and three powerful effects engines, is now shipping. The SPD-SX replaces the popular SPD-S, the industry-leading sampling pad, which has been the overwhelming choice of professional drummers, percussionists, and DJs. The SPD-SX leads the way with the latest pad-sensing technology, enhanced sampling performance, an assignable click output, and a host of other features.
Mute have today announced details of the much anticipated collaboration between Vince Clarke and Martin L. Gore. For anyone with just the slightest interest in electronic music (and above the age of 30’ish) this must be great news. In any case it is to us! Below is the official press release on this re-newed collaboration between the original founders of Depeche Mode.
After selling 10,000+ copies of the The Secrets of House Music Production book, Sample Magic is delighted to announce the release of the all-new iPad Edition. The expanded iPad edition features all of the original content PLUS 340+ audio examples, 60+ interactive walkthroughs, 38 realtime beat-building grids, 3 full pro-track arrangements, a complete effects directory and much more.
The Endauvour evo is a midi keyboard with something special! The keys have built-in sensors which makes them touch and pressure sensitive. No doubt that this makes things pretty interesting. More information will be revealed soon by the new company.
IK Multimedia has established a good reputation when it comes to innovative products for the iPhone and iPad. Just think of the iRig, iKlip and the iRig Mic. This last one, iRig Mic, we have tried out at this year’s MusikMesse. To our great satisfaction we might say.
Kenton Electronics is proud to announce availability of Modular Solo, a high- specification MIDI-to-CV convertor, designed specifically for use in the ‘small’ Eurorack (A100) modular synth system format (as popularised by Doepfer Musikelektronik).
Line 6 the industry leader in digital modeling technology for musicians, announced today Mobile In™ digital input adaptor and Mobile POD® guitar tone app. The new hardware and app allow guitarists to connect an electric guitar to their iPhone or iPad, which gives them the same high-quality sounds they’d get if they were playing from a wide variety of famous guitar amplifiers, speakers and effects including distortion, chorus and reverb.
That does look mighty nice! Livid has posted this new controller on Vimeo, … and that’s about it. No info, no details. Just watch the video and see for yourself.
When Uprock Audio in Sacramento, California got their hands on the new Balance with Reason Essentials package they set about on a new creative project. The plan was simple enough: They wanted to record a song with a local artist, produce it, then sample it, remix it, and turn it into a second entirely new hip hop song… all in one day!
Yes, finally the guessing is over. The Denon MC3000 has been announced, introduced, you name it. We have known this controller since the past BPM Show, where an obscure, out of focus image had been leaked. More pictures have been released in the months after. Most surprising is the fact that Denon has lost the DN prefix. So we can present you the MC3000 DJ Controller.
Keith McMillen has an interesting project going on at the Kickstarter website. Here you can back interesting projects with (small) financial participations. For his QuNeo project Keith is looking for people who like to invest in the development of this new pad controller for electronic musicians.