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Harmony Central - Mar 10 2010
Harmony Central - Mar 10 2010
ProToolerBlog - Mar 10 2010
Applied Acoustics Systems has released Starlight, their third sound bank for Ultra Analog VA-1. Expect spacey sounds in the 149 presets that are scattered across ambient, arpeggiator, arpeggiator bass, chime, effect, keys, lead, rhythm, and synthesizer categories. It’s yours for $39. If you don’t own Ultra Analog VA-1 yet you can grab it with Starlight for [...]
Electronic Musician - Mar 10 2010
The KC-110 stereo keyboard amplifier that features AA battery-powered operation and stereo sound.
Electronic Musician - Mar 10 2010
E-mu Systems is now shipping its LONGboard 61 (pictured) and SHORTboard 49. These new 61-note or 49-note USB/MIDI controller keyboards offer 128-voice polyphony and high-quality effects.?
Harmony Central - Mar 10 2010
Computer Music - Mar 10 2010
It's taken a fair while, but it seems that the World Wide Web is finally ready to embrace audio.
Previously web developers have had to depend on Flash, but with the arrival of HTML5 it seems that interesting audio functionailty built right into a site's code. Check out this tantalising HTML5 audio visualisation video from www.storiesinflight.com.
Apparently the visualisation looks much better on the site itself, though you'll probably need to download the latest fully patched beta version of your browser to see it in action.
Create Digital Music - Mar 10 2010
They are the robots: Flight of the Conchords. Now, you are the robots, too, as Rock Band Network opens the indie floodgates to the music-distribution-as-game model. (And yes, you’ll get to sing along with the Conchords, too.) Photo (CC-BY-SA) kris krüg. Music games Rock Band and Guitar Hero are simple enough in terms of gameplay, but [...]
Create Digital Music - Mar 10 2010
What can you do with this? Game designers and artists find out this week at GDC. (Pictured: my own submission, up close.) Why should Create Digital Music and Create Digital Motion (and, well, their editor) go to a game conference? This year, in particular, the annual gathering of game developers in San Francisco means a real [...]
Dolphin Music - News Feed - Mar 10 2010
Origin Keyboard is Arturia€s new version of Origin for the keyboard player. It keeps the outstanding modular system of Origin Desktop, putting it on a panel that closes on a high quality keyboard controller.
Dolphin Music - News Feed - Mar 10 2010
We've just had word from our warehouse that this eagerly awaited software has just landed. Hurry though they won't hang around for long!
Sound On Sound Magazine - Latest News - Mar 10 2010
Alchemy Player launched-- Camel Audio, the team behind last year’s impressive Alchemy soft-synth, have just announced a ‘Player’ version of their popular plug-in instrument.
Dolphin Music - News Feed - Mar 10 2010
UP tuning in -step increments up to 3 steps € plus full Octave and Octaver. The CAPO„pedal€s sibling, the DropTune„, has taken the guitar world by storm because it does something no other pedal has ever done before. Now they€ve done it again € except upscale!
Mix - Mar 09 2010
E-mu Systems is now shipping its LONGboard 61 ($399) and SHORTboard 49 ($349.99). These new 61-note or 49-note USB/MIDI controller keyboards offer a world-class sound set with 128-voice polyphony and high-quality effects, offering a great sounding live keyboard and a USB/MIDI controller with aftertouch in one instrument.
Electronic Musician - Mar 09 2010
This new vintage studio mic features the same original design as the V47 in a flask shape with built-in shock-mounting system and swivel mount. It has double-diaphragm capsule that is created using JZ-patented Golden Drops sputtering technology.
Electronic Musician - Mar 09 2010
This new Kontakt Player?based instrument for movie, TV and game composers was developed with sound design house Heavyocity and powered by the Kontakt engine.
Sound On Sound Magazine - Latest News - Mar 09 2010
Join SOS and music technology companies this weekend-- Saturday 6th March 2010 -- SOS will be one of several music technology companies participating in the South-West's premier Music Technology showcase: Analogue To Digital Expo 2010 (part of the Vibraphonic Festival).
KVR News: Top Stories - Mar 09 2010
9th March 2010: IK Multimedia has announced that AmpliTube 3, a massive upgrade to the guitar and bass tone gear-modeling software, is now shipping. AmpliTube 3 now offers over 160 precisely modeled pieces of vintage...
