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Free Choosing and Using Microphones Guide "The first title in the Record Now series from M-Audio, Choosing and Using Microphones, focuses on microphone technology and techniques. Technical topics include the different types of microphones (with an emphasis on condenser mics), design attributes of capsules and electronics, polar patterns characteristics, specifications, manufacturing standards, cleaning and storage." Click here for more info and the free download. Also, new announcements from TDK, Sonic Implants, Kid Nepro, Line 6, and E-MU Systems in News. |
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Fender Records Talent Contest "The Fender Records Emerging Stars CD is brought to you by Op, and is your chance to be showcased to music industry professionals, the world and your mama, and compete for the kind of exposure you have only dreamed of." Click here for more info. Also, new announcements from Native Instruments, Sonic Reality, Anwida, and Steinberg in News. |
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Cubase SX 1.05 Update Released "In addition to bug fixes, some new features include: VST Link Self Test function; Minimum Cycle length is now 200 ms; Keycommands for vertical Zooming; Keycommands for selecting Cycle Markers; Timestretch quality options simplified; VST Input monitoring status is now stored in project; and more." Click here for more information and the free update. Also, new announcements from Steinberg, Kenton, PSP, MusicLab, and Sonic Implants in News. |
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CD Architect 5.0 Released "Version 5.0 has been re-engineered as a stand-alone application and provides the most comprehensive audio CD production tools available for creating Red Book CD pre-masters suitable for professional replication." Click here for more info. Also, new announcments from Sonic Foundry, SeerMusic, Nady, GMEDIA, Sony Oxford, and Native Instruments in News. |
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Where the Real Money Is, Part 1 "The Performance area (radio, television, cable, concert halls, muzak, web sites, etc.) represents for most successful writers and music publishers the greatest source of continuing royalty income." Click here to read this TAXI article. Also, new announcements from Innovative Music Systems, DigiDesign, Keyfax, Steinberg, MakeMusic, First International Digital, and MusicMatch in News. |
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MusicLab Releases Free Product Updates "The new version of Rhythm'n'Chords MIDI FX 2.1 is out and now supports SONAR 2.1. And an updated version 1.2 of VeloMaster, the real-time MIDI dynamics processor, is now released. VeloMaster now supports the Open Plug-In Technology (OPT) developed by Yamaha. Free update downloads are available to registered users." Click here for more info. Also, new announcements from Bitshift Audio, D-Mute, Frei Audiotechnik, Ableton, and Native Instruments in News. |
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Patch King Song Contest Kid Nepro founder Steve Proto explains: "People are always sending us MP3's of tunes they've made with our sounds and many of them are really excellent. We've had great support from our customers over the past 18 years and we thought it would be a good idea to get them involved in our promotional efforts and offer them some cool prizes to boot." Click here for more info. Also, new announcements from Alfred Publishing, MakeMusic, Edirol, Zoom, Event Electronics, and Elemental Audio Systems in News. |
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To Read Or Not To Read? "There is a misconception among many people who don't play an instrument that learning to play involves reading music... Reading music notation is not an essential element in playing or writing popular music." Click here to read this MusicDish article. Also, new announcements from Charanga, Steinberg, LinPlug, and DigiTech in News. |
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Musician Refuses Millions To Stay In His Bedroom "Those unorthodox recordings both excited and baffled the industry, including several major labels which offered the Atlanta native seven figure deals to re- record the songs. Excitement transformed into disbelief when ChesnuTT refused their offers." Click here for the full story. Also, new announcements from MusicLab, Steinberg, SmokenDrums, AKG, and Peace Love Productions in News. |
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Cakewalk Sonar 2.1 Update "Cakewalk has released an update for Sonar, bringing their flagship product up to version 2.1. This is a free update to all registered Sonar 2 users, and provides OMFI and Broadcast Wave (BWF) support, Windows Media 9 Series audio export support, Mackie Control surface hardware support, bug fixes, and more." Click here for more info and the free download. Also, new announcements from BIAS, Sonic Stop, MusicLab, and Edirol in News. |
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Business Cards: Your Personal Pocket Billboard "Network, network, network. No matter what book or article you read, or which workshop or seminar you attend, everyone in the music business will tell you that networking is crucial to your career success. And whether you are a songwriter, artist, musician or some other aspiring music business professional, your business card is an essential component of your networking strategy." Click here to read this MusicDish article. Also, new announcements from Native Instruments, Q Up Arts, and M-Audio in News. |
