Posted on Fri 01 April 2011 in Computer Music • Tagged with focusrite, saffire pro 24 dsp, vrm box
What Is VRM? VRM (Virtual Reference Monitoring) technology basically allows you to listen to your music through a pair of heaphones, but hear it as if the sound were coming from a pair of speakers in front of you! Why would you want to do this? You may not have …
Posted on Fri 01 April 2011 in Computer Music
Want to get your hands on a funky limited edition Reason Record laptop sleeve? No problem! All you have to do is purchase Propellerhead Reason Record Duo (Standard or Student/Teacher edition) between 1st April 2011 and 31st May 2011, and you can claim a 13" or 15" version absolutely …
Introduced in 1928, the Theremin is one of the earliest and most widely known electronic instruments. Played by artists manipulating the pitch and volume of invisible sound waves radiated from a single antenna with their hands, Theremin music has distinguished hit records from such diverse artists as The Beach Boys …
Posted on Fri 01 April 2011 in Computer Music • Tagged with controller
Maschine version 1.6 is now available and it's completely FREE to update! Although you will of course already need to own Maschine first!
What's New in Maschine 1.6?
Now you can use any Native Instruments or third party VST or Audio Unit plug-ins directly inside Maschine! You can …
Posted on Fri 01 April 2011 in Computer Music • Tagged with ableton, Live, suite
Get ready for a MASSIVE April offer...
For April ONLY, customers who buy Ableton Suite 8 (including EDU versions and upgrades from Live Lite and Live Intro) will get Max for Live, worth £229.99, for FREE. How will this work? A Max for Live serial will automatically be added …
Posted on Thu 31 March 2011 in entries • Tagged with Live, mackie, studio
The Onyx range of digitally infused premium analogue mixers are perfect for live and studio applications. We plug in the 16-channel Mackie Onyx 1640i…
Mackie is widely known for designing high-performance, professional audio gear that fits into the budget of the working musician. The Mackie boffins know mixers and continually …
Posted on Wed 30 March 2011 in entries • Tagged with avid, daw, pro tools 9, software
The newest update to the professionals’ favourite DAW brings it within reach of us mere mortals at last. We take a long, hard look at Avid Pro Tools 9…
The introduction of version 9 of Pro Tools last autumn has to be the music industry’s hottest news in years …
Posted on Wed 30 March 2011 in entries • Tagged with cubase 6, daw, software, Steinberg, studio
The major new update to Cubase has us dead excited with its massive editing tools, virtual instruments and groundbreaking VST Expression 2…
Are you producing your music on any old DAW? Are there any plug-in effects or editing tools you’re missing and would like to call your own? With …
Posted on Tue 29 March 2011 in entries • Tagged with papen, rob, software
Following on from my recent SubBoomBass blog post, I decided it would be useful to give you a little look at another Rob Papen product… Blue! I’ll admit now that I haven’t been using Blue for as long as I've been using SubBoomBass, so the information in this …
We were so impressed with QSC’s K series speakers that we immediately pre-ordered the new KW series, so here’s an exclusive first look at them…
When we reviewed the K-series PA speakers from QSC a couple of issues ago (in our Absolute Music brochure), we were blown away …