First videos of the new microKORG XL
Finally some news of the long awaited follow up to the hugely successful microKORG, but still no launch date – sorry 
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Main info:
The microKORG range expands with a new big brother to mega selling microKORG synth
The original microKORG is loved and used daily by musicians around the world – from keyboardists to guitarists – enabling everyone to experience the enjoyment of a great synthesizer. Now an advanced microKORG is available; a synthesizer that lets you generate your own personal sound, packing a cutting-edge sound engine and powerful effects into a compact, vintage-like body. Welcome the microKORG XL
Main features
New vintage design is both fresh and nostalgic.
Korg’s renowned MMT Multi Modeling Technology, optimized for the microKORG XL.
Sixteeen band vocoder for voice controlled effects. A gooseneck microphone is included, so you can begin vocoding right away.
128 powerful sounds are built-in and ready for immediate use.
Intuitive sound selection; simply specify the music genre and instrument category.
Seventeen powerful KAOSS derived effects.
Newly developed natural touch mini keyboard is compact, yet easy to play.
Editing software can be downloaded from the Korg website, as well as converted MS2000 and microKORG programs.
Battery powered for on-the-go enjoyment.
Don't want to create your own patches – Check out L'il Poly-Ana
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L’il Poly-Ana offers all the same sound features as her big sister, all we’ve done is remove most of the voice editing controls to make her a preset player only. We have however left in all performance related controls, allowing you to customize your patches to your desired playing style. And we’ve also included the most popular controls for live sound tweaking, the filter cutoff and resonance controls. All fully automatable and MIDI CC controllable, just like with “big” Poly.
There’s also been an evaluation reset for both products, so even if you’ve tried them before, you can download and try them again. We offer a free, fully functional evaluation peroid for the first week, so go ahead and try them out, save and recall your work, sample the sounds, even make hit records with them — we don’t care! The 7 day free evaluation period is there for you to enjoy actually using our products in real-life production scenarios. We feel you should be able to “Try B4 Buy”, and we believe our products truly sell themselves. Our fully functional demos are there to prove it, so try ’em out!
L’il Poly-Ana contains all of the sound features and capabilities of Poly-Ana. What makes it L’il, however, is the restriction on your ability to design new patches. It almost works on the honor system, however, as Admiral Quality decided to leave in every performance control and the entire simulation control section which includes Quality (CPU), Saturator and the new Analog Drift Feature. What’s more, Admiral Quality left in the cutoff and resonance controls for both filters for live usage. L’il Poly-Ana is only available as a VST instrument. The full version includes an effect version of the plugin.
The intended L’il Poly-Ana customer is someone who does not want to create their own patches, possibly someone just beginning a venture into computer sound. However, even Poly-Ana users might find L’il Poly-Ana useful for recalling patches and saving screen space. That should be good news for Poly-Ana users because if you’re one of them, you get L’il Poly-Ana for free.
Ableton Holiday Special
To celebrate Christmas, Ableton has announced a 25% discount for anyone purchasing Live 7, Live 7 LE or Suite before the 31st December 2008.
The 25% off deal also applies to users who wish to upgrade to the full version from Lite or LE versions of the software.
Buy Ableton Live 7, Live 7 LE or Ableton Suite between November 27, 2008 and December 31, 2008 and save. This Ableton Holiday Special is valid for the following products:*
- Ableton Live 7
- Ableton Live 7 LE
- Ableton Suite
- Upgrades from Live LE to Ableton Live 7 or Ableton Suite
- Upgrades from Live Lite to Ableton Live 7 or Ableton Suite
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New album in January with Mobile Homes
It sure has been a while but now they are back 
There new song below:
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Biography:
The Mobile Homes was formed 1984 by Andreas Brun, Patrik Brun, Hans Erkendal, and Per Liliefeldt.
At first there where many bands playing in the same premises, but later there where only a few left and they decided to form The Mobile Homes.
Early in their carreer Mobile Homes performed on both Laibach and Nitzer Ebb´s Scandinavian tour.
The band has been signed under many labels. It started with Papa Records, but that company where later no more so they had to search for a new label.
Mobile Homes contacted Christer Sandelin and signed under his label Alpha. At Alpha they released the single “I know I will die”, and after that they signed under Sonet.
Later they changed record company again, and this time they signed up with Hawk Records. At Hawk they released the albums “Hurt” remixed by Denniz Pop, “Nothing But Something” Produced by Christian Falk, “Test” Produced by Joolz Beeston (Ex Nitzer Ebb and “Meanwhile”.
After a long break they signed under the german company SPV GmbH and in Sweden under Arcade/CNR.
Together with the ex Kraftwerk member Karl Bartos they released the album “Mobile Homes” in 1998. The most radioplayed song on that album was “You make the sun shine” which was later the music in a commercial for the airline SAS.
In 1999 the record company Memento Materia released a best of Mobile Homes album called “There is no place like away”.
After the album “Mobile Homes” they signed under Sprinkler/Universal Records and released the single “It..s all for the best”. Then they left Sprinkler/Universal and signed under Subspace Communications.
At Subspace Comunications they released the album “The world will listen” and the singles “Nostalgia” and “The more i think the deeper i sink”. The world will listen is recorded in the “Polar” studio, the former ABBA studio.
