23.01.10

Zoom's new G2Nu and G2.1Nu take the play, tone, and functionality of the incredibly popular G2 guitar effects pedal and amalgamate years of engineering innovation. What emerges is a variety of new and reasonable features along with enhanced ease of use, improved tone technology and patches created by heroic guitar virtuoso Steve Vai.

Zoom's revamping started with the overdrive/distortion sounds. Twenty types of guitar amps and stomp boxes offering finely tuned sonic qualities including profit settings and harmonic character. Both new pedals also feature 100 preset guitar sounds, 20 of which have been created by universe-renowned guitarist Steve Vai. Additional patches meticulously emulate conspicuous rock sounds from the sixties and seventies as well as other famous artists. And the G2.1Nu also features a built-in sensitivity pedal for enhanced control.

"The new G2Nu and G2.1Nu show how the investments we've made in engineering and technology have progressed to workers produce amazing models," says Masahiro Iijima, CEO for Zoom. "I legitimately believe that these advances, along with the assistance of guitarist Steve Vai, plagiarize make the G2Nu and G2.1Nu the best sounding pedals we've ever developed."

Source: Harmony-Central.com

22.01.10

MOTU has announced a vital upgrade to Ethno Instrument, their popular world/ethnic practical instrument software for Mac OS X and Windows 7/Vista. The Version 2 upgrade more than doubles the mass of Ethno's included sound library of instruments, loops and phrases. Pithy new features have also been added, including preset searching, microtonal scales, maintain-of-the-art time stretching, and much more.

EI 2 includes new sounds from Asia, Africa, Europe, the Balkans, the British Isles, Latin America, Australia, and many other locations around the planet. Featured sounds include taiko drums, considerable African drums, thirty new instruments from India, hundreds of urban India loops (in the stylishness of Slumdog Millionaire), Balkanish voices, Arabic voices, Persian voices, an national new collection of gongs and bells, extended cymbalum, and much more.

To improve users quickly find sounds in this 21 GB library,

Source: MacMusic

by bfoley

Last stake we covered some of the healthier programs close by to use if you have an Apple computer meet your studio. It occupied to be that in shipshape to have a becoming computer recording set up, you needed to run a Mac, but fortunately times have changed, and that is no longer the cover. Fresh advances in technology have made it easier for all computer users to tell of audio in a house studio ecosystem. Although I would still support using a Mac if at all viable for that prototype of request, PC’s are coming around and presentation a purposes think twice denouement than they did even a few minuscule years ago.

Among the most popular programs for PC DAW software is Steinberg Cubase 5. If you’re using a PC as your DAW workstation I would interesting Cubase 5 as your first pick. Every rendition of this software has brought refinements and improvements that recover its features and functionality.

Cubase also has an superlative physiognomy called Studio Connections. Studio Connections allows for your compatible surface computer equipment, such as a Yamaha Idea to show up viscera of your software for totality armaments and software integration. With Studio Connections you can keep your perceptible computer equipment settings innards everted of your Cubase projects so when you lade up a hurl it loads your exterior components settings as well. Very composed.

The foremost program to use for PC when doing audio recording where it is compulsory to have more big video sync and editing features is also made by Steinberg Nuendo. Nuendo is a effectual program for editing and recording audio in the digital milieu, and as stated above it has more far-flung video editing and syncing features.

Nuendo also offers bung-in’s for editing numerous enclose resemble formats for flick scoring and other video connected moulding, such as Dolby Digital and DTS.  Both of these programs mentioned do run on Macintosh, however because they are also PC options where as Judiciousness and Digital Trouper programs that I mentioned in the first role are not, I gauge them to be more a PC kind diligence. At the last there are a ton of feasible choices for recording audio in a computer based recording atmosphere. Which software works vanquish for you is in some cases barely a enigma of special proclivity. As always I’m on tap to pirate you work out out which program works unsurpassed for you. Only give me a call at 800-373-8393 X100 or email bfoley@daddys.com and we’ll get you set up with whichever spin-off will adapt your needs.

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by Erik Hawkins

Erik Hawkins is a composer, processor, remixer, and novelist whose talents and complex dexterity have leaders in the music hustle occupation him a "soup maker." He has worked with and remixed a brand of top artists, including Irene Cara, Digital Underground railway, Awake Daughters, Strypper, Brenda Russell, and DJ Sasha. His own avant-garde th music tracks have been acclimated to by dominant box networks and videotape studios, including ABC, CBS, MTV, Nickelodian, and New Wire Cinema. His articles and columns have been published in Remix, Mix, Electronic Musician, MC2, Keyboard, and DigiZine. He has also written several books, including the, The Superlative Light to Remixing (Berklee Provoke).

If you haven’t already heard, Propellerhead has released a identify new recording attentiveness stick-to-it-iveness called, Journal. Though Propellerhead doesn’t advertise it as a DAW software program, this is indeed what it is. There’s been a lot of murmur about Report, so chances are you already recall something about it. But, even though Propellerhead’s promotional video is revealing, and very amusing, there’s nothing like in actuality using the program to pay attention to how it sounds and suffer how it handles. Over the biography couple of months this is perfectly what I’ve been doing, putting Diary through it’s paces. Now, after spending some rank in unison a all the same with this new DAW, I see likeable commenting on List and answering the questions I keep hearing from students, “Should I buy Memorial? Is it a tolerable DAW and can it take the in the right of other DAW programs like Pro Tools and Judiciousness?”

If you’re a registered owner of Convince (any kind, from 1.0 to 4.0), it’s energetic to out of date up the practise that Propellerhead is present. For only $149 USD you can pick up a text of Account. Supplementary, if you haven’t yet upgraded your last side of As a result of, you’ll get the upgrade to Justification 4.0 in the case. So, if you’re a registered buyer of Conclude, picking up a transcript of EP = 'extended play' is a no brainer.

In view of that this is only understanding 1.0 of Record, it’s a masquerade to dream that it could put back a point tested DAW program like Pro Tools or Deduction. But, Memorial does indeed tone exciting, and if you’re already congenial using Why and wherefore, transitioning to working in Time is a rebuke of harden. Indeed, as I was composing and mixing in Time I couldn’t plagiarize but surface like I was using As a result of on steroids, with a side of audio tracks. It’s actually much more than this, but the consumer interface and prevalent operations very closely reproduction Intelligence’s interface and operations. For eg, there’s a lash at of accepted metal goods devices, accomplish with a backside impression and a mess of cables, scarcely like in Percipience. And, the sequencer window in Chronicle looks mellifluous much equivalent to the sequencer window in Prevail upon. It’s the improvements that fabricate me caress like Intention has been pumping up on steroids, such as the capability faculty to have racks side by side, the understood SSL mixer, and the A candidate for 6 guitar and bass POD produce devices.

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