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Cakewalk ProChannel Concrete Limiter Module
Posted by Scott R. Garrigus

Cakewalk, the world's leading developer of powerful and easy to use products for music creation and recording, announces that the ProChannel Concrete Limiter Module which adds peak limiting capability to SONAR X1 Producer Expanded’s ProChannel.

The ProChannel Concrete Limiter’s advanced DSP combines highly transparent, limiting with low-latency performance and is suitable for peak limiting of individual tracks and level maximization of mix buses. The ProChannel Concrete Limiter is highly-ergonomic, drag and drop routable, and instantly available on any track or bus...

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Pyramind Training Series: Signal Flow and Cash Flow
Posted by Scott R. Garrigus

Alfred Music Publishing, the leader in educational print music publishing since 1922, introduces the new Pyramind Training Series with the releases of Signal Flow: Audio Fundamentals and Cash Flow: Welcome to the Music Business, the instructional resources for music producers and entrepreneurs, produced in association with the cutting-edge music production school Pyramind and Lawson Music Media, Inc.

Signal Flow: Audio Fundamentals covers the life cycle of sound in today's production studios. Geared for the novice and aspiring professional engineers who seek to hone their craft, topics covered include basics of electronics, understanding and properly working with sound, choosing the right digital audio workstation (DAW), using the right microphone for every project type, and much more...

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Native Instruments Maschine Sampler Explored Video Tutorial
Posted by Scott R. Garrigus

Maschine by Native Instruments is one of the most comprehensive samplers on the planet. Learn how you can harness the power of this sampling beast in this deep tutorial by Native Instruments Product Specialist Matt Cellitti...

At the heart of the Maschine concept is its ability to create and manipulate samples. In this tutorial by NI Product Specialist Matt Cellitti, you’ll learn everything there is to know about sampling with Maschine and more. Matt first discusses the “Four Uses" For Maschine’s sampler (you’ll need to watch this tutorial to find out what they are.) You’ll also learn tips on how to create you own samples recording them both internally and externally. Matt teaches you all about slicing and chopping techniques and how you can use them to energize your beats...

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PG Music Band-in-a-Box 2012 for Windows
Posted by Scott R. Garrigus

PG Music Inc. has released version 2012 of its popular, award-winning Band-in-a-Box intelligent music accompaniment software for Windows with over 50 new features and 101 more studio quality RealTracks by top session pros.

In announcing the release of Band-in-a-Box 2012, program author and creator Peter Gannon said, “Band-in-a-Box 2012 is more powerful than ever. Now users can apply their full array of VST and DirectX plug-ins and softsynths to Band-in-a-Box tracks, along with the backing of 101 new Jazz, Country, and Pop/Rock RealTracks recorded by top studio musicians.” Band-in-a-Box 2012 allows a different VSTi or DXi softsynth to be assigned to each track for multiple synths playing on a song. Up to four VST or DX audio plug-ins...

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Not Just Another Christmas Book Piano Series
Posted by Scott R. Garrigus

Alfred Music Publishing, the world leader in educational print music publishing since 1922, is proud to announce the release of Not Just Another Christmas Book, Books 1–3, a piano series of jazzy Christmas arrangements for the early intermediate to late intermediate pianist.

The Not Just Another Christmas Book is a collection of jazzy arrangements of Christmas pieces, to be enjoyed during the holiday season. Each book comes with an accompanying CD featuring bass and drum parts perfect for practice or performance settings, or just for fun. Each piece has three associated tracks: The Performance Model track features a complete recording, including piano; the Practice Tempo track features the bass and drum parts only at a slow tempo; and the Performance Tempo track features...

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Ueberschall Bollywood Pop Elastik Soundbank
Posted by Scott R. Garrigus

Ueberschall announces the availability of Bollywood Pop Elastik Soundbank. This library is a true reflection of the music that accumulates today’s contemporary Bollywood sound tracks. The library is engineered with factual high-end technical standards, which accomplishes all quality demands for high fidelity productions of the western music.

The bollywood movies are globally identified as the worlds leading drama and romance based scenario scripts, which are traditionally accompanied by spectacular sound tracks that lift up the viewers experience to a higher level. The inimitable soprano lines of the adorable Hindi female vocal artists, singing duet love lines with romantic sounding male vocalists...

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Native Instruments Maschine Quick Start Video Tutorial
Posted by Scott R. Garrigus

Native Instruments’ Maschine is a perfect fusion of hardware and software. See how this amazing hybrid instrument will change the way you make music...

In this first of a series of tutorials by Native Instruments Product Specialist, Matt Cellitti takes you through everything you need to know to get started with Maschine. You’ll get a grand tour of Maschine’s hardware and software interfaces. Here you’ll learn how to set it up, get around and begin making music. This tutorial displays both the software interface and the Maschine controller at the same time so that you get a complete look at how these two integrated pieces work as a unit...

