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News - Recording - October 2007
X2 Digital Wireless Introduces New Microphone Systems
All systems are 2009 Compliant and feature X2's proprietary companderless TruDIGITAL™ format and Q-DiversityPLUS™ (anti-jamming) technology. (2007-10-31)
TASCAM Updates Audio Interface Drivers, USB Products To Support Windows Vista
Nearly all of TASCAM's interfaces have been now been updated to support Windows Vista. (2007-10-31)
Musicrow Releases Classic Minitunes Soundset For Minimoog V
Biting leads, fat basses, beautiful pads, and many other surprising sounds will enrich the sonic palette of your Minimoog V. (2007-10-31)
Bose Corporation Announces New ToneMatch Presets And Portable Line Array Systems
Bose engineers worked in close collaboration with manufacturers to develop the new ToneMatch presets. (2007-10-31)
Zero-G Introduces Classic Disco Sample Library
Contains over 700 samples and 1.6Gb of the most authentic disco and funk sounds from the 70s and 80s. (2007-10-31)
The SonicSpecialists Release "Urban Fire: Sounds Of The Super Producer" Volume 3 Drum Library
Weighing in at over 300 drum sounds, this library has more than twice the amount of previous volumes. (2007-10-31)
Avant Electronics Introduces Avantone CK-40 Stereo Microphone
A discreet Class A low-noise FET circuit is utilized to yield pleasing professional results. (2007-10-30)
Evidence Audio Introduces Monorail Installation Cable
The Monorail incorporates fundamental features pioneered by Evidence Audio that allow signal transmission with minimal degradation. (2007-10-30)
Studio Devil Releases Virtual Guitar Amp Plug-In For Windows VST
The dynamic response and tone are faithful to those you'd expect from guitar tube amps and it reacts to your playing style just like the real thing. (2007-10-30)
Cakewalk Launches Academic Editions Of SONAR 7 Producer And Studio
Included with the new Academic Editions is SONAR Music Projects, a set of materials aimed at secondary school Music classes up to GCSE. (2007-10-30)
Garritan Ships New Versions Of Personal Orchestra & Jazz/Big Band
These new versions are now Apple Intel-Mac/Universal Binary compatible. (2007-10-30)
Wave Arts Announces Master Restoration Suite Plug-In Set
The tools in this suite give extremely high quality results with minimal tweaking, hence they sound great and are easy to use. (2007-10-29)
BTE Audio Announces AEQ2 American Console Equalizer Algorithm
This high-performance digital equalization algorithm simulates the sound and feel of American Mixing Consoles of the late 1960s. (2007-10-29)
Westgate Studios Announces Timpani Module Sample Library
This library features 24 bit samples for Gigastudio 3.1 and Kontakt 2.1 on the same disc. (2007-10-26)
Brauner Microphones Presents Phantom Classic Condenser Microphone
The Phantom Classic is a phantom powered condenser microphone with fixed cardioid pattern based on the famous VM1 capsule design. (2007-10-26)
CME Announces Relaunch Of Newly Designed Website
Cme-pro.com is now updated daily with exclusive news release, product reviews, and feature profiles. (2007-10-26)
Berkleemusic Announces Winter Term Celebrity Online Scholarship Program
The Celebrity Online Scholarship Program is designed to reward and assist online students in their online Certificate Programs at Berkleemusic. (2007-10-26)
Sounds And Effects Announces "Pure Acoustic" Library Available For HALion, Logic/EXS24, And Reason Refill
The library consists of a Martin HD-28 and Taylor 410 with each note sampled from ppp to f : up to 9 samples/note at 24/96 resolution. (2007-10-26)
Digidesign Unveils Mbox® 2 Micro Pro Tools LE® Portable Sequencing, Editing, And Mixing Solution
Mbox 2 Micro features a rugged, ultra-compact, anodized aluminum case for ultimate portability. (2007-10-26)
Samplebase.com Releases New Sample Player And SoundBlocks
Satellite Pro loads REX, Wave, and Acid files and includes features such as auto-mapping, a sample editor, and more. (2007-10-25)
MakeMusic Releases Finale NotePad 2008 Music Notation Software
Most notable of the new features is the ability to import and export MIDI files. (2007-10-25)
Hosa Technology Announces Astro-Grip Universal Hook & Loop Organizer
