News - Recording - June 2009

Underground Beats is a powerful collection of killer grooves that will have you itching to get into the studio and create your next masterpiece.

The second product in the SONAR V-Studio line, Cakewalk's portable music production studio, SONAR V-Studio 100, is now shipping.

Chord tabs includes backing tracks and video lessons all in one handy 5" touch screen player.

Rambo and terminator images now available for home and studio on Auralex Sonicprint Acoustical Panels.

Antares responds to concerns about Auto-Tune pitch correction plug-in.

The 'Cabinet' Collection is the ultimate final stage for guitar tone.

This course contains over 3 hours of interactive videos which cover all major aspects of audio and midi recording, editing, mixing, and mastering for the Ableton Live 8 Digital Audio Workstation.

Clear reproduction, robustness and an extremely lightweight polypropylene format are the key features of the D12R and D12T weatherproof loudspeakers.

Hollywood strings virtual (software) instrument is a collection of orchestral string instruments with unprecedented control over sound and performance.

The X-spat Player redefines 3D acoustic design and lowers the entry price for advanced features including multi-channel audio files playback and spatialization distribution.

To the delight of Broadway show tune singers the Singer's Library of Musical Theatre songbooks are now packaged with audio CDs of piano accompaniment tracks.

The Beat Box Anthology features classic drum machines from the 70s, 80s and early 90s

Rylee announces Windows 7 support for 3 products.

Arturia is celebrating 10 years in business with the release of the 10 Year Suite collector pack of nine software titles.

This construction kit sample pack contains 8 studio quality construction kits including approximately 150 loops for hip-hop, r'n'b & pop production.

The Blast Pad is a dual-screen filter designed especially for high SPL environments.

This collection contains eighty Channel Strip Instrument Settings, including three drum kits.

The UAD-2 SOLO/Laptop, brings Universal Audio's award-winning analog emulations to laptop users, whether in Cubase, Logic, Digital Performer, or Pro Tools.

The Producer Pack Vocal Booth Collection is for dance & urban music producers looking for copyright free vocal hooks.

PreSonus has released the Universal Control™ version 1.11 software, Universal Control software, and firmware version 1.11 for the StudioLive 16.4.2 mixer.

The ADpak features a beautiful Premier Gen-X kit with a Ludwig Acrolite snare along with cymbals and percussion from Sabian, Meinl, and Paiste.

Equinox Sounds releases 'Chain Reaction: Tech Sounds & FX Loops', a collection of bizarre and far-out sounds for anyone who's into Techno, Minimal, Industrial, and IDM.

The "How To Sound Like" video tutorial series takes you step by step through some of the biggest genres and styles in electronic music today.

The Avant-Garde FX collection includes 128 FX intruments.

ONE is designed to work seamlessly with Apple's iTunes, GarageBand, Logic, Final Cut or any Core Audio compliant application on a Mac.

Customers include leading labels and distributors.

Lava Cable introduces a new version of its revolutionary solder-free plug.

eJamming AUDiiO 2.0 is ideal for musicians looking to play together over the Internet live in real time while feeling no discernable latency.

ClassicGuitar is a stereo acoustic nylon guitar 24bit 96Khz finger style DRY samples for Kontakt 2 and 3 availble for download or in DVD.

The Metal Foundry SDX™ is an all-new recording featuring seven massive drum kits, spanning 300,000 sound files of raw, single hit drum recordings.

'Dubstep Monolith' features tripped out delay percussionisms, super sub distil basses, epic transit fx's, LFO wib wobble basses, depth spawned vocalisms and much more.

BandmateLoops announces new products from content partners Peace Love Productions and Bunker 8.

iDrum: Major Lazer lets you instantly remix elements from the new album, Guns Don't Kill People… Lazers Do, produced by dance floor innovators Diplo and Switch along with lazer-armed commando Major Lazer.

$25 Download Packs Include New Power Pack and Scene Builder Product Lines

Macintosh users can now enjoy the REAL sounds of RealTracks and RealDrums; and other new features like RealStyles, RealCharts, and the amazing Audio Chord Wizard.

The new ZonePRO devices share the same total numbers of inputs and outputs as their equivalent siblings but feature additional mic/line inputs.

