Workstations
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This series of seven videos looks at using Ableton Live 8 with Open Labs’ DBeat music production workstation.
This is a free video guide to Native Instruments Maschine – their next-generation music production workstation – a sort of Akai MPC/computer hybrid.
By clicking left/right arrows above, you can view all the official videos from NI for Maschine.
Topic covered include:
- Introduction to Native Instruments Maschine
- Native Instruments Maschine Demo Performance by NuVintage
- Controlling Ableton Live with Native Instruments Maschine
- Syncing Traktor Pro and Maschine
- Controlling Traktor Pro with Maschine
- Maschine: Browser & Library Part 1
- Maschine: Browser & Library Part 2
- Maschine: Live Recording Part 1
- Maschine: Live Recording Part 2
- Maschine: Live Recording Part 3
- Maschine: Step Recording
The Beat Kangz Beat Thang
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Filed under: Drum Machines & Groove Boxes, Electronic Instruments, Music Videos, Workstations
The Beat Kangz overview of their new beat box/workstation, the Beat Thang.
This may be the best presentation out of the 2009 NAMM Show.
Best quote: “SD cards. What? How many of them? What? I think there’s two of them. What? 16. What? Gigabytes per card.”
Let me know what you think of the Beat Kangz Beat Thang in the comments!
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Filed under: DJ, Electronic Instruments, MIDI Controllers, Music News, Software Synthesizers & Samplers, Workstations
via monofonicos: Native Instruments will be introducing Maschine – a next generation groove production studio that combines hardware and software – at the 2009 NAMM Show.
Looks like they are trying to take over MPC territory.
Details to come!
It looks like Akai is responding to the scorching criticism of it’s latest workstation, the Akai MPC 5000.
Akai Professional has released new Operating System firmware for all its current MPCs, including the MPC5000, MPC2500, MPC1000 and MPC500.
MPC5000 OS update
Operating System version 1.02 for MPC5000 resolves 14 issues, most notably enabling producers to load their old MPC2000 programs.
MPC2500 OS update
MPC2500 Operating System version 1.24 enables allows beat-engineers to save and open Chop Shop 2.0 files and improves upon 13 performance details.
MPC1000 OS update
Like its larger sibling, MPC1000 now provides its users with Chop Shop 2.0 support for file opening and saving. Operating System version 2.12 enables MPC1000 to auto-detect split points for Chop Shop, loop patched phrases, record Track Mute events and load MPC5000 .all files. Additionally, this release resolves 17 concerns.
MPC500 OS update
Even the smallest member of the MPC family, MPC500, gets a new Operating System. Version 1.31 enhances performance in two areas.
