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.
After a week of teasing and the video we showed you recently, today Arturia is proud to announce availability of the MicroBrute Analog Synthesizer — an amazingly compact and bijou, semi-modular analogue monosynth with inbuilt step sequencer, boasting MIDI, USB, and CV connectivity, together with a whole host of unique features.
BKE Technology announces new features and a major content update to accompany a reduced price on the award winning BEAT THANG music production workstation.
It will be their new top of the line synthesizer, the LinPlug Spectral. 14 years of synthesizer building experience. If you are familiar with subtractive synthesis, you will feel right at home with the Spectral, because you can choose an oscillator waveform, choose a filter shape and go on from there.
Below is a video that one of our followers pointed out to us. It’s an official introduction video to the MicroBrute that Arturia has been teasing the past week. Every synth sound in this video was made on a MicroBrute. Soundtrack by Pierce Warnecke based on “Song For A Junky” by the RocKandys.
Pretty soon after AKG released the K712 Pro they introduced to us the K612 Pro headphones. We had already a (very) short encounter with them at the MusikMesse, so having them for a longer period was nice. Personally I was curious how they would perform because one of my first headphones were the good old trusty K240’s … many years ago.
Based in Los Angeles, Critical Mass Productions is a collective of award winning professionals at the forefront of sound design and music production for film, video games, records and commercials. One of the founders is Tobias Enhus – a scientist of sound and master of sonic terror.
Just a few months ago we got the opportunity for doing an interview with the current CEO of Focusrite (and Novation) Phil Dudderidge. After doing some reasearch we found that mr. Dudderidge is quite a remarkable man. In his early years he worked as a sound engineer. For a while he was even the live sound engineer of Led Zeppelin. From here on his path lead to developing and customizing PA systems and live mixing consoles and eventually in founding Soundcraft. Short after Soundcraft got sold to Harmann Industries, mr. Dudderidge bought the assets of Focusrite from, initial founder, Rupert Neve. And that’s where this journey began.
Well, hold your horses, it is not available, not for a while that is. Dave Smith is only showing his protoyope at the moment. So all is still in development. Of course the technical underlyings are the same as the Prophet12 keyboard version. According to Dave Smith it will be ideal for the musician who doesn’t want yet another keyboard in his studio.
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.
Nord Keyboards have announced that there is an update available for the Nord Drum 2. The new OS v2.10 is an extensive update that in addition to fixing some bugs adds several new amazing features to the Nord Drum 2. One great addition is the support for the new Nord Drum 2 Manager software for Mac/Win that makes it easy to transfer sounds.
FXpansion’s Tres is a monosynth Rack Extension for Reason featuring DCAM circuit-modelling technology and advanced TransMod modulation. The oscillator section’s complex timbral output is sculpted by filter and VCA sections full of warmth and characterful tone. All important parameters can be modulated with internal LFOs and envelopes or external CV sources to produce fresh and original bass, lead, percussion, drone and FX sounds.
This time on the testbench, Volfram, a multi effects plugin by a relatively young company called Subsonic Labs. Volfram is capable of a wide range of different fx like: Chorus, Delay, Distortion, Filter, Flanger, Phaser and more. With a clearly laid out GUI it doesn’t take a lot of time to get on a roll with this beauty.
Dave Smith Instruments best-selling analog synth gets a bigger keyboard and an updated look and feel, with a special edition of the Mopho synth. “The Mopho family of instruments has been ground-breaking for us and for our customers in terms of value,” said DSI’s Andrew McGowan. “And I think it’s pretty apparent from the way the industry responded that we were on to something with smaller, more affordable, but full-featured instruments, whether modules or keyboards. But there is no typical synthesizer user and we’ve gotten feedback from customers who loved the synth’s sound and features, but who wanted an instrument with a larger keyboard. Now there is one.”