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.
Korg is bringing back the classic rhythm machine as a mini drum machine. Energize your practices and performances with diverse rhythm patterns! The KR mini – an easy, simple and compact rhythm machine with a built-in speaker and optional battery power for play-anywhere convenience.
Wow, Novation sure is on fire! This is the third product in two days they announce. Novation introduce the Launchpad Mini: the Launchpad for the iPad Generation. Launchpad Mini is a compact version of the celebrated Novation Launchpad, featuring 64 three-colour Launch pads and 16 performance buttons that enable you to produce and perform music with your iPad® – as well as your PC or Mac – by playing loops and effects.
Hollywood Producer/Engineer/Mixer/Songwriter Griffin Boice (Black Eyed Peas, Rob Zombie, Hollywood Undead, The Saturdays, Wiz Khalifa) talks production philosophies and how Slate products have become an integral part of his process.
An Allen & Heath iLive system with 18 ME-1 personal mixers were employed for a special 21st anniversary show of UK band, Tindersticks. Part of a European summer tour, the band performed a special set at the Blue Balls Festival in Lucern, Switzerland, where a 17 piece string section played alongside the regular 6 piece band.
Steinberg announced that they would no longer continue to develop and maintain the VST 2 software interface but focus efforts entirely on the Software Development Kit (SDK) development of VST 3. All Steinberg host applications will remain VST 2 compatible.
Today the Academy of Electronic Music has been launched, by Google, Armada Music, Point Blank and DJ Mag. The Academy of Electronic Music is a social music school that connects electronic music makers & lovers from around the globe, finding and developing the next generation of superstar DJ’s and producers. Discover new tracks from upcoming talents. If you are a producer: submit your own and take your chance to get your track released by Armada Music. Learn from the best via live Hangouts with famous DJ’s and producers and connect with each other through the AEM Google+ Community.
Urs Heckman has announced that coming september 9th, his anticipated new Tape Delay plugin Satin will be released. This tape effects plugin will be available for Mac OSX and Windows PC, with 64-bit support for both platforms. VST, VST3 and AU versions are included. The version for Pro Tools 11 (AAX support) is still in development.
Fuzion takes you on a voyage into an analog world filled with immense arpeggios, cascading melodies, shimmering pads, ground shaking bass and funk driven synths. An inspiring collection of 150 carefully designed presets, that will enrich your productions with an old school sound, infused with a modern twist. Utilizing Saurus‘ many analog flavors, Fuzion is perfect for mainstream club tracks or new school Electronica.
Impact Soundworks, LLC released today “CURIO”, a new virtual instrument compilation for Kontakt 4+ featuring a deeply sampled, prepared, and deconstructed toy piano conceptualized and recorded by sound designer Ali Lacey.