February, 2006 archive

Kreativ Sounds has released GNWeird Loops, the second bonus loops pack freely available for all their previous and future customers.
GNWeird stands for GLITCH, NOIZE and WEIRD and that’s exactly what this bonus contains: 8 bit and atari copycats, weird sounds, noisy drums, retro crazy bits and other ‘carefully’ destroyed loops.
Features:

50 original and royalty-free bass loops
Each [...]

Peace Love Productions, a provider of royalty free loops and music samples, now offers new downloadable loop packs direct from their web site.
In anticipation of the release of ACID 6, Peace Love Productions is offering downloadable loop packs. The genres cover Reggaeton, Hip Hop, Trance, Break Beat, Latin House, Euro, Electro, Country, and Dj FX.
Each [...]

Zygoat Creative Technical Services has announced the immediate availability of Doggiebox 1.3, an update to its percussion sequencing software for Mac OS X.
Version 1.3 introduces some significant features and improvements, including:

Velocity adjustment is now possible on a beat-by-beat basis (right- clicking on a drum will pop up an adjustment slider)
Editing operations can now be performed [...]

Digidesign has announced that in May 2006 it will release versions of Digidesign Pro Tools LE 7 and Pro Tools M-Powered 7 software that are compatible with the new Intel-based MacBook Pro and iMac computers. These new versions of Pro Tools software will enable customers to combine the improved processing power of Intel-based Mac computers [...]

Auxar has a new release, Laugan.Evil – The Bowl, that is available as a free MP3 download.
The track is the first part in a series of acoustic experiments in recording overtone music. All ‘natural oscillators’ played by Laugan Evil. More information is available at Auxar.com.
A podcast is also available of music on the Auxar label. [...]

WFMU’ s Beware of the Blog has posted an interesting article on Tangerine Dream, it’s history at the station, and some hard to find live MP3s:
The passage of time is a great quantifier in the arts, and music that may have seemed to be the exclusive province of geeky stoners in its original historical context [...]

Spectrasonics has announced support for its Stylus RMX – Realtime Groove Module on Apple Computer’s new Intel Macintosh platform. The new version of Stylus RMX supports all Mac OS X Universal Binary VST and Audio Unit hosts, including Logic Pro 7.2, Garageband 3, Ableton Live 5.2, and others.
Stylus RMX is a groove-based virtual instrument plug-in [...]

Apple has announced that one billion songs have been legally downloaded from the iTunes Music Store since it was launched less than three years ago.
The billionth song Speed of Sound was purchased as part of Coldplay’s X&Y album by Alex Ostrovsky from West Bloomfield, Michigan. He will receive a 20-inch iMac, 10 fifth generation iPods [...]

Enriched Visions is a new science fiction book that is based on the music of ambient music pioneer Robert Rich (Enriched Visions). Matt Howarth has previously done work inspired by Pink Floyd, Steve Roach, Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream.
Description:

Embark on a series of fantastic voyages, where you’ll encounter: the link between a massive brushfire and [...]

Algorithmix has released a Mac version of reNOVAtor, previously released for PC–based DAWs, for users of Pro Tools’ AudioSuite platform. The high resolution processor can remove unwanted disturbances without audibly affecting the original program, even if the impairment overlaps desired material.

The majority of audio material tainted by annoying acoustic events can now be cleaned up [...]