No Island Media has announced plans to make a documentary and synth tutorials with legendary synth pioneer Dave Smith. Dave Smith is an American audio engineer who arguably played as large a part as Bob Moog in the development of the modern synthesizer. Smith?€™s Sequential Circuits created many revered synths, including the Prophet 5 (above… Read More New Documentary, Podcast, to Feature Synth Pioneer Dave Smith
Young Chang America has announced that it is once again the exclusive distributor for Young Chang, Weber and Kurzweil Products in North America. On April 6, 2006, after months of litigation proceedings between YCA/AnD and Samick Music Corp (SMC), the American Arbitrators Association (AAA) ruled that YCA/AnD was once again the rightful exclusive distributor for… Read More Kurzweil Legal Wrangling at End?
Acoustical Solutions has teamed up with RPG Diffusor Systems to offer a series of affordable recording studios in a box. These acoustical packages address problems in a project studio that can cause acoustic distortion. Each package includes image tools to control comb filtering arising from strong reflections, spatial tools to increase the diffusion in small… Read More RPG Studio in a Box
Nady Systems has introduced a new Tube Ribbon Microphone, the TRM-6. By combining the unparalleled sound of a classic ribbon mic with the natural warmth and musicality of an internal tube preamp, the TRM-6 sets new standards of performance for all ribbon (velocity) microphones. The Nady TRM-6 features low-tension 45mm long, 2-micron thick aluminum ribbon… Read More Nady Intros TRM-6 Tube Ribbon Mic
For a limited time, Roland Corporation U.S. is offering MV-8000 owners a complete TR-505, TR-707, and TR-727 sound set for free. Roland has captured and combined these classic sounds into one convenient, 3-bank package called the TR-527. This MV-8000 download package joins the TR-808 sound set, which is also available for free from the Roland… Read More Free Sounds for Roland MV-8000
Majken has released a free VST, Chimera, that is an experimental synth that uses subtractive synthesis in a new way. White noise is sent through a series of narrow bandpass filters which are controlled by pitch. The filtered noise is used as resonant sinewaves to create pads, atmospheres, organs and percussive sounds. In other words,… Read More Free Synth VST Turns Noise Into Music
ASK Video Interactive Media has announced their latest tutorial DVD for Propellerhead Reason music software. In this DVD, Morgan Pottruff (aka Morg), author of the recent Live tutorial DVD, returns with one of ASK Video’s most ambitious productions to date. The DVD includes more than 4 hours of instruction and features 38 ultra-high quality videos,… Read More New Tutorial DVD for Reason Music Software
Monome.org has posted a video of a new MIDI controller, the Monome, in action: The controller is an 8?—8 matrix of on/off illuminated switches. The lights and the switches operate independently, so the buttons can light up when you activate them or they can do things like follow the pulse of a sequence. It?€™s tiny… Read More New Monome MIDI Controller
Skylife has announced an update for the sampling software SampleRobot. The new WaveRobot software for professional loop editing is fully integrated. SampleRobot version 2 comes with WaveRobot already included. New in Version 2 WaveRobot (fully scalable wave editor for professional loop editing) Improved interface design (coloring, workflow, hide-panels) MIDI capture function (With this function activated… Read More Samplerobot Update Announced
An update to n-Track Studio, an audio & MIDI multitrack recorder for Windows, has just been released. Main changes from v4.1.6 to v4.2 64 bit mixing and processing option n-Track DirectX plug-ins support for 64 bit processing n-Track Drums plug-in: drums sampler and drum machine Regions of the song where clipping occurred are now highlighted… Read More n-Track Releases Version 4.2 Update