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EastWest Hollywood Brass Virtual Instrument
Posted by Scott R. Garrigus

EASTWEST, the industry leader in virtual software instruments, is now shipping Hollywood Brass, a massive 150GB instrument that features unprecedented sound quality and the brand new PLAY 3 playback engine for the very latest in performance and control.

Hollywood Brass adds to EASTWEST’s multiple award-winning Hollywood Strings Virtual Instrument as the second installment in the Hollywood series, once again combining the talents of Doug Rogers, Nick Phoenix, Thomas Bergersen and Shawn Murphy. Recorded in place at EastWest Studio 1, widely regarded as the "best brass recording room in the entire world" with 5 user-controllable mic positions (Diamond Edition), Hollywood Brass is...

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Applied Acoustics Systems Chromaphone Synthesizer
Posted by Scott R. Garrigus

Applied Acoustics Systems is pleased to announce the release of Chromaphone, a new creative percussion synthesizer for Mac OS X and Windows.

Chromaphone combines acoustic resonators to create drums, percussion, mallet, string, and synth-like instruments. Drum skins, bars, marimbas, plates, strings and tubes form pairs that are sparked to life by a configurable mallet and a flexible noise source. At the heart of Chromaphone lies a novel coupling technology that precisely models how vibrating objects interact and influence each other capturing key acoustic behaviours of musical instruments. This, combined with access to the resonators' physical properties, results in a library of truly expressive instruments...

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DigiFreq Issue 41 - SONAR X1 Tips and Techniques
Posted by Scott R. Garrigus

Issue 41 of the FREE DigiFreq Music Technology Newsletter has been published! Here's what you'll find in this issue:

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Ueberschall Retro Soul Elastik Soundbank
Posted by Scott R. Garrigus

Ueberschall presents the new era of Soul, the third volume of the premium Vodovoz series. Inspired by the mid sixties - early seventies northern soul stompers and raregroove classics.

Retro Soul delivers over 1.44 GB of high quality atmospheric and catchy soul arrangements with a special retro feel and a pristine vintage sound. This library contains 10 song oriented construction kits. Tonal diversity is accented by custom recordings of vintage drum and instrumental phrases. Each kit is over one minute long (including an intro, a main part, variations and an outro)...

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Ueberschall Electro House Elastik Soundbank
Posted by Scott R. Garrigus

Electro House is a sophisticated sample collection taking its inspiration from the clubs across the globe. This superb sample library includes 10 Construction Kits providing 624 mb of full-range Electro House sounds. You‘re sure to find the appropriate Electro House elements to suite your project needs. Everything has been designed to conform to the musical genre and the samples comprise a state-of-the-art library, made to achieve true Electro House sounds.

A close look into the 624 mb package, finds more than 358 loops and samples of supremely engineered instruments. Featuring a massive variety of drum grooves, synth patterns, bass lines, chord progressions, atmospheres, percussion and fx sounds...

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Free Tubular Bells add-on for Pianoteq
Posted by Scott R. Garrigus

As a Christmas gift to all Pianoteq customers, MODARTT announces its latest instrument add-on: a virtual copy of a Tubular Bells.

The original instrument is made of brass tubes of graded length that are tuned to a chromatic scale and usually cover the range of 1½ octave. The sound is produced by striking the top edge of the tubes with a wooden or plastic-headed hammer. The instrument often includes an attached damping mechanism. It appeared for the first time in England in the late 19th Century, and is ever since a part of major symphonic orchestras, known as symphonic chimes...

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Audio Ease Altiverb 7 for MAC
Posted by Scott R. Garrigus

The Impulse response (sampled spaces) library is more accessible then ever because of Altiverb's new picture browser: quicker loading, organize-by-size, and single click favorites are among its features. Altiverb 7 looks and feels better. Often used controls all line up on the front, while the more exotic ones are in drawers beneath.

Keyword searching makes it easier to find the right space among the many hundreds of spaces Altiverb includes. Just type "brick studio UK" or "small bed room". Altiverb 7 adds an algorithmic reverb that is closely fit to the impulse response. It can optionally add brightness and chaotic modulation in ways only synthetic reverb can while preserving the nature of convolution reverb...

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Universal Audio UAD and 64-bit Compatibility
Posted by Scott R. Garrigus

Around this time each year, we tend to reflect on the past, and look forward to the future. 2011 has been a particularly good year for Universal Audio and the UAD platform, with the introduction of the UAD-2 Satellite and some exceptional new plug-ins. This year also marks the 10th anniversary for the UAD platform — a milestone we could not have achieved without your support.

Since we introduced the UAD DSP Accelerators in 2001, we've grown from just a few hundred users, to more than 45,000 owners worldwide. Over the past decade, we've introduced powerful new UAD hardware, as well as more than 50 new plug-ins, including groundbreaking titles with...

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