June, 2007 archive

Tangerine Dream is a seven-time Grammy nominated German electronic music group band, and a phenonemon of synth music.
The group, founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese, right, has gone through multiple changes over the years, but has managed to stay active and relevent in the world of synth music, releasing 100+ CDs, including studio, live and [...]

Dj Anastasia was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1985. Since she was a child, she has loved music, dancing, playing piano and guitar.
When she was 16, Anastasia fell in love with electronic music and made her first attempts to mix vinyl.
Since then, DJ Anastasia has played with Felix da Housecat; DJ Diamond, Dj Dan, Deep [...]

FCC legal action against Behringer has served as a wake-up call to the company’s management, according to a company spokesperson.
In February of 2006, the FCC proposed a $1 million fine against Behringer USA for apparent violation of the FCC’s equipment authorization rules. The equipment found to be in violation of the FCC rules included audio [...]

Sonalksis have announced their TBK3 Über Compressor for PC and Mac which is designed to take analog compression to the extreme.
Features:

Extreme analog-modelled compression algorithm
Optional ‘true analog noise’ colouration
Four selectable fully adaptive attack/release modes
Modifiable side-chain filter character
64bit floating point precision internal processing throughout
Efficient processing, with specific optimisations for native processors
Zero latency throughput - absolutely no internal [...]

Maizesoft has introduced Maize Sampler, a sample engine that lets you share your samples with musicians around the world.
Features:

Propagation (VSTi export) with pre-defined UI styles
Keyswitching between 12 layers
Disk-streaming
Sample-mapping, velocity layering
16 channels, 4 stereo output, 32 polyphonies
Supports 8, 16, 24 bit sample rate
Built-in simple reverb and EQ
Both VSTi and Standalone modes
Comes with a Soundfont to Maize [...]

Treasure is a new collaboration between David Helpling and Jon Jenkins on the Spotted Peccary label. Spotted Peccary a progressive electronic music label that has consistently been releasing solid ambient/new age/space music projects.
On Treasure, Helpling and Jenkins create music that moves gracefully between the worlds of space music and more rhythmic “chillout” style grooves. The [...]

 

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Soundcraft has announced the extension of its multipurpose mixer range with three new FX models–the FX16ii, EFX and MFX–each featuring 32 Lexicon 24-bit digital effects.
The new models use the same AudioDNA processor found in many Lexicon and DigiTech outboard products, including the highly respected Lexicon MX500. The consoles also offer a user settings store function, [...]

Nucleus Soundlab has released Butterfly Effect, a new patchset for the Image-Line Sytrus.
Sytrus brings FM, additive and subtractive sound design together in a semi-modular fashion.
You can preview the sound library below.
Description:
Butterfly Effect uses these methods together to sculpt a breathtakingly fresh, innovative set of patches. Sound Designer Richard Lichten has concentrated on complex moving and [...]

 

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VirSyn has released an updated version of its Poseidon virtual synth.
New in POSEIDON 1.3
Features:

“Waterfall” spectrum display for better visualization of the sound model
Tracking parameter for residual noise component allows for more realistic/artistic usage of filtered noise in sounds
80 new presets / 29 new sound models

Bugfixes:

Mac: MIDI program change messages now working with closed [...]

 

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Frontier Design Group has added Adobe’s Audition 2.0 to the list of applications that support its AlphaTrack controller, including Digidesign’s ProTools, Cakewalk’s SONAR, Steinberg’s Cubase SX/SL and Nuendo and Cubase 4 (including Studio 4), Apple’s Final Cut Pro and Soundtrack Pro, Propellerhead’s Reason, and MOTU’s Digital Performer.
AlphaTrack is a compact controller for DAW mixing and [...]