Linplug‘s first Synth was released March 2000 and once again they now approach a release. The Spectral contains all of their experience from almost 14 years of synthesizer programming. Its not perfect, because the perfect synthesizer will never exist, but they emphasized once again a clear user interface, well sorted and a powerful engine under the hood.
Today a bit of a personal Something For The Weekend post. Last year the ‘I Am Legion‘ project emmerged onto our ‘music’ radar. It is a collaboration between a band we really like, Noisia from The Netherlands, and Foreign Beggars from the UK. This collaboration resulted in a full album and tour. The tour can still be caught in Europe and later this year in Australia.
Multi-GRAMMY Award-winning producer/mixer, Chris Lord-Alge, whose resume includes recordings for Muse, Pink, Foo Fighters, Avril Lavigne, Green Day, Daughtry, Paramore and Black Eyed Peas, to name a few, has stayed with the trusted Sony 48-track tape format for over two decades, interfacing it with his equally vintage workhorse SSL 4000 E/G+ analogue console as well as an incredible amount of mostly vintage outboard gear. It’s been Lord-Alge’s signature sound all that time, and it continues to stand up for hit after hit.
Native Instruments today released MASCHINE STUDIO and MASCHINE 2.0 – the new flagship groove production studio and next generation of MASCHINE software. MASCHINE STUDIO joins the acclaimed family of MASCHINE products with expanded tactile control and two hi-resolution color displays. Powerful new MASCHINE 2.0 delivers a new mixer page, new audio engine, dynamic drum synth plug-ins, and much more to all three MASCHINE hardware versions.
UVI, producers of one of the best selling urban sample libraries ever, are back with the most complete suite of instruments and sounds for beat-driven street music production on the planet. Urban Suite delivers 5 new instruments and a massive sample library tailored for contemporary music producers, perfect for hip hop, R&B, trap, glitch, beat, experimental and more. Both a comprehensive retrospective of the classics and a collection of new and innovative tools, Urban Suite embodies the creative spirit and boundary-pushing heritage of beat music production.
Digital Music Technology, the creators of iXimix Controllers, are proud to present Votan Telepathy, a revolutionary integrated synthesiser for iOS & OSX Audio Unit. Votan Telepathy is a revolutionary synthesiser available for iOS and 32/64 bit OSX Audio Unit.
Eventide H9‘s newest multi-effect algorithm opens up a new world of sonic possibilities by combining delays, reverb and resonance. So, if you have an H9, download it (and its 20 ethereal presets). Or, if you don’t have an H9, demo Resonator using our H9 Control app (for iOS, PC and Mac).
TC Electronic is proud to announce that brand new features have been added to its hardware units that support the LM6 and LM2 Loudness Radar Meters and the TC Icon control software (DB6, DB4 MKII, DB8 MKII, System 6000 MKII and LM2).
Harmony Systems announced the worldwide availability of Delora lpTouch 2.0, a major upgrade to their iOS app that functions as a remote controller for the Apple Logic Pro OS X application. lpTouch 2.0 now offers controller functionality for use on the iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. All that’s needed is a working Wi-Fi connection between the Mac and iDevice.
Nektar, the company behind the Panorama series of deep integration controller products, launched the Impact LX49. It is the first product in a new line of budget Nektar products, all offering integration with many of the most popular DAW Software Solutions. The 49 note velocity sensitive, full-size keyboard is fully featured with 9 faders, 9 control buttons, 8 pots, 6 transport buttons, 8 velocity sensitive pads, foot switch socket and control wheels. 5 user presets are designed for GM setups, “MIDI learn” capable DAWs and other music software.
Auto-Tune is used daily by thousands of audio professionals around the world. Whether to save studio and editing time, ease the frustration of endless retakes, or save that otherwise once-in-a-lifetime performance, Auto-Tune is the overwhelming tool of choice. Antares have now released 64-bit and 32-bit Auto-Tune 7 AAX Native versions for Mac and PC. They are free upgrades for all current owners of Auto-Tune 7 (64-bit).
Well, just after our review of the K612 Pro, AKG now is introducing their new flagship headphones, the K812. These superior reference headphones offer the most pure and natural sound possible. Designed for music professionals the K812 empower to experience the smallest sonic details with the most accurate balance for mixing, mastering as well as music production.
London based producer James Reynolds has recently installed the Trinity master clock from Antelope Audio. The Trinity is Antelopes flag ship high definition master clock with a total of nine independent clocks employing Antelope’s 4th Generation of Acoustically Focused Clocking with 64-bit Digital Signal Processing (DSP) 3 of which are audio generators with up to 384kHz sample rate and +/- 200 cents varispeed.
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.
Novation have made an update available for the Launchpad App. Audio Import, the most requested feature by our users, is now available via In App Purchase. This addition transforms the app into a powerful tool for users that want to perform original music on their iPad. Once purchased, users can import their own loops and samples via Dropbox, with additional import mechanisms coming soon.