Cakewalk announced yesterday the “Cambridge” release for SONAR Artist, Professional, and Platinum. This release, the second major update in the SONAR Membership program, includes added functionality, such as an onscreen virtual MIDI controller for multi-touch or QWERTY triggering, Mix Recall that now remembers all output and Bus routing as well as mix parameters, increased import/export… Read More Cakewalk Releases ‘Cambridge’ Update For SONAR
Today Moog Music announced the release of two new MiniFooger pedals, the MF Chorus Bucket Brigade Time Modulator and the MF Flange Bucket Brigade Harmonic Manipulator. The MF CHORUS is a 100% analog BBD-based time modulation pedal that is capable of a wide range of sonic shifting and manipulation in both mono and stereo output… Read More Moog Music Updates Minifooger Motif With Release of New MF Chorus, MF Flange
Audio technology company iZotope has partnered with Berklee Online, the online continuing education arm of Berklee College of Music, creating a series of webinars for students preparing for a career in audio production. The videos cover topics such as commercial composition and audio repair for post production, sharing “inspiring solutions for common music production activities.”… Read More iZotope and Berklee Online Debut Audio Production Webinars
Applied Acoustics Systems (AAS) has announced the availability of the updated virtual guitar instrument, Strum GS-2. Strum GS-2 reproduces the sound of acoustic guitars as well as the playing techniques of a guitar player, which, developers say, makes “producing realistic guitar tracks very straightforward.” As we mentioned in an earlier story, Strum GS-2 is a… Read More AAS Strum-GS2 Virtual Guitar Instrument Now Available
99Sounds has released Punching Percussion – a free collection of punches, impacts and fight sound effects. The sound library was created bysound designer and cinematic composer Joshua Crispin, aka Generdyn. The samples can work great as fighting sound effects for movies or video and audio production, as well as straight-up percussive hits and impact sounds for music… Read More Wham! Bam! Slap! Free Sample Library Features ‘Punching Percussion’
Ableton has published a new book, Making Music – 74 Creative Strategies for Electronic Music Producers, designed to help you work through problems that can keep you from starting, progressing with or finishing music.
Propellerhead has introduced three new Rig bundles for Reason 8 – $199 collections of Rack Extensions and Refills that bring together instruments, effects and sample packs from a variety of developers.
Peter Baumann spent the 70’s pioneering Berlin School style synthesis with synth super-group Tangerine Dream. Albums like Phaedra, Rubycon, Ricochet and Stratosfear. None of these albums would adequately prepare you, though, for Strangers In The Night, Baumann’s 80’s-tacular take on the Frank Sinatra classic.
Siren Audio has announced the release of new versions of Feedback and Generative, standalone applications for creating drones, textures and loops. Two of the three applications in the 2011 Lorelei suite, the updated Generative and Feedback applications “retain the same core ideas of generating drone and loop based audio material via delays and granular synthesis,”… Read More Siren Audio Releases Feedback 2, Generative 2
Focusrite has teamed up with Caroline Music International, a division of Universal Music Group, to offer one YouTube performer the possibility of a recording contract. All you need to do to enter is record and upload a YouTube video of yourself singing and performing an original song on an instrument, and submit it through the… Read More Caroline & Focusrite Want To Give You A Record Deal
