News - May 2009

TASCAM's best-selling CD-160 CD player has been updated to the new CD-200.

AudioGate™Version 2.0 file format conversion software includes new file editing tools, Korg's enhanced "AQUA" dithering algorithm, plus CD/DSD disc creation capabilities.

Featuring a real-time user control panel application that displays control screens exported from SymNet Designer 9.0.

This compact speaker offers high quality, powerful solution for touring and installation.

The RS7500 is the ideal solution for guitar players who want to hear themselves better and want a less cluttered, more professional stage area.

The 3rd installment of Puremagnetik's Guitar Rack series comes packed with a collection of highly expressive guitar instruments.

Here's a fresh supply of expertly performed and professionally produced multitrack drum loops.

Enjoy amazing new features and improved graphical user interface with Infrasonic DeuX driver version 2.0 for Windows XP.

The concept behind this sound set was to use sounds generated by air to create a transparent-sounding percussive instrument.

The Metal Foundry SDX™, with Meshuggah drummer Tomas Haake, features seven drum kits, spanning 300,000 sound files of raw, single hit drum recordings.

This set is sure to be something worthy of passing from generation to generation.

Wireworks is introducing its new super tough TacCat Network Cords and Multi-TacCat Assemblies at InfoComm 2009 (Booth 5221).

The Samba Personal Stash Bag is a small bag designed to hold those "personal essentials" that need to be carried around everyday.

Trey Gray is battling Huntington's Disease and 10% of all proceeds from sales of his signature snare will be donated to the HDSA (Huntington's Disease Society of America).

Armor Gold Cables introduces it's line of industrial strength cables for the guitar market.

Gretsch enthusiasts will have the chance to celebrate the music Gretsch has been a part at Gretsch dealers throughout the United States.

MIN TECH 2' is a 1.8 GB construction kit collection for the minimalist techno genre from their content partner Bunker 8.

Alos spotlighted is the much-anticipated MACH2 Software Suite for the SD7—now available onboard all new SD7 consoles, and as a free upgrade to all existing SD7 owners.

DEEP RECONSTRUCTIONS is a collection of cutting-edge multi-effects based on the powerful sound processing features of the KORE platform.

The TH-812, known as the "Rock Monster," is a tapped-horn subwoofer system with eight 12" long-excursion low-frequency drivers is perfect for the touring market.

As requested by major producers and popular demand this version of Boombonix offers the best new Dirty South 808 drum samples.

Grover's new synthetic headed models launched.

The deMOON Synthesizer is an affordable 4 note polyphonic filterbank synthesizer with build-in granulator and distortion effects, step-sequencer and note randomizer.

UpStereo is a simple, useful tool that makes your mixes bigger, in stereo width and loudness.

DTS003 — HADES is compilation of virtual instruments for Ableton Live, Propellerhead Reason and FL Studio.

The Prophet '08 PE melds the best of the "old school" with the modern features and affordability of a new generation of analog polysynths.

Streamworks Audio's Ben Rosser takes you into the depths of this amazing program to ensure you can get the most from Ableton Live.

"Groove Bias" acoustic drum kit sample library focuses exclusively on vintage acoustic drum kits recorded in an authentic 60's and 70's style with all-analog gear.

The new Badwater colors, dark grey and dark red add a further individualized element of unique vintage style to the award-winning Badwater guitars.

For mariachi-style Bajo players who want clear, crisp tone, Lucida introduces three new Bajo Quinto models.

The Loar's LH-600 archtop guitar is hand-carved from select, graduated woods and features a nitrocellulose lacquer finish for unparalleled acoustic projection.

The Standard 36 Head is carefully handwired in the VHT workshop, where experienced VHT designers oversee every step of the assembly and extensive testing.

Radial Engineering announces the recent acquisition of the Komit Compressor from boutique manufacturer Burgin-McDaniel.

The jazzCittern™ ModeExplorer is software designed for those learning advanced music theory and improvisation on cittern, mandolin, bouzouki, etc.

