January, 2007 archive

2007 Winter NAMM Show: Audio Impressions announced a comprehensive new musical library with powerful software that, according to the company, deliver quality, realism and real-time control never before possible. The library uses the company’s real-time orchestration algorithms to change the number of virtual players and even the size of their enviroment to provide optimal sound.
Developed [...]

Tangerine Dream will celebrate their 40th Anniversary in 2007 with the release of their latest album, Madcap’s Flaming Duty. To be released April 2nd, the album is dedicated to former Pink Floyd guitarist Syd Barrett, who died in July 2006.
The lyrics for each of the songs on the new album are adapted from English and [...]

2007 Winter NAMM Show: Allen & Heath introduced the Xone:2D, a follow-up product to their Xone:3D mixer/controller.
The Xone:2D is the combination of a 4 stereo channel USB soundcard and MIDI controller, which DJ’s can connect to their existing analogue mixer to integrate leading DJ software such as Ableton Live and Traktor DJ Studio, and create [...]

We don’t know why, but Synthtopia is the top site in the world for the search phrase topless DJ.
We’re not sure if it was the story on “Erotic Fetish DJ Extraordinaire” Portia Surreal, the story on pornstar-turned-topless-dj DJ Niki Belucci, or the one about DJ Diva, the topless skydiving DJ, but somehow has Google pegged [...]

Belgian composer and synthesist Frank Van Bogaert’s latest CD, One Out of Five, is a greatest hits collection that brings together tracks from his five previous CDs, Colours (1998), Geographic (1999), Docking (2000), Human (2002) and Closer (2004).
Bogaert’s music is in the symphonic electronica tradition of synth artists like Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre and Deep Forest. [...]

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2007 Winter NAMM Show: Vienna Symphonic Library introduced three new Collections, including Appassionata Strings, Bösendorfer Imperial, and Vienna Konzerthaus Organ.
Appassionata Strings
As the name suggests, these string ensembles are quite simply, passionate. Their lush, broad and emotive cinematic sound defies expectations for a virtual instrument. The large ensembles of 20 violins, 14 violas, 12 cellos and [...]

Midomi is a new site, now in beta testing, that lets you search for music by singing the tune into a microphone.
The site lets you search for a song by singing, humming or whistling a bit of the tune. The site then offers search results that include commercially recorded tracks or versions of the song [...]

2007 Winter NAMM Show: Submersible Music previewed the new 2.5 version of DrumCore software at the NAMM Winter Show Show in Anaheim, CA (January 18-21st).
DrumCore 2.5 adds new features that increase DrumCore’s capabilities as a MIDI instrument and make workflow easier when writing songs.
New Features:

MIDI Standalone Mode – Now DrumCore can act as a standalone [...]