Now, musicians and others have a fast, effortless means of organizing the seemingly endless amount of cables that interconnect the various components of their music and A/V systems. (2007-10-25)
Native Instruments Releases TRAKTOR 3.3 With TRAKTOR SCRATCH Integration
The combination of TRAKTOR 3 and TRAKTOR SCRATCH now enables up to four full-featured playback decks. (2007-10-25)
Sinevibes Announces Gateboy 1.2 Plug-In
Gateboy is an Audio Unit effect plug-in which incorporates an advanced gate sequencer and allows to add motion to any audio. (2007-10-25)
Inspiration Sounds Announce Funked Up Percussion Sample Pack
Features 210MB of downloadable Percussion Loops and Samples performed exclusively by one of the UK's leading percussionists. (2007-10-25)
Digital Music Doctor Releases GarageBand 08 - Know It All! Tutorial
These Apple GarageBand tutorials are a complete guide to making music with GarageBand 08. (2007-10-24)
EastWest Announces Three New Sample Collections From Best Service Products
Covering a variety of styles and genres, these samples are a great addition to any producer's toolkit. (2007-10-24)
Camel Audio Plug-ins Now Available On Muse Research's Recepter Plug-in Player
Camel Audio's CamelCrusher and CamelSpace are now included with certain software and plug-in players. (2007-10-23)
Steinberg Releases Cubase 4.1 Music Production Application
The new features include a redesigned Sample Editor, side chaining for VST3 plug-ins, MusicXML support, and more. (2007-10-23)
VirSyn Releases REFLECT Reverb Plug-in Version 1.2
The new version comes with a completely revised modulation algorithm to simulate the air movement in natural rooms. (2007-10-23)
CME Launches ASX Advanced Synthesis Expansion For UF And VX Series Keyboards
The ASX is a DSP board which goes into the expansion slot of UF and VX series keyboards, turning the CME MIDI controller keyboard into a stand-alone synthesizer. (2007-10-23)
Angry Red Planet Announces Temper Sequencer For MIDI Composition
Temper includes a variety of tools for generating musical phrases and controller information. (2007-10-23)
Puremagnetik Releases Guitar Rack Volume 2 - Acoustic Edition
Volume 2 includes over 60 high quality 24-bit loops, riffs and phrases. (2007-10-22)
Bili Inc. Introduces Footime™ Foot Mouse With Programmable Pedal
The Foot Mouse solves the problem of having to move your hands and eyes between a mouse, keyboard, and MIDI keyboard during composing/arranging. (2007-10-22)
NuGen Audio Releases Public Beta Version Of Stereoplacer VST Effect
This is the first release for Stereoplacer in OSX compatible formats. (2007-10-22)
SAE Institute To Feature Alan Parsons At Lectures
SAE students will be given the chance to share the studio with Parsons and gain valuable first-hand experience while tracking a full band using SAE's state-of-the-art SSL studio. (2007-10-19)
Beta Monkey Music Releases Drum Werks IX: Power Rock Grooves Drum Loop Collection
Drum Werks IX: Power Rock offers 488 (638 MB) drum loops and 92 (73 MB) matching multi-velocity drum and cymbal samples total. (2007-10-19)
Blue Cat Audio Updates FreqAnalyst And FreqAnalyst Pro Plugins
These new versions bring several user interface and performance improvements. (2007-10-18)
Loopmasters Presents Soundbwoy Killah Drum And Bass Samplepack
330 samples including 43 tearing breakbeat drum loops, 26 music loops, 16 bass loops, and more. (2007-10-18)
BandmateLoops Partners With Westgate Studios To Introduce Woodwind Virtual Instruments
Collection features instruments such as Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Bassoon and much more. (2007-10-18)
PreSonus Lowers Price Of Inspire 1394 FireWire Recording System And FaderPort Controller
Prices of the Inspire 1394 and FaderPort each have been dropped from $199 to $149. (2007-10-17)
ASK Video Shipping Cubase 4 Level 1 Training Course DVD
This comprehensive, informative and professional video tutorial is a must for every Cubase user. (2007-10-17)
Allen & Heath Announce Version 3.0 Of Xone Mixed In Key Harmonic Mixing Software
Using a patent-pending process for key detection, the new version provides even more accurate results. (2007-10-17)
Audio Damage Releases Vapor Diffusion Chorus Plug-In
At Vapor's core is a network of diffusers, delay-based filters that soften and smear audio passing through them. (2007-10-17)
