This video shows the operation of the updated ‘Keep on disk‘ function to be available with FL Studio 9.5 (in testing). The new Keep on disk will allow FL Studio running on Windows 32 and 64 bit to load an almost unlimited Gb of sample data. Watch to learn more…
Adobe Audition for Mac, coming in a future release, will bring modern audio post-production to the platform of your choice. Familiar tools for audio editing, multitrack mixing and recording will meet expanded device support, greater workflow flexibility, and optimized performance. Plus, best-of-breed audio restoration tools make it easy to clean up production audio. With the essential tools you rely on for fast-turn projects, Audition for the Mac brings a fresh face to audio post-production. Adobe expect to make a public beta of Audition for the Mac available in Winter 2010.
112dB announces that Big Blue Limiter, a tube-modelling character limiter, is now available in native RTAS/AS/VST/AU format for Windows and Mac OS X at the introductory price of €99/$99. Big Blue Limiter is a character limiter. It is neither transparent nor intended to be. In fact it adds a little mojo to everything you run through it, if desired even when no limiting is taking place.Big Blue Limiter uses analog tube modelling in its limiting circuitry, which makes any limited warmer and fatter by adding a pleasing amount of coloration. And as if that weren’t enough it also features an independent preamp that just loves to be overdriven. With its versatile sound, intuitive interface, easy operation, and negligible CPU load Big Blue Limiter feels equally at home during a mix session and a mastering session.
Light Impressions is a bank of free 45 presets being the light variations of SubBoomBass of Rob Papen’s factory presets. The bank also includes the new presets as a foretaste of the commercial bank to be released late August.
You can download Light Impressions here: www.stawczyk.com/freebies.htm
The CS Vibes is a collection of 200 extraordinary sounds for Arturia CS80 V. It is the fifth in Musicrow’s succesful series of soundsets for Arturia vintage synthesizer recreations.
Steinberg released the free 5.5 update for Cubase and Cubase Studio – with a feature set that speeds up workflow and boosts creativity! The brand-new version delivers performance, automation and video enhancements, as well as refined beat tools and workflow improvements in key areas.
On this day (solstice) Mario Jurisch sends us a few pictures of his new project (in progress) the OP-X hardware controller. Just before the holidays begin the controller is ready for varnish. “Through the 4 octave keyboard, the controller looks more bigger then the impOSCar Controller. But I ´m happy with the finish look”, he says. Mario has still a lot of work ahead of him as you can see. Layout is all done but now “the details” have to be filled in so to speak.
Peavey Electronics and Agile Partners are proud to announce AmpKit, the ultimate amp and pedal studio with full recording capability for iPhone/iPod touch/iPad, and AmpKit LiNK, a high fidelity electric guitar interface. AmpKit is a free app with a built-in Gear Store that will be coming soon to the iTunes App Store. AmpKit LiNK is available for pre-orders now!
Zoom takes its revolutionary R16 and turbocharges it with a sampler and drum machine, 8 additional recording tracks and 6 channels of phantom-power on the all-new R24. The R24 combines four production tools into one incredibly versatile device. In addition to 24-track playback and 8-track simultaneous recording using SD memory cards, the R24 is a digital multi-track recorder, an audio interface, a control surface and a pad sampler.
iCD DJ IN A BOX’s mixer has all the essentials DJs expect: two input channels, main and headphone outputs, mic input and smooth faders. The included iM1 mixer records mixes straight to the iPod and accommodates all dockable iPod models allowing greater flexibility and convenience. Whether a DJ is an experienced veteran or just starting out, iCD DJ IN A BOX offers them a complete solution at an unbeatable price.
Akai Professional, the name synonymous with music production, announces the immediate availability of the SynthStation music production app for both iPhone or iPod Touch in the iTunes App Store. SynthStation also works on the iPad. SynthStation transforms an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad into a portable music production studio. While the SynthStation app is powerful enough for professional musicians, virtually anyone can use it to easily create music. Built around Akai Professional’s history in synthesis and drawing on the company’s newest MINIAK synth, the SynthStation app sounds great and offers wide-ranging sonic flexibility with its virtual analog synthesis. The app gives musicians three synthesizers for creating melodies, chords and bass lines. For creating melodic and accompaniment parts, the SynthStation contains an on-screen keyboard complete with an arpeggiator and an XY control interface for expressive control of key parameters.
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.
Sonoma Wire Works, makers of the FourTrack recording app, announces the GuitarJack audio device. GuitarJack connects a wide range of instruments, microphones, and other audio hardware to iPod touch(R) (2nd and 3rd generation), iPhone(R) 3GS* and iPhone 3G* via 1/4 inch instrument and 1/8 inch stereo mic/line inputs.
www.spl-blog.com was not conceived as a commercial tool, but rather as a way for SPL to get closer to its users. The German audio manufacturer has chosen the Blog as the platform to communicate with the outside world.
Go from shimmering bright to warm and wide with a twist of a knob! The Tonelux Tilt plug-in is a fast and easy way of making a track sit better in a mix or make it sound “warmer” or “cooler”. It’s also perfect in a live situation where you need to tweak the whole mix to adjust for ear fatigue.