IK’s instruments and effects software line gets a new make over: new bundles, lowered prices across the board and a facelift on the product boxes! Get unbelievable price reductions of up to 70% on must-have studio tools such as AmpliTube®, T-RackS®, SampleTank®, as well as the entire range of IK software products for Mac/PC.
Man, what a fuss these past weeks since Pioneer revealed the CDJ-2000nexus to the public. A fantastic upgrade form the first version. However one feature shook the DJ scene, and created two opposing sides. The younger DJ’s welcomed the new ‘SYNC’ feature. The slightly older DJ’s were appalled by this feature. “Now anyone can pose as a DJ! Just hit the sync button!” Without taking any side on this matter, the discussion went on for days, weeks. If you want to read more about it, just Google it and you will find lots and lots of editorial thoughts on the ‘Sync fucntion discussion’. Or, … you could watch Laidback Luke doing a performance ont he Nexus!
News from Serato. They have just released three updates for their software products. You can now download updates for Serato Itch, Serato Scratch Live and Serato Video.
Camel Audio is proud to announce Alchemy v1.5 a major update to their popular sample manipulation synthesizer. Alchemy v1.5 is designed to keep inspiration flowing with a fully-featured preset browser, over 1000 presets, faster loading times, improved remote control from the Alchemy iOS app, and many more enhancements. To celebrate the release, Camel Audio is offering 20% off Alchemy till 15th October and even better value bundles.
The award-winning software Melodyne is used across all genres as the latest videos of the Melodyne artist talk series show. With Kipper, Andy Sneap and Mr. Woo producers of pop, heavy metal and urban music all praise the sound, the usability and the creative possibilities of Melodyne.
After months of development and refinement AlchimieDJ are pleased to announce the release of Alchimie Zinc™. Want to sync your media files with your favorite DJ program and save hours of time in the process? Then Alchimie Zinc™ is for you! Zync is a GUI based program to sync folders to crates/subcrates in Serato Scratch Live, Itch, and DJ Intro.
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.
Propellerhead recently announced that hundreds of companies are developing instruments, effects and utilities for its new Rack Extension platform. The new technology, released in June this year as part of Reason 6.5, has been met with great enthusiasm from the developer community. The list of committed developers working on new devices for Reason grows by the day.
The guys from Source visited Portishead’s Adrian Utley in his home studio to get his reactions to the Arturia MiniBrute analog synth. While theye were there Adrian gave them a tour of his analogue synth collection (the stuff that was there, that is!). Man, just watch and enjoy this video!
Modartt releases Blüthner Model 1 add-on for Pianoteq 4. Authorized by Blüthner, this is the world’s first physical model of Blüthner’s finest grand piano, widely celebrated for use on the concert stage.
Ableton invites you to take part in one of the free ‘Getting Started with Ableton Live’ workshops – to be held at select dealers in the Benelux this August and September.
Universal Audio (UA), a leading manufacturer of professional audio recording hardware and software, is pleased to announce the release the Thunderbolt Option Card for the award-winning Apollo® High Resolution Audio Interface. Compatible with Intel’s new Thunderbolt technology on the latest generation of iMacs®, MacBook® Pros, MacBook Airs®, and Mac minis, the Thunderbolt Option Card provides greater UAD plug-in instances, improved performance at higher sample rates, and reduced UAD plug-in latency versus Apollo’s standard FireWire connection.
UVI are very proud to announce the release of The Beast, an intuitive luxury instrument, one of the biggest UVI libraries of the year. A diverse suite with a rich and expansive sonic range, The Beast embodies the timeless sound of vintage, luxury electronics. Recapture the past, and let The Beast inspire the sounds of your future.
Figure, Propellerhead’s best selling music app for iPhone and iPod touch, now supports AudioCopy and WIST. Users can paste their Figure tracks into other iOS Apps with AudioCopy. WIST lets two people jam together by syncing apps running on different iOS devices. Available immediately as a free update, Figure 1.2 also adds several other user requested features as well as language localization in Chinese, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
From now on, … no-one is allowed to ever complain again (ever!) on a GUI or lay out that isn’t good enough for you. Watch the video and you will understand why we are saying this. The video below is really amazing and for us inspiring. Why? Well because this kid, Zachary Bennoui Taibi shows us how to make beats (and a song) with Propellerhead Reason. Maybe this isn’t that amazing at all, you think. There are lots of young talents showing the older generation (us) a thing or two when it comes to music production. However the story continues, because Zachary is blind! With the help of a screen reader for the blind he uses Reason faster then I do. Really, this is truly amazing and wonderful to watch.