Cakewalk Releases SONAR 7.0.1 Update
The SONAR 7.0.1 Update addresses various performance and stability issues across the entire application. (2007-10-17)
CME Announces VX And UF Series Keyboard Controllers Compatible With Pro Tools, Sonar
The CME VX Series Controllers are the first to offer fully motorized faders and a host of other controls for DAW control (2007-10-16)
Abaltat Releases Abaltat Express Soundtrack Composition Software
Soundtracks can be composed in a matter of seconds, and the arrangement can be refined through adjustment of keyframes on the timeline. (2007-10-16)
Pettinhouse Announces DirectGuitar 2.0 Sample Library
This is a new version of the first guitar sample library direct recorded for amp simulators. (2007-10-16)
EastWest Releases Virtual Instrument And Audio Engine Software Updates
The updates are available for both Mac and Windows platforms in both standalone and plug-in versions. (2007-10-16)
Musicrow Releases The Arp Kingdom Preset Collection For Arturia Arp 2600 V
The Arp Kingdom soundset cover a wide range of sonic moods that are suitable for any music genre. (2007-10-16)
Eiosis Announces E²Deesser Processor
The E²Deesser features Eiosis' patented, exclusive processing structure and algorithm to bring you a new approach to de-essing. (2007-10-16)
4Front Technologies Releases TruePianos Version 1.0.2 Virtual Instrument
TruePianos 1.0.2 features a new Sapphire Module, MIDI CC support to control sliders, and a new trial version. (2007-10-15)
Wusik Releases Wusikstation Version 4.1.6 And Wusik Sample Editor Version 1.2.6
New features have been added to Wusikstation and Wusik Sample Editor. (2007-10-15)
Roland Announces EDIROL R-09 Wave/MP3 Recorder Compatible With 8-GB SDHC Cards
This new feature allows R-09 users to easily demarcate unique interview subjects and/or audio subjects without interrupting the recording. (2007-10-15)
Larry Seyer Digital Announces POWERkits Now Shipping
POWERkits provide the musician and producer with a sound palette requiring very little processing power. (2007-10-15)
Soniccouture Releases VA Brush Kit For Kontakt And Battery As Free Download
The 150mb Drum kit features mixable direct and ambient microphones, Drum roll emulation via the Roll Control KSP script, multiple velocity layers and articulations. (2007-10-15)
Scarbee Releases Red Bass For Kontakt 2
Red Bass was designed to be very easy to play live. (2007-10-15)
Producer Pack Releases Android Armageddon Pro Audio Sample Pack
Android Armageddon includes 100 files of glitching robotics, robot voices, dark soundscapes, and more. (2007-10-15)
Stanton DJ Introduces C.402 And C.502 Rackmount CD Players
Both products have AutoCue, which automatically cues a track to the start of the music and seamless looping, allowing DJs to focus on their audience. (2007-10-15)
StarNotation Releases T-rox Studio Notation Software
T-rox Studio is a music notation software that has built-in automatic transcription functions. (2007-10-15)
TC Electronic Introduces PowerCore X8
This latest addition to the PowerCore family features eight DSP engines, which offers twice the processing power of PowerCore FireWire. (2007-10-15)
Digidesign Unveils Guitar Amp Plug-In And Offers 30-Day Free Prerelease Trial Version
Eleven offers carefully selected emulations of modern amplifiers and speaker cabinets based on amps and cabinets. (2007-10-12)
Cortex Announces New HDC-3000 Digital Music Controller Software Update
The new software features an improved Scratch Mode to allow your HDC-3000 to scratch exclusively in Pitch Mode. (2007-10-12)
Realsamples' Harpsichord Library Now Includes Lute Stop Sound
If you want to check out the quality of realsamples libraries for yourself, the lute stop is available for free download. (2007-10-12)
Sample Logic Presents The Elements Library
This 14 GB/4 DVD library contains over 1700 instruments, tempo synced loops, and multis designed with you in mind. (2007-10-12)
eMedia Music Announces Version 4 Of Guitar Method Volume 1 CD-ROM
The new version includes a more intuitive interface, improved high-quality audio and video, and new fretboard skins. (2007-10-12)
Audio Ease Introduces Speakerphone Plug-In
The Speakerphone plug-in by Audio Ease provides sounds of classic guitar amps, dial tones, and more. (2007-10-12)
