May, 2007 archive

Linda at Moog sent over an update on Moog products:
The MF-107 FreqBox is shipping
The MF-107 FreqBox is different from other effects – the effected sound is not a processed version of your input signal, but the sound of the input signal modulating an internal oscillator. It contains a VCO with continuously variable waveshape, and the [...]

JamJunky has launched a new site designed to make it easy for you to upload music that you’ve created and get feedback from others.
Here is how JamJunky works:

Upload your song and put in all of the information related to the song
Send the song to your friends using a special encoded link
Friends post their comments
If applicable, [...]

Former Enigma co-producer Jens Gad is back with his second album under the name Achillea, Amadas Estrellas.
Gad doesn’t stray too far from the style of Enigma, creating chillout world music grooves that feature a wide range of sampled sounds from around the world over programmed rhythmic backing.

AudioRealism has announced a new virtual drum machine, AudioRealism Drum Machine (ADM), that promises to capture the best of the sounds of drum machines of the early 80’s.
Features

Three realtime switchable drum machine models
Internal 32 step sequencer with global accent per step, four prescale selections per pattern, flam and shuffle, 128 patterns per instance
Pattern transformation [...]

 

 Roland 606 style demo [0:13m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Roland 808 style demo [0:09m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Roland 909 style demo [0:04m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Groove Monkee has announced the release of Groove Monkee Rock, 1,500 MIDI beats and fills covering 10 styles of rock music: alternative, ballad, blues rock, classic, contemporary, hard rock, punk, metal, funk rock and pop plus sections of half-time, basic rock and prog rock.
In addition, there are over 200 extra drum fills, 100 intros and [...]

Nucleus SoundLab has released a new patchset for NI Massive that harnesses Massive’s possibilities for maximum musical effect.
Description:
DataBank One is a labour of love, created over the course of 6 months by experienced sound designer Jeremy Janzen. The 100 included presets run the gamut of Massive possibilities - wild multitrack sequences, heavy basslines, lo-fi arpeggios, [...]

 

 DataBank One Demo [3:43m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Schaack Audio Technologies has introduced Quad, a new vinyl-controlled MP3 mixing and scratching program for Windows. Quad lets you connect up to 4 turntables to your PC using Windows XP or Windows 2000. You just need to supply an ASIO soundcard with Phono Inputs (1 Stereo In per Deck) or Line In’s (with Phono Preamp).
Features:

Advanced [...]

A little sumpin’ from the Chemical Brothers:

The Chemical Brothers upcoming album, We Are The Night, is set for release on June 19th 2007. According to the group, it’s “the Chemical Brothers finest record yet, twelve tracks of psychedelic warehouse party acid music.”

Movement 07, the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, is steaming up Detroit’s Hart Plaza, despite rain and the admission charge.

“It was a slow start,” says Jason Huvaere, president of Paxahau Promotions Group, which produced this year’s festival. “But after 4 p.m., people never stopped coming in.”
He said he’d grade Saturday a “B+” and by 9 p.m. [...]

Image Line Software, the creators of software such as FL Studio / Fruityloops, has been running this ad to promote its latest release, Deckadance. Deckadance is a new DJ mixing application.
We’re not sure, but this may rank as even more offensive than the ads that amp makers put in guitar magazines. If I were female, [...]