Solid State Logic, the leading manufacturer of audio consoles for the broadcast industry, announced the release of MADI-X8, a versatile and cost effective 8-port MADI audio router/splitter/aggregator system and the new SDI-MADI, a 4 x 16 channel audio de-embedder with four auto sensing 3G SDI inputs and 64 channel MADI fibre and AES Digital audio outputs at IBC 2010.
Custom-engineered by Waves and multi-Platinum mixer Tony Maserati (Black Eyed Peas, Beyoncי, Usher), the brand new Maserati GRP Group Processor was designed especially for group tracks, to put the finishing touches and sheen on background vocals, drums, master outs, and more.
VINTAGE ORGANS brings the classic sounds of the past to your productions today. Five legendary organs have been brought up to date with their authentic character and charm preserved in perfect detail. The Hammond B-3, C-3 and M-3 models, the Vox Continental II and the Farfisa Compact were sampled in highest quality from the original instruments exclusively by Native Instruments. Five modern classics that no producer should be without!
bx_shredspread is a stereo processor to be used on any stereo guitar subgroup or stereo guitar channels. bx_shredspread’ s main purpose is to make sure your stereo (“doubled”) guitar signals sound “wide and phatt” – as easy and fast as possible. bx_shredspread is a tool to control panning, stereo width and the “tone” of your stereo guitar tracks / groups. It automatically avoids typical phase problems that can occur when using M/S technology via some sophisticated algorithms for stereo width, EQ and pan. Although mainly created for guitars bx_shredspread may also be used on keyboard groups, organs, choirs, etc.
One of the conclusions in the first part of our iPad article series was that the apps we tested and played with were cool and fun to play with. The only real issue was the midi/io function or better, the lack of! If music apps will play a part in studio environments, apps will have to be improved on this level! We don’t know if MooCowMusic has listened to us, but anyway, they have implemented the support for the Line6 Midi Mobilizer.
The Ohm Studio is evolving faster every day. In the past there were the brainstorms, then the different features specifications, then coding hundreds of independent modules, and now the guys at Ohm Force are finally putting all the pieces of the puzzle together. They’re in the process of implementing them one by one on the ever-evolving Ohm Studio’s graphic user interface. Not that they want to put you to sleep with this kind of techie blah blah, it is just their way of telling you thatthey are very excited about the iminent arrival of the Ohm Studio’s Beta Version, later this year!
The Denon DN-HC1000S USB MIDI controller for Serato Scratch Live now has added extra mappings for the latest update of Scratch Live 2.1, allowing complete control of the software’s DJ-FX. The DN-HC1000S provides new mapping with control of both the Super Knob and Ultra Knob in Scratch Live 2.1. Now, a DJ can easily access a huge range of software effects with the versatile control of this popular controller.
Vienna Instruments PRO, the most powerful sample player on the market, will improve your work-flow dramatically. VSL have included a host of new features that will not only make your creative process faster and easier, but also add human behavior to your music.
Last week Native Instruments released KOMPLETE 7. With 24 KOMPLETE Instruments and Effects, this 90 GB package is bursting with more than 10,000 production-ready sounds for all styles and genres. KOMPLETE 7 features renowned flagship products like KONTAKT, GUITAR RIG and the redesigned REAKTOR 5.5 plus all-new instruments and effects from Native Instruments and brands like Abbey Road and Scarbee. For some users this package can be a bit ‘over-whelming’. This bundle contains so much and is so elaborate that some users just wouldn’t be ready for this huge instrument package. They would be much more ‘at home‘ with a ready-to-roll package. And that’s where KOMPLETE 7 ELEMENTS comes in!
Blue Cat’s MB-5 Dynamix multiband dynamics processor is the most flexible audio tool Blue Cat have ever released: check out its 5 independent powerful processors and its cross-band side chaining capabilities, you won’t find these elsewhere! It is available as a single plug-in or within the refreshed Blue Cat’s Master Pack and All Plugins Pack bundles, or the brand new Energy Pack dynamics plug-ins package. As a side note, it is also their first plug-in that supports the 64-bit VST format on Mac.
Jonathan Wise is one third of EMT, a crazy collective, making housey, electronicy, chilled out, experimental tropicana and other styles of electronic music. For this (personal) video he hooked up his Electribes (ES-1, ER-1 and EA-1) together with the iElectribe app on his iPad. In this clip he puts a microKorg stab, that was recorded, into his ES-1 (Electribe Rhythm Sampler).
The UAD-2 Powered Plug-Ins platform offers the world’s most authentic analog hardware emulations and award-winning audio plug-ins for Mac and PC. Powered by the UAD-2 SOLO, DUO and QUAD DSP Accelerator Cards – and the Express Card-based UAD-2 SOLO/Laptop – UAD Powered Plug-Ins deliver rich, analog sound quality that would be difficult or impossible to achieve with native Mac or PC-based systems.
Remember the past MusikMesse in Frankfurt? One of the products that caught our eyes there was the Feeltune Rhizome groove machine. Feeltune have now announced a release date for it, well kinda.Feeltune have announced that the Rhizome will be released in the third quarter of 2010, which means pretty soon!
Allthough Livid Instruments still hasn’t announced the new Code controller,we all know it is coming. Livid themselves are already giving away sneak peeks for a while now. So below is a quick demo they did with a prototype showing how it can be used as an encoder grid, and button grid controller (each encoder is also a button). Code is a really, really, really fun controller to play. This a a prototype model so there are some imperfections, but you get the idea. Livid is really excited to see the release and usage of Code, and it will happen some time this month. Dealers will be receiving them starting next week, ask your local dealer for availability.
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.