August, 2007 archive

B.B. King’s Blues Club in New York City will once again open its doors to Moogfest, the annual festival commemorating and celebrating the groundbreaking achievements of inventor Robert Moog and his namesake synthesizer. Slated for 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, September 22, the fourth annual Moogfest will once again be a synthesizer fan’s dream.
Already scheduled to […]

Cakewalk, creators of Sonar and other great music applications, is currently celebrating their 20th year of business.  This interview features Ed Driscoll talking to Greg Hendershott, CEO Cakewalk.
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Syntheway has introduced ElectriKeys, a virtual electric piano based on vintage Fender Rhodes MK1, Hohner Clavinet D6, Wurlitzer and Yamaha CP-70 e-pianos. It is available for Windows and Linux based VST/FST hosts - no Mac version is available.
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Sound is generated via a hybrid method that combines synthesis and sampling techniques, to create the most […]

Roger Linn Designs has released the AdrenaLinn III, the successor to Linn’s Adrenalinn II, which featured guitar effects beat-synced to an on-board drum machine. Adrenalinn II owners can buy an upgrade kit to take their machine to III status.
“AdrenaLinn III provides a guitar modeler, plus a wide variety of unique modulation and delay effects,” said […]

Virtuasonic’s MIJOY PRO 2 is a VSTi MIDI plug-in that allows you to use a joystick or gamepad as a MIDI controller. It can be used to control other VSTi instruments, FX plug-ins and MIDI hardware in real-time.
Here’s a video of the Mijoy Pro in action:

MIJOY PRO 2 requires a Windows VST Host able to […]

FXpansion has announced the release of version 1.5 of GURU, its creative beat box workstation.
Version 1.5 has over 50 new features and an additional 3GB of exclusive, original audio content covering styles such as hip hop, grime, tech house, and electronica. Major new features include audio rendering and export, creative randomization, sample reverse, full support […]

A car accident has taken the life of Daniel Hansson, one of the founders of Elektron, creator of the Machinedrum and Monomachine synthesizer. Hansson died August 19th.
In a statement at the site, the Elektron team says that “Daniel’s strict determination, innovation and unsurpassed eye for detail resulted in instruments that have already reached cult status […]

PowerFX has released a creepy new video to showcase its virtual vocalist, Sweet Ann.
The video pits Sweet Ann, the girl from Cy-beria, VS. Kitto, the reigning & raging rock queen from the outback of Australia:

It makes a great case for bringing in a real vocalist, doesn’t it? You can find out more about Kittopea Violet […]

Rain Recording has announced their first AMD processor-based audio workstation line, called Solstice. Solstice workstations are a new addition to Rain’s line of computers, which are built specifically for the needs of professional audio and video production.
Powered by innovative AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processors, the Solstice 01 and 02 […]

Here’s a video from the Robotmakers that features some hardcore robot-patching modular synth action:

According to the Robotmakers, “”Building a Robot” is the result of a long evolutionary process that resulted in successive generations of forms, some of which we call music. Natural selection and repeated lethal mutations winnowed the results. We are left with the […]

Xylio has updated FutureDecks Pro DJ mixing software for MacOSX and Windows to version 1.0.5.
Features:

classic DJ setup with 2 decks, pro mixer and playlists
fully manual or automatic mixing (one-click beat-matching)
seamless intelligent looping and “skipbeat”
automatic BPM detection (grid like) with batch-mode function
vinyl simulation including scratch, pitch, reverse play, brake
separate headphones output and song pre-listening
support for VST […]

Software manufacturers continue adding support for the AlphaTrack DAW controller from Frontier Design Group. Now you can use AlphaTrack with Mackie’s Tracktion 3 and with Cakewalk’s Guitar Tracks Pro 3.
With AlphaTrack’s touch-sensitive jog/shuttle strip, LCD display, three touch-sensitive encoder knobs, standard transport buttons, user-definable buttons, and 100mm touch-sensitive fader, you have everything you need right […]

BandmateLoops has introduced three new Sounds Like Drums Universal Virtual Instruments.
SLD DW Hip Hop RnB Kit, SLD Rogers Brush Kit and SLD Rogers Reggae Kit are designed to capture the subtleties and power of live drumming. Each kit utilizes a one-hundred percent analog recording process. Instrument formats include Mac and PC versions of Kontakt 2, […]

TriTone Digital has announced the releases of two new plug-ins for Mac OS X: ClassicTone-56 and PulTone-FL.

ClassicTone-56 is a recreation of one of the best sounding graphic EQs ever made. These graphic EQs are found in consoles and lunch boxes around the world and are prized for their punchiness and girth.

Puremagnetik has released Mutations, a collection of over 100 racks specifically designed for Ableton’s Operator Synth.
Programmed by some of Ableton’s own sound designers exclusively for Puremagnetik, Mutations fully explores the sonic possibilities of Ableton’s Rack format and FM synthesis. Best of all…. it’s free!