Mid/side processing together with unlimited modulation possibilities ensure that Timeless 2 will warp and mangle your sounds more enthusiastically than ever.

Guitars Not Guns DC National Capital Area affiliate will raffle off a Mississippi Bluesmaster, valued at $1,200, and a Brazen Fantasy Standard, valued at $750.

The instruments of this collection are suitable for many music styles including: Electronica, Chill-Out, Lounge, Downtempo, Song Writing, Funk, Soul, Pop, Rock, IDM, Glitch.

The Series captures the diverse range of percussion instruments from around the world.

the Design Spot 300E PRO is equipped with an advanced high luminous optical system, which gives it the brilliant output of a much larger fixture.

StealthPedal is the world's first compact audio interface and MIDI controller housed in a wah-style pedal.

VoiceLive 2 is a floor-based vocal processor that contains the effects necessary to produce vocal sounds from the past, present and well into the future.

Zoybar is a hardware and web platform for developing mashable music instruments in a co-creation environment.

'Dark Techno & Acid Synth' is a collection of original one shot singles featuring atmospheres, sound effects, bass sounds, acid synths and many others.

This massive songbook is a valuable collectible and is a summation of 50 years of pop culture for music makers of every generation to enjoy.

The Dream Theater Keyboard Experience featuring Jordan Rudess, is not just a songbook, but a total experience.

Paul Reed Smith Guitars is once again teaming up with long-time partner DuPont and their Hot Hues™ palette of colors.

Presented by Producer and Certified Pro Tools Expert Luigi Lazareno, this comprehensive DVD is completely in Spanish for the new user of Pro Tools 8.

The "Flex Drive" is a very versatile over drive pedal that can go from clean boost to scorching lead tones with blues and country in between.

Leading audio school offers students IK's Total Studio Bundle 2 for audio diploma certificate courses.

The best-selling small-format digital mixer on the market just got dramatically better.

With the Universal Control™ update all PreSonus FireStudio™-series audio interfaces and the StudioLive 16.4.2™ digital mixer are now fully 64-bit compatible.

The Heartbeat sound set was constructed from samples of human heartbeat recordings, which were enhanced for drum-like punch.

'Night Rock Cafe' Contains over 6800 samples & patches and 19.2Gb of the incredibly realistic piano, guitar, drum, bass sounds in 5 different formats.

The Track Star team delivers this second installment of cross-cultural Hip Hop and World Beat.

SoundField has begun shipping the first quantities of its latest product, the UPM-1 stereo-to-5.1 converter, to satisfy international pre-orders.

Offering adventurous guitarists a totally unique instrument, DBZ Guitars' brand new Croc Skin Bolero model will blow minds and turn heads: the Croc Skin Bolero.

Logic 401: Logic's Mastering Toolkit contains 3-hours of pro-level tutorials by veteran software trainer Steve H.

Alfred celebrates the legendary Rolling Stones with: Hot Rocks 1964-1971 and The Rolling Stones: Easy Guitar TAB Anthology.

This book/multi-media package includes a collection of personal photographs, quotes and commentary by the legendary artists in attendance.

The first fully revised and re-edited edition of Classic Guitar Technique, Volume 1 was written in conjunction with former student and long-time colleague — Thomas Kikta.

The new Protea speaker processors are for live sound and fixed installation applications.

Stereo Techniques' tutorial video demonstrating methods for widening, enhancing, positioning and defining stereo and mono audio material.

Tunecore customers are now able to sell unlimited physical CDs on amazon.com made on demand via createspace, as well as digital music via amazon MP3.

The Genesis Horn is a true three-way, full-range horn that offers a horizontal dispersion of 60 degrees, that is seamlessly expandable to 120 degrees with the addition of a second unit.

The SC800 Instrument Direct Box converts the outputs of high impedance line level audio devices and musical instruments to low impedance, balanced and isolated mic level signals.

Alfred and the Drum Channel present Buddy Rich: Up Close and The Evolution of Tony Royster Jr.

In BEHIND THE GLASS Volume II top record producers tell how they craft the hits.

