Apple has announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded more than 250 million songs from the iTunes Music Store. iTunes users are now downloading one and a quarter million songs per day, which is an annual run rate of almost half a billion songs per year. The iTunes Music Store is now available in… Read More iTunes Music Store: One Quarter Billion Songs Downloaded
NAMM 2005: Cakewalk, developer of the leading music and sound software for Windows, today announces the availability of a fully native 64-bit version of SONAR 4 Producer Edition, an audio production environment on the Windows platform. The x64 Technology Preview version of SONAR 4 includes the entire application, along with a collection of additional DirectX… Read More NAMM: Cakewalk Announces First Native 64-bit Host Digital Audio Workstation
NAMM Show Update: Cakewalk, developer of the leading music and sound software for Windows, has acquired rgc:audio, a leading developer of DirectX and VST synthesizer plug-ins for Windows. Joining the Cakewalk product development team is rgc:audio founder and synthesizer expert René Ceballos. Cakewalk has exclusive publishing and distribution rights to all rgc:audio products, including the… Read More NAMM: Cakewalk Acquires rgc:audio
2005 NAMM: Peterson has introduced the StroboStomp, designed to handles the rigors of gigging, but still offer the accuracy needed for performing intonation on guitar or bass. Like the company’s classic and virtual strobe tuners, the StroboStomp has a scrolling readout which stops when it reaches a certain pitch, programmed into the tuner so that… Read More NAMM: Peterson Intros Strobostomp
NAMM 2005: Hand-wired in Essex, England, and hand-covered in striking blonde Tolex, Ashdown’s new Essex Blonde guitar combos were created in the pursuit of classic, vintage tone. Two models, 8 and 15 Watts, each feature oversized, locally-wound transformers, matched tube sets and reverb trays. The use of polished gold corners, hand-engraved front panels, chicken head… Read More Blondes at LA NAMM Show
NAMM 2005: Ashdown has introduced the All Access Guitar Amp series, compact amps for home, rehearsal and backstage use. The G20R is a single channel 20-Watt combo featuring a high performance 8″ speaker and front panel switchable overdrive. Treble, Middle and Bass controls allow precision tone shaping, and a built-in spring reverb with its own… Read More Ashdown Intros All Access Amps
NAMM: Planet Waves has announced that their custom cable system, the Planet Waves Cable Station, is now available. Comprised of bulk cable boxes, packaged plugs, cable ties, and cable cutters, the Cable Station is a self-serve system that allows musicians to make their own custom-length instrument or RCA cables without the mess and hassle of… Read More NAMM: Planet Waves Introduces Cable Station
NAMM 2005: Peavey has introduced the Rotor EX, a high-output, modern metal guitar combining a retro, angular body with high-end components and exclusive Peavey design technology. The Rotor is constructed using mahogany for the body and neck and a rosewood fretboard. A double-locking, Floyd Rose-licensed tremolo gives rock and metal guitar players clearance to explore… Read More NAMM: Peavey Introduces Rotor EX Electric Guitar
NAMM 2005 Update: American Music & Sound is reintroducing the Hagstrom line of classic guitars. The newly manufactured Hagstrom line benefits from the advances in materials and manufacturing technology that have occurred since the guitars were last produced in Sweden in 1981. The reissued models feature fingerboards manufactured from a homogeneous wood composite material that… Read More NAMM: Hagstrom Guitars Come Back
NAMM Show: Brian Moore Guitars has introduced the newest model in their line-up of technology-based guitars, iGuitar.USB. “The iGuitar.USB is the first guitar to offer on-board, Class Compliant USB audio to streamline the guitar to computer connection eliminating the need for an external audio interface” says Brian Moore Guitars President Patrick Cummings. “This is what’s… Read More Winter NAMM: Brian Moore Debuts iGuitar.USB
