Experience the power of The Beatdown in action!
Introducing The Beatdown, the latest virtual instrument from Sonic Faction.
“The Beatdown is an amazing versatile DRUM MACHINE for Ableton Live! We crafted The Beatdown from the ground up, giving users superior sound quality and unprecedented control. We started by sampling the Elektron Machine Drum and rebuilding it inside of Ableton, staying true to the instrument’s unique design. Inspired by the flexibility of our new instrument, we then added 6 additional drum kits that cover all of the most popular dance music genres. It’s styles range from Analog Hip Hop madness, to fresh House beats, to viscous Dubstep wobbles and Experimental glitches. The result is a slamming drum machine that will have you dropping next level beats instantly.”
DROP THE BEAT -The Beatdown includes 10 meticulously sampled and sculpted drum kits. It’s unique design allows you to mix and match kits on the fly. Designed to be instantly playable
TWEAK OUT -Tweakability of The Beatdown is unrivaled, allowing you to create entirely new drum sounds. At the twist of a knob, you can manipulate each sound’s most useful parameters like pitch, decay and FX.
FULL CONTROL -The Beatdown includes a free Max for Live Step Sequencer for Launchpad and APC40. This custom device frees you from the mouse and gives you hands-on control like never before.
Available NOW at http://sonicfaction.com
Review of Auria iPad DAW from Wavemachine Labs
Following yesterday’s post on the release of the 48-track DAW for iPad
“Russ takes a look at the new Auria iPad DAW from Wavemachine Labs.
He does a show and tell of the highlights and gives his opinion.”
http://ios-music.homewoke.net
The first VST loading application in iPad.
It is a first impression of Auria which is full-scale DAW.
As individual comment, improvement is still required.
However, this is a future big possibility.
Grammy award winning producer David Kahne discusses Auria, the 48-track digital audio recording system for iPad.
Filmed and edited by Nocturnal Media
AutoRap – Turn Speech Into Rap! Free app for iOS and Android
Silly but fun 😉
Download for FREE for iPhone and iPad: http://bit.ly/AutoRapDemo
Download for FREE for Android devices: http://bit.ly/AutoRapDemo-Android
YO. This is AutoRap.
It turns speech into rap and corrects bad rapping.
With Smule’s patent-pending “rappification” technology, AutoRap maps the syllables of your speech to any beat, creating a unique rap every time.
Talk into the app, and AutoRap magically morphs your speech into a legit rap. Create your own original rap songs with Freestyle Beats, or use Premium Songs from artists like Snoop Dogg and Nicki Minaj, to AutoRap with the songs you know and love.
Note: Headphones recommended for maximum enjoyment.
The ever growing Salad Bar – now in version 7
Soundcells latest version of Salad Bar showcases a magnificent collection of Reason patches brought together in this ever growing ReFill.
They say that with the coming of Nordic Red it was clear that it wouldn´t take very long for the Salad Bar ReFill to get its latest update and that Version 7 is filled with 20 awesome Nordic Red patches as well as 15 exclusive Salad Bar only ones (111 SB-exclusives in total now).
Soundcells told us, “With its nearly 340 combinators this Reason 6 ReFill is stronger than ever before. Apart from that it´s a real bargain and must-have for the user and an excellent ambassador for Soundcells. Salad Bar’s patches will cover all kinds of music styles showing you the very best Soundcells has to offer. It’s a great ReFill to get to know Soundcells’ work, introducing you to their signature dimension in designing sound.”
Salad Bar v7 Contents:
- 332 combinator patches in 8 folders: Atmospheres & Textures, Bass, Keys, Leads, Miscellaneous, Pads, Rhythmic, SaladBar_exclusive (currently 111 ‘Salad Bar Only’ ones).
- 391 well balanced patches for Thor, Malstroem, Subtractor, NNXT and ReDrum and also 60 rex loops.
- The modules folder contains the basic synth and NNXT patches which were used for the combinator sounds.
- 8 tracks in RNS format – inspiring with highl ‘tutorialesque’ value.
