ModernBeats.com has introduced its first guitar loop library, entitled Urban Guitar Loops, covering a variety of modern Hip Hop, Urban, and Pop musical styles. The Loop library features over 350 sample accurate acidized WAV loops, compatible with all major software and hardware samplers. Urban Guitar Loops contains a wide collection of original live recordings, plus… Read More ModernBeats Introduces New Urban Guitar Loops Library
NAMM Update: Ultimate Sound Bank announces the availability of its latest UVI Soundcard (Vol. 5) Retro Keyboards, a comprehensive collection of studio-quality samples from the most essential keyboard instruments of the ’60s and ’70s. The new Retro Keyboards collection can be used as an expander for PLUGSOUNDPRO, or as stand alone instruments or plug-ins in… Read More Ultimate Sound Bank Intros Retro Keyboards UVI Soundcard
Synk Audio‘s Musicbed DV is a unique Macintosh application that lets you take royalty-free stock music and customize it to create scores for videos or background music for podcasts and other productions. What makes Musicbed interesting, though, is that it isn’t a standard collection of stock music, but an application that lets you generate music… Read More Synk Musicbed DV Helps Mac Users Score
PreSonus has announced Digital Performer support for the FaderPort USB Automation and Transport Controller. The FaderPort is a single fader controller that can write single and group channel volume, pan and mute automation. The FaderPort is loaded with a high quality Alps fader (found in professional control surfaces including DigiDesign’s D-Command). The fader in the… Read More PreSonus adds Digital Performer support for FaderPort
Bitnotic’s VX-323 Vocal Synthesizer is a free software instrument for the Macintosh that plays synthesized speech. Here’s an example of the VX-323 in action (MP3) The app is currently in beta testing, so the instrument has a built-in expiration date, but it seems stable. VX-323 lets you play synthesized speech with your Mac using your… Read More Synthesize Speech With Your Mac!
Bitnotic has introduced VX-323, a free software instrument that plays real-time synthesized speech in response to MIDI commands. (MP3 sample) VX-323 lets you incorporate synthesized speech into performances or record it in programs like Garageband. The program features an easy-to-use interface, flexible instrument setup, and high-quality audio output. You can use it for recording or… Read More Bitnotic Intros Free Mac Voice Synthesizer
reacTIVision is an open source, cross-platform computer vision framework for fast and robust tracking of fiducial markers attached onto physical objects, as well as for multi-touch finger tracking. The Reactable applies reacTIVision to create an electro-acoustic computer music instrument with a tangible user interface. Robert Moog played an early prototype of the Reactable at the… Read More Bob Moog Checks Out The Reactable
macProVideo.com has announced the release of Logic 204: Ultrabeat Unleashed, a new tutorial video program by veteran macProVideo.com trainer Steve Horelick. The video discusses a workflow that opens all features of Logic’s Ultrabeat drum synth to their full creative potential. Horelick shows you how to program Ultrabeat, modify drum sounds with synthesis, and use the… Read More macProVideo.com Releases Logic Ultrabeat Tutorial Videos
Puremagnetik has released Eight Bit, a selection of 1980’s SID chip samples. Recorded directly from an original 6581 SID chip (as manufactured in the Commodore 64 home computer), the Eight Bit library includes a unique palette of basses, leads and pads. Puremagnetik has captured the sonic qualities of the SID and reprogrammed them into the… Read More Puremagnetik Intros Eight Bit SID Library For Ableton Live & EXS
FLUX has announced the availability of its first series of plug-ins in VST and RTAS formats for both Mac and PC. Solera Solera is the result of much thought on the control of the sound dynamics, carried out for many long years by the FLUX team. The team asked how to reconcile criteria as divergent… Read More Flux Announces Availability Of Solera, Pure Series, And Epure Plug-Ins In VST/RTAS Formats
