9th mipa – Musikmesse International Press Award 2008
Below are the gearjunkies.com relevant categories. Read and decide for yourself if you agree with the jury of 100 magazines from all over the world who got together to vote for the best products of 2007/2008 in more than 40 categories.
The idea behind the Transient Designer TDESIGN is to give the user direct control over the attack and sustain characteristics of natural sounds. Take a recording of an unremarkable drum kit and dial in some really hard-hitting attack or take a very percussive sound and soften the attack.
The Jupiter-8V is the software recreation of Rolands famous Jupiter-8 coupled with a new generation of features.
Gear and girls, good combination….to make a long story short: an overview:
The Korg DS-10 is a music-creation software for the Nintendo DS that combines the superior interface of the Nintendo DS and the design concept of the famous MS-10 synthesizer.
Prosoniq today announce that they are introducing the 10th Anniversary AudioUnit Edition of their award winning OrangeVocoder plug in for the Mac at this years Musik Messe in Frankfurt.
The Vienna Symphonic Library team returns to Musikmesse 2008, presenting an expansion to their successful all-in-one orchestral collection Vienna Special Edition.
Only day 1 underway and we noticed some kind of theme this year. Maybe not that many new product innovations but some manufacturers are going colored this year.
Algoriddim introduces djay software at the Messe this week. djay 2.0 is taking digital audio players and music mixing applications to the next level with its incredible and innovative new features.
Rob Papen introduced us to RG, a brand new groove plug-in that is far more than just a virtual Rhythm Guitar player.
Future Audio Workshop launched Circle today, a new semi-modular software synthesizer, designed to be easy to use, allowing you to concentrate fully on sound design and performance.
SM Pro Audio have three new products at the MusikMesse, the V-Box, V-Rack, and V-Pedal are stand-alone VST plug-in compatible hardware units which the company describe as three of the funkiest standalone VST compatible products ever seen and designed to provide musicians, engineers, producers, and guitarists performance products they can rely on.
Celemony announces Version 2 of Melodyne plugin at the Frankfurt Musikmesse. The update of the popular audio correction tool will appear in late summer, offering as its most important new feature Direct Note Access. This pioneering technology makes it possible for the first time to detect and edit individual notes within polyphonic audio material. Melodyne plugin 2 will be the first product in the Melodyne family to use Direct Note Access. Customers purchasing Melodyne plugin after the 12th March 2008 will receive the update free of charge.
E-MU Systems has announced its new Emulator X3 Streaming Sampling Synthesizer, offering both 32-bit and native 64-bit applications, multi-processor and multi-threading support. Exciting new features have been added to the extraordinary capabilities of this instrument.
Well the MusikMesse just started in Frankfurt and our team is walking the floors of the Messe in search of interesting news. One of the first quite interesting announcements was that Steinberg is introducing a controller together with Yamaha.