KVR News: Top Stories - Mar 09 2010
9th March 2010: Version 2.5 of Renoise has been released. New features include: Pattern Matrix: A birds eye view and editor of the song. Cross Track Routing for Meta Devices and new devices like the Signal Follower...
KVR News: Top Stories - Mar 09 2010
9th March 2010: Synapse Audio has released a major upgrade to its VST/AudioUnit plug-in Poly-850, now named X-Poly. It is available to all registered users of the Poly-850 or SynthPack Ultimate free of charge. Featur...
KVR News: Top Stories - Mar 09 2010
9th March 2010: QuikQuak has announced the release of BarChimes, an accurate physics simulation of a set of Bar Chimes, which includes collisions, slides and multi-chain hits of 36 semi-tone tuned bars. Priced at GBP...
KVR News: Top Stories - Mar 09 2010
9th March 2010: Native Instruments recently updated Kontakt and Kontakt Player to v4.0.5. New in 4.0.5: Various bugfixes and improvements. The zip file contains an application update installer as well as a factory ...
KVR News: Top Stories - Mar 09 2010
9th March 2010: Native Instruments has released Evolve Mutations 2, a new Kontakt Player-based instrument for movie, TV and game composers. Developed in collaboration with sound design house Heavyocity and powered by...
Dolphin Music - News Feed - Mar 09 2010
Mixcraft„ is an affordable multi-track audio and MIDI recording studio that enables you to compose original music, record your band, create a podcast, or remix a song. Use it as a multi-track recorder or as a music loop remix program.
ProToolerBlog - Mar 09 2010
Brainworx has released a new version of their stereo mastering EQ. I’ve been using it for some time now, and here’s what I think about it. The basics It’s most important to note that I said “stereo EQ”, as it won’t work on mono tracks at all. This might seem curious at first but keep in mind [...]
Sound On Sound Magazine - Latest News - Mar 09 2010
Special event, workshops and competition
Mix - Mar 09 2010
For the first time in 23 years, the Audio Engineering Society returns to London for its European convention slated for May 22 to 25, 2010.Deliberately placed in a more intimate and centrally located smaller venue, the 128th AES convention takes place at the Novotel London West Convention Centre, near the Hammersmith underground station.
Mix - Mar 08 2010
At Sunday's 82nd annual Academy Awards ceremony, 'The Hurt Locker,' in addition to winning in the Best Picture and Best Director categories (for Kathryn Bigelow's direction), also swept the Academy's sound categories by winning for Sound Editing and Sound Mixing. Paul N.J. Ottosson claimed the Academy Award for Sound Editing, and Ottosson and Ray Beckett won for Sound Mixing.
Mix - Mar 08 2010
Production music library Megatrax, based in North Hollywood, Calif., announces a strategic partnership with Radium Sound, a leader in radio imaging elements, becoming its exclusive distributor in both North and Latin America. Megatrax will distribute Radium Sound via Megatrax? custom division, Aircast Production.
Mix - Mar 08 2010
Shure Incorporated in Niles, Ill., and the National Hearing Conservation Association (NHCA) have released the results of recent hearing tests performed at the 2009 Audio Engineering Society (AES) Convention in New York City. Shure sponsored the free hearing screenings, which the NHCA conducted for several hundred AES attendees, many of whom work in the professional audio industry.
ProToolerBlog - Mar 08 2010
Native Instruments has introduced Evolve Mutations 2, a new Kontakt Player-based instrument made mainly for movie, TV and game composers (though I can’t see why any other type can’t use it). From the Native Instruments press release: As the latest addition in Heavyocity’s widely acclaimed “Evolve” series, EVOLVE MUTATIONS 2 contains over 300 new sounds based on [...]
Create Digital Music - Mar 08 2010
Connecting stuff is one of the things musicians naturally do with gear. So, there’s really no reason that musical gear shouldn’t network as easily as Web servers. And yet a basic protocol, built largely on existing standards, meets with responses like this: “We’ll support OSC when there’s hardware out there.” “Name one piece of hardware that [...]
ProToolerBlog - Mar 07 2010
If someone starts talking about the purpose of art, then that person is probably a nazi or something similar. Look out! - Ernst Billgren
ProToolerBlog - Mar 06 2010
Hans Zimmer talking about scoring The Dark Knight, and the sound of The Joker in particular.
