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Cubase 6 Tips and Tricks
Posted by Scott R. Garrigus

Cubase 6 is undoubtedly one of the most powerful MIDI and audio production environments around, but are you realizing its full potential? Cubase 6 Tips and Tricks is crammed with practical insider tips and tricks on using the program creatively.

Keep it by you as you work. You'll find it not only a great companion for troubleshooting and advice but also a source of inspiration. Discover the art of recording, arranging, editing, using plug-ins and VST instruments, processing audio and mixing - all within the realms of Cubase 6. Cubase 6 contains many new features and this book includes the new drum editing and replacement tools, advanced tempo detection, audio quantization, track comping, VST Expression 2, guitar amp modeling and the brand new VST workstation, HALion Sonic SE...

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MOTU Ethno Instrument Version 2
Posted by Scott R. Garrigus

MOTU has announced a major upgrade to Ethno Instrument, their popular world/ethnic virtual instrument software for Mac OS X and Windows 7/Vista. The Version 2 upgrade more than doubles the size of Ethno's included sound library of instruments, loops and phrases. Significant new features have also been added, including preset searching, microtonal scales, state-of-the-art time stretching, and much more.

"Ethno Instrument Version 2 delivers the most comprehensive world/ethnic sound library ever offered in a single package," said Jim Cooper, MOTU Director of Marketing. "In addition, Ethno 2 represents the most advanced virtual instrument interface for ethnic sounds, with unparalleled features such as in-depth support for microtonal scales and tuning..."

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Dangerous Source - Monitor Controller
Posted by Scott R. Garrigus

Dangerous Music has recently announced their newest monitor controller, the “Dangerous Source” — a portable and desktop unit designed for the engineer on the go or to fit a limited space on the desktop. The Dangerous Source will be featured at Musikmesse after being shown at Winter NAMM and is set for release in early Q2, 2012; the price is to be announced.

“With the explosion of professional recording and mixing being done on today’s powerful laptop computers, we wanted to bring our standard of audio path quality and functionality to portable monitor control,” says Bob Muller, President of Dangerous Music. “We’ve been making monitor controllers since before the product category existed in the mainstream, so the Dangerous Source seemed like the logical next step in the lineage of Monitor, Monitor ST and D-Box. We’ve also added a first for our products in that the Source connects directly to the computer via USB...

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Native Instruments TRAKTOR KONTROL S2 Sale
Posted by Scott R. Garrigus

Native Instruments launched a time-limited special offer on TRAKTOR KONTROL S2, reducing the price of the compact 2-deck controller to $449 / 399 EUR throughout February and March 2012. This represents a saving of $220 / 200 EUR against the suggested retail price.

TRAKTOR KONTROL S2 is a versatile integrated DJ performance system that was designed to set a new professional standard in the 2-deck category. A compact version of the market-leading KONTROL S4 hardware, the S2 provides a '2+1' setup with sample decks as well as comprehensive mixing features and effects, all based on the included full-featured TRAKTOR PRO 2 software. Offering DJs a more portable alternative to the professional 4-deck KONTROL S4 system, the TRAKTOR KONTROL S2 provides the same patent-pending high-resolution jog wheels, combined with ergonomic controls...

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Propellerhead ReCycle 2.2 Audio Loop Slicer
Posted by Scott R. Garrigus

Propellerhead has released ReCycle version 2.2 for sale—an update to the industry standard tool that creates REX files. Sporting a completely overhauled graphical user interface, ReCycle 2.2 adds new key commands, workflow enhancements and a new Online Help system—making Recycle even faster and easier to use. Version 2.2 is a 64-bit compatible application with full support for Windows 7 and Mac OS X Lion operating systems.

An industry standard, ReCycle is the fastest way to make sampled material your own. ReCycle lets you do with sampled loops what you can do with beats programmed from individual drum sounds—like alter the tempo, or replace sounds and process them individually. Producers use Recycle for...

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Ryan Greene Alt Drums ReFills for Propellerhead Reason
Posted by Scott R. Garrigus

What do Megadeth, Jay-Z, Alice Cooper, Gladys Knight, NOFX, Lagwagon, No Use For a Name, Patty La Belle, Tower of Power have in common with Rock Band and Guitar Hero? Legendary punk rock producer and mixer Ryan Greene. And now anyone can be on that list, with three new drum ReFills featuring Ryan Greene’s signature sound. Propellerhead today released the latest installments in its ReFill Creator Series: Ryan Greene Alt Drums.

Ryan Greene Alt Drums comes as three separate volumes, each containing three drum kits with several microphone setups and alternate snares. Each of the three ReFills comes with preset patches for Reason's Combinator device, with three different microphone setups: close mics, no ambience mics, and all mics; Producer Combinator patches with dry, overhead, and room microphone setups; Individual Kit Pieces for the NN-XT sampler; effects patches; as well as 100+ drum track MIDI files created by Ryan Greene...

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Native Instruments ABBEY ROAD DRUMMER Series
Posted by Scott R. Garrigus

Native Instruments has launched a comprehensive rework of their successful ABBEY ROAD DRUMS instruments: The ABBEY ROAD DRUMMER Series. These new instruments allow both experienced and hobbyist musicians and producers to create authentic acoustic drum tracks, combining meticulously-sampled drums, recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, with a comprehensive Groove Library and a detailed Mixer Section with class-A studio effects.

This 'Drums, Studio, Drummer' approach was pioneered recently in Native Instruments' STUDIO DRUMMER, and the new ABBEY ROAD DRUMMER instruments use the same technical framework, based on KONTAKT 5. The instruments run in the latest version of KONTAKT 5 or the free KONTAKT 5 PLAYER. Owners of existing ABBEY ROAD DRUMS products are entitled to a free upgrade to the new version of the instruments they own...

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New Premium Drum, Bass, and Guitar Loops from Sony
Posted by Scott R. Garrigus

Sony Creative Software, a leading global provider of professional editing and authoring applications, announced the availability of a new trio of Sony Sound Series Premium Collection, Artist Integrated loop library titles for making rock, pop, jazz, R&B, and reggae music.

A Sony Sound Series exclusive, the Artist Integrated (AI) line comprises sets of sample libraries that are designed to work seamlessly with each other. Starting with Steve Ferrone's "Drums from the Big Room," each loop library title builds on top of the other, resulting in tightly focused sets that work together flawlessly to generate original, royalty free music...

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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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