With an invite by Focusrite, two Gearjunkies team members went on a roadtrip to the Belgian city of MOL, where one the best studios of Europe is located. At the Galaxy Studio they got a hands-on demonstration of the Focusrite Rednet audio system.
Sample Magic has announced the launch of a new five-day Production Academy with Sound on Sound’s Paul White. The Production Academy is the latest educational offering from Sample Magic, an immersive five-day music recording and production course based on the best-selling Producer’s Manual written by Paul White.
Novation TV spent a day with Teddy, where he showed them around Future Recording Studios 2 and played a brand new version of Guy’s 1988 hit ‘Teddy’s Jam’ on the Novation MiniNova.
Vampire Weekend’s joyful melding of indie rock and Afro pop has lifted the band to international A-level status. Their newest album, Modern Vampires of the City, debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. Producers Ariel Rechtshaid and Rostam Batmanglij recorded, produced, and mixed the album in Los Angeles studios and Brooklyn apartments, lounges and backyards — a mobile strategy made possible by mirrored recording systems, Universal Audio’s Apollo audio interface, and Thunderbolt technology.
The EHX 8 Step Program plugs into the expression pedal or CV input of other effects pedals and synthesizers delivering rhythmic sequencer control. With eight independent sliders, each controlling a sequence step, it can turn an ordinary auto-wah into a step filter, a tremolo into a syncopated pulse effect and a pitch-shifter into an arpeggiator.
Allen & Heath has introduced the GLD-112, a larger version of the popular GLD-80 mixer, with an extra bank comprising 8 control strips, increasing the channel count to 28 fader strips in 4 layers. The GLD-112 is ideal for applications where visibility of more channels in a single layer is required and also offers a dedicated shelf to hold an iPad running the free GLD remote app which allows extended processing and custom views.
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.
Science! We love science, especially when it is brought to us in a fun way. Below is a video by Brusspup in which he performs the Chladni plate experiment. For us it is just cool to see what sound can do, how it shapes certain forms at certain frequencies. Again, just cool!
Native Instruments launched the Freedom of Sound sales special on REAKTOR and select REAKTOR-based instruments and effects. The special celebrates the unrestricted freedom to design completely new instruments and sound devices REAKTOR provides. During the offer period, REAKTOR is available at the NI Online Shop for $99 / 99 € / ¥ 9,800 – a saving of $300 / 300 € / ¥ 30,000 compared to Native Instruments’ online shop price.
Radial Engineering is pleased to announce the PreMax channel strip, a combination preamp and 3-band equalizer module for the popular 500 series format.
At this weeks WWDC we still didn’t hear anything on the ‘future’ of Logic. However Apple showed a sneak peek into the future of the pro desktop with a first look at the next generation Mac Pro®. Does this mean that Logic ‘does’ have a future then? As now a new Logic would have a solid foundation to run on? Designed around a revolutionary unified thermal core, the Mac Pro introduces a completely new pro desktop architecture and design that is optimized for performance inside and out. With next generation Xeon processors, dual workstation-class GPUs, Thunderbolt 2, PCIe-based flash storage, and ultra-fast ECC memory, the new 9.9-inch tall Mac Pro packs an amazing amount of power into an incredibly small package.
Apple yesterday unveiled iOS 7, the most significant iOS update since the original iPhone®, featuring a stunning new user interface. iOS 7 is completely redesigned with subtle motion, an elegant color palette and distinct, functional layers that make it feel more alive. The typography has been refined for a cleaner, simpler look, and the use of translucency and motion makes even simple tasks more engaging. 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®.
Zynaptiq announces the immediate availability of their recently introduced adaptive tonal contour linearization plug-in, UNFILTER. It is a real-time plug-in that removes filtering effects, such as comb filtering, resonance, or excessive equalization – effectively linearizing the frequency response of a signal automatically. UNFILTER can also apply a detected filter response to another signal, or export it to disk as an impulse response file (WAV), and can perform mastering grade adaptive, free-form, and graphic equalization.
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.