DYNACORD continues its rich tradition of manufacturing high-performance amplifiers with the three models of its new DSA Multi Channel series.

The Electric Cruiser Dual Glide is designed to be a lightweight, yet powerful electric-acoustic hybrid.

ChineeSheng: The Mouth Organ of Concord is the 10th installment to the Chinee Series product line.

John Petrucci and Sterling Ball will discuss the development of the Petrucci Signature guitar, the latest of the Petrucci Ball Family Reserve models.

The DN-X1700 is an ultimate DJ tool for the top flight professional, incorporating powerful performance features and levels of sound quality and control.

Alfred Music Publishing expands the popular Ultimate Play-Along series to include newly released titles by iconic bands Pink Floyd and Rush.

The Impression has received cETLus certification ensuring it complies with UL standards and can therefore be specified in permanent installations.

The Roland VP-770 features newly developed vocal designer effects and high-quality ensemble sounds powered by Roland's exclusive SuperNATURAL™ technology.

The Raw Bell Dry Ride design offers players a highly effective versatility at virtually any volume and in any style of music.

The Nord Wave Super Sounds are free programs created by some of the best synthesizer programmers.

By purchasing an affordable subscription plan, users gain access to new video tutorials being released on a weekly basis.

Guitar Center and Ernie Ball/Music Man present an evening of dialogue and music with guitar virtuosos Steve Morse and Steve Lukather.

The Ultimate_Xpansion Sound Collection is a comprehensive patch library for use with Apple's Logic Pro music production software.

Covering every genre of modern guitar, the Guitar Experience teaches you valuable riffs, licks, and progressions in the style of artist.

Pianofly is a music synthesizer and piano keyboard application for Apple's iPhone platform.

The two-day event offers new Recording Artists, Record Producers and Songwriters the chance to learn from, network and showcase their music for leading industry execs.

'Symphonic Hip Hop' merges powerful symphonic arrangements and orchestrations with block busting hip hop rhythmatics.

The sound of Fidget House is defined by snatched vocal snippets, pitch-bent bass lines and rave-style synth stabs over glitchy 4/4 beats.

A truly unique collection of gongs and more uvi soundsource introduces Spirit of Gongs.

VOVOX® sound conductors ensure a flawless flow of sound information — from the musician's instrument in the studio or on stage to the loudspeaker at home.

This SampleSet contains 3 obscure and great sounding keyboards from the past.

Hosted by Sterling Ball, this in depth conversation looks back on a quarter century of passion and commitment.

Ideal for use where the interfacing wireless microphone system remains constant.

Carl Verheyen's brand-new Forward Motion: Advancing on the Electric Guitar DVD contains all-new video footage, into its acclaimed Artist DVD Series.

The PL-11 is an IR receiver which uses the proprietary PL-Anet CAT5 plug 'n play protocol employed in Allen & Heath's iDR and iLive digital mixing systems.

The highly anticipated RTAS release of ReValver MKIII is available now as a free download at Peavey.com for licensed users of the acclaimed virtual amplifier software.

The X115-P is a compact, high output bass system ideal for a wide range of applications.

Joey Jordison, drummer for the Grammy Award winning heavy metal powerhouse, Slipknot, has joined Pro-Mark's impressive roster of Autograph Series artists.

Using a newly extended model, PIANOTEQ can now reproduce the beautiful sound of the vibraphone.

Designed as a standalone system for the broad range of applications requiring high-SPL and low distortion, the SH-64 is a powerhouse three-way solution.

To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Airline brand, Eastwood® Guitars has released 50 limited edition Metallic Gold Airline '59 Custom 2P guitars.

In this in-depth series Michael Costa shows you how to get professional radio sounding results using the IK Multimedia T-RackS.

Founder and CEO Hartley Peavey reflects on the past & future

The value-priced Amp Room Bundle???which includes the company's acclaimed Vintage Amp Room, Metal Amp Room, and new Bass Amp Room plug-in suites.