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Radio Airplay 101: Tour Distribution Using Radio "A lot of folks immediately want to try to get their product into stores using standard distribution. If you are a label, however, and the project you are marketing is not a priority, (maybe you are just testing it), or if you are an artist funding things yourself, then you might just consider foregoing standard distribution altogether in favor of tour distribution using radio." Click here to read this MusicDish article. Also, new announcements from MOTU, Zero-G, Homegrown Sounds, and BitHeadz in News. |
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CD Architect 5.0 Pre-Release Update "The pre-release version of CD Architect has been extremely well received. Audio professionals are testing the application in record numbers. This new update, in addition to general fixes and stability enhancements, includes Resolution of drive scan/burn issues providing decreased CD device seek times; Improvements to the CD audio extract dialog; CD Image file read/write; Addition of a second audio layer for complex mixing and crossfades." Click here for more info. Also, new announcements from Sonic Foundry in News. |
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Win Roland's MC-909 Sampling GrooveBox "To coincide with the launch of Roland's next-generation music workstation, Roland is giving away one free MC-909 Sampling Groovebox. To enter to win, simply visit www.mc-909.com on or before November 1st. The lucky winner will be selected at random from the database and notified via e-mail." Also, new announcements from Steinberg, Karma Lab, BitHeadz, and SoUnDEnGiNe in News. |
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Free Pre-Release Of Cd Architect 5.0 "The pre-release will be available on October 15th, and will expire on November 8th. Information regarding actual shipping dates and pricing will be released in the future." Click here to download the free beta version. Also, new announcements from M-Audio, Akai, ESI, and DigiTech in News. |
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New Edition of DAW Buyers Guide "It provides information on over 240 different DAW hardware and software products for all professional audio recording and editing applications, and includes complete systems, audio cards/units, software packages, disk-based multitracks and portable tapeless recorders." Click here for more info. Also, new announcements from Waves, ILIO, Line 6, and DigiDesign in News. |
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Sonic Foundry's CD Architect Is Back! "Sonic Foundry announced the return of their professional CD burning application, CD Architect. Version 5.0 will be released as a re-engineered stand-alone application that includes significant feature enhancements and a more complete production environment for producing Red Book CD pre-masters suitable for professional replication." Click here for more info. Also, new announcements from Sonic Foundry, GenieSys, Digidesign, Manifold Labs, and Steinberg in News. |
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Surround Sound Coming To ACID Pro 4 "Sonic Foundry Inc., a leading digital media software solutions company, announced the 5.1 Surround Plug-In Pack for ACID PRO 4.0. This new product allows users to encode ACID mixes to 5.1 multichannel surround or stereo Dolby Digital AC-3 files, and burn them to DVD." Click here for more info. Issue 16 of the DigiFreq newsletter has been sent out. If you didn't receive your copy it was because your e-mail inbox was full and I couldn't send the issue to you. Not to worry though, you can download issue 16 in the Issues section of the site. Also, new announcements from BIAS, Native Instruments, Electronisounds, Focusrite, Ahead Software, and Universal Audio in News. |
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Issue 16 has been published! Here's what you'll find in this issue: 1. Scott's Notes - Sonar 2 Power! 2. DFreqCONTEST - iZotope Ozone 2 3. DFreqDEALS - Code Audio's BeatBurner 4. DFreqNEWS - BitHeadz, MAGIX, MusicLab, Kenton, NI, and more... 5. DFreqDISCUSS - Auto-Saving In Sonar 6. DFreqFEATURE - Sonar 2 Q&A 7. DFreqSHAREWARE - Wave Corrector and Blaze Media Pro 8. DFreqFREEWARE - CD Scratch and Audioactive Bitrate Calculator 9. DFreqBUYWARE - Audio Cleaning Lab 3.0 10. DFreqREVIEWS - TDK veloCD, BeatBurner, and LiveSynth Pro 1.4 11. DFreqTIP - Encode Your Sonar MP3s For Free 12. DFreqFUN - Experience Music Project To read this issue, you need to be a subscriber. If you're not already, just click here to subscribe. It's free! (Current subscribers please allow 3 to 5 days for the delivery of your issue.) |
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iZotope Ozone 2 "We've heard it's been said that you should just leave a good thing alone. We've just never said it ourselves. Ozone 2.0 is here. It's got a few additional features that you might find useful, but they're kind of hard to summarize in a couple lines. So we invite you to check out the full list of things we added." Click here for more info. Also, new announcements from iZotope, MusicLab, MixMeister, and HomeGrown Sounds in News. |
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D-I-Y: Blessings, Curses and Limits "The do-it-yourself approach to marketing and promoting music that began back in the 1970's and, perhaps, as early as the 1950's as an experiment that was often an exercise in futility, but has, ironically, become the standard by which we all exist, also comes with its own sets of blessings, curses and limitations." Click here to read this MusicDish article. Also, new announcements from PG Music, M-Audio, SoUnDEnGiNe, and GenieSys in News. |
