April, 2006 archive

Digital Music Doctor has released a new video training course, GarageBand 3?€”Know It All!
The course covers all major aspects of audio and MIDI recording, editing, and mixing using Apple GarageBand 3 pro audio software.
The course contains 11 modules and is organized into 5 sections:

There is a Quick Start section which provides a grand tour of [...]

YouTube has some interesting time capsules of Jean Michel Jarre and his music.
Here’s Jean Michel Jarre in his studio in 1986:

Bad video quality, and it’s in French, but it’s a time-capsule of synth excess.
Stranger still is the scarily eightiestastic music video for Jarre’s Magnetic Fields II:

Jean Michel Jarre provided an electronic press kit for Oxygene [...]

Apple today introduced the hotly anticipated 17-inch MacBook Pro
notebook computer, featuring anIntel Core Duo processor and a new
system architecture that delivers up to five times the performance of
the PowerBook G4, according to the company. The combination of power,
screen space, and portability could make the 17″ MacBook Pro a mobile
multimedia dream system.
The 17-inch MacBook Pro features [...]

The complete audio and liner notes from the rare 1979 album First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival is available online at a new site, Vintage Computer Music.
The site includes MP3s of every track, which can be downloaded or played online.
The First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival was held August 25, 1978. The next year, Creative Computing magazine [...]

Big Fish Audio has introduced Drumatic Percussives, a new percussion audio library in Redrum, NNXT, Halion, Kontakt, Battery and WAV formats.
Description:
If you need access to a gigantic collection of the most contemporary
drum and percussion tones available, then grab the keys to the Bunker 8
vaults. Dig into the raw, unadulterated single hit samples that have
made Bunker [...]

Applied Acoustics Systems has announced that version 1.0.2 of Ultra Analog is now available.
This maintenance update improves stability in host sequencers like Pro Tools, Logic, and Digital Performer; improves the response of the filters; and adds a flexible 15-day grace period to the authorisation system.
ll Ultra Analog users can download the update for free and [...]

Zero-G has released Firestorm,
described as “the ultimate Drum & Bass multi format sample beast”,
produced by long time veteran of the scene DJ / Producer Stakka.
The 24bit 1Gb library has been 2 years in the making and puts
cutting edge production at your fingertips. Stakka, using his talents
in D&B production has programmed each preset to allow you [...]

Electronisounds has released their first VST effect, Ubergate.
Ubergate is a multi-fx plugin comprising of a pattern based gate and
two effect chains. Each effect chain features delay, filter with LFO,
modulation (chorus/flanger/phaser) and 3-band EQ with Drive.

Delay time and filter / pan LFO can be tempo synced or free
running. Delay tempo sync includes dotted settings and double [...]

Apple today announced an expansion of its recycling program, offering free
computer take-back and recycling with the purchase of a new Macintosh system beginning in June.
US customers who buy a new Mac through the Apple Store or Apple’s retail stores will receive free shipping and environmentally friendly disposal of their old computer as part of the [...]

Moog Music has announced the 3rd Annual Moogfest, to be held June 22, at B.B. King’s Blues Club in New York.
Some of the world’s most renowned keyboardists will take the stage to honor Bob Moog at the 3rd Annual Moogfest. The all-star cast for this celebration, which begins at 7:30 p.m., includes Keith Emerson (shown [...]