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.
Sunday is the day then! Music ALIVE 2010 at the Hilton in Rotterdam. Come and see the latest products and technologies, soft and hardware, touch the latest controllers, watch workshops, enjoy music and VJ performances. This is the place to network, bring your CDs and Laptop, show your latest songs and productions. Talk with product specialists, artists, producers, label managers, DJs and other users.
FREE ENTRANCE but registration is necessary – maximum Capacity 450 visitors – Sign Up at http://www.music-alive.nl
Jordan Rudess (Dream Theatre) is demonstrating the Trilian and Omnisphere at the Spectrasonics booth at NAMM 2010. Trilian brings many different types of Bass together into one extraordinary-sounding virtual instrument and Omnisphere is Spectrasonics flagship virtual instrument.
Image Line have launched a new FL Studio Guru Blog with the aim of providing an ongoing stream of video tutorials to all FL Studio users. With the Guru Blog they will be sharing with you:
Tutorial videos that cover the commonly asked questions in Looptalk. We’ll try to keep these around 3 minutes.
Top Tip videos that cover those ‘Power user’ shortcuts and features that really make FL Studio fly.
Blogs about the music production, technology, software and anything else we think is cool and relevant to the producing musician.
A dream come true for every DAW user: With the Status 24|96 Sinn7 was able to create a combination of hi-end recording interface and monitor switch controller. High-resolution audio converters offer the finest sound with 24 bit / 96 kHz quality.
Waves Audio, a leading provider of digital signal processing solutions, unveils YourWaves, an interactive online Waves store offering three exciting new ways for users to get the Waves plug-ins of their choice, from different Waves bundles. At register.waves.com/yourwaves, users can sign up for “Artist Choice,” “Quick Choice” or “Custom Choice,” each providing different approaches and plug-in options for the user.
Antares Audio Technologies has today announced that in response to last month’s devastating earthquake that struck the nation of Haiti, they are partnering with Rotary International to help provide relief though ShelterBox, a Global Rotary Club Project. ShelterBox is an international disaster relief organization that provides shelter and lifesaving equipment to victims of natural and man made disasters. Each box supplies an extended family of up to 10 people with a tent, cooking and water purification equipment, and other tools and lifesaving equipment to use while they are displaced or homeless.
An updated version 2.2 of Voxengo Polysquasher is now available for download. Voxengo Polysquasher is a mastering compressor plugin for professional audio and sound production applications, available in AudioUnit and VST plug-in formats, for Mac OS X and Windows computers.
Musicrow updates Golden Ensembles to v2.21, and introduces a new addition to Musicrow’s reaktor ensembles pack: The Ebola. Ebola is a powerful semi-modular virtual analog synthesizer with a flexible architecture that enables you to create a wide variety of sounds with the distinct Ebola flavor! From heavily distorted leads to Hollywood style strings, sweet keys to strange and beautiful gargling sounds – Ebola can do it all!
How about trying Cubase 5, Steinberg’s DAW flagship, before buying it? Steinberg has heard your requests and are happy to announce the immediate availability of Cubase 5 Trial version.
Trinity Audio Group Inc. expands its line of affordable music making products for the masses by announcing their most innovative release to date: INDAMIXX Portable Studio on a USB stick for Netbooks and Laptops. “Plug the Indamixx USB stick into any available USB port on your computer and in only 14 minutes it installs a very good, low cost, pro audio recording environment,” says Creative Director Ronald Stewart.
Applied Acoustics Systems releases the Strum Acoustic GS-1 v1.0.1 Update for Mac OS X and Windows.
Like previous years, Media Satellite proudly presents Music ALIVE ’10 an afternoon around Computer Music products, Audio and Visual Performance. Gearjunkies has partnered up with Media Satellite to bring you detailed coverage of this event. Starting this week with details on new products/updates, exclusive artist performance announcements at the event, and next Sunday live news coverage from the event itself. If you don’t want to miss anything? Be sure to follow the Gearjunkies twitterfeed. Click on that ‘follow‘ button!
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.