June, 2004 archive

M-Audio, an industry-leading manufacturer and distributor of hardware and software for professional musicians, today announced GrooveLab, a retail-ready bundle of hardware and software that designed to allow anyone to create professional-quality music, regardless of their music experience or ability.
M-Audio’s flagship consumer product, GrooveLab, is significant because it takes all the components necessary for digital music [...]

Upbeat & Aggressive is a new 2-CD set from Drums-on-Demand, featuring 1,700 royalty free loops and matching single hits in 25 easy-to-use Song Sets.
Choose from an average of 45 verse, chorus, fill, bridge, break, intro, endings and other loops in each Song Set. But there’s much more: We’re pleased to introduce Loop Layers™– that allow [...]

Theremin.info covers the theremin from many angles. It has historical information about the life of Leon Theremin, patents, schematics, reviews of early performances, reviews with famous performers, and information on building a theremin.
They have an active forum for theremin enthusiasts, and a gig guide for performers and listeners. A section on the theremin in film [...]

Carl Cox is known as one of the top DJs, producers and remixers inthe world.
Frequently rated as one of the top DJs in the world, Carl Cox has worked in a variety of styles, but is best known for hard techno and house music.
Cox began DJing in his teens and built his reputation when acid [...]

Keeping the art of the theremin alive in the UK is musician, actress, and radio personality Hypnotique.
Her site features information on her theremin, cabaret, commercial and performance art work. The site also features MP3 samples of her performances and information about her participation in a Switched On radio project, including interviews with Jean-Jacques Perrey and [...]

Genelec has launched a new line of near-field, two-way systems – the 8000 Series.. The 8000 series takes a new approach to enclosure design, driver technology, and active electronics.
All three models use all aluminum, minimum difraction enclosure(MDE™) design, with large internal volumes, softly curved edges, and outstanding mechanical strength.
Ilpo Martikainen, MD of Genelec, comments: ‘Genelec [...]

Kinetic is a groove-oriented audio/MIDI workstation for the PC. It is the latest application from Cakewalk, best known for its Sonar sequencer and Project5 software studio. Kinetic is designed to make it easy and fast to create, arrange and perform with grooves.
While the application has similarities to Sonar’s Project5 and Apple’s Garageband, Kinetic stakes out [...]

 

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Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH, one of the world’s leading providers of media and music production solutions, has today announced that the latest version of its award-winning VST sampler HALion is now being delivered to resellers and dealers worldwide.
Continuing in the legacy of the MIPA award-winning HALion 2.0, the next generation of HALion offers a raft [...]

Levelground Media, a company providing media content, processing solutions, and digital audio processing plug-ins, has released updates to Vintasion and Fattenizer, and introduced a new plug-in, CrunchEQ. All three are digital audio processing plugins for use in Audio Unit supporting host environments.
Vintasion 2.0, Fattenizer 2.0, and CrunchEQ 1.0 offer recording musicians and engineers of all [...]

Celemony Software GmbH has released Version 2.5 of the unique audio software Melodyne. With this update, Melodyne now supports the Digidesign RTAS plug-in interface (among many others) and includes the new Melody Manager, which allows you to work spontaneously and productively with phrases and melodies from the Melodyne library.
RTAS integration allows Melodyne to operate efficiently [...]