Native Instruments has announced that Audio Kontrol 1 is now available in stores worldwide. Audio Kontrol 1 is a compact high-performance USB 2.0 audio interface that addresses the typical needs of many musicians, producers and DJs in a highly portable and affordable package. Combining professional sound quality with high versatility, and equipped with a comprehensive… Read More Native Instruments Audio Kontrol 1 Now Available
Propellerhead has announced The Big Sounds Championships. The company is looking for shatteringly enormous sounds created using the Reason 3 Combinator. According to the company, “Now is the time for Reason users to share their Biggest Sounds for the Combinator with the user community.” Propellerhead’s Reason 3 introduced the Combinator device which allows for creating… Read More Propellerhead Wants Your Biggest Sounds
The reactable is a state-of-the-art multi-user electro-acoustic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving physical artefacts on the table surface and constructing different audio topologies in a kind of tangible modular synthesizer or graspable flow-controlled programming language. If that sounds like a bunch… Read More Sexy New Experimental Synthesizer
Mig Music has announced a new collection of patches for Propellerhead Reason’s Subtractor synth. The Subtractor Patches Reason Refill Volume 1 contains 256 new Subtractor patches including warm analogue synths, fat basses, cool sweeps, different beeps n’ noises, hard industrial sounds, interesting synth pads, lush strings, big beat sounds and fx. Any Reason user interested… Read More Mig Music release Subtractor Patches Reason Refill
Notion Music, makers of Notion music composition and performance software, have expanded the Notion Realize Music Challenge with three entry categories and more prizes to be awarded. The Grand Prize remains a recording session with the world-renowned London Symphony Orchestra at the legendary Abbey Road Studios. Dubbed the Notion Realize Music Challenge, the competition runs… Read More Notion Composition Contest
Twelve years ago, Thomas Dolby left music to develop Beatnik software, technology used in two-thirds of the world’s cell phones. Now, pumped up by new technologies and changing business models in the music industry, and re-invigorated by reaction to his initial tour dates earlier this year, Dolby is writing his first album of new music… Read More Thomas Dolby Announces Tour Dates With BT
Smart Loops has announced the launch of SL Hit Tracks, downloadable audio loop packs that recreate the live drum performances of hit songs from artists like Led Zeppelin, The Who, The B-52s, Sublime, Van Halen, and others. Musicians can now rehearse, perform and record their own versions of hit songs with a live drum track… Read More Smart Loops Intros SL Hit Tracks
Dangerous Music has introduced the D-Box, a new multi-purpose hardware product for DAW users. The new unit was designed for the compact or mobile environment and the modern workflow of computer musicians and audio professionals on the go. The 1U rackmount box combines 8-channels of the world-renowned Dangerous Music analog summing technology and a collection… Read More More Dangerous Music Gear Introduced
FabFilter has released two new effects plug-ins: FabFilter Timeless, a stereo tape delay plug-in with flexible feedback routing, optional time stretching, two high-quality filters and unique drag-and-drop modulation slots; and FabFilter Simplon, a simple filter plug-in especially suitable for live performance with the same high-quality filters. Timeless is a perfectly modeled classic tape delay but… Read More FabFilter Releases Timeless And Simplon Plug-ins
Stanton has announced that it is redoubling its efforts to create and maintain the right products and solutions for DJs. The company stands full force behind the FinalScratch 2 system and hardware. Native Instruments recently announced that it had terminated its relationship with Stanton. The companies had collaborated on Stanton’s FinalScratch DJ system. Stanton will… Read More Stanton Final Scratch: Not Quite Dead Yet