In may 2003 Mobile Homes signed under BMG Sweden and they released an EP produced by Sami Sirviö from Kent and Stefan Boman. Soon they will release the new Album “Today is your lucky day” Produced by Sami Sirviö (Kent)
New Thor Refill at Combinator HQ
Dave909’s Thor Sounds Vol. 2
Dave909 has been hard at work expanding upon the quality Thor patches he provided for us a few months ago. In SB Thor Sounds Volume 2 he well more than doubles the number of patches to add a multitude of quality tones to bring out the best in your productions. I lost count at over 200 patches and that was just for Thor. Additionally he has thrown in many Combinator sounds to push this refill to the limit.
Want to know more about Bass?
Found this great blog poste on the subject, however if you are very concerned about lightly dressed women (it’s perfectly safe, but still) than remain here and get the summary
The double bass and the bass guitar have their use, but sine waves are absolutely crucial in bass science. Producers who don’t have them in their toolkit might as well pack up and leave. Here’s what they sound like
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Abstract:
And here’s what a sine wave looks like. The original meaning of the word sinus in ancient Latin is bosom and the curves of the sine wave look feminine indeed. But times change. Nowadays when people hear a heavy bass they usually picture a big bottom. 
And what’s even more puzzling: while a low frequency sine wave may sound like a fat ass, a high frequency sine wave sounds thinner than the skinniest supermodel. That’s the mystery side of the sine wave i’ll try to explain here.
Noise and more electronic noise
Elusive Austrians Steinklang Industries are back in a big way with no less than 4 new releases spewing forth. The first is a biggun, an ode to the Japan noise scene called “Japanoise of Death II”. Like the name suggests, this is the second iteration of the regional noise compilation and features notables like Guilty Connector, Dissecting Table, Incapactiants and a wack more of both grizzled and fresh faces. Making things more interesting is a special laser etched metal box edition which combines both editions of the comp (the original was only available as a limited vinyl or CDR).
Continuing with Japan, we then have HIROSHI HASEGAWA‘s “Ascension No.999”. This one is a CD with a run of 500 that combines “experimental cut-up noise, over droning sound-walls” with “screaming high frequency manipulations” during its 50 minutes. If that doesn’t do it for you (or you still have cash left) “Rotten sarkoma” is the title of CDR from SCRELOMA which combines two of the best things in this mean old world: “harsh noises and heavy Power Electronics”. You can expect “concrete or sublime rhythms” recorded in analogue with a runtime of 61 min.
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Finally, a week from now seminal release hog Dissecting Table gets yet another notch in his belt with “Early studio works 1986/87″, a CD collating earlier material from his first LP and 7” plus 5 previously unreleased tracks. The disc comes wrapped in an A3 sized poster and lands on April 17. MP3s have been posted for these releases so suck up some bandwidth already.
More info here >> info@steinklang-records.at.
Thanks to moron for the info
Mochika2
Playing around with the Mochika2
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Description:
This synth features:
- one square and saw waveform VCO (voltage controled oscillator) with a huge pitch range, from subsonic to ultrasonic sound
- One square and triangle waveform LFO (low frequency oscillator), that modulates the VCO for the vibrato effect creating old school arcade Atari-like sounds.
- White noise generator that triggers the VCO and can create percussion like sounds.
- 8 step Sequencer with note on/off switch and pitch knob for each step .
- It has a 1/4 inch audio output, 1/4 inch CV Output (to control other analog gear).
- The Mochika features a MIDI input to sync the Mochika with any midi device sending midi clock signals, the mochika can sync 1,2,4 and 8 times the tempo of the master clock midi device.
- Also the instrument is ligthed with 1 ultra bright red led that indicates the LFO Rate, and 8 red leds to indicate the step that is being played. Very useful when you play it on a dark stage.
- The Analog Sequencer is packed in a cool laser cut clear acrilic case that shows all the hand made analog circuitry.
- The instrument is powered directly from 110V or 220V AC.
- Dimensions: 230mm(W), 170 mm(D), 80mm(H. incuded rubber feet and knobs)
Camouflage to release new live DVD
Studio Devil unveils Virtual Bass Amp
Studio Devil unveils Virtual Bass Amp, the newest addition to their line of vacuum tube modeling amplifier plug-ins.
Features :
– Classic 12AX7A vacuum tube bass preamplifier emulation with GAIN control.
– BOOST switch that “hot rods” the bass amp for natural overdrive and distortion.
– BASS, MIDS, and TREBLE tone controls based on classic bass amp designs.
– Parametric MIDS control with FREQ knob for customized amplifier tone.
– Push-pull tube power amplifier model with DRIVE control.
– Continuously variable SOFT / HARD clipping limiter control.
– DEEP and BRIGHT switches to boost the ultra low end and brighten presence.
– Built-in “4×10” and “1×15” Cabinet Simulation FIR Filters.
– “Direct Box” (D.I.) Mode for compatibility with your favorite cabinet impulse modeling plug-ins.
– 7-Band GRAPHIC EQ tuned specifically for bass guitar with LEVEL and ENABLE controls.
– 4X Up-Sampling Engine with 64-bit Internal Floating-Point Precision.
– 44.1kHz, 48kHz, 88.2kHz, 96kHz, 176.4kHz, and 192kHz sampling rate support.
– Compatible with VST, Audio Units, and RTAS audio hosts for Windows and Mac OS X.
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