Garage Breaks is now shipping, and it promises guitars, drums and basses.

This inspirational library is packed with heavy pounding guitars, buzzcut basses, and the sharpest, most crunchy and funky drum breaks you’ve heard this millennium. 40 construction kits come in WAV, REX, Apple Loops and RMX format. Garage Breaks is the sweaty, dark place you always knew existed, where headbangers and clubhoppers find each other for a hot evening of pummeling. So crack open a loop or two and get pounding!

Big Fish Audio

TK is the man behind the Vintage Design products which are based on earlier Neve models. Here’s two videos of him talking about the new ProPack.

This first video got a little messed up so I had to cut it. It’s really short but describes the essence of the ProPack.

This video was shot by George Necola and is a little more detailed.

Vintage Design

My posts on Musikmesse is about to come to it’s end. I can hear some sighs in the back, and some “FINALLY!” in the fronts. Here are some random notes and pictures that didn’t really fit into any other posts.
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Here’s a (long) video interview from Sonicstate about Venue.

Since electronic drums are a popular topic among readers here at ProTooler, and since these new ones seem to quite honestly kick ass, I decided to shoot a demo video of them at Musikmesse. Enjoy!

2Box

At Digidesigns booth there was nothing new. With the LE range displayed like old family portraits behind glass on the walls and people chatting in the sofas in front of them, their booth looked more like a tea party than anything. That’s fine, I don’t mind the occasional tea party.

They did have a C|24 up to give a go though. I took the opportunity since I’ve never actually touched one before. I was a bit surprised, I thought it would be much more 003-like in feel, but it actually felt better built. The faders felt much the same, but the transport buttons as well as the overall feel was way better than the overgrown 003 that I had imagined. I also ran across a Venue system… But not at the Digidesign booth! More about that in the console post. No ICON however.

Last but not least, a little hello all the Digidesign employes there that I got to chat with. It was nice meeting you guys… And even nicer to find out that you read this blog

Here’s the third and final part of my video diary. Hope you enjoyed it, despite my nonsense ramblings

It almost seems surreal when you’re running around with your girlfriend, almost racing through a section of the guitars, and bam! There stands Kerry King signing posters. I’m a Slayer fan, and Kerry King is of course a legend, but I’ve never been someone chasing after stars, and could never understand the whole idolizing bit – so I didn’t bother with standing in the autograph line.
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Here’s a clip of Boris from M-Audio talking about the new interfaces. We intended to do a video of the keyboards as well, but some other company was doing a demo right next to them, so it was just too noisy.

Here’s the second part of the video diary. It was taped the third day, but since I missed the first day, it was actually the day after my first day (did you get that?).