Posted on Wed 09 May 2012 in General News • Tagged with control 2802, costa mesa studios, focusrite, nick fainbarg
Costa Mesa Studios in Southern California, USA, were the first to purchase the Focusrite Control 2802. In this short interview, studio manager and mixing engineer Nick Fainbarg explains why he knows that he made the right choice with the 2802.
Click here to read the full interview and to watch …
Posted on Wed 09 May 2012 in General News • Tagged with condenser mic, mic, microphone, sontronics, stc-10, stc-2x
Sontronics are giving you the chance to grab two condenser microphones for the price of one! From 1st to 31st May 2012, anyone purchasing a Sontronics STC-2X omni/cardioid condenser mic (in silver or black) from us will be eligible to claim a completely FREE STC-10 pencil condenser microphone, worth …
Posted on Wed 09 May 2012 in Computer Music • Tagged with audiounit, oscillator, sinevibes
To celebrate the launch of their brand new website, Sinevibes are giving away their Oscillator AudioUnit completely free (previously \$19).
Oscillator is an audio-controlled synthesizer with up to six envelope-modulated voices and effects such as frequency stepping, unison detune and digital distortion. It can turn any audio into a wide …
Posted on Fri 04 May 2012 in Computer Music • Tagged with analogue experience, arp2600v, arturia, cs-80v, jupiter-8v, minimoog v, moog modular v, oberheim sem v, prohet v, spark
From now until June 30th 2012, anyone registering an Arturia Hybrid keyboard instrument will be able to choose and download up to four full Arturia software instruments completely FREE! Or, if you register a Spark hybrid drum machine before June 30th, you will be able to download the full V-Collection …
Posted on Tue 01 May 2012 in entries • Tagged with drum synth, nord, nord drum
You can read more reviews like this, along with Tony’s productions at his personal site -> Tony Long Music.
NORD DRUM - INTRODUCTION
Announced at Winter NAMM this year was the Nord Drum: a virtual analogue drum synthesiser with four inputs for electronic drum pads or acoustic drum triggers. The Nord …
Posted on Fri 27 April 2012 in Computer Music • Tagged with arturia, wurlitzer, wurlitzer 200a, wurlitzer-v
Arturia have announced a new addition to their fantastic software modelling series! The Wurlizer-V authentically models the classic Wurlitzer 200A Electric Piano - even if you've never heard of this instrument before, you will know the sound!
The Wurlitzer-V package also comes with a number of vintage stompbox and tube amp …
Posted on Thu 26 April 2012 in How To Guides • Tagged with library folder, mac, os x lion
As you probably already know, a lot of audio program preferences are in the User -> Library folder on the Mac OS X operating system. However, if you are working on the Lion operating system, this folder is hidden by default.
You can 'un-hide' the Library folder by opening the Terminal …
Posted on Thu 26 April 2012 in Drums • Tagged with benedetto nino caccavale, focusrite, kimberly thompson, liquid saffire 56, octopre mkii dynamic
Kimberly Thompson is one of the worlds greatest and most versatile drummers, having worked with some of the biggest names in Jazz, Soul, Funk, Hip Hop, R&B and Pop. In this short interview, Kimberly and her producer Benedetto 'Nino' Caccavale express why they rate Focusrite preamps so much, and …
Posted on Thu 26 April 2012 in Customer Services • Tagged with store, superstore
It's been a while since we last brought you an update of our brand new pro music superstore in-the-making, but that doesn't mean that nothing has been happening... far from it in fact! Although it still resembles a building site, the shape of our new shop is really starting to …
Posted on Thu 26 April 2012 in General News • Tagged with gibson, jim de cola, les paul, les paul standard, les paul studio, musikmesse, musikmesse 2012
Here is a video by Premier Guitar, which was taken at Musikmesse 2012 and shows off the new Gibson Les Paul Standard and Gibson Les Paul Studio guitars. The guitars are demonstrated by Jim De Cola from Gibson USA. Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtvEHKQDMfE
For more information …