If I have to flip flop more than three times in an A/B test to figure out what the difference is, I lose interest in that difference.

- Tchad Blake

Wouldn’t it be great if anything in Pro Tools could be mapped to MIDI with the click of a button or two? Ableton Live can do this (which by the way can also assign pretty much anything to keyboard keys as well) and it’s a feature I always end up using when I’m working in Live. Would be nice to see it in Pro Tools. Mixing and producing could be much more intuitive.

There’s not a lot of instruments available for Structure so any user of the sampler should be happy to know that ToneBuilder’s Driven Machine Drums now supports it. While samplers traditionally might have been about recording your own sounds, the world today is different, and people rely heavily on sound libraries. Therefore it’s rather sad that there are so few choices for Structure. At least Driven Machine Drums looks good if you’re into… Well, machine drums!

Driven Machine Drums is an electronic drums sample library created with drum machines and synthesizers, then processed with various expensive gear (see below for more details).
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Applied Acoustics Systems continues their update streak and releases the Ultra Analog VA-1 v1.1.3 update. It’s a maintenance update containing the following changes:

From the Applied Acoustics Systems press release:

- Authorization now works with non-admin user accounts;
- Fixed browser focus crash on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard;
- Fixed drag-and-drop in Logic 9 but now have a separate edit window;
- Fixed MIDI Links behavior on On/Off buttons;
- Fixed random crash on preset change;
- Fixed loading plug-in parameters glitch in projects saved with v1.0.0 of Ultra Analog VA-1.

Applied Acoustics Systems

So, Apple has announced the long awaited and expected big touch screen-thingie. A lot of people was hoping and thinking it would be a computer but from the looks of it it’s a huge iPod Touch. That’s not necessarily a bad thing.
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Ohm Force is running a huge competition for all you remixers out there. Among the prices you’ll find stuff from Camel Audio, the book “The Secrets Of House Music Production”, a Receptor2, a Novation 25 SL MkII, and a 1 year subscription of the Computer Music.

So if you’re ready to go make some noise, head over to the Ohm Force Cohmpetition page.

Applied Acoustics Systems has updated their two virtual instruments Lounge Lizard EP-3 and Tassman 4 to version 3.1.3 and 4.1.4 respectively. Both are maintenance updates.
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Native Instruments has introduced Abbey Road 60’s Drums, the first fruit of the previously mentioned alliance between NI and Abbey Road. The instrument is made for use with the free Kontakt Player and Kontakt 4.
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Brainworx has released a public beta version of the upcoming bx_control V2.

From the Brainworx press release:

New features include:

- individual panning for M & S – (pan vocals and guitars/keys in final mixes!)
- new dynamic range metering within the LED section (end the loudness war… or just win it! )
- solo in place for all solo modes…

The final plug-in will be released February 1st and will be sold for €99 (Native) and €149 (TDM/Venue). The upgrade price for V1 users is €49 (Native and TDM). There will also be an introduction discount (25% off) that will also be valid for upgrades.

You can grab the public beta installer at Brainworx website.

I saw Bootsy Collins at NAMM (the blurb on the blurry picture) and that got me thinking: do you guys know about the funk?

Oh, you mean you were looking to actually learn something of value from this website? How about learning about making funk. Below are two pdf’s that will get you at least half-way.

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