Fresh out of Six Thirty's studio comes this exclusive collaboration of trance synth loops sealed with the Zenhiser stamp of pro audio quality.

Glacier by 9 Soundware is a set of instruments for the EXS24 sampler within Apple Logic Pro.

Scale Wizard App provides 10,000 guitar scales, modes, and arpeggios.

Waves Audio presents its next Waves Masters on Tour event: "An Evening with Master Mixer Ross Hogarth," Thursday, May 28, 2009.

Human Beatbox Kit and Funky Constructions are both designed for the newest features in Ableton Live 8.

Indamixx Netbook Model 2 is an affordable Linux audio Netbook with pre-installed audio and mobility software.

Operating from within a completely modular custom-designed rack, B.E.A.S.T. features a cache of high power audio weapons for all of your tracks.

The Electron Smasher offers twisty downtempo, fatboy-style breakbeat, west coast breaks, even drum n bass.

XP308i offers power, portability, flexibility and an iPod docking station for traveling performers or presenters and will ship June 2009.

The Gristle King is a combination of the features of the DGTM and the Luxury Drive, offering a wide variety of boost and overdrive possibilities.

The Liquid Metal Guitar Company (LMG) is pleased to announce it's first shipment of guitars to H Music.

The DGTM brings forth a distinctive overdrive that will satisfy many an overdrive connoisseur's palate.

This full line includes tuners for every price range and level of musician

A new solution to on-site connector breakage debuts at InfoComm.

The New WaveAngle Radian™ Wireless Guitar System applies modern wireless technology to provide the user reliable, future proof flexibility.

Waveformer is a multi purpose synthesizer sound library designed by MESA+ sound-engineers for Ableton Live7.

Guitar Center and Ernie Ball/Music Man proudly announce an evening of dialogue and music with guitar and bass virtuosos Steve Morse and Dave La Rue.

Rugged four-channel fiber optic connection system for point-to-point cabling.

SonicPrint Designs Now Available on Environmental EcoTech ProPanels.

The new P 64-1500 has a processing power of 1500 MIPS, making it the most powerful audio system controller on the market.

"What Spinal Tap did to heavy metal, Mixerman does to the recording world."

The third generation of this highly successful wireless series now available in the U.S.

NORTH INDIA is a new sound library that captures and recreates the charismatic tones of classical North Indian music with unparalleled authenticity.

Explosive Breakbeat, created by Xxxplicit, is a huge new affordable Breakbeat Sample Pack.

JamDock Enables Musicians to Mix Instruments with iPod Music Tracks.

TuneCore has teamed up with Musicnotes.com to provide yet another way for musicians to make money off their fame.

Progressive features chunky, bigroom beats; rhythm-rocking tops; pulsing sub-basses; driving chord sequences, evolving pads and luscious leads; and trackblazing combis.

In the style of today's R&B club and radio hits Modern Beats delivers "RnB Klub Loops 1" library.

Even though the PL-400 is the lowest priced in the range, it has many professional characteristics.

This new software application from Propellerhead puts musicians at the forefront.

The 'Ambient Chill' collection contains 1.9 GB of Ambient/Chill and Electronica loops and samples.

Concentrating on three distinct genres, each loop pack contains ten beats with multiple variations, breaks, and selected individual elements.

The unique modulation characteristics of this effects pedal are musical and natural, where only the barest minimum of pitch de-tuning is introduced.

Forged in the pulse of 128 BPM, but open to temporal flux through the powers of Dr. Rex, these loops comfortably bend plus or minus 20 BPM.

Leading music print publisher to distribute award-winning tone generation software and hardware interfaces.

Brand new Label Series kicks off with a superb collection of deeply crafted Deep Tech House and Techno samples.

9 Soundware's new offering includes a number of innovative samples and instruments.

Fantom-G Series, V-Synth GT, SonicCell are now supported.

This professional line of rotationally molded is made in the USA.

'Ambient Metal Constructions 2' is a monster construction kit that blends the dulcet tones found in ambient music with the raging distorted metal guitars and drums.

