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Issue 15 has been published! Here's what you'll find in this issue: 1. Scott's Notes - Sonar 2 Power Coming Soon 2. DFreqCONTEST - PlayPro Interactive Guitar 2.5 3. DFreqDEALS - LiveSynth Pro SoundFont Player 4. DFreqNEWS - Maxon, Minimoog, Mackie Control, PRO-53, and more... 5. DFreqDISCUSS - DX Instrument Multiple Outputs in Sonar 2 6. DFreqFEATURE - Creating the Right Recording Environment 7. DFreqSHAREWARE - SoundLib and Music Database 2000 8. DFreqFREEWARE - FreeAlpha and Ticky Clav 9. DFreqBUYWARE - Sound Clips 10,000 10. DFreqREVIEWS - CF Live, Interactive Guitar, and FM7 11. DFreqTIP - Do the Doppler with Sound Forge 12. DFreqFUN - Rocklopedia Fakebandica To read this issue, you need to be a subscriber. If you're not already, just click here. It's free! (If you are already a subscriber, please allow 3 to 5 days for delivery of your issue.) |
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Kenton Control Freak Live "I love to fiddle with knobs, sliders, buttons, and such. I think most of us do, don’t we? So when it comes to mixing music with a mouse or adjusting synth parameters with menus on a tiny LCD screen, the thrill just isn’t there. Luckily, there are quite a few inventive music manufacturers on the scene who know about a musician’s urge to tweak. Kenton is one of them. And their Control Freak Live can bring the virtual parameters of your sequencer or synth out of the ether and into your fiddling little fingers." Click here to read my review of the CF Live. Also, new announcements from Steinberg, Maxon, Moog Music, Roland, and MOTU in News. |
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Apple Acquires Emagic "Apple today announced it has acquired Emagic, a leading provider of professional software solutions for computer based music production. Emagic's most popular product, Logic, is actively used by over 200,000 musicians around the world. Emagic will operate as a wholly owned division of Apple. Emagic's Windows-based product offerings will be discontinued on September 30, 2002." Click here for more info. Also, new announcements from Native Instruments, SoUnDEnGiNe, Antares Audio Technologies, and CreamWare in News. |
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Preparing for your first radio guest spot "An important step up for any musician’s or songwriter’s career is the chance to be a guest on a local or regional radio show. Whether you are just starting out or are already a successful performing songwriter, radio interviews can enhance your exposure and expand your potential audience." Click here to read this MusicDish article. Also, new announcements from Bias, GenieSys, and Electronisounds in News. |
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PlayPro Interactive Guitar 2.5 "Playing the guitar is difficult. Anyone who tells you different isn’t being truthful. It takes a lot of hard work and dedication to get a good sound out of the guitar, but that doesn’t mean the learning process has to be boring or complicated. With the right instruction, learning how to play the guitar can be fun and intuitive. If you want to learn to play the guitar, but are too afraid the task may be out of your reach, the people at PlayPro may have an answer for you with their Interactive Guitar product." Click here to read my full review. Also, new announcements from Sonic Foundry, PSPaudioware, and Funkyseagull in News. |
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Native Instruments FM7 1.1 Update "The new version comes with a variety of new functions and improvements. The Envelopes of the Operators can be synchronized to each other and the Tempo Sync Delay Time can be set to dotted note values. The Randomize function has been improved and the FM7 is equipped with a new Pitchbend mode. In addition, the FM7 now accepts standard MIDI SysEx 128-note Microtuning (MT) data and Yamaha V50 SysEx Voice data, and under Cubase 5.1 the VST-plugin can now also receive SysEx." Click here for more information. |
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Fruity Loops 3.5 Preview "New upcoming features include: Fruityloops as a VSTi client, Integrated Speech Engine, Multiple ASIO outputs support, New advanced Quantizer & New Advanced Chopper, DrumSynth Live Generator, Batch Export of FX Tracks, Step Recording, and Copy & Paste of Automation Data." Click here for more info. Also, new announcements from Moog Music, Applied Research and Technology, and Mackie in News. |
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Propellerhead's Reason 2.0 "Propellerhead Software, the Swedish company behind acclaimed products such as Reason, Recycle! and ReBirth has announced the release of Reason 2.0, an upgrade to its popular flagship music software program. Reason is an enormously successful software program for both Windows and Mac platforms that emulates a rack of electronic synthesizers, samplers, drum machines, FX’s and sequencers." Click here for more info. Also, new announcements from Propellerhead Software, miniMusic, ART, and TEAC in News. |
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irock! 300W Wireless Music Adapter "My Kia Rio is a very economical car. As such, it only came with the basics including a lowly FM stereo radio with cassette player. Well, as far as I’m concerned, cassette is dead. I use a portable MP3 player to listen to my tunes. But what if I want to listen to my tunes in the car? Sure, I could record them onto cassette and play them that way, but I don’t have time for that. This is where the irock! 300W from First International Digital comes into play (no pun intended)." Click here to read my write-up over at NewTechReview. Also, new announcements from Audio Icons, Bitshift Audio, TC Works, Applied Acoustics Systems, and TerraTec in News. |
