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MixMeister Control Features:
– Hardware control surface for MixMeister and other MIDI-capable DJ software
– USB 1.1 interface – No driver required
– Includes MixMeister Fusion Live software
– Compatible with other MIDI applications
– Works with Windows or Mac OS X
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Steinberg and Yamaha have introduced a new MIDI controller for Cubase, the CC121 Advanced Integration Controller.
Features:
– Advanced Integration controller knob with ‘point and control’ support: controls any visual Cubase 4 parameter, internal FX setting or VSTi parameter using mouse pointer selection
– Instant plug and play with ‘Cubase Ready’ LED – no additional setup or parameter assigning required
– One motorized 100mm touch-sensitive fader
– Dedicated control of Cubase channel settings including solo/mute, record arm, ‘e’ settingds button, automation read/write, pan and VSTIi editor
– Full Cubase EQ section in hardware with 12 dedicated rotary encoders, with mode selection and bypass switches
– User-assignable section with Cubase-integrated presets for Control Room studio sends and monitoring setup.
CC121 will support Windows XP, Windows Vista and Mac OS X.
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Nusofting has released Broken Drum Machine for Mac OS X.
Features:
Addictive ever changing sound.
Blend of acoustic and electronic sound, PCM + VCO generation.
Seven “Chaos” Modulations of various parameters.
Controllable random crackles generation. 4 Mono + 1 Stereo out.
MIDI Learn for each parameter.
Customizable default PCM sound bank and skin using the Modpacks.
BDM is sold with one extra Modpack.
The Extra Modpack is included in downloadable demo too.
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Legendary Led Zeppelin’ guitar player Jimmy Page put his unique, double-neck guitar on sell. This Jimmy Page Signature Double Neck EDS 1275 will be sold at the charity auction Childline Rocks that takes place in London on March 13th 2008.
Page shall personally present an instrument. Twenty five guitars of this type were made in 2007 (actual copies of the original legendary one) for 30 thousand dollars a piece. This instrument first became famous because of it’s great master who was playing “Stairway to Heaven” on it.
Also, guitars of Noel Gallagher from Oasis, Status Quo guitars, and tickets from the Flight 666 when Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson was a pilot will presented on this action.
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Loopmasters made a new sample library, Deep House Producer.
William “Harley” Cataldo and Flavio “Muscle” Romaniello, ( Harley and Muscle are famous for their smooth House stylings) – they are composers, producers and remixers of Deep House tracks and have remixed Gloria Gaynor, Loleatta Holloway, Jocelyn Brown, Alexander O’Neal, The Rurals, Spanka and Miguel Graca, just to name a few.
The library features over 2GB of content including 472 Deep House WAV files, 177 Rex 2 Samples and 40 Patches for Reason, Kontakt, HAlion, EXS24, Stylus RMX, Cakewalk Rapture and Dimension. The Full DVD also includes a Reason Refill, Apple Loops, and patches for the Ableton Live Samples.
Tempos range from 115 to125 BPM. Deep House Producer includes deep and lush Rhodes chords and multi-samples, drumloops and progressions, lead sounds, deep bass ines and a collection of lush string progressions.
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Native Instruments’ new Kore Player!
That’s what NI says about Kore Player:
“KORE PLAYER is a free software instrument designed for use with KORE SOUNDPACKS. Built on the same principles as the flagship KORE 2 Super Instrument, KORE PLAYER includes six Native Instruments sound engines under the hood and provides ready-to-play sounds that can be browsed and tweaked via the ultra-intuitive KORE PLAYER interface. Adding new sounds is as easy as purchasing and downloading affordable KORE SOUNDPACKS.”
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Audjoo has released a public beta of Helix, a freeware synth plug-in designed for huge and wide unison pads and leads.
Updates found in this version:
– The smallest sliders are scaled up slightly
– Filter Resonance is a modulation source.
– Different filter types are grouped in tabs and colour coded.
– EQ has properly labeled parameters.
– Improved: Limiter filter type (attack depends on the “speed” parameter).
– Virtual Analog PWM oscillator (perfect to use as a sub-oscillator).
– Improved: Noise Generator (proper modulation, stereo-noise).
– Improved: Phase Mod, Ring Mod and Amplitude Mod filter modes (use a pure sine wave).
– Improved: Phase Modulation filter, is now low pass filtering its input.
Helix is available for both Windows PC and Mac OSX (VST).
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Numerical Responses has released Hollywood Impulse Responses (HIR), inspired by the ambience of 20 major Hollywood blockbuster films released between 1977–2006.
HIR’s impulses were designed to change the perceived timber of an individual instrument, ensemble or even the entire orchestra. The user can adjust the tone of a track by selecting the appropriate Dark, Warm, Flat, Clear or Bright impulse when mixing the wet signal in with the dry.
Another feature unique to HIR is the addition of 6 sets of Reverberation Impulses (RI’s) that are high pass filtered at points of the frequency spectrum that match the range of acoustic instruments. These points are at the notes C2, G2, C3, G3, C4, and G4. This instrument designed approach offer much more sonic precision and clarity than any other currently available hardware or software reverberation. For example if you have a solo violin track the RI’s from the G3 set will exactly match the range of this instrument. C3 would work for the Viola and C2 for the Cello.
Each of the 20 RI’s (24 bit 44.1K) has 5 variations. Six separate sets of these for a total of 600 reverberation impulses. Signal to Noise is greater than 130 db for stunning richness and density.
This collection of reverberation impulses was developed to add authentic film ambience to a users’ orchestral sample library or any other acoustic material such as drums, voice, guitar, and keyboard tracks.
Requirements: Convolution – a program such as Altiverb, Pristine Space, Space Designer, IR-1, Acoustic Mirror, Perfect Space, or SIR. Logic, Cakewalk, Samplitude, Seqoia, and Nuendo all have convolution intergrated into their program so purchasing a plugin are not required.
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The Vienna Symphonic Library has released seven Extended Libraries, complementing its already existing Vienna Special Edition download products.
All Special Edition modules, including the PLUS libraries, now offer additional instruments:
– Special Edition Strings – Extended Library
– Special Edition Strings PLUS – Extended Library
– Special Edition Woodwinds – Extended Library
– Special Edition Woodwinds PLUS – Extended Library
– Special Edition Brass – Extended Library
– Special Edition Brass PLUS – Extended Library
– Special Edition Percussion & More – Extended Library. Extended Libraries for Vienna Edition Download Products
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For more than 50 years the shortwave radio spectrum has been used by for unknown purposes – perhaps by the world’s intelligence agencies – to transmit secret messages.
The Numbers Stations transmit in many different languages, employing male and female voices repeating strings of numbers or phonetic letters day and night, all year round.
The voices are of varying pitches and intonation; there is even a German station (The Swedish Rhapsody) that transmits a female child’s voice.
One might think that these espionage activities should have wound down considerably since the official end of the cold war, but nothing could be further from the truth. Numbers Stations (and by inference, spies) are as busy as ever, with many new and bizarre stations appearing since the fall of the Berlin wall.
A variety of recordings of these Numbers Stations have been collected by the Conet Project – the first comprehensive collection of Numbers Stations recordings released to the public.
