Boasting many new features and enhanced functionality, Cubase 6 has already drawn considerable attention since yesterday’s announcement at the NAMM show. Cubase 6 is the latest incarnation of Steinberg’s award-winning advanced music production system.
Monome’s Brian Crabtree and Kelli Cain have announced a new product for 2011. It is called ARC and accompanies the companies productline with the same simple, esthetic design as the Monome controllers.
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.
PreSonus has released the first dedicated wireless control software for a small-format digital console: StudioLive™ Remote software for the Apple iPad®. At last, you can have wireless remote control of any PreSonus StudioLive-series digital mixer’s channels, auxes, effects, subs, Fat Channel processors, and more. Not only can these functions be controlled from anywhere in a venue by the front-of-house sound person, but custom aux mixes can be simultaneously adjusted by any performer with an iPad.
The first product from the cooperation of iZotope and BT is Stutter Edit. It’s an effect. It’s an instrument. It’s Stutter Edit—an innovative tool for both studio and stage, designed by BT and developed by iZotope.
Compact and convenient, with serious functionality and features, nanoSERIES2 incorporates many user-requested enhancements and offers them up in the same ultra-slim casing as the original nanoSERIES. The size and color of the entire series nicely matches a laptop computer.
Spectrasonics‘ flagship virtual synth has received a major new update that includes a wealth of new features and additions, the most prominent being the inclusion of a fantastic new interactive interface called “The Orb” which delivers real-time synthesis manipulation capabilities.
Making its heralded debut at NAMM 2011, the CTRL-47 is a departure from other “Digital DJ” products. Designed for DJs by the company who knows them better than anyone, the CTRL-47 is a powerful and fluid professional Digital DJ system.
Steinberg today is pleased to announce a new update to its HALion Sonic VST workstation. Adding brand-new features, enhanced functionality and performance as well as more sample content to its massive library make HALion Sonic the ideal tool for composers, producers, musicians and sound designers in virtually any production setting. Update 1.5 is now freely available as download from the Steinberg website.
Encompassing refinements and new capabilities, such as extended composing features available in VST Expression 2**, phase-accurate multitrack drum editing** plus a wealth of effects and instruments, Cubase 6 and Cubase Artist 6 are now shipping and will be available at dealers and in the Steinberg Online Shop for EUR 599*/GBP 508* and EUR 299*/GBP 253*, respectively.
Rebuilt from the ground up by Avid’s acclaimed software development teams, Torq 2.0 is a high-performance solution featuring advanced professional features and new flexible workflow options for creative DJ performance and real-time remixing and production.
ARTURIA announces the upcoming release of a highly creative drum machine: SPARK. It is a complete drum solution made of a software application and a dedicated hardware controller. Combining the power of analog synthesis, physical modelling and samples, through the intuitive workflow of a hardware drum machine, Spark is a highly creative beat production center. Spark will save you time when looking for the right drum kit, will get you hooked by its amazing simplicity and will surprise you by its sonic possibilities.
Pioneer and Serato yesterday introduced the DDJ-S1, a new DJ controller for Serato ITCH software. Combining Pioneer’s renowned DJ hardware design with world leading software development by Serato, the DDJ-S1 offers familiarity, innovation and pure controllerism in one inspired package.
Serato are pleased to announce the release of Scratch Live 2.2 – a highly optimized version of the popular DJ software that provides rock solid performance and new ways to control DJ FX. Scratch Live 2.2 now supports the VFX-1 as a native controller for Serato DJ-FX. Now DJs can plug their VFX-1 into their computer, and have it instantly control the Ultra/Super knobs inside Scratch Live.
With Punch, Rob Papen delivers a brand new speaker busting, body rattling software instrument. Punch delivers synthesized drums in the finest audio quality and with breathtaking features for the contemporary producer. You can can use synthesis to build your own unique sounding drum-kit, but also your own samples can be loaded into Punch to complete your kit. Your sounds can then be crafted using the stunning features, filters and huge synth power we all know from other RP synthesizers.