Create Digital Music - Mar 06 2010
We already knew that one Next Big Thing for the Lemur – the specialized multimedia multi-touch controller – would be Ableton Live integration. Having teased that coming functionality, JazzMutant has now revealed the name (“Mu”), as well as a video showing what the features look like. What’s funny to me is that the result is [...]
Create Digital Music - Mar 05 2010
“It looks alien at first, it looks scary … [but] it’s like, here’s your paper; be creative.” “A tracker basically turns your computer an instrument.” -Dac Chartrand, Renoise, trying to explain Renoise to those who haven’t yet gotten religion Renoise 2.5 is here, for real – not a beta, a nice, golden, final release. The modern [...]
Dolphin Music - News Feed - Mar 05 2010
Future Music has awarded the Sonodyne SM100Ak€s their coveted €Platinum Award€ AND €Value Award€
ProToolerBlog - Mar 05 2010
112dB has updated Redline Monitor, their near-field monitor simulation for headphones, to version 1.0.4. What’s new? Dim attenuation selectable from -3dB to -12dB to prevent clipping. Dim attenuation disabled when the plugin is bypassed. What’s fixed? Option to disable tooltips wasn’t remembered after closing the plugin. The plugin caused a +6dB level increase on OS X. The installer mistakenly warned about Windows [...]
Create Digital Music - Mar 05 2010
Sewing together music: designer and techno-textile artist Lara Grant constructs music with a modded sewing machine and Max. Lara is one of the artists playing Handmade Music in New York next week; stay tuned here for more behind the scenes of what those folks are doing. Photo (CC-BY-SA) See-ming Lee. Before evolutionary adaptation comes mutation. Some [...]
Computer Music - Mar 04 2010
The results are in and MusicRadar's quest to find out what the most popular DAW is has come to an end. And it was certainly a surprise to us to find out that the bloat-free and inexpensive Reaper from Cockos Incorporated came out the clear winner with 34% of the vote. Ableton Live and Apple Logic came second and third, lagging way behind on 13% and 12% respectively. To see where your preferred DAW came in the rankings, head here. You can also read the full MusicRadar story on the shock result here.
Dolphin Music - News Feed - Mar 04 2010
SAE Is proud to be hosting industry legend Alan Shacklock for a special guest lecture open to the public.
Electronic Musician - Mar 03 2010
TC Electronic?s PolyTune polyphonic guitar tuner allows the user to tune all strings simultaneously. Simply strum and PolyTune will tell you which strings need tuning.
Computer Music - Mar 02 2010
It sounds like a joke, but it?s all too real: Native Instruments' next release is an Alicia Keys-endorsed Kontakt piano instrument called, unbelievably, ?Alicia?s Keys?. It appears that the soul diva herself was involved in the recording of the instrument and used it comprehensively on the creation of her new album. Check it out!
So what celebrity endorsed instruments would you like to see? We?d like to get our hands on ?Trevor?s Horn?, but there must be some less risqué-sounding possibilities out there?
Computer Music - Mar 02 2010
While the concept of the ?best? DAW is a hard one to swallow for many (everyone works in different ways, after all), you?ll more than likely have a favourite. And our friends at MusicRadar are on a mission to find the most popular recording app of all?
The shortlist is as follows: Ableton Live, Apple GarageBand, Apple Logic, Avid/Digidesign Pro Tools, Cakewalk Sonar, Cockos Incorporated Reaper, Image-Line FL Studio, Magix Samplitude, Propellerhead Reason/Record, Sony Acid, Steinberg Cubase and Steinberg Nuendo.
You can click on the above links for full reviews or vote for your favourite DAW here.
Computer Music - Mar 01 2010
The Bloc Festival, taking place at Butlins in Minehead from Friday March 12 to Sunday March 14, already has one of the best line-ups we've seen in years, including Grandmaster Flash, Roots Manuva, Nathan Fake, Flying Lotus, Autechre, Skream, Benga and many, many more. You can check out the full line-up and booking details here: www.blocweekend.com
Now, to make things even better, Ableton have announced that they'll be taking over the Fenchurch Dome from 13:00 til 17:00 on Saturday March 13 for a special production session. This will feature Surgeon, who'll be going over his DJ setup, giving a short performance and answering your questions, and Al Tourettes, who will demonstrate how he uses Ableton Suite for production, sound design and remixing. A product expert from Ableton will also be there to give an introduction to music production and performance for beginners. All of the information can be found here: www.ableton.com/pages/2010/bloc_festival_uk
Computer Music - Feb 26 2010
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