Monthly archives: August 2008
M-Audio unveils flagship Studiophile DSM reference monitors
M-Audio has unveiled the Studiophile DSM1 and DSM2 reference monitors with built-in DSP for sound processing. They have been developed in collaboration with Digidesign (certainly for DSP purposes).
Digi003 – a hot design?
BusinessWeek seems to think so and awards it a bronze for design. The design was made by NewDealDesign for Digidesign, and might I add is pretty good. Now, if there were a channelstrip in there as well then we’d be talking awards in Stiff-land! And yes, this is actually a week or so old news. [...]
New drivers for KeyStudio 49i and MobilePre USB
M-Audio has released some new drivers (anyone surprised?). This time it’s for KeyStudio 49i and MobilPre USB. Driver version 1.7.2-4 for KeyStudio 49i offers several bug fixes and performance enhancements, as well as support for Mac OS X 10.5.4. The update is available immediately for PPC-based and Intel-based Mac computers running OS X 10.5.4 and [...]
TimeFactory 2.3 for Mac now available
Prosoniq has announced the immediate availability of an update for TimeFactory 2 for MacOS X. This new version – 2.3 – adds support for BWF files as well as some minor UI and compatibility changes. TimeFactory 2.3 uses the latest version 1.4 of the time stretching engine DIRAC. Prosoniq
Ableton sales campaign for fall ’08: Buy Live, get Operator for free
Ableton will be running a sales campaign in the fall of 2008 to let new Live users get their hands on Operator. Customers who buy Ableton Live during the course of the campaign get Operator, Ableton’s acclaimed FM synthesizer, for free. The offer applies to sales of Ableton Live 7, Live 7 LE and upgrades [...]
Rocking the record?
I keep getting asked “When is Record Rocker coming back?” and “What happened to Record Rocker?”. Well, I admit it, I launched it prematurely and a little too much got in the way. But good news! It will be back soon! Slightly changed. I’m estimating 1,5 to 2 weeks. So in the meantime send me [...]
Drums on Demand labor day sale
Drums on Demand is running a labor day sale campaign from August 25th to September 1st. During this period you can buy their products at a 15%-50% discount. Drums on Demand store
Find Synergy with new software from Sample Logic
Following the releases of A.I.R. and The Elements, Sample Logic has released Synergy. Featuring over 18 Gigabytes, Synergy is packed with 1200+ instruments, tempo-synced loops, and multis and is powered by Native Instruments Kontakt Player engine. £169.00 inc Vat Time+Space
Power FX release Tribal Tech House
Power FX has released Tribal Tech House, a blend of modern and world ethnic sounds. It contains modern bass and synth sounds, ethnic percussion loops and hits, vocal cuts from all over the world (Sout Africa, Algeria, Australia and USA – well, obviously not from all over, I don’t see Scandinavia there). Everything is acidized.
Loopmasters release Deeper House by 6pod9
Loopmasters has released yet another library aimed for deep, minimal and tech house called Deeper House. The pack features over 260 “deep, glitchy, club ready” drum loops, (“all EQ’d and ready”), 35 bass lines, synth loops and FX to go with that – all made by 6pod9. Loopmasters
