August, 2007 archive

Apple today introduced a new Jam Pack, Voices, the looks like it will be an interesting new addition to the Jam Pack lineup.
Description:
Jam Pack: Voices gives you over 1,500 Apple Loops featuring professional soloists and choirs in multiple genres and styles. It also provides more than 20 software instruments, including voices, choral ensembles, and amazing [...]

Apple today unveiled a new all-in-one iMac line, featuring 20- and 24-inch widescreen displays encased in aluminum and glass enclosures. The new iMac line features the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors and a new, ultra-thin aluminum Apple Keyboard, built-in iSight video camera for video conferencing and iLife ’08.
The 20-inch iMac now starts at $1,199, [...]

When they’re not saving the world, Yellow Magic Orchestra, find time to play synths in caveman outfits and throw back a few Kirin beers.

emutronic’s Victorian Synth demonstrates some ways of generating sounds from crap you have around the house:

But can it play “Lucky Man”?
via Sonic State

Muse Research has announced that they are releasing “a ton” of new plug-ins on Receptor, including Rob Papen’s Albino 3, Blue and Predator.
Demo versions are available at Plugorama.
Descriptions:
Albino 3 from LinPlug is an powerful synth with incredible sounding presets. This synth has a ton of features that let you explore your expressive side, or simply [...]

PreSonus is offering hints about a new product, set to be announced August 7th, that promises to bring together in one device some of the leading names in electronic music.
Software partners included in the new product include:

Sony Creative Software Inc.
Steinberg GmbH
Propellerheads
IK Multimedia
FXpansion
Cycling ‘74
Applied Acoustic Systems
Wave Arts
Camel Audio
Discrete Drums
Wave Machine Labs
KeyToSound

More to come on the [...]

Lineage is a high-quality universal refill consisting of 320 presets for the award-winning Korg Legacy Edition.
Details:

128 Legacy Cell presets
128 MS-20 Presets
64 Polysix Presets

You can preview Lineage below. More demos are available at the Nucleus Soundlab site.
Lineage for Korg Legacy is available now for electronic distribution for 29.95 EUR.

 

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Digital Soundworks has introduced Dramatic Percussion, a sample library featuring unusual or rarely recorded instruments.
Instruments include Boo Bams, Puili, Octabans, Large Taos drum, Anklung, a full range of bowed and scraped gongs, Crotales bowed and struck, Vietnamese split bamboo, Concert Toms and Waterphone. Dramatic Percussion also contains traditional Orchestral Percussion instruments that are played in [...]

Robot Goes Here is an electropunk project of Dave Rand. After eight years playing in punk bands, Rand switched to laptop retro-chip sounds and a DIY approach.
There’s a lot of interesting 8-bit style synth work on Robot Goes Here’s The Byte Is In My Blood, including chip-noise drums and arpeggios. It sounds like Rand [...]

Our contacts at Moog Music send word that they’ve introduce a Little Phatty Editor Librarian, designed to be “the ultimate tool for organizing and creating presets for both the Little Phatty Tribute and Stage Editions.”
Through a MIDI connection from the Little Phatty to a computer, the program can receive single presets or an entire bank [...]

Sonoma Wire Works have released two drum loop sessions by Jason McGerr created exclusively in the RiffWorks InstantDrummer format. This gives RiffWorks recording software users access to great sounding drum loops from Jason McGerr, the acclaimed drummer for indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie.
McGerr’s sessions, called Genevieve I and Genevieve II, were recorded in [...]

Platinum Samples has released Joe Barresi’s Evil Drums, the second BFD Expansion Pack in their Master Engineer series of drum samples, featuring multi-platinum award producing recording engineers.
Joe Barresi is one of the busiest producer/engineers working today, with an impressive list of credits including albums by Tool, Queens Of The Stone Age, Bad Religion , The [...]

Our contacts at Yamaha send word that they plan to launch the Tenori-On, a brand new performance instrument at London’s premier independent record shop Phonica Records, at an event September 4th. The event will feature Tenori-On performances from some of the finest talent in electronic music and an introduction and discussion with the Tenori-On’s inventor.
The [...]

Liz McLean Knight, aka Liz Revision, describes herself as “a multi-websited busybody, experimental electronic musician, and jewelry designer, with a love of all things technologically innovative and geek-chic.”
We found her site while checking out some dj-geek wear and were impressed. Knight’s got one of the coolest portfolios of projects that we’ve seen:

Produces experimental / [...]

 

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Neuenberger have released a beta version of their JellyFilter v2.0 freeware polyphonic lead synth for Windows.
Here’s what’s changed since the alpha release:

Fixing Filters: Only the experimental Notch Filter needs some update now
Noise Frequency now has an effect on the sound
The LED Switch of the User Interface has been updated such that it correctly shows the [...]