PowerFX Announces Mjolnir Refill For Reason 4
This refill includes 150 bass patches, 16 FX patches, 138 lead patches, 100 pad patches, and more. (2007-10-12)
macProVideo.com Releases Pro Tools 7 Tutorial Video Series
Produced on a Digidesign M-Powered system, this tutorial is filmed using the most popular Digidesign hardware/software combo on the market today. (2007-10-11)
Nady Systems Introduces U-81 OCTAVO Wireless Microphone System
The U-81 OCTAVO offers interference-free operation for virtually all applications and locations. (2007-10-11)
Garritan Releases Personal Orchestra Refill For Propellerhead Reason
The Garritan Personal Orchestra Refill features high-quality orchestral instruments and is easy to use. (2007-10-11)
American DJ Introduces LED Bar
The LED Bar has a total of 244 LED lamps to cover a wide surface area with dazzling color. (2007-10-11)
Symbolic Sound Launches Version X.47 Of Kyma Sound Design Software
Kyma X.47 features extensive support for multichannel sound synthesis and processing. (2007-10-10)
MPCsounds Releases "Urban Guitar Bites" Sample Library For Akai MPC Models
'Urban Guitar Bites' provides MPC users with numerous live nylon guitar riffs and sample bites from renowned urban guitarists. (2007-10-10)
Blue Sky Releases EXO Full-Range Desktop Monitor System
You can quickly connect a computer, a MP3 player or a mixer, and monitor all three sources at the same time. (2007-10-10)
Allen & Heath Make Additions To ZED Range
Similar to the smaller ZED-14, the 4 bus series features the same high performance DuoPre™ padless preamp. (2007-10-10)
Sinevibes Releases Basslines Loop Library
Basslines comes in "elastic" Apple Loops and ACID formats, which means all loops will instantly sync to the tempo. (2007-10-10)
Loopmasters' Artist Series Sample Libraries Now Available
Featuring over 1.5GB of material, the package includes over 190 Breakbeats and Electro House drum loops, 15 drum fills, 53 twisted bass loops, 167 inspirational music loops, and more. (2007-10-10)
Producer Pack Releases Love House Records Sample Pack
This pack is upfront and contains cutting edge club track essentials produced by one of the UK's most respected dance producers, Jeremy Sylvester. (2007-10-09)
Musicrow Releases Vintage Strings MkII Virtual String Machine
Vintage Stings MkII makes no use of samples and its sound is purely synthesized. (2007-10-09)
Frontier Design Group Releases AlphaTrack's Version 1.2 Driver
The new version 1.2 driver for AlphaTrack includes support for Live version 5.2.1 or later. (2007-10-09)
EastWest Releases "Ministry Of Rock" And "Voices Of Passion" Tutorials
The tutorials, offering both 64-bit and 32-bit support, provide an in depth overview of how easy these virtual instruments are to use. (2007-10-09)
MakeMusic Releases Finale PrintMusic 2008 Music Notation Software
Finale PrintMusic 2008 is the latest upgrade to MakeMusic's best-selling music notation software. (2007-10-08)
Producer Pack Releases Dubstep Pressure 1.0 Downloadable Sample Pack
This pack has been carefully compiled from scratch and contains over 600 files of beats, synths, and more. (2007-10-08)
VertexDSP Updates Multi-Track Spectrum Analyzer To Version 1.1.3
Multi-Track Spectrum Analyzer Version 1.1.3 features new bug fixes. (2007-10-08)
BTE Audio Announces AEQ1 American Console Equalizer Algorithm
The AEQ1 algorithm simultaneously achieves both absolute sonic accuracy and extremely high processing efficiency (2007-10-08)
Streamworks Audio Announces SWA Complete Sonar 7
Now at version 7 Sonar continues to grow and offer everything for the mere recording hobbyists to the audio engineering professional. (2007-10-05)
Loopmasters Releases Minimal House Samplepack
This samplepack features 30 minimal house basslines, 60 new drum loops, 30 music loops, and more. (2007-10-05)
Phonic Firefly 808 Shipping This Month
Phonic is including its own digital mixing software along with the Firefly 808. (2007-10-05)
MILLS Acoustics Introduces Mach 212B Guitar Cabinets
The cab is built to the same standards and of the same components as MILLS Acoustics' larger Afterburner 412 cabs and is rated at 140 Watts of power handling. (2007-10-04)
Blue Cat Audio Releases FreqAnalyst Multi Multi-Track Spectrum Analysis Plugin
