Tone2 Audiosoftware is pleased to announce the forthcoming release of Rayblaster. RayBlaster uses a different approach to synthetic sound generation, called Impulse Modelling Synthesis (IMS) IMS goes beyond conventional synthesis to offer a completely new range of unique, high quality sounds and creative potential for any style of music.
Music software company XILS-lab is proud to announce availability of its LX122 and LX122 Premium rotary speaker effects plug-ins as of November 5, 2012. LX122 and LX122 Premium are Mac OS X 10.4 (32-bit PowerPC and Intel) and OS X 10.6 (32- and 64-bit Intel) or later- compatible (VST, AU, RTAS — Pro Tools 7.0 or later) and Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7-compatible (VST, RTAS Pro Tools 7.0 or later) rotary speaker emulation plug-ins, both featuring XILS-lab’s proprietary True Stereo Dynamic Engine (TSDE), offering a whole new way to record rotary speaker effects.
Native Instruments today announced that the world’s first 2+2 channel control mixer TRAKTOR KONTROL Z2 is now available in stores worldwide and at the NI Online Shop. TRAKTOR KONTROL Z2 is constructed of aircraft-grade aluminum and provides two stand-alone channels with two full Remix channels, a high-quality soundcard, and a host of new features that offer DJs top-of-the line performance coupled with tour-ready reliability. These hardware and software advancements make TRAKTOR KONTROL Z2 the first professional club mixer from Native Instruments.
Something that popped up on our radar last week from a german company called Endeavour. A very stylish new keyboard controller called the Evo. It is a pure keyboard controller that is connected to a computer via an Ethernet interface, and that communicates via Midi, OSC or our own in-house protocol with synthesizers, sequencers or similar. The keys are the special feature here. Every single key is equipped with a sensor that allows evo to read the finger position on a certain area of the key surface. Thus, every key offers, in addition to pitch and velocity, an additional level of polyphonic data input that can be used for continuous control of independent notes.
Here it is! A great give-away from our friends at Reloop. Thanks to them we can give away a Terminal Mix 4 DJ Controller. We had one at our disposal earlier this year for a review. And to be honest this controller impressed us. We liked it! So therefor we are happy to give one out to our followers and friends!
Kemper Amps released the new version 1.5 for the Kemper Profiling Amplifier with the brand new CabDriver as one of the key features in Version 1.5. The Profiling Amp was originally designed to faithfully recreate the sound of a tube amplifier, the corresponding cabinet and the microphone in front of it. For recording or stage PA situations, this is the perfect solution for getting the full guitar amp sound reproduced. But the Profiler still needed a solution for playing through a standard guitar cabinet. The CabDriver feature now allows for doing exactly that! CabDriver retains the tube power amp characteristics and speaker action of the original amp, which is coded in the profile, and translates it perfectly to the speaker cabinet. No additional tweaking of the sounds required!
In a world filled with sounds it is sometimes hard to find something new, something from the depths of darkness that rips through the norm and sets your track apart. Dark Toxic is that something! Using Saurus‘ powerful oscillators, squelchy filters and a wealth of modulation options, our sound designers set out to create the dirtiest of the dirty.
These 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.
Through the relase of the video below Elektron announces a new product for the 4th quarter of this year. So that means any day now (kinda). For us, Elektron is famous for not leaking any information before the official release date. And we expect that this time as well, so for now you can only listen to the new product and wait for any visual or detailed specifications information.
Subatomic Software has announced that Audulus – the modular music processing app for Mac OS X – is now available for iPad.
Yesterday the Serato DJ software is released. The software had been introduced last month together with the introduction of the Pioneer DDJ-SX. This newest DJ software from Serato offers the best feature set for all-in-one controllers and sets a new standard for controller DJs. With many new features including amazing new FX Powered by iZotope, MIDI mapping and a brand new user interface, Serato DJ delivers the most powerful all-in-one DJ solutions.
Very silently Livid Instruments has introduced another new controller called the Alias8. This controller is Livid’s take on making things simple again. Easier. Sometimes you just need to control a mixdown, latch onto some plugins, or setup some sliders and knobs to always do “just one thing.”
Steinberg today announced the release of their Absolute VST instrument collection, comprising six state-of-the-art Virtual Studio Technology (VST) instruments that provide thousands of presets and sample content of electronic sounds.
Yakov and Chad from Mixed In Key have informed us that an update for Mixed In Key 5.0 is on its way. Most important new feature within MIK5.5 will be the detection of ‘Energy Levels‘ in your tracks. It will show you the energy level of your tracks on a scale from 1 to 10. The value tells you how danceable that song is. House music is usually around 6-8. The biggest anthems will be 9-10. Deeper music might be 5.
Virsyn informed us that version 3 of KLON is now available. The heart of the vocal designer plugin KLON is a harmonic pitch shifter for natural pitch and formant manipulation of vocal sounds in realtime.