At this year’s Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), 365LIVE and Media Satellite present a series of workshops and audiovisual jam sessions, including an introduction to Ableton Max for Live, a fully integrated tool kit for making your own instruments, effects and extensions in Ableton Live 8.
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.
Applied Acoustics Systems releases the Ultra Analog VA-1 v1.1.2 Update for Mac OS X and Windows.
It’s time to take a look at some ways to work creatively with REX files in Record. Record allows you to work with REX files in new, cool ways – in this tutorial, we learn a few of them.
Wave Arts announce the 5.49 update for all Wave Arts plug-ins that are part of Power Suite 5 and Master Restoration Suite. This update features official Snow Leopard support on Mac and a number of other fixes and enhancements.
SPL celebrates one year of Analog Code and give away one Attacker per computer. The Attacker is based upon the famous Transient Designer and provides its more attack function. The Attacker give away promotion is running from October 15 to November 15, 2009. Click here and download one unlimited full version per computer. The recommended retail price of the Attacker MicroPlug is 59 Euro (excl. VAT) – except now!
ILIO Entertainments, Applied Acoustic Systems and audioMIDI.com have teamed up to offer AAS Ultra Analog at just $15.00 (reg. MSRP $199- a staggering 92% off MSRP)
PreSonus has released FaderPort firmware version 1.3.5 for Mac OS X. The new firmware adds support for Apple Logic 9 and Steinberg Cubase 5 and provides Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) support for all music-production applications that were compatible with the FaderPort under Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), including Ableton Live, Digidesign Pro Tools, and MOTU Digital Performer.
You already know how to write great music. Logic Pro 9 streamlines the technical side of things, so you can record, edit, and mix it, too. Whether you work in a state-of-the-art studio or in your garage, now you can easily put the power of the most advanced tools to work for your projects. Tap into a huge collection of instruments, sounds, and loops for inspiration. Get set up and recording quickly. Perform complex edits in a fraction of the time. And mix down projects of any scale with full automation and surround capabilities. It’s a pro studio that’s not just for pros.
MASCHINE combines the flexibility of computer-based music production with the ease of a groove box into one powerful creative tool. Utilizing onboard samples or your own audio files, MASCHINE’s symbiosis of hardware and software not only ensures a fast and fun workflow, but lets you easily turn your ideas into professional productions. Native Instruments have posted several new tutorials on MASCHINE.
Sugar Bytes just released the gigantic Consequence 1.1 update! It contains more than 200 new Global presets and 50 Instruments which means lots of new grooves, sounds and combinations! New features have been added for more flexibility, better sound, better handling! The Consequence 1.1 update can be downloaded from here.
Nothing on the M-Audio website but several webshops already are placing the new midi controller keyboard series on their websites. So we can expect that M-Audio is introducing their new (upgraded) OXYGEN series pretty soon. Available with 25, 49 and 61 keys.
de la Mancha is delighted to announce that ballistic has been updated, thanks to the generosity of The Groove Criminals, who provided 9 new kits, that’s 143 new drum samples, covering 808, Vintage analogue and digital, Moog, Linn, Dance, Flanged, Glitch and Junk kits. Many, many thanks to Oli for donating his hard work and excellent sounds.
Mackie Onyx-i Series Mixers are qualified by Mackie for use with Pro Tools® M-Powered™ 8 on both Mac and PC. At this time, no other Mackie audio interface products are qualified for use with Pro Tools® M-Powered™ 8.
TASCAM has created the Track Pack X1 and Track Pack X2 bundles for musicians looking for an inexpensive way to start recording in their computers. The Track Pack X1 contains the new US-100 USB interface, dynamic microphone and set of closed-ear headphones for under $150. The Track Pack X2 features the new US-122mkII audio interface, TM-78 large-diaphragm condenser microphone and Cubase LE4 48-track recording software for under $200.