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Bacardi & MySpace Team For Dream Gig DJ Contest
Bacardi and MySpace.com have partnered for the Dream Gig DJ contest. The winner will open the Bacardi B-Live show at the Bayfront Amphitheater in downtown Miami, April 19.
The contest is open to entrants 25 years of age or older who submit a video or audio. The grand prize winner will take the stage as the [...]
Weekend Fun: The Candle Cannon
Sub makers Erbert and Gerbert weren’t content to merely blow out the candles on a cake celebrating their 20th anniversary, so they decided to build a huge air vortex cannon. A what?? We’re glad you asked…
More information on Erbert and Gerbert’s Candle Cannon.
Samplebase Updates Satellite - Sample-Synth Freeware Player
Samplebase has updated Satellite, the free version of their downloadable sample-synth player. Satellite users may now import their own Wav, AIFF, and REX files. Up until now, only Satellite Pro contained this feature. While customers still need Satellite Pro to get more advanced sample editing functions and access to synth parameters, the new free version [...]
iTunes Now Number Music Retailer In US
Apple has announced that iTunes has overtaken Wal-Mart to become the number one music retailer in the United States. The statistics are based on the latest data from the NPD Group’s MusicWatch survey, which captures consumer behavior and counts one CD as representing 12 tracks.
In less than five years, iTunes has skyrocketed to the [...]
Live Nation Strikes Again Inks $150 Million Deal With Jay-Z
Image from WikipediaLive Nation has announced a mega-deal worth $150 Million dollars with Shawn Carter aka, Jay-Z. Industry insiders have been speculating on what Carter’s next corporate play would be since he failed to come to terms with Universal last year and stepped down from his role as as President of DefJam after 3 years. Jay-Z’s deal [...]
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Transom Capital Purchases Blue Microphones
Transom Capital Group announced that it has purchased Blue Microphones. Skipper Wise and Little Buddy Martins Saulespurens, the founders of Blue, will retain an ownership interest in the company and continue on developing new products under the Blue moniker. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Russ Roenick, Managing Director at Transom Capital, said that executives [...]
Sony BMG France Sued For Software Piracy
Image from WikipediaThe French outpost of Sony BMG is being sued by PointDev for violating its intellectual property rights. According to reports, four servers belonging to Sony BMG France contained pirated versions of PointDev’s Ideal Migration software, after they were seized by authorities. Now here’s the kicker:
PointDev discovered that Sony BMG had the offending software on their [...]
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Puremagnetik Releases Purple Kit
Puremagnetik has released Purple Kit for Ableton Live 7, Kontakt 3, Logic and GarageBand. Purple Kit is a 3-piece maple drumset hand-built to specifications designed by Puremagnetik emphasizing funk and hip-hop styles. This 500MB collection of 24-bit samples has been captured with multiple articulations, stick types and microphone positions. All parameters are easily accessed with [...]
Sugar-Bytes Updates Effectrix
Sugar-Bytes has updated their innovative Effectrix effects sequencer. Effectrix is a new kind of Effect Instrument, which gives you a complete laboratory for sound design. Break your beats, create pulsing atmospheres, psychedelic sound mutations, crush, stretch, loop and reorganize any kind of audio material in real time and enjoy a never ending depth of inspiration with this [...]
Native Instruments Updates Guitar Rig To Version 3.1
Native Instruments has updated Guitar Rig to version 3.1. The new version offers optimized high-precision modeling for improved sound quality as well as several usability enhancements, further expanding the unique power and versatility that make Guitar Rig an ideal creative tool for modern guitarists and producers.
Based on recent engineering progress, Guitar Rig 3.1 has been [...]
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Red Bull Readies Music Label For 2008 Launch
Red Bull plans to officially launch their new record label in 2008 and is now exploring different distribution models. The initiative, which we revealed in November, now has several A&R executives attached to it, as well as a website. The professional recording studio in Santa Monica is said to be active with several indie rock [...]
D&M Holdings Buys Allen & Heath
D&M Holdings Continues Its Buying Spree - Acquires Allen & Heath
D&M Holdings Inc. has aquired Allen & Heath Holdings Limited of Penryn, Cornwall, England. Allen & Heath is a manufacturer of audio mixing consoles for professional sound engineers, live sound installations and DJs. The terms of the transaction will not be disclosed.
D&M Holdings [...]
Strictly Rhythm & Defected Ink International Distribution Deal With Warner’s ADA
Alternative Distribution Alliance (ADA), a division of Warner Music U.K., has inked exclusive international deals to distribute the catalogs of Defected Records and Strictly Rhythm Records.
From today forward, the labels’ physical and digital formats will be distributed through the Warner Music Group-owned independent distributor, and via affiliated international divisions ADA Global and Zebralution. Founded in [...]
JBL Professional Announces Eight New AE Series Loudspeakers
JBL Professional has introduced eight new compact AE Series loudspeaker models. The AE Compact loudspeaker family consists of eight high-output, 2-way loudspeaker models incorporating either single or dual woofers, including 5.25-, 6.5- and 8-inch transducers. The high-frequency sections include a 1-inch dome tweeter for two models (AC15 and AC25), while the remaining six models incorporate [...]
VRSonic Premiers VibeStudio Designer 1 Spatial Audio Design Suite
VRSonic has released VibeStudio Designer 1, their spatial audio design suite that is comprised of Config, Profiler, VibeWorks, and VibeStation. All four applications rest on top of the complex modeling and rendering engine SoundScape3D. Together these applications create a one of a kind spatial audio package that provides the ability to both create dynamic audio [...]
IFPI Invoices The Pirate Bay for $2.5 Million In Compensatory Damages
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has sent The Pirate Bay a bill for $2.5 million in damages from 24 music CDs, nine movies and four video games. The compensation was determined by counting the how many times the aforementioned content was downloaded. They are also demanding general statutory compensation because those downloads [...]
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Radiohead, Apple Announce Nude Remix Project
Image from WikipediaRadiohead has partnered with Apple for an interactive remix project, which allows emerging producers to remix “Nude” - Radiohead’s latest single from the band’s new XL album release.
Remixers can purchase five separate stems from “Nude” including: vocals, bass, guitar, strings/fx and drums from iTunes Plus. If a user buys all five elements, the [...]
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Korg Announces Triton VSTi - Soft Synth Version Of The Original Due This Fall
Image from WikipediaKorg has announced Triton VSTi, a soft synth version of their original synthesizer. The Triton VSTi features the new HI (Hyper Integrated) synthesis system, and 32 MB of PCM ROM containing 425 multisamples (organ, guitar and brass plus 413 drum samples).
The Triton VSTi can be integrated in the Korg Legacy Collection and runs on both [...]
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Klein + Hummel Announce O 810 And O 870 Subwoofers
Klein + Hummel announced the O 810 and O 870 subwoofers, which were developed to compliment the concern’s range of monitors, and can be used either as a dedicated LFE channel, or to provide low-frequency extension and increased maximum SPL for the main monitors.
Features:
• 7.1 Channel High Definition Bass Management compatible with all formats from [...]
Moog Announces Moog Guitar - Exclusive Photos
Moog Music has launched a promo video for a new Moog Guitar. Now Moog enjoys announcing new gear on April 1st, basically just to mess with our heads, but often these items do come to fruition. As you can see from our exclusive photