The MusikMesse show is over again, and we’ve spent some quality time in Frankfurt with all the gear lined up ready to play around with. This year’s show was different though, some major players decided not to show and you had to look a bit better to find out what was going on, but there was plenty of new and cool gear to see! Here’s an overview of what we thought was the coolest new gear around.
Talk about the next revolution…. the V is back! Based around the recently developed “Powered by VFX” hardware platform, VST and VSTi plug-ins can be loaded directly into SM Pro Audio’s new V-Rack. The V-Rack is a powerful and unique product designed to provide musicians, engineers, producers, and guitarists performance products they can rely on. The new V-Rack offers VST/VSTi plug-in compatibility in a stand-alone hardware unit without the need for a standard PC/Mac computer!
Allthough our main goal each year is to get all the scoops on new products to you as soon as possible, we do have eyes for other nice … (uhm) stuff too. At many booths on the Messe we get a very warm welcome by very nice and friendly hostesses. Here are a few of our favorits (with all the respect these ladies deserve of course!).
BIAS announced today that all six professional audio processing plug-ins from the Master Perfection Suite, will also be available separately as retail editions. The Master Perfection Suite is aimed at musicians, recording and mastering engineers, audio and video editors, sound designers and other audio professionals. These value packed plug-ins include: Repli-Q (spectral matching), PitchCraft (pitch correction/manipulation), Reveal (analysis), Sqweez-3 & -5 (multi-band dynamic processing), SuperFreq (paragraphic EQ), and GateEx (gate/expander).
Audio Damage have released another free plugin for you to grab at the freebies page in the AD store. It is a copy of PulseModulator, the plug-in they made for Computer Music magazine’s cover disk about three years ago.
Gearjunkies launches the Gearjunkies Twitter channel. Follow us on our Twitter Channel and we will keep you up to date on all the latest MusikMesse 2009 News!
For the 10th time, more than 100 magazines from all over the world got together to vote the best products of 2008/2009 in more than 40 categories. The MIPA Musikmesse International Press Award is the “Grammy” of the Musical Instrument/Pro Audio industry. Below we have the most appropriate categories for Gearjunkies.com.
The DN-X1700 is a four-channel tabletop mixer with rubberised knobs, 60mm Alps K Series channel faders, 45mm FLEX cross fader, a color LCD display, extended 24-point LED channel and output metering, and LED ring metering around the control knobs.
Serato Audio Research are proud to announce the release of a new version of their Serato ITCH DJ software. Serato ITCH 1.0.5 is free update that adds new mixer settings and enhanced performance for Numark NS7 and Vestax VCI-300 owners.
Roland Corporation is proud to announce availability of the FG Connects project on the Roland U.S. website. Made exclusively for the Fantom-G series workstations, this free download provides new content to inspire owners of the Fantom-G, including new rhythm patterns, new rhythm kits, chord memories, and new edits of the most popular arpeggio phrases.
Introducing Studio One – The Future of Music Production is Here. 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.
Ableton Live 8 and Ableton Suite 8 are out now. Two new instruments, Collision and Latin Percussion are also available; both are included in Ableton Suite 8.
David and Johan from Teenage Engineering give us a walkthrough of what the OP-1 will be when it is finished. Still in development but planned for release next year.
Superior Drummer 2.1 is now available. This major update contains many bug fixes as well as features significantly improving the user experience. It is recommended for all users and is essential for SDX (NY Vol2) support.
Already more then a year old but still an interesting product from Moog. Lou Reed amongst many other guitar ‘heroes’, try out the Moog Guitar.