Lexicon introduces its newest professional reverb and effects processor that increases inputs and outputs, configuration options and reverb/effects algorithms.

The SonicProjects VM Bundle contains adapted versions of OP-X and Stringer as well as two effect plugins and pre-configured ready to play banks in VFX format.

Supreme Pianos is designed for the purpose that using physical modeling technology to achieve the same reality level as sampling while keeping the CPU usage low.

This highly stylized yet simple interface makes recording easy on any iPhone.

These voltage regulation, balanced power, and battery backup solutions are specifically designed for use with A/V equipment.

These flagship processors feature intuitive Wizard-driven system configuration using Harman HiQnet™ System Architect, for unprecedented DSP power and routing flexibility.

The much-anticipated Offline Editor software suite for the PRO6 and the XL8 digital systems allows a console showfile to be created on a compatible Mac computer.

With its unique and intuitive VCA and POPulation Group controls, all-around system flexibility, and legendary Midas sonic performance, the PRO6 is in a class of its own.

Effective 1 July 2009, Midas Consoles North America has been appointed as the exclusive distribution channel for Midas and Klark Teknik in the USA and Canada.

Prime Loops have released 2 new sound libraries for use by Producers & DJ's: Future House Drum Loops & Drum n Bass Drum Loops.

The DN530 provides great sounding, easy to use gates in a compact 1U format.

The DN540 packs four channels of creative compression into a 1U chassis.

This software has been developed following requests and suggestions from some of the most influential live system designers, installers and loudspeaker manufacturers.

Allen & Heath has introduced two new modules to the iLive digital mixing series to further extend the flexibility and interfacing capabilities of the range.

The Protobank is the 13th volume of Le Lotus Bleu Rpcx BLUE soundsets series.

Cakewalk announces a clean, new look to the world's best selling guitar-based software title for PC with Guitar Tracks Pro 4 and Guitar Tracks Pro USB!

Real CR-8000 is the Roland CR-8000 sampled in extreme detail.

Kong Audio faithfully captured and recreated YangQin to fill the needs of modern composers.

The X-desk 16-channel summing mixer is ideal for smaller studio installations.

Jazzy House provides MIDI files, loops, and one shot drum samples.

Electro Rock and Breaks is a unique and innovative pack of sounds crossing through the territories of Electro, Rock, House and Breaks.

If you want to sample the source of the evolvement of the world famous Bristol Drum and Bass Sound, you cant get more authentic than the Full Cycle Artist Samplepack.

System Architect 2.0 features a new system design philosophy centered on workflow and the use of a diagrammatic representation of the installed or live sound venue.

The Zoom R16 is three production tools in one device: a multi-track recorder, an audio interface and a control surface, providing all the tools necessary to create studio-quality recordings.

Control time itself! — with the Marshall Time Modulator — now in a convenient, cross-platform plug-in size!

Provides a dust and water resistant assembly for all D-shaped chassis connectors.

The Acoustic Grand Piano Sample Library features a great sounding upright piano that could be used in modern Rock, Pop and even Jazz music.

Auralex Acoustics is now offering an easy-to-display retail kit that complements the company's popular Room Analysis Plus program for off-site analysis.

The sampled Bösendorfer 290 Imperial was outfitted with CEUS technology, enabling the most precise and by far most extensive piano sample recordings ever conducted.

The MKH 8000 series can be digitalized directly at the microphone head, ensuring a natural sound without any loss of quality.

In this 3-hour tutorial, Pro Tools expert Scott Freiman walks through detailed examples of the many uses of Elastic Audio.

Featuring full matrix mixing and EQ functions you would expect from an XTA piece, the DC1048 will not compromise your processing even in the most demanding application.

Saffire PRO 24 FireWire audio interfaces was attentively designed with recording musicians and the modern home studio in mind.

PowerFX has released two new sampling products for digital music makers looking for inspirational loops, samples and sounds.

The 13 best reverb-machines of the last four decades in one plug-in.

A series of free worldwide clinics & workshops teaching how to record and produce platinum guitar & bass tracks.

The 'Electronic expansion' is a preset and feature expansion pack for Gladiator 2 with of more than 300 sounds, new add-on features, skins and additional effects.