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DR-008 1.1 Upgrade "FXpansion has updated its DR-008 Advanced Percussion Software Synthesizer to version 1.1. Feature highlights include full drag and drop support, MIDI Learn, patch randomization, improved ergonomics, and a rapidly-growing library of kits, already at 100MB." Click here for more information. Also, new announcements from PG Music, FXpansion, Cakewalk, and MusicLab in News. |
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Small Rooms - Low Frequency Control "It is no surprise that industry figures show that there might be over 100,000 'home / project' studios in existence today. This number will grow. In the last 10 years, an audio revolution has occurred, which allows 'home studios' to rival the sounds of pro level studios. Songwriters, musicians and producers still listen to music in indoor environments and depend on some order of true acoustic response from a monitoring system in order to discern content and production values." Click here to read the entire TAXI article. Also, new announcements from Omniman Sound Labs, Roland, TAL Audio, MusicMatch, and GenieSys in News. |
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Ultrafunk Sonitus:fx R3 "Today Ultrafunk introduced release 3 of their Sonitus:fx line of audio plug-ins for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP. The Sonitus:fx series consists of ten DSP plug-ins for use in supporting host applications such as Sound Forge, Wavelab, Cubase, Sonar, Logic and many others. All the Sonitus:fx plug-ins support both the DirectX and Steinberg VST plug-in architectures natively, and also support VST plug-in automation." Click here for more info. Also, new announcements from Ultrafunk, J. River, Sonic Stop, and ST Audio in News. |
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MakeMusic's Finale 2003 "MakeMusic! Inc. announced the release of its much anticipated Finale 2003 music notation product for Windows computers. The upgrade to the Company's award-winning music notation software offers new features for educators, engravers and publishers as well as a fresh look and feel with more than 1,700 new graphic elements." Click here for more info. Also, new announcements from MakeMusic, IK Multimedia, TC Works, Edirol, and Soundminer in News. |
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Free Sonar 2.0 Plug-In Manager "The Cakewalk DirectX Plug-in Manager is a tool that allows you to manage and organize DirectX plug-ins from within SONAR 2.0. The DX Plug-in Manager features a preset librarian that allows you to back-up and import new presets for DirectX effects, DXi soft synths, MIDI FX, and even hardware control surface plug-ins." Click here for more info and the free download. Also, new announcements from Applied Acoustic Systems, MusicLab, Native Instruments, Sonic Stop, and Cakewalk in News. |
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Cubase SX for PC "The new Cubase SX sets the new Standard for Computer based Music Production: Digital audio, MIDI sequencing, intelligent MIDI input and processing tools, virtual instruments and effects, powerful yet easy to use editing, notation, mixing in 5.1 surround sound - with a new look and a new software engine." Click here for more info. Also, new announcements from Steinberg, Universal Sound Bank, Art Vista, BitHeadz, and GenieSys in News. |
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Native Instruments FM7 "In 1983 when the DX7 synthesizer from Yamaha hit the market, FM (Frequency Modulation) synthesis became all the rage among musicians. It even got to a point where you could actually recognize DX7 sounds within many of the songs on the radio. As the popularity of FM synthesis grew, it spawned an entire line of FM-based synthesizers including the DX100, TX802, TX81Z, and more. Eventually, the novelty of FM synthesis wore off and it got buried in the entourage of modern synthesis methods and sampling. But now with the release of the new FM7 software synthesizer from Native Instruments, FM synthesis is becoming popular again." Click here to read the entire review. |
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AudioNerdz Delay Lama "Delay Lama is the first VST-instrument to offer both vocal synthesis and a real-time animated 3D interface. Its advanced monophonic vocal synthesis engine enables your computer to sound just like an Eastern monk, with real-time, high resolution control over the vowel sound. What's more, the plug-in window displays a 3D animation of a singing monk, that reacts directly to your input!" Click here to download it for free. Also, new announcements from Bitshift Audio, Riff Interactive, Cakewalk Music Software, MAZ, and Electronisounds in News. |
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Win a Wolfgang "Peavey Electronics has launched the redesigned peavey.com to allow consumers to combine the best aspects of buying from the Internet and from a dealer, plus offering a chance to win one of 12 Wolfgang guitars." Click here for more info. Also, new announcements from Patchman Music, Steinberg, DigiTech, and IK Multimedia in News. |
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Rockstar Games Upload Media Contest "Rockstar Games is pleased to announce the return of the Rockstar Games Upload online media awards to celebrate independent artistic endeavors on the Internet. In 2001, Rockstar hosted what was considered to be the first strictly online media awards program where an astounding collection of imaginative contest entries were sent in via the Rockstar FTP site. Judging for the contest and the awards ceremony took place entirely online, making for a completely digital experience." Click here for more info about this year's contest. Also, new announcements from Shure, iZ Technology, Novation, Steinberg, and Groupe de Recherches Musicales in News. |