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Arturia Storm 2.0 "Arturia has released the version 2.0 of its successful virtual studio, Storm Music Studio. In this major update, users will benefit from such features as the Hall, the Composition Wizard, the Shadow module, improved synthesis and effects algorithms, ability to launch and synchronize two Storm studios together on the same computer, thanks to the ReWire protocol, and more. Also, this release is a free upgrade to registered users." Click here for more info. Also, new announcements from Arturia, MAGIX, Peace Love Productions, LinPlug, and Clavia in News. |
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TDK veloCD FE-241040 FireWire CD Burner "When shopping for a CD burner, there are many things you need to consider… price, performance, packaged software, ease of use, and installation. You may also need to decide upon an internal or external drive depending on the availability of your PC’s IDE connections and drive bays. And in some circumstances, the burner’s ability to work on both a Mac and PC can be a consideration. In that case, a FireWire drive would be your choice and one of best to be currently found on the market is the external veloCD FE-241040 FireWire drive from TDK." Click here to read my review. Also, new announcements from GenieSys, BitHeadz, DigiDesign, MAGIX, and WebsterAudio in News. |
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New Free SampleTank Sounds "This month there are more sonic textures for SampleTank from Sonic Reality with SynFlugel Lead and Syntech Bass. Any SampleTank users can try the sounds from the Sonic Synth library by simply downloading them." Click here for more info. Also, new announcements from Blueshock, IK Multimedia, Companion Engineering and Design, and Digidesign in News. |
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Shure Musical Roots Contest "Do you have that one-in-a-million song? The Shure Musical Roots Contest is here to help you celebrate your music and those who influenced you. Step up and share your music with the world; enter your song in the 2nd Annual Musical Roots Contest. You might win Shure gear and a free trip to Southern California in January, 2003 to attend the surprise benefit concert." Click here for more info. Also, new announcements from Sonic Stop, Native Instruments, Anwida Soft, and IK Multimedia in News. |
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LiveUpdate's LiveSynth Pro 1.4 "LiveSynth Pro was recently updated to version 1.4. Support for SoundFaction's Alive SoundFont editor has been added (version 1.3.8 and later). You can now load SoundFonts directly from LiveSynth Pro to the Alive SoundFont editor, edit them, and preview the sounds using LiveSynth Pro." Click here to read my review and get more info on the LiveSynth Pro DigiFreq Deal. DigiFreq readers get 20% off! Also, new announcements from MusicLab, HomeGrown Sounds, Kid Nepro, and Shure in News. |
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Code Audio's BeatBurner (Review and DigiFreq Deal) "BeatBurner is a software application that combines sample loops and audio processing to provide a new type of software synthesis and sample loop creation. The basic premise behind BeatBurner is that it allows you to create many different musically related sample loops from a single original sample loop. BeatBurner uses the original loop as a basic sound generator that drives the program’s internal synthesis and filtering functions, which in turn produce loops that are brand new but still musically related to the original loop. BeatBurner works best with original loops that are percussive in nature. For example, by loading in an original drum loop, you can use BeatBurner to create new bass line loops and other melodic loops that will blend perfectly with your original loop." Click here to read my review and get more info on the BeatBurner DigiFreq Deal. DigiFreq readers get 10% off! Also, new announcements from LiveUpdate, Kenton, and Native Instruments in News. |
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Microsoft Debuts Windows Media Player 9 Series "Windows Media Player 9 Series offers a host of new and improved features for both digital media enthusiasts and the power users who demand ultimate control and audiophile-level quality for creating, managing and playing back their digital music and video collections. The beta is available for download." Click here for more info. Also, new announcements from Native Instruments, LinPlug, and Emagic in News. |
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Native Instruments Presents 1,001 REAKTOR Ensembles "The REAKTOR User Library is celebrating an impressive milestone: More than 1,000 REAKTOR ensembles have been uploaded since its inception five years ago. As more and more REAKTOR users around the world have been sharing their cabled creations, the User Library has quickly developed into the world's largest collection of synthesizers, effects, drum machines, samplers, and eccentric audio machines. All registered REAKTOR users can freely download and upload from the daily-growing User Library." Click here for more info. Also, new announcements from MusicLab, Wave Arts, Sonic Stop, J. River, and PWSoft in News. |
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Feature Film Looking For Artists For Soundtrack "Neo-Pangea, a production company outside of Philadelphia, is looking for demos and albums for inclusion into their feature film, Townies. All genres accepted - unique sound preferred. Some scenes will also require music reminiscent of the 1980s. No covers please. All music must be available for non-exclusive contract rights. Send CDs to: Neo-Pangea, Townies Soundtrack, P.O. Box 646, Shillington, PA 19607-0646." Click here for more info about the film. Also, new announcements from Peace Love Productions and Delaydots in News. |
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