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Native Instruments has released an excellent free video tutorial series (above) on Maschine, their hardware/software music production workstation.
The Maschine tutorials cover:

An overview
Live recording
Step recroding
FX and automation
Sampling with Maschine
Beat slicing
Scenes & performing
Exporting audio from maschine
Software sequencer integration
Using Maschine as a MIDI controller
Controlling Traktor Pro with Maschine
Controlling Ableton Live with Maschine

 

This series of seven videos looks at using Ableton Live 8 with Open Labs’ DBeat music production workstation.

 

Native Instruments has announced that Maschine version 1.1 is on the way, and it’s now in public beta test stage.
The upcoming 1.1 version of Maschine adds several features including MIDI control of external gear, Rex support, extended scene triggering and more. Details below.

 


Open Labs Offers Pro Tools Installed, Integrated & Supported was uploaded by: OpenLabsInc
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Atlantic City, New Jersey Hosted the 2009 DJ EXPO where Beat Kangz Electronics demoed The Beat Thang Virtual for the godfather of hip hop dance music, Afrika BamBaataa.
The Beat Kangz have also announced a promotion – purchase a copy of The Beat Thang Virtual and the Beat Kangz will send a copy to the [...]

 

Fairlight’s Peter Vogel has shared more info about the 30th Anniversary Fairlight CMI 30A:
The CC-1 can perform very complex algorithms and lots of them, with almost no latency. So yes, we are modelling the quirky hardware of the CMI. The sound of each CMI was subtly different, due to their analogue bits, so it won’t [...]

 


Beat Thang Virtual Demo:Beat Using Sample Chops was uploaded by: griffinavid
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Beatmaking on my NeKo LX5 was uploaded by: MakeItFunkyProds
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Check out this insanely fun, MPC-inspired orange juice commercial.
Ingredientes: Laranjas fresquinhas, funk carioca e uma pitada de bom-humor.

 

MOTU BPM Review

18Apr09

MOTU BPM was one of the hotter pieces of music software to come out of the 2009 Winter NAMM Show, because it is designed to turn your computer into an advanced MPC-style virtual instrument.
MacMusic has an early review of MOTU BPM, and they’re impressed:
BPM is a force to be reckoned in the drum machine world. [...]

 

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