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Cakewalk Sonar 2 Plug-in Update Cakewalk has issued a free upgrade patch for the 3rd-party plug-ins that come included with the software: Alien Connections ReValver SE, Audio Simulation DreamStation DXi2, Cyclone DXi2, DR-008 DXi2, Edirol VSC DXi2, Timeworks CompressorX, Timeworks EQ. The update contains mainly bug fixes, but some added features as well. The update only applies to the plug-ins and not Sonar itself. Click here for more info and for the free download. Also, new announcements from Code Audio, NTONYX, Songworks Systems, LinPlug, and Native Instruments in News. |
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Power Chord Academy "Power Chord Academy is holding its fourth annual music camp for teenage musicians held at the University of Redlands in Redlands, CA. The program will be held during mid-July, attracting students from around the world. At Power Chord Academy, young musicians play in a band, make a video, record a CD, meet a touring band and play a concert, as well as develop an unbridled understanding of the steps inherently necessary to succeed in the professional music industry today." Click here for more info. Also, new announcements from Event Electronics, ProSonus, Recordare, and GenieSys in News. |
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Sound Forge 6.0 "Sonic Foundry Ships Sound Forge 6.0. Sound Forge 6.0 includes many new powerful features and enhancements, including nondestructive audio editing, multitask background rendering, 32-bit/64-bit float/192kHz file support, enhanced DirectX plug-in management, QuickTime and Windows Media format import and user interface enhancements." Click here for more info. Also, new announcements from Sonic Foundry, Raxxess, Companion Engineering & Design, Bitheadz, and TC Works in News. |
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Artists Undiscovered Showcase "From July 18th until July 20th 2002, Washington DC will play host to the first annual Artists Undiscovered Showcase, Seminar & music industry mixer. Hundreds of independent musicians, music fans and record industry professionals will converge on the nation's capitol for a few days of networking, deal making, learning, showcasing and socializing." Click here for more information. Also, new announcements from Bananawhale Productions, Universal Sound Bank, Midiman, and Ableton in News. |
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Getting your CD Sold at Local Retailers "Question: I am releasing a CD. I have a focused area for marketing and promotion. Should I send onesheets informing stores of this release to stores only in this area or should I send one sheets to stores outside this area as well?" Click here for the answer. Also, new announcements from Emagic, MAGIX Entertainment, Electronisounds, MusicLab, Native Instruments, and TC Works in News. |
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Triangle II DXi from RGC Audio "RGC Audio has updated their popular Triangle monophonic synth to the DXi format and added a myriad of new features. It's a great choice for performance bass and lead sounds, and includes a full bank of preset sounds. The Triangle II DXi is available for free on the Cakewalk website. Also, new announcements from Steinberg, Sonic Stop, Tascam, and McDSP in News. |
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How to Create an Earthshaking Music Marketing Campaign "One of the best ways to promote your music is to direct the public's attention to the aspects of your identity and sound that make them unique. But what if your identity and sound are similar to dozens of other musical acts in your category? What can you do to set yourself apart?" Click here to read this MusicDish article. Also, new announcements from Steinberg, TDK, Epinoisis, and HHB in News. |
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What Songwriters Need to Succeed "Only 7% of the 584 songwriters surveyed selected 'improving their craft of songwriting' as most important thing to help to move their career forward, and anywhere from 30% to over 50% do not utilize the many resources and services available to them to help them further their careers." Click here to read more. Also, new announcements from TDK, Masterbits, and SpinAudio in News. |
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Effects Database "effectsdatabase.com was launched on May 24, 2001. Its aim is to provide a comprehensive source of information about effects, for those who are considering the purchase of a specific model, or are trying to find the right model for their needs." Click here for more info. Also, new announcements from Syntrillium, Sonic Foundry, PSPaudioware, and Kid Nepro in News. |
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New Aardvark WDM Driver "Aardvark is proud to announce a new multi-client, low-latency driver for Windows XP and Windows 2000. This driver will provide support for Aardvark’s Direct Pro Series of computer audio cards, which includes the popular Direct Pro Q10, as well as the Direct Pro 2496, LX6 and Aark 24 audio interfaces." Click here for more information. Also, new announcements from YOW, DelayDots, and BIAS in News. |
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Pubs & Bands Want free advertising for your band, pub, club, venue, or studio? There is a new site that allows you to advertise yourself, your band, and your music for free. I figured you might want to check it out. The site is called Pubs & Bands. Also, new announcements from Sonic Foundry and MusicLab in News. |
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