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Wednesday
Mar242010

What's Mu? How Has Your Lemur Been Treating You?

DateWednesday, March 24, 2010 at 5:13PM

The cat is officially out of the bag: Jazzmutant has released the Mu plug-in, a software package for the Lemur touchscreen controller transforming it into a formidable Ableton Live controller. The best part is instant auto-integration into existing Live sets via drag-and-drop. No muss, no fuss. Check out a video HERE. Shipping TBA.

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Friday
Jun052009

Cakewalk Sonar V-Studio 100... UPDATE!

DateFriday, June 5, 2009 at 10:26AM

It's been brought to my thick-headed attention that the V-Studio 100 isn't just a Cakewalk Sonar thing, but in fact is cross plaform, that is works on PC and Mac, and includes effects and instrument for both platforms as well. More fun for everyone.

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Wednesday
Jun032009

Cakewalk V-Studio 100... don't be thrown by the catchy name

DateWednesday, June 3, 2009 at 10:12AM

Just wanted to give holla' yo (ironic inflection doesn't come across well on the interwebs) to the new Cakewalk V-Studio 100. I'm not a PC or a Cakewalk guy, but it really is an impressive little box of audio toolkit. In addition to being a six analog in/out+SP/DIF digital I/O USB audio interface, it's got two mic pres, a motorized a fader, a knobs/buttons control control surface for Sonar... it can also act as a standalone mixer with reverb and compressors and, get this, it's a two-channel SD card audio recorder with files transferable to the host computer via USB. Admittedly not the kind of thing I usually get all frothy about, but if you're a Sonar-type, this is a pretty darn handy box.

Here's a video of really British guy Alan Branch talking about it:

Now shipping...

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Thursday
Jan152009

NAMM '09- Ableton steps it up with Live 8

DateThursday, January 15, 2009 at 6:34PM
Tension was in the air at 11:AM this morning (ok, actually video cameras were in the air) as Ableton made their big version 8.0 upgrade announcement. Here's whatcha need to know... - bigger, badder warp engine that lets you adjust warp markers live on-ye-fly. They did a pretty impressive demo where a vocal track got stretched 'n' squashed live before your eyes. - new Looper instrument that works just like the dedicated floorbox ones. - new Vocoder, Multiband Dynamics, Overdrive, Limiter and Frequency Shifter effects. - tons of sound library additions. - new "groove engine" that lets you easily extract feels and imbue them on other audio. - new "Collision and Corpus" a physical-modeling instrument for mallet percussion sounds (cue sound of Zappa fans rejoicing). - lots of new tricks for the "Operator" synth including improved mod routing and additive wavetable synthesis. But the "real big news" is that Ableton and Akai have co-developed this superfly control surface exclusively for Live: Whoa, right? All those Monome-ish buttons have tri-color LED's, and let you turn clips on and off. All the other sliders and buttons do the standard mute/solo/mixer/tranport/crossfader type stuff. It's gonna include a custom-tailored version of Live, and the whole package will be just $399. The lovely lady at Akai tells us it'll be out in May. But there's STILL more... Ableton's partnering up with Cycling '74 with "Max for Live". This gives MAX/MSP object functionality inside Live 8 objects, and should be a BIG hit with the cutting edge electro crowd. This should be out uh, "later in '09" they're sayin'. Finally, Ableton introduced a "Share Live Sets" feature which lets users share song files over the web by assigning projects a unique URL for sharing, and lets the song "owner" give access privlileges to others. Finally, it's smart- it only copies files that the collaborators don't already have, which should speed things up when going back and forth on a project. That'd be "later in '09" too. All in all, a good time to be an Ableton Live user (btw, us Logic users got, uh, nothin'. Apple isn't even at NAMM. Doh.).
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Friday
Dec122008

um... pretty colors!

DateFriday, December 12, 2008 at 12:31PM
post by mixmaster Mitchell Sigman Just got word on the release of the Alesis Master Control audio interface/control surface (or as Alesis' press states: ALL-IN-ONE AUDIO INTERFACE, CONTROL SURFACE AND AUDIO MONITORING SOLUTION). Regardless, it's a pretty neat box. Maybe it's just because it reminds of a vintage ARP Quadra, a hokey oddball of a synth if there ever was one, but it sure looks cool: Getting back to the topic at hand, the Alesis Master Control gives you eight analog ins (in the form of two XLR mic ins and six TRS line ins) six analog TRS outs, stereo SP/DIF I/O, and two ADAT lightpipe ins for total of 26 simultaneous inputs if ya got the A/D horsepower, interfaced to the computer via Firewire. They also toss in nine motorized touch-sensitive faders, eight endless-rotary knobs and two banks of eight (uh, that'd be 16) assignable function buttons. And a talkback mic. Its HUI-compatible (for the PT crowd) and Mackie Control-compatible (for the Logic, DP, Live, Cubase, Sonar, i.e. they who don't use the Pro Tools). Roughly speaking, it's like having a Mackie Control with a built-in audio interface. With pretty colors :>) Coming soon to audioMIDI.
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Wednesday
Nov122008

Block rockin' beats. On the way!

DateWednesday, November 12, 2008 at 10:56AM
http://www.audiomidi.com/Nano-PAD-USB-MIDI-Controller-P11463.aspx post by Mitchell Sigman Folks have been picking up the nanoKEY and nanoKONTROL like crazy since they arrived last week, but the nanoPAD wasn't out yet. We've just received word from Korg mission control that the  nanoPAD has been received on their end, meaning they'll arrive here in a couple days. So... pre-order one and be the first on the block, hot shot (we ship it the same day we get them). This one's gonna be super sweet... twelve MPC-style pads with roll and flam modes (to automatically trigger when you hold down the pads) plus an X/Y touchpad to control pitch, filters or any other MIDI controller your little heart destires. Korg kindly provides a free downloadable app for PC or Mac to easily configure which MIDI controllers the pads and X/Y surface transmit. Looks like this: We checked it out with the nanoKey and nanoKontrol, and it works great (now if they'd just make a program like this for my multi-function TV remote...). nanoPAD also has a chord function allowing you to set each pad to play chords via MIDI. All this joy for $59... how can your significant other refuse you this for Christmas?
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Wednesday
Nov052008

NEWSFLASH... Korg nano controls are HERE!!!

DateWednesday, November 5, 2008 at 11:26AM
post by Mitchell Sigman (the handsome gent in the video) The keyboard and mixer versions are here... pad version coming soon. They're super cool, and get this: the keyboard version is only $49, and the mixer version is $59. Amazing. We immediately busted 'em out and I made this fine video for you... And, 'cuz we're so very nice, ya get free shipping and a nifty audioMIDI Synth Legends T-shirt with purchase. Can't beat that, right? Click HERE to order 'em baby!
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