Water is overflowing with aquatic musical instruments, rippling pads, tidal soundscapes, rhythmic splashes, inventive water machines, and wave-like takes on traditional sounds – all with extensive remix variations for real-time performance.
Apple today announced iOS 7, featuring a completely redesigned stunning new user interface, will be available starting Wednesday, September 18 to iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users as a free software update. iOS 7 has hundreds of great new features, including Control Center, Notification Center, improved Multitasking, AirDrop, enhanced Photos, Safari, Siri and introduces iTunes Radio, a free Internet radio service based on the music you listen to on iTunes. In addition, iOS 7 has been engineered with deep technical and design integration with both iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c.
Just like we could expect from Pioneer, they now are adding a new colour option to its popular DDJ-SX dj controller for Serato DJ software: cool pearl white.
Zynaptiq announces the immediate availability of UNVEIL version 1.7 and UNFILTER version 1.1, their award-winning real-time dereverberation and adaptive tonal contour linearization plug-ins. These free updates add AAX Native 64 support for Mac and Windows users, enabling the use from within Pro Tools 11, as well as several enhancements and fixes, and are available now.
Dirty, cheap, cranky, crusty little gems to fill those cracks in your productions. These instruments are designed to be ‘that little extra thing’ that so many tracks end up needing. In the real world, most of these instruments have maybe only a few playable notes or at best a limited range!
Virtual instrument and effects plug-in developer Rob Papen Soundware is proud to announce full compatibility with Avid Pro Tools 11 and Apple Logic Pro X.
RØDE Microphones has announced the release of the MiCon-11 adaptor cable, which provides connection between the RØDE HS1 headset, PinMic and Lavalier microphones, and TRRS devices such as the Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod touch as well as a large number of Android phones and tablets.
Impact Soundworks released the Impact Soundworks Trial Pack, a free download showcasing a collection of 26 carefully-selected Kontakt patches and 32 loops from their critically-acclaimed catalog of sampled instruments. The Trial Pack contains a wide range of sounds including ambient textures, world instruments, guitars, bass, percussion, and even patches from the recently-released CURIO: Cinematic Toy Piano.
With this free instrument from UVI, they bring back the sounds of the 60s and 70s. Mello is the latest addition to UVI’s stable of award-winning software instruments. As such, UVI has strove to deliver a complete and authentic-sounding software recreation of the popular music landscape-changing 350lb behemoth.
Fairlight is proud to announce the partnership with Adobe, through its Technology Partner Program. This collaboration enables the development of tactile hardware control surfaces for Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Anywhere.
Zynaptiq announces the acquisition of Prosoniqʼs complete IP, including their current and past product line, technologies, patent rights, research data and license contracts, effective March 1st, 2014. Zynaptiq will continue to offer the current line of Prosoniq products.
Blue Cat Audio has released Blue Cat’s MB-7 Mixer 2.0, a complete rewrite of their multiband processing plug-in, now including multiband VST hosting capabilities.
Serato brings Vinyl and CDJ control to Serato DJ, with their latest update version (1.5). The software inherits their world class NoiseMap™ DVS technology, refined for over 10 years in Serato Scratch Live. Coming October 2013, Serato DJ will support a number of brand new hardware devices, designed specifically for use with Serato DJ. Support for a number of existing Scratch Live devices will come to Serato DJ in February 2014.
Below are some of the new 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.
This edition of ‘Something For The Weekend‘ is rather a special and personal one. This week Dick Raaymakers (a.ka. Kid Baltan) has passed at the age of 83 years old. We are pretty sure that very little of our readers and followers will know who Kid Baltan was, but for us it was an inspiring person and also an important person when it comes to electronic music. Dick Raaymakers was a pioneer in the field of electronic music and tape music but he has also realized numerous music theater pieces and has published many theoretical essays.