May, 2007 archive

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, [...]

Best Service have released Halls of Fame, a collection of impulse responses from the world‘s most famous reverb units.
Description:
This collection of IRs from the world‘s most famous reverb units takes your convolution reverb plugin to the next level. Produced on state-of-the-art equipment for maximum resolution, ultra-low noise levels and pristine, transparent sound quality.
Using tailor-made test [...]

Native Instruments have introduced the Guitar Rig 2 Producer Pack, a professional bundle for recording and arranging guitars and bass.
The package consists of the Audio Kontrol 1 Audio Interface and the Guitar Rig 2 Software Edition. Also bundled are Steinberg Cubase LE (for Windows XP), Keyboard Collection with 8 keyboards, organs and pianos and the [...]

Numerikart have released the MidiZoid Delay and MidiZoid Looper VST plug-ins for Windows.
MidiZoid Delay is a MIDI delay while MidiZoid Looper is a MIDI phrase looper. It records MIDI input for a specified amount of time and plays it indefinitely.
MidiZoid Delay Features:

Host tempo sync.
1 to 16 repetition sync to tempo.
Velocity curve for each delay.
Pitch transpose [...]

Forever For Now have released Diatonic Shifter 2, a real-time diatonic pitch shifting and harmonizing Audio Unit effect. The plug-in lets you create vocal harmonies, diatonic guitar dubs and microtuned leads.
Features:

real-time, low latency processing for live performances
high precision post-processing for studio quality results
truly diatonic in-scale pitch shifting, harmonizing and microtuning
robust real-time pitch tracker with integrated [...]

 

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