Native Instruments today announced the release of Traktor Kontrol D2, their latest performance-oriented DJ deck. The touch-sensitive controls on the compact Traktor Kontrol D2, and its full-color display provide “seamless” Traktor workflow, along with a host of features for multi-channel mixing with the upcoming Stems open audio format.
Today, Moog Music released a conversation with M. Geddes Gengras as part of their new interview series, Category 5. The series derives its name from the cables used to enable modern digital communications. Via Skype, Gengras explores the motivations behind 3 Impressions, a three song EP (embedded below) that explores analog effects modules and process-based sound… Read More M. Geddes Gengras Interview On Sound Design With Analog Modules
Spectrasonics Omnisphere 2.0 is available beginning today. The first version 2.0 of any Spectrasonics instrument, the updated Omnisphere features a host of new synthesis capabilities and includes thousands of new sounds. Omnisphere 2 includes what company founder Eric Persing calls the “most-requested” Omnisphere feature: audio import for user-created sound sources, along with new synthesis capabilities… Read More Spectrasonics Omnisphere 2.0 Now Available
Monoplugs, maker of the BStep Seqencer, has just released its newest product, Metronom, a “very powerful” metronome app and MIDI master clock. Metronom is, as you might have guessed, a metronome with all the essential features of a metronome and support for non-standard time signatures, bundled with what developer Thomas Arndt touts as “a bunch… Read More Monoplugs Releases Metronom, A MIDI Master Metronome
Chris Stack, aka Experimental Synth, has been working on a series of videos exploring possibilities with the new LittleBits MIDI and CV modules. Stack says, “[In this video series] I was able to hook LittleBits into my DSI Pro 2, Moog Voyager, Ableton and Koushion in some really interesting ways, and the results were surprisingly… Read More Experimental Synth’s littleBits + Koushion + Ableton Demo
Matia Simovich, from the band INHALT, is one of the sound designers for the factory bank of the Dave Smith Sequential Prophet 6, a 6-Voice Polyphonic Analog Synthesizer. Semovich shared this long-form demo video of some of the upcoming Prophet 6’s sounds. Simovich related some additional information about the sounds you hear in the demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DGBJFI3rOQ Utami, the creators of RokVid and Geisterwelt for Ableton Live, have released Motion – a motion-tracking plugin for Live – as a free download.
iZ Technology Corporation has begun shipping Radar Studio – a rack mounted audio appliance, designed to run popular DAW software on integrated, optimized hardware. Here’s what they have to say about it:
Cymatic Audio has released uRemote — an Apple iPad-, iPhone-, OS X-, and Windows-compatible software remote control application for its 19-inch rack-mountable uTrack24 24-track recorder, player, and interface. Cymatic Audio uTrack24 24-track recorder, player, and interface records directly onto USB media. The new uRemote, lets users fully control and monitor most operations remotely. This means you can… Read More Cymatic Audio Releases uRemote App For uTrack24 Recorder
Native Instruments has introduced Astral Flutter – a new Maschine Expansion aimed at producers creating psychedelic hip hop Astral Flutter includes new presets for NI’s Massive synth and the Maschine 2 Drum Synths. Additional construction kits feature sampled drums processed. A collection of patterns, characterized by the off-kilter beats and tight syncopations of experimental hip hop styles, are also included.
