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Ableton has announced Ableton Live Intro – their new entry-level version of Ableton Live.

Description:

The new Live Intro has all the essential basic features as Ableton Live at a lower price and comes including a huge library of sounds from Hip Hop, Rock, Soul, Techno – Including 7 GB of Sampled Instruments, Drum Loops, Beats and Breaks, 200 Audio and MIDI Racks and Effects and 500 Instruments and Drum Kits from the Ableton Live Suite library.

Also included a Getting Started Manual, Integrated Step By Step Tutorials and Practical Song Templates.

Key-Features:

• Studio Quality Recording up to 32 bit / 192 kHz
• Full REWIRE Support / Slave or Master
• 64 AUDIO Tracks / Unlimited MIDI Tracks
• Instant Mapping of MIDI Hardware, Controllers etc.
• MIDI Sync to other software / Incl. Impulse and Simpler
• Supports all VST and AU Instruments, Effects and Plug ins
• MAC OSX and WINDOWS XP / VISTA compatible

Live Intro will be available shortly at a street price of €99 or $99. There is a free upgrade to Live Intro for  Live 6 LE and Live 7 LE users.

via Macmusic

Propellerhead Software today released Record, its new recording app for both Mac and Windows.

“We figured it was time that someone took a fresh look at recording from a musician’s perspective. Not needing to bolt music features onto an aging audio application, we truly started from scratch with full knowledge of today’s computer architectures and capabilities. Record is the result,” says Ernst Nathorst-Böös, CEO.

See our previous coverage for details on Propellerhead Record.

Record is available for sale worldwide today from authorized Propellerhead dealers and through Propellerhead’s online store.

Pricing:

• Record standalone software: MSRP of $299 USD / €279 EUR
• Record + Reason Duo bundle: MSRP of $629 USD / €535 EUR
• Record for Reason Owners sidegrade: MSRP of $149 USD / €129 EUR

This is a demo video of 64 (Video) Fingers, a free monome audio and video sequencer, inspired by Kutiman’s Thru-You videos.

Propellerhead Software’s Ernst Nathorst-Böös has published a statement clarifying the company’s roadmap for its products, and for the future of Reason, itself:

Record and the future of Reason

By request, it seems we need to clarify our product road map and how Record and Reason relate.

Hopefully by now it is clear that Record is a stand-alone program. We simply call it Music Recording Software, because that’s what it is. Record is the perfect choice for anyone who wants to make music recordings, whether you’re a band, a songwriter, a guitarist, vocalist or all of that on different days of the week.

Record is also, thanks to its incredible built in mixer and effects, a great choice for mixing and finalizing any music production.

Reason also is – and remains – a stand-alone program. Reason we call a Music Production Instrument. It contains the ultimate software instrument set, combined with tons of great effects. Reason is the perfect choice for anyone who plays keyboards, in the bedroom, studio or on stage. It’s also great for all of us who love making music with drum machines, synths, samplers and effects.

Thanks to its powerful yet simple sequencer, Reason is also a great production tool. But in a slightly different way from Record, and that’s precisely the point.

For Record – think guitars, vocals, recording, music production and mixing.
For Reason – think keyboards, synths, samplers drum machines, effects – and music production.

What the two programs have in common is their purpose: To help you make more and better music, to sound fabulous and having a great time while doing it.

Some people will want to use Record only. Some people will want to use Reason only. It just depends on what kind of musician you are.

Those who are really smart will use both programs together; it’s the ultimate combination. The integration is 100%, making you far more productive than any recording application and plug-in combination available out there. Yeah, yeah, we’ve said that before, but we’re so excited about it, sorry.

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Joshua Remy has introduced a new $.99 iPhone app, Elementals (App Store link) that offers a unique interface for making music.

The concept of Elementals is to provide a simple user interface to create music by placing and swapping icons, called Elementals, on sections of the iPhone screen, called Islands.

The audio generated is a combination of the Elemental providing the audio sample and the Island shaping how the audio is played. You can change the music by moving the Elementals, swapping Elementals, gently shaking the device, and recording your own audio to a Elemental.

You can view a video demo of Elementals in action at Remy’s site.

Elementals Features:

• Customize your own music using unique samples
• Choose an Elementals audio while playing music
• Simple interaction produces interesting music
• Utilize shake gesture to easily mix or start music
• Adjust volume per island/sample
• Record your own audio tracks, up to 7 tracks available
• Add delay to recorded audio

At $.99, it’s an interesting music app that costs about what you’d pay to download a song.

If you give Elementals a try, leave a comment with your thoughts!