February, 2007 archive

TONTO (The Original New Timbral Orchestra) is one of the most famous and influential modular synthesizers in the world.
TONTO’s Expanding Head Band, made up of Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff, was an influential electronic music duo from the 1970’s. They only released a few albums, but these recordings, along with their collaborations with musicians such [...]

Cakewalk today announced new versions of its SONAR Home Studio and SONAR Home Studio XL titles are shipping Worldwide.
At their core, SONAR Home Studio 6 and SONAR Home Studio 6 XL feature the power of Cakewalk’s flagship SONAR 6 paired with a feature set, price, and ease-of-use geared towards home studio owners and budget-conscious musicians.
The [...]

Native Instruments‘ Massive 1.1 is now available, featuring 140 new sounds, virtual-analog oscillator modes, an Acid Filter and a Hardclipper Effect, adding “even more beef to the already enormous sound spectrum of Massive”.
Registered Massive customers receive the update for free. For everyone else a new demo version for Mac and PC is available for download.
New [...]

Ambient sound artists Solipsism (Craig Murphy & Ed Drury) have release a free EP, inventively title Free EP.
Craig and Ed’s new album Electricity Flows In Squares is scheduled for release in Springtime 2007 and this will be their last purely electronic work for a while as the duo now venture into the murky fusion of [...]

 

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Vinyl isn’t as retro as you might think. The Tennessee Times Leader reports that Nashville’s United Record Pressing cranks out 20,000 to 40,000 records a day, making it one of the largest — and last — vinyl record manufacturers in the country.
Most of the discs are 12-inch singles destined for professional DJs at radio stations [...]

VirSyn has released miniTERA 2, The Sound Machine.
New features of Version 2

Easy Sound browsing with categories and attributes.
Up to four layer per preset for massive sounds.
Onboard reverb effect
Dual mode for modulation effects
Modified signal flow for better transparency of layered sounds.
MIDI channel selection
100 new presets/sounds
Intel based Mac compatibility
VST 2.4 compatibility

The release also includes several bugfixes, [...]

FXpansion has announced that ORCA, a free experimental monosynth based on detailed and accurate models of analogue synthesizer circuits and components, is now available in RTAS (Pro Tools) and AU (Mac) format. ORCA was previously released in VST format.
According to the company, “ORCA is an experimental monosynth built to showcase some exciting new technology that [...]

NAMM: Ebsel exhibited prototypes for the new Pro-X-Fade II , a miniature version of the the fully adjustable analogue Ebsel Pro-X-Fade crossfader, at the 2007 NAMM Show.
Designed to retrofit all existing mixers on the market not currently compatible with the original Pro-X-Fade, this along with the new PXF line faders are expected to go into [...]

NAMM Update: Dynaudio Acoustics announced the next generation of the BM range of speakers, the BM 6A MK II and BM 12A. The Dynaudio Acoustics BM 5A set a new benchmark for what an active nearfield studio monitor could be. The new BM 6A mk II and BM 12A take advantage of that same design [...]

2007 NAMM Show: DigiTech, a manufacturer of musical instrument signal processors, and a Harman International, announced two new vocal effects processors – the Vocalist Live 2 and Vocalist Live 4 vocal harmony and effects floor processors for performing guitarists.
Utilizing DigiTech’s MusIQ technology, the Vocalist Live processors generate intelligent, multi-part vocal harmonies using the singer’s voice. [...]