In this tutorial Propellerhead is exploring some of the creative uses of pattern based effects that are available in the Reason sound bank. If you have Record and Reason, all of Reason’s effects can be used on audio tracks in Record.
Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard is due to ship on August 28th. To prepare for this major OS release, MOTU has worked closely with Apple to ensure a smooth transition for your MOTU products when you make the move to Snow Leopard.
Skratchworx has the scoop on this one. They are showing the final design of the Denon’s Scratch Live focused DN-HC1000S controller. Designed to interface and aid DVS systems (turntables / CD players) with today’s most popular DJ software program, Scratch Live, the DN-HC1000S provides DJs a comfortable plug and play, reliable hardware controller for all major features and commands of the Scratch Live software system.
Latest from Wolsfraektroes Music – Tech House & Progressive House Producer will give you 200MB of up to the moment Tech House and Progressive House Bass Loops, Synth/Lead Loops, Drum Tops and Sidechained Effects. Tech House & Progressive House Producer contains 35 Bass Loops, 56 Top Loops, 68 Synth/Lead Loops & Sidechained Effects. All loops are key and tempo labeled and are served as 44.1 kHz Wav files. Tech House & Progressive House Producer – creativity & inspiration injection for all Tech House & Progressive House producers.
The Record micro tutorials is a series of short and focused tutorial videos that will highlight one aspect of Record in each installment. Part 11 – Send effects are the effect units that you feed from the mixer’s effect sends. These are useful for effects like reverb or delay where you want to feed several channels through the same effect unit.
Lexicon today announced it has released new Windows and Mac software drivers for the I∙ONIX series of Desktop Recording Interfaces. With the new 64-bit Windows driver, these interfaces now operate seamlessly on computers running Windows 64-bit XP and Vista operating systems. The new Mac driver improves performance and now supports all Mac computers operating on OS X 10.4.9 or higher regardless of whether they are based on a PowerPC or Intel processor.
Access is happy to announce the availability of OS 3.1.0.0 for the entire Virus TI range of synthesizers. The new version is based on the recent public beta builds and focuses on stability enhancements. Access recommend every user to update their Virus TI synthesizers. The software update itself as well as a detailed list of changes and additions can be found within the download section.
Native Instruments today introduced SCARBEE PRE-BASS, a new software instrument that provides a meticulous, highly musical rendition of the iconic Fender Precision bass. PRE-BASS is derived from the acclaimed Scarbee Blue Bass library, and the first release in the recently established development partnership between sampling expert Thomas Hansen Skarbye and Native Instruments.
The perfect listening room – Many have experienced the difficulty to realize a listening environment free of standing waves, undesirable reflections, the perfect reverb time, perfect loudspeaker placement with a flat frequency response, and without any disturbance for others. With Isone pro, a virtual listening room can now be experienced simply using a high-quality headphones. Allowing for full control over loudspeaker type, loudspeaker distance, and room reverb time, the listening room can be fully customized.
Studio One is a groundbreaking music-creation and production application for Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista that makes audio recording, MIDI sequencing, and audio mastering ridiculously simple right out of the box, yet provides a wealth of professional features. Allthough still not available Presonus has released a DEMO version of this highly anticipated software.
It has been a bit quiet at Sonic Charge lately, but rest assure that it only means that they were concentrating harder. A few new projects and upgrades are slowly taking shape on their assembly line. Meanwhile they have decided to release a minor maintenance upgrade for Synplant that addresses some important issues. The version number is 1.0.1 and it will not bring any new features to Synplant but focuses on improving stability and compatibility.
Ambient Glitch Volume 1 – This amazing collection features some of the darkest and most atmospheric loops and samples ever committed to a Sample Pack! It was produced by Jeff Rhodes who has been working as a professional sound designer and soundtrack producer for over a decade. “By using bit crushing techniques instead of just distortion,” he says, “plus ‘improper’ use of beat choppers to get a more lo-fi sound, and even learning to overuse compression as an effect, I was able to put together what you hear in this sample pack. Combining it all, along with some weird artefact-like percussion and some stuttery repeats, I was able to harness some of that elusive Glitch power.
Steinberg is pleased to announce that it has today released a set of updates to its software and hardware solution consisting of Cubase 5, MR816 CSX and CC121. The added capabilities include substantially extended control options for CC121, workflow enhancements for MR816 CSX/X as well as functional additions and refinements to Cubase 5. The updates further deepen the integration of the three components within the context of the Advanced Integration technology centred on the Cubase 5 Advanced Music Production System. All three updates are available now as a free download for all registered customers of the respective products at www.steinberg.net.
Steinberg is pleased to announce an update to its Cubase Essential Personal Music Production System to version 5. Offering a streamlined feature set that offers newcomers to Cubase a comprehensive set of composing, recording, editing and mixing capabilities, the new version includes a range of functions from its extremely successful sibling, Cubase 5. Supporting Mac OS X 10.5, Windows Vista and Windows XP, Cubase Essential 5 is shipping to resellers worldwide and retails for €149.00/£124.00*.
Starting in the UK, the legendary producer/engineer comes to Strongroom Studios in support of the new Waves plug-in bundle, The Eddie Kramer Collection. Waves Audio has announced The Eddie Kramer Experience, the newest events in its ongoing Waves Masters on Tour series.