Just like with Blue Cat's FreqAnalyst Pro, the frequency analysis can be fine tuned in details, and three modes are offered for each channel. (2007-10-04)
Ableton Announces Live 7, New Add-On Instruments, And Ableton Suite
Ableton features several new add-on instruments, and Ableton Suite combines Live 7 with a selection of instruments. (2007-10-04)
M-Audio Ships IE-40 Professional Reference Earphones
The new high-definition IE-40 earphones use triple-driver technology for best-in-class fidelity. (2007-10-04)
Big Fish Audio Releases Hadeeth 2 And Syntron-X Loop And Rhythm Libraries
Big Fish Audio brings you the taste and flavor of the Arabic world with Hadeeth 2, and a collection of neo-80s synth kits with Syntron-X. (2007-10-04)
zplane.development Releases Vielklang Version 1.1 With RTAS Support
Vielklang allows quick and easy creation of natural sounding backing vocals, brass sections, and other harmony parts with up to four voices. (2007-10-04)
Ueberschall Releases Urbanic Sample Library
This library is jam packed with extraordinary samples, basslines, leads, pads, fx sounds and a whole bunch of Drumsounds in 34 powerful Construction Kits. (2007-10-04)
MoReVoX Releases RetròVerb Reverb Impulse Response Library
MoReVoX RetròVerb is designed for TLSpace, but is compatible with all convolution reverb plugins. (2007-10-04)
Phonic Announces FireWire Compatibility With Windows Vista
Phonic's line of FireWire products is now compatible with the new Microsoft Windows operating system, Vista. (2007-10-04)
Toontrack Music Announces Drumtracker Converter Software
Drumtracker allows you to export all drums to one single MIDI file or as separate MIDI files, and to choose between different output MIDI mappings (2007-10-04)
Synesthesia Announces Mandala 2.0 High Definition Drum And Synthesizer
A new kind of synthesizer, the Mandala 2.0 packages a musical range so wide it simultaneously offers players the top of the line. (2007-10-03)
Eiosis Updates ELS Vocoder To Version 1.5
The new version of ELS Vocoder includes the SideChain feature, which allows you to use an external input as the carrier signal. (2007-10-03)
Nucleus SoundLab Releases RadioCarbon Patchset For LennarDigital's Sylenth1
The highlights of the set are the electro sequences, a large collection of powerful grinding and sizzling electro-arpeggios. (2007-10-03)
IK Multimedia Announces SampleMoog Now Shipping
SampleMoog offers over 1,700 basses, leads, pads and effects' sounds. (2007-10-03)
MPC-Samples.com Releases "Beat Making on the MPC500" For The Akai MPC500 Sampler
Suitable for all levels of ability, this product covers fundamental beginner topics all the way through to advanced beat production techniques. (2007-10-03)
Modern Beats Releases "RnB Keyz Loops" Keyboard Loop Library
'RnB Keyz Loops' comes in sample accurate, stereo acidized WAV format, and is compatible with Fruity Loops, Acid Pro, Cubase, Sonar, ProTools, or any software reading WAV. (2007-10-03)
Toontrack Music Announces Toontrack Solo Host Application
Toontrack Solo is a host application for Toontrack Music samplers, providing standalone operation. (2007-10-02)
NuGen Audio Releases Visualizer MusicTech Edition Audio Analyzer
Visualizer MusicTech is a flexible FFT audio analyser designed to allow access to a range of audio analysis views via a single interface. (2007-10-01)
Groovebox Announces "Music Production with Reason 4" CD-ROM
This groundbreaking collection of video tutorials shows you how one of the hottest songs included in the new Reason 4 Factory Soundbank was created. (2007-10-01)
Marantz Professional Introduces PMD620 Handheld Digital Compact Recorder
The new PMD620 utilizes the SD flash memory card for data storage, a first for the PMD Series of recorders. (2007-10-01)
Image Line Software Releases Maximus Multiband Maximizer
Maximus combines a high quality Maximizer, Compressor, Limiter, Noise Gate, Expander, Ducker and De-esser. (2007-10-01)
Native Instruments Announces Guitar Rig 3, Kontakt 3, Komplete Bundles Now Available
Guitar Rig 3, Kontakt 3, Komplete Synths, Komplete Classics, and Komplete 5 are now available. (2007-10-01)
Sinevibes Releases Third Edition Of The V-Synth Tweakbook
V-Synth Tweakbook Edition 3 brings a lot of new material, including 9 new articles, over 20 new patch examples, as well as updates to the parameter map. (2007-10-01) |