Play as loud and as long as you want without having your drum kit creep away from you.

Europe's biggest drumming festival, Drummer Live can now announce top session Drummer Mark Richardson will play the show at London ExCeL Docklands on the 14th June.

The new electric Orca commemorative guitar features long-life strings.

New song tools expand FourTrack 2.0 to be the first multitrack studio to go beyond four tracks on the iPhone.

DiMarzio's new artist series pickups feature DiMarzio's renowned tone.

Acoustic piano legacy melds with cutting edge V-technology.

PLP uses FM Synthesis, FFT synthesis, additive/subtractive synthesis, and home brewed DSP routines to produce this collection of loops and samples.

The HD1521 2-way and HD1531 3-way represent the pinnacle of Class-D amplifier technology, delivering up to 1800W of peak system power.

Otus MIDI controller now natively supports Virtual DJ 6, PCDJ, DJDecks, Resolume.

This sound set contains 333 samples, 76 loops and 57 MPC programs.

Sennheiser has signed an exclusive distribution agreement for North America with K-Array, a PA loudspeaker and amplifier manufacturer based in Florence, Italy.

The APC40 is the only control surface specifically designed for performance with Ableton Live software.

Tech & Minimal Energy is a pack containing drums, sound effects, percussive phrases and punchy keyboards sounds.

Pro Speed Picking contains over 100 master-class exercises devoted to alternate picking, sweep picking, economy picking, legato picking, and circular picking.

The TSW Pro II is a sample-based VST synthesizer workstation and comes with a huge 2.4 GB sample library content and over 2,000 Presets.

The company's new drums feature all birch shells with rich lacquer finishes commonly found on high-end kits.

The first volume in an innovative new series focusing on mixing techniques.

Pacemaker is designed to enable consumers to deejay anywhere, anytime with all the functionality of a professional DJ set up.

Dirty Dose SFZ contains over 20 kits in the SFZ format for load into Camel Audio's Alchemy and others.

Softube also presents Amp Room Bundle, containing native versions of Bass Amp Room, Metal Amp Room, and Vintage Amp Room.

The Axiom Pro keyboards can send QWERTY commands, allowing users to access DAW keyboard shortcuts and menu commands directly from their Axiom Pro system.

Lava Cable introduces a new version of the Right Angle Lava Plug™ the smallest DIY solder-free plug on the market.

SequenceK THOR Sounds is a versatile and distinctive collection of complex sounds that explores and combines all the features of this great synthesizer.

Sex Weed Sample pack contains over 338MB of meticulously designed and processed beat loops and samples.

With this sample library you can create your own club tracks within the various House and Techno styles.

CINEMATIC is a compilation of virtual instruments for Ableton Live, Propellerhead Reason and FL Studio.

The Foxboro, Massachusetts-based company is now stocking the Lucid 88192 A/D and D/A converter, and the GENx192 Ultra Low Jitter Studio Master Clock.

The 2009 Listen Up! World Tour offers customers a chance to learn studio production techniques, meet top recording artists and interact with A-list engineers.

Ashly Audio's new digital signal processors bring user-friendly setup and control to networked audio systems using Ashly's PC-hosted Protea NE Software.

The DS6213 Gooseneck Desktop Microphone Stand is a classic solution for paging, dispatch, courtroom, conference, and other applications where instant microphone adjustment is needed.

With the DDP Creator and DDP Player Sonoris launches an affordable DDP solution for recording and mastering studio's that is compatible with virtually any DAW software on the market.

American DJ has applied cutting-edge TRI LED lighting technology to two exciting new, easy-to-operate rotating ball effects.

Lessons: Breaking The Code breaks funk drumming down for every drummer with firsthand instruction from Tower Of Power's David Garibaldi.

The most important part of the track and with the 'Pure Minimal Drum Hits' collection your drum loops will be up there with the best.

This instrument is constructed from samples of objects being struck, thrown, dropped, and manipulated in a variety of other ways.

This Pack is essential for those who love punchy loops.