News - Recording - May 2009

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

SonicPrint Designs Now Available on Environmental EcoTech ProPanels.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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