Monthly archives: April 2009
Jordan Glasgow interview
Brent Heber is doing an interview with Jordan Glasgow – Avid’s Post Production product manager. What makes this interview interesting is it’s conducted post Avids brand change. EDIT: It wasn’t possible to embed it, I don’t understand why not, but here’s the link.
Virtual Instrument Box Set with LE system and Axiom purchase
Digital Village is offering Digidesigns Virtual Instrument Box Set for free if you pick up a brand new LE system along with an M-Audio Axiom keyboard. Note that Digital Village are UK-based, I don’t know how they handle orders outside of the UK (or inside for that matter, share your horror- and success stories if [...]
M-Audio and Digidesign Listen Up! world tour 2009
M-Audio and Digidesign – or is it Avid? – presents a “world tour” of music workshops. From the M-Audio press release: Presented by M-Audio and Digidesign, the 2009 Listen Up! World Tour offers you a chance to learn new studio production techniques, meet top recording artists and interact with A-list engineers in a small, intimate [...]
FXpansion introduce BFD Oak Custom Expansion Kit
FXpansion has introduced BFD Oak Custom Expansion Kit, add-on for BFD, featuring a Yamaha Oak Custom drum kit and Bamboo snare.
Ohm Force Cohmpetition with big prizes
Ohm Force has announced a video “cohmpetition”, which is Ohmish for contest with big prizes! Five lucky winners will score gear from Ohm Force, PureMagnetik, FXpansion, Anthem Publishing and Mutteki Media. The big winner will get stuff for a $1600 value.
Pro Tools Mode Display – free control surface utility, and more from reFuse
reFuse Software is a small company with some useful freebies such as Ugly VSTi Interface (killer name!), Dub Demon & dub minion, and more. Among the bunch you’ll find Pro Tools Mode Display, a utility to help your generic control surface.
Sound library news 26/4-09
CLP and Kovas playing with the latest Native Instruments release. This week doesn’t have much to offer in terms of sound libraries (or maybe I haven’t looked around enough), but a new Kore Pack, a sampled Shamisen, a free bass instrument and some drum ‘n’ bass loops – among other things – might interest someone.
Avid first quarter results
Avid has presented the results for the first quarter 2009. They reported revenues of $151.6 million for the three-month period, and a GAAP net loss for of $17.3 million, the latter which they blame on the restructuring. From the Avid press release: The GAAP net loss for the first quarter of 2009 included amortization of [...]
Antares deals
Antares claim to have made some deals with their dealers, so they can offer better deals for you (did you get that?). I have no idea how good these deals are since Antares says: As always, each dealer will be setting their own prices, but we can pretty much guarantee that you will find some [...]
Job “closening”
I want to thank everyone who sent me emails regarding the job. It’s amazing to see how many are willing to help me out! It won’t be long until we have another poster here, and after reading every application, I promise you it will be a good one!
