Category: "Music Biz"

Roland Wireless Connect

Creative Connectivity with Roland Gear and the iPhone
The WNA1100-RL is a simple, compact wireless USB adapter for Roland Wireless Connect. Roland Wireless Connect is an innovative system that allows Roland electronic musical instruments to communicate fluidly with the iPhone. Consisting of a wireless USB adapter and two new iOS apps (Air Recorder and V-Drums® Friend [...]

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The PussPuss Swim Gear

PussPuss makes you want to wet your prints!
If you're girl is wearing any of these swimsuit designs this summer, you know you got it good. Made in the EU, they are handmade swimsuits with classic gear printed onto their Italian fabrics. Sounds plush & swanky & has classic gear on them, including the Technics SL-1210MK2 Turntable, Clavia [...]

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Renoise

Renoise is a complete, expandable Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) with a refreshing twist. It lets you record, compose, edit, process and render production-quality audio using a tracker-based approach. It features a wide range of built-in audio processors, alongside support for all commonly used virtual instrument and effect plug-in formats.
In a tracker, the music runs from [...]

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Radikal Technologies Accelerator

Radikal Technologies Accelerator
The Accelerator, Radikal Technologies' new flagship instrument, is a full featured polyphonic synth with eight powerful subtractive voices (expandable up to 32). With the introduction of its Radikal Spectralis synthesizer back in 2004 Radikal's R&D department already had established a reputation for having created the best sounding synthesis engine in the world. Six years later the [...]

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Serge Modular Synth

I had the pleasure of checking out a 1981 Serge Modular synth last night at a friend's place. What an experience that was. What made it great was that he knew the whole history of the synth, who created it and where, and had records of bands that had recording weird experimental albums with it.
He [...]

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Roland R-MIX Audio Processing Software

Roland R-MIX Audio Processing Software
I've mentioned a few times about how I'm a huge fan of Roland (and Boss) and their gear, and once again they have released another incredible product. This new release is different than most of their traditional lines of gear (besides Cakewalk), as it's software instead of hardware.
Employing Roland's Veriphrase technology, [...]

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Winter NAMM 2012

So we did it. 2012 Winter NAMM has come and gone, and I'm not really sure how I made it out alive. We were in kind of an inebriated Fear & Loathing style happy mess at the Hilton next door for the weekend, and the amount of bells & whistles and flashing lights and drums [...]

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Akai Pro – Renaissance, Studio, Fly

These could be real leaks of Akai's next release, the MPC Fly, and they could be fakes, of course. The official Akai announcement comes Thursday evening, probably at NAMM. The Fly could just be an I-something download, a mobile app version of their new software, but since MPC has rebranded itself as "Music Production Controller" [...]

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Bitwig Studio

Another DAW? Sure, why not. This one is put out by Bitwig Studio (Ableton Live expats). It looks a lot like a slicker, more polished version of Live. Whether it works as fluidly as Live won't be known until the Beta version is released.
Besides the interface, one of the coolest features I saw was the "Lan [...]

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Reaper 4 Released

 

Reaper 4 has been released.
Anyone use this DAW? I’ve heard nothing but glowing remarks from its users. It comes with a cheap purchase price of $225 for a full license and $60 for a discounted license (personal use, education or non-profit, or a small business that makes less than $20,000/yr). $60 for software that could [...]

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