ECHT, THE NETHERLANDS: having blown musical minds when first being showcased as a beta-test version by namesake company Managing Director Rob Papen at The NAMM Show 2016, January 21-24 in Anaheim, California, virtual instrument and effects plug-in developer Rob Papen Soundware is proud to announce availability of PRISMA, an advanced…
LINKÖPING, SWEDEN: high-end plug-in specialist Softube is proud to announce availability of British Class A For Console 1 as of May 31… British Class A For Console 1: The Rolls-Royce of Rock ’n’ Roll Mixing Softube collects the most coveted and distinctive-sounding units of the pro audio world in a…
BERKELEY, CA, USA: innovative hardware and software developer Keith McMillen Instruments is proud to announce that hip-hop super-producer Dan the Automator made much use of its K-MIX next-generation audio interface and programmable mixer on the song sympathetically underscoring the closing credits for crime thriller Money Monster currently captivating big screen…
LONDON, UK MAY 19: audio software developer FXpansion is proud to announce the availability of Geist2, an allnew incarnation of its awardwinning Geist. Geist2 is a powerful soundsculpting and beat production system with streamlined sample manipulation, arrangement, and modulation capabilities for intuitive and accelerated workflow. Available for Mac OS…
GRENOBLE, FRANCE: music software and hardware developer Arturia is proud to announce availability of V Collection 5 — the latest incarnation of its impressive industry-standard collection of authentic-sounding virtual instruments, expanded and updated to include five all-new additions alongside new versions of ‘old favourites’ (plus Analog Lab 2) — as…
GRENOBLE, FRANCE: music software and hardware developer Arturia is proud to announce availability of Stage-73 V — an authentic-sounding software simulation of the Seventies-vintage Stage and Sixties-vintage Suitcase 73-key electric pianos — as of May 19… Stage-73 V successfully transports past technologies to the present-day desktop. It’s the sound of…
GRENOBLE, FRANCE: music software and hardware developer Arturia is proud to announce availability of Piano V — meticulously modelling the sound and behaviour of one of the most important instruments history has yet thrown up — as of May 19… Creating Piano V was a major undertaking. Arturia attentively analysed…
GRENOBLE, FRANCE: music software and hardware developer Arturia is proud to announce availability of Farfisa V — faithfully modelling the famous Farfisa Compact Deluxe electronic organ with additional features from its Duo Compact series sibling — as of May 19… Arturia’s award-winning Analog Classics family of virtual instruments recreate hard-to-source…
GRENOBLE, FRANCE: music software and hardware developer Arturia is proud to announce availability of B-3 V — an authentic-sounding software simulation of the classic B-3 tonewheel organ and Leslie rotary speaker combo — as of May 19… B-3 V realistically recreates the special sound of the B-3 tonewheel organ. One…
GRENOBLE, FRANCE: music software and hardware developer Arturia is proud to announce availability of Analog Lab 2 — an all-new incarnation of its composite virtual instrument that gathers together a broad selection of sought-after sounds from its V Collection 5 software bundle — as of May 19… Analog Lab 2…
BOSKOVICE, CZECH REPUBLIC: host application and audio effects developer Audified is proud to announce availability of MixChecker — a must-have mixing assistant plug-in that transforms studio monitors into classic reference monitors or one of several consumer devices to instantly improve mixes — as of May 16… Mixing music or other…
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, May 2016… PreSonus® is shipping its new ULT-series active loudspeakers, which combine the widest horizontal dispersion of any loudspeaker in their class with a focused vertical dispersion for an ultra-long throw. The result is even coverage throughout the space, enabling the audience to hear clearly wherever they are….
WALDORF, GERMANY: audio-workshop, a Steinberg Certified Training Center specialising in music technology seminars and tutorials, is proud to announce availability of Orchestral Library Toolbox — its first international video tutorial guide for working with orchestral virtual instruments, available as a DVD-ROM or download version as of April 28… Orchestral Library…
The Hammond organs are very complex beasts, full of wires. Until now, the best renditions were synthesis, mainly because of how the organ works which is a set of 91 frequencies that are connected via contactors under each key and which volume is controlled by the drawbars. Sample based libraries…
LONDON, UK: Spitfire Audio, purveyors of the finest virtual instruments from the finest musical samples in the world, is proud to announce availability of PP021 EVO GRID 3 — taking its EVO GRID concept into hitherto uncharted musical waters with a series of tempo-lockable evolving strings ‘motions’ making this latest…
VALENCIA, SPAIN: MasteringBOX is proud to announce availability of its namesake MasteringBOX mastering app for Android devices — the world’s first mastering app for Android, actually, allowing musicians and amateur producers to master their tracks using only a smartphone or tablet… and all for free! MasteringBOX is an online mastering…
BERKELEY, CA, USA: having blown musical minds and opened open-minded ears when introducing its killer K-MIX at The NAMM Show 2016, January 21-24 in Anaheim, California, today innovative hardware and software developer Keith McMillen Instruments is proud to talk about what makes this next-generation audio interface and programmable mixer’s µPre™…
GRENOBLE, FRANCE: after almost a year of diligent development, music software specialist XILS-lab is proud to announce availability of V1.0 of StiX by Xils — a virtual analogue and multi-synthesis-driven drum machine with sophisticated sequencer plug-in for Mac (OS X 10.5 and later) and PC (Windows XP, Vista, and 7/8),…
Modartt releases Hans Ruckers II harpsichord for Pianoteq. The instrument is modelled after a copy by Matthias Griewisch of a Hans Ruckers II le Jeune (1624). A Renowned Instrument: Harpsichords by the Ruckers family are praised for their superb tone, thanks to the instrument maker’s understanding of the harmonic aspects….
LANGENAU, GERMANY: e:m:c (electronic music components) — German distributor of several key electronic musical instrument brands, including Mellotron (Sweden), Moog (USA), Vintage Vibe (USA), and MIDI Solutions (Canada) — is proud to announce that it is taking orders on a second self-financed (and final) 25-unit build run of the exclusive…