This course contains over 4 hours of interactive video tutorials which demonstrate principles and concepts of digital audio mixing and mastering.

This array of premium services include transmitter customization, a free "help desk," spectrum sweep consultations, and Sennheiser's competitive 700 MHz rebate.

Now you can use iPhone/iPod touch to control all of your music making software.

OXIDE 128 Volume 1 is a MultiFormat bundle for Kontakt, Battery, Guru, Live Drum Racks, Rex2, Apple loops, and Acidized WAV.

Geared toward college level students, the new program is the result of surging interest in all aspects of audio production.

Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH today announced the release of its Cubase iC remote controller application, which runs on Apple iPhone and iPod Touch products.

Big Fish Audio presents the perfect combination of drum beats and some of the hottest Indian percussion you've ever heard.

'Hard Dance Constructions' is perfect for producing Hardcore, Hardstyle, Trance, Techno and many other styles of dance music.

Nu Jointz 2 — Droppin Like Its… is the freshest hiphop library around!

The instrument selection is the Martin HD-28 "Herringbone' and Taylor 410 guitars.

The Grand Masters Collection adds ten new plug-ins, offering a comprehensive suite of 13 mastering processors.

Interactive remixing course with Vincent DiPasquale and Steven Lee now available on the web or on DVD.

Eos consists of three high-quality custom-designed reverb algorithms, made with the modern production environment in mind.

Drumdrops in Dub Volume 2 — Loop Pack 5, consists of 2 full dub drum Tracks played by Horseman as part of these sessions, which were recorded through full vintage neve consoles.

Future RnB Hip Hop Samples is a colorful blend of 135 mastered one shots and loops available in 32, 24, 16bit and 44.1kHz format.

This downloadable Multimedia Set compares, in audio and video, ten high-quality microphones on male vocal.

After three years in development, version 2.0 of the software introduces new features and brings AudioMulch to the Mac for the first time.

Pop Music offers music creators access to an extensive pop production workstation.

BG Unisex XLR Cords match up Wireworks MusiLUX microphone cable or AES/EBU digital cable with Neutrik's convertCON connectors.

21 new compressor emulations and one new EQ emulation are available to download for free for all Liquid Mix users (including Liquid Mix HD).

Duck & Pump Electro House is a collection of loops and samples with it's focus on the ducking effect.

RESAMPLER™ is a software designed to bring sounds of VST® instruments into hardware samplers, especially the Roland® Fantom® Series Sampler (in combination with Fantom YASE).

The 'Twisted Tech Groove' series is packed with tight snappy grooves, delicate tech beats, percussive rhythms and rugged dynamic movements

The Sterling ST69 has already earned praise for its flat natural sound, even and uncolored off-axis response, and high frequency articulation.

The new site features a clean design that focuses on the applications of GC Pro's customers, allowing them to easily connect with GC Pro's account managers and other sales staff.

Bassy and Ryan will cover the professional mixers' work flow from balancing to panning, effects, and especially the use of compression and equalization.

EcoTech panels are truly "green"; reducing the ecological footprint of acoustic treatment and our dependence on fossil fuels.

Wireworks newest additions to its speaker cable line are typically used with Meyer Sound's speakers, while SPEN cords can also be employed anytime small, secure speaker cords are required.

Chroma Rex: Textured Guitars Edition allows musicians to trigger riffs to create tonal passages and chord progressions while staying locked to the groove of their track.

Splurgo Audio presents another bigger helping of that grand piano sound by announcing the release of two brand new sample packs: Piano Loops Pack 3 and 4.

The EPIC FX sample library contains more for 400 sound effects designed for music productions, trailers, cinema and TV post production, jingles, animation and video presentations.

The supra aural headphones deliver outstanding acoustic performance for mobile listening applications.

MoReVoX RetròVerb is an innovative impulse response library designed to create warm and deep reverberations textures.

Based on a standard optical LC-Duplex connection, Neutrik's opticalCON increases the reliability and maximizes the uptime for fiber optic connection systems.

With only 10 days to go they announce a truly world class line-up of acts to entertain, inspire and wow the crowds.

The Nextmen have teamed up with Loopmasters to bring you a healthy dose of the mechanics behind their uniquely widely influenced sound.

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