NAMM 2013 is now in the history books, with throngs of show-goers and hoards of manufacturers finally recovering from jet-lag and hangovers, following the music industry’s premiere annual trade show event in Southern California. It was standing room only in the MOTU booth throughout the show, with special guests and artist appearances over four days, along with a sneak preview of a major MOTU software upgrade.
Tone2 Audiosoftware are proud to announce the release of the ElectraX 1.4 update, including 64 bit Mac versions, several feature enhancements and fixes.
Line 6, leading manufacturer of innovative solutions for musicians, is pleased to announce v1.1 of the StageScape™ M20d smart mixing system. This software update features enhanced recording, file management and playback capabilities that make it even easier for musicians to record their live shows, soundchecks and rehearsals.
Musical instrument designer Dave Smith was honored with a Grammy® award this past Saturday for his work developing the Musical Instrument Digital Interface or MIDI, as it is more commonly known. The ceremony, held at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles, also celebrated the work of Glenn Gould, Carole King, and the Temptations, among others. Smith shares the award with Ikutaro Kakehashi, founder of Roland Corporation, the Japanese musical instrument manufacturer.
Tek’it Audio has announced the release of Badass 2 a multi-effects distortion plug-in. With the help of twelve effects available simultaneously, including two distortions, pre and post filters, a lo-fi resampler, a bit degrader, a pitch-shifter, a frequency cutter, a frequency booster, a ring modulator, a limiter and a compressor, Badass 2 is armed to distort your sound in the way you want.
Allen & Heath has updated its GLD digital mixing system firmware to V1.1, adding a range of enhancements including support for the forthcoming GLD iPad app and ME personal mixing system, new Graphic EQ emulations, and customer requested additions to Scene management functionality.
Below are the 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.
Any DJ or producer, professional or ‘bedroom’, knows this problem. If you are serious about your work/hobby, you collect a lot of stuff over the years. If it’s gear, records, CD’s, miscellaneous crap, you name it, your studio gets cluttered. IKEA recognised this problem and made a video of DJ Harry Love and his (HUGE) collection of vinyl records and gear. Like a “Extrem Home Makeover” they turned his DJ room (and house) in a much more liveable environment.
Prime Loops are now auditioning music producers and beat makers in a wide range of electronic music genres to join our ever expanding network of “Prime Producers”.
Stanton has recently released a SCS.4DJ SC-IX V4.0 update. There are a lot of important features that many working DJ’s have requested, and they have tried to get in a good selection for this release. The big changes are that the controller has Track Gain and Active Playlist Resort, but there are a fair number of other goodies there as well. Below is the full changelog.
Professional audio plug-ins developer Camel Audio is proud to announce availability of Biolabs: Light Space, the latest in a line of highly-affordable and creatively inspirational ‘powered by Alchemy’ range of sound libraries, compatible with their free Alchemy Player v1.5 or Alchemy v1.5 — the ultimate sample manipulation synthesizer.
Producertech is an online provider of music tutorials teaching popular music software and hardware, including Ableton Live, Logic, Reason and also individual instruments covered in the synth courses. Via their website music-courses.com they announce two new mastering courses and a new dubstep course.
Shazam, the world’s leading media engagement company, today announces an exclusive new partnership with Beatport, the world’s largest DJ and dance music community. The new partnership will enable Shazam to greatly expand the number of dance tracks in its database, giving fans an unparalleled way to discover, explore, buy and share the club music that they love when they’re out with their friends.
Mackie today announces the sale and transition of Tracktion Music Production Software to the Tracktion Software Corporation (TSC). TSC is led by three principals; Julian ‘Jules’ Storer, the original creator of Tracktion as well as former “Mackoids” James ‘Woody’ Woodburn and Dave Christenson.