June, 2004 archive

After 15 years working together as Orbital, Paul and Phil Hartnoll have announced that their upcoming recording, The Blue Album, will be their last.
“I think we feel that Orbital has run it’s course,” says Paul Hartnoll. “We’re both pursuing different avenues with our music. And we’ve been sat, as brothers, in the same room for […]

Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH has announced the availability of its latest product in its Steinberg Media Solutions product range: Cubase System|2.
Aimed squarely at newcomers to digital music production, Cubase System|2 is an integrated music production system offering Steinberg’s Cubase SE music software workstation, five virtual instruments and a 2- channel USB Audio/MIDI interface.
“This new integrated […]

Industrial music artist Andreas K., better known as Kompressor, promises to offer a new voice in American politics. Kompressor has taken a break from recording industrial music to run for President.
This comes as a surprise to many political analysts. Kompressor, shown at right at a political rally, had not discussed his political ambitions previously. In […]

Kjaerhusaudio has released the Golden Compressor | GCO-1, a versatile compressor and expander plugin modeled after some of the best analog compressors.
It has an open architecture with many means of adjustment, which ensures that almost any analog sound character can be obtained; from smooth and transparent, to warm and tubeish, or even pumping, if so […]

Underwater Music has updated its site to include free MP3s from its roster of electronica bands.
Underwater Music is based out of Poland and promotes electronic, techno, ambient, rock and post-rock. Artists include ESP, E=Motion, Defactor, Solitude, Robbone, Andy Rantzen & Jacek Spruch, Abird, P.E. Gueble, Passive Status, Dorian Przystalski, and S4GE.
There are free downloads at […]

Mackie has announced that it is shipping the Big Knob Studio Command System, as well as the Onyx 1220 and 1620 Premium Analog Mixers.
“We are particularly proud with how quickly these products moved from concept to full production,” commented Ken Berger, Sr. Vice President of Marketing for Mackie. “The whole process took less than one […]

Macbeth Studio Systems has announced the M3X2, an updated version of the Scottish analog synth.
According to Macbeth:
“We have taken a good look at the original design and improved upon it from a user interface point of view, and the M3X2 sports some new features…the interface jacks are now on the front of the unit as […]

Moog Music is now shipping the moogerfooger MF-105 MuRF, a Multiple Resonance Filter Array.
The MuRF is a new effect from the mind of Bob Moog. MuRF stands for Multiple Resonance Filter Array - an 8-band bank of tuned, resonant filters that impart a very nice, warm sound to signals passed through them. The levels of […]

Mackie has announced that Mackie Control Universal Extender support has now been made available in the newly released version 2.2 of both Cubase SX/SL and Nuendo.
“Steinberg users will now be able to add more faders to their existing Mackie Control Universal setups, which gives them the ability to build a large-scale console interface to control […]

Lake Technology Ltd. has introduced the Lake Mesa Quad EQ(tm), a new 4×4 digital matrix processor designed for use in standalone or networked concert sound, recording, mastering, and broadcast studio applications.
Incorporating the same advanced DSP-based equalization, delay, and dynamics processing tools found in the Lake Contour digital speaker processor, including the unique asymmetrical Mesa Filter […]

Four of the early, groundbreaking albums of Brian Eno have been digitally remastered and reissued in special edition digipak packages as part of a series called “Original Masters”.
Very often when albums are remastered, the tapes are re-equalized, remixed, in other words altered from the way they were originally delivered by the artist. Not so with […]

Native Instruments has announced that XPress Keyboards, an inexpensive line of classic keyboard sounds in plug-in format for Windows and Mac OS X, are now available.
XPress Keyboards is a new series of software instruments combining the sound of three famous vintage keyboards with maximum ease of use and affordability. It includes the B4 XPress vintage […]

Native Instruments has announced that Guitar Rig, an integrated foot controller and software application for Windows and Mac OS X, is now available.
Guitar Rig is a one-stop-solution for the demanding guitarist and producer. Combining a highly sophisticated software with a sturdy foot controller, Guitar Rig forms a professional modular guitar studio that is as versatile […]

Voxengo has updated Elephant, a mastering limiter plug-in in PC VST format, to 2.0.
The key feature of this brickwall limiter is its transparency. Unlike many limiters, it does not adjust the dynamic structure of the processed audio material, but instead brings sound limiting and loudness maximization without any audible “pumping” effects.
With the release of version […]

Steinberg is a leading creator of audio technology. Their products include Cubase, Nuendo and WaveLab.
Steinberg, the audio division of Pinnacle Systems, has been providing technologically-advanced music and media production products for musicians and producers of music, video and film since 1984. Steinberg is today one of the world’s largest audio software houses with more than […]