Tomorrow NAMM 2009, the music manufacturers’ US trade show will kick off. This year will probably be more interesting then ever. With the world’s economy in a less then good shape, manufacturers will have to make extra efforts the coming year(s). Will they introduce new products or … will they hold off new gear because they wanna monitor the economy first and see where we are going with this issue?
Apogee Electronics is has announced the release of new Duet software and User’s Guide, now available on the Apogee website.
Native Instruments today released GUITAR RIG 3.2, a free software update for its acclaimed digital guitar studio. The update brings full Windows Vista 64 compatibility to all flavors of GUITAR RIG 3 including its XE and LE versions, and includes 64bit drivers for the RIG KONTROL and SESSION I/O hardware.
Alesis announces its new ProTrack Mobile Recording Kit is now shipping.
Akai Professional announces MPK25, a new addition to its popular MPK series of keyboard controllers with MPC pads.
KeyToSound was acquired by Koblo in early 2008, and all support, updates and products have been moved to Koblo. Nexsyn has been re-released by Koblo as an online only product, and has updated the Preset library for this Hybrid Samplebased Synthesizer.
Musicians and sound designers for film, games and live electronic music now have a new supercomputer designed specifically for interactive sound exploration and live performance.
D16 Group has released their new high quality Vintage Tube Distortion emulator. Redoptor is the latest plug-in from the SilverLine family.
Waves GTR Solo software is now free. Waves let you use GTR Solo absolutely free for one full year.
Toontrack Music announces the Jazz EZX featuring percussive artist Roy ”Futureman” Wooten. Roy Wooten is an inventor, musician, composer and multi Grammy Award winning performer with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones among others.
Softube has released several updates to fix Pro Tools 8 problems.
Bluezone Corporation is glad to announce their new generation of FX Packs. Electro FX was made especially for the electro scene which never stops growing in terms of quality. it features a new combination of analogical and numerical sounds?
Urs Heckmann has announced the release of Uhbik, a new bundle of high quality audio effect plug-ins for Windows and Mac OS X in VST and AU formats.
Audi Damage just released a Pro version of their free Rough Rider compressor plugin. In short, Rough Rider Pro is for those times when you want to know your signal is compressed. Other compressors are kittens, rainbows, and gumdrops. This one is a 40-foot-tall fire-breathing lizard, according to Audio Damage.
Native instruments says to Gearjunkies: Expect big news from Anaheim!