Pricing and Availability:
9,90 EUR
More information:
XTS1 – new big sounding VST instrument
XTS1 is a new virtual instrument for your DAW. Create awesome sounds with just a few controls. 3 smooth sounding dynamic waveforms, multi-mode filter as well as chorus, vibrato, noise, drive, 3 envelopes and powerful velocity and LFO mapping.
Get it at http://www.energy-xt.com/xts1
Specifications:
- Windows/Mac OS X compatible
- 32-voice virtual synthesizer
- 32 presets
- 3 dynamic waveforms: (1) saw to sin, (2) pulse width and (3) phase modulated
- Chorus, Noise and vibrato
- Multi-mode filter cutoff, q and drive
- Poly/legato/mono and glide mode
- Master envelope
- Filter envelope
- Waveform envelope (saw to sin, pulse width, pm amount)
- Velocity: vol, pan, waveform, cutoff, filter-sustain, noise level
- LFO: vol, pan, cutoff, waveform. Freerun mode with tempo-sync.
- Pitch bend
Audulus modular audio environment for Mac
It’s possible to build synthesizers and effect processors using the internal nodes or external AU plugins. Internal nodes include oscillators, noise, ADSR, math functions, sample player, midi functions, filter, delay, distorsion etc.
The Very Best Of BLANCMANGE
On July 23rd a “best of” album of the 80s group Blancmange will be released, although never any of my personal favorites a couple of good tracks came out of their basement 
However should you be very keen on Blancmange and want to know more about them and the upcoming release, check out this nice article at the Electricity Club >>
Thankfully, some of those missing tracks by The Maiden Aunts of Techno have surfaced on ‘The Very Best Of BLANCMANGE’
, a timely new 2CD collection compiled by Music Club Deluxe with input from Neil Arthur and Stephen Luscombe themselves. Music Club Deluxe, an arm of Edsel’s parent group Demon, have made a concerted effort to work with Warners to source masters and negotiate around any contractual issues with the BBC to plug the essential gaps in BLANCMANGE’s digital catalogue. While all the singles like ‘God’s Kitchen’, ‘Feel Me’ ‘Living On The Ceiling’, ‘Blind Vision’, ‘Don’t Tell Me’ and ‘That’s Love That it Is’ are included, it is the rarities and selected album highlights (including most of ‘Happy Families’ and songs such as ‘Murder’ and ‘All Things Are Nice’) which make this collection.
The Beatdown Step Sequencer for APC40
Tutorial video showing off the BEAT_SEQ
Get The Beatdown NOW at http://sonicfaction.com/Instruments.html
Enjoy
Nuendo Live – the DAW for recording live performances has now been released
Steinberg has announced the immediate availability of Nuendo Live, a new version of Nuendo, designed specifically for multitrack recording live performances.
Nuendo Live offers a single-window user interface, designed to let you focus on recording. Transport control, marker insertion and recording options can be accessed with just one click. And a convenient Record Panel gives you an instant overview of all relevant parameters. Other highlights include on-the-fly session setup, a 60-second pre-record buffer and auto-save functionality.
Features:
- Advanced live recording system featuring a straightforward single-window operation, a record panel, a pre-record buffer and more
- Seamless integration with Yamaha CL-series consoles for controlling essential Nuendo Live functions straight from the live console
- State-of-the-art recording quality based on Steinberg’s award-winning audio engine with up to 192 kHz lets your production stand apart from the competition
- Nuendo Live Record Panel shows all essential session information at once — creating confidence in demanding live situations
- Advanced Session Management with auto-naming of recorded files, multiple folder creation, easy-to-use marker track, auto-save and notepad
- Zero setup time thanks to automatic track creation function that make Nuendo Live record-ready in less than a minute
- 24+ hours recording time thanks to EBU-compliant RIFF 64 broadcast wave format in standard recording mode
- Virtual Sound Check allows for easy use of previous recordings for sound check, including marker recall and 1:1 output
- Deliver with confidence due to standardized rendering formats and Nuendo
- Editing on the road: Nuendo Live includes essential editing functions, making it possible to create a rough edit of the recordings right after the show
Nuendo Live is available now for US $329.
Akai EIE Pro Hi Resolution Audio Interface
The handsome big brother of the EIE – this adds 96kHz 24-bit audio to the USB audio interface. It also has a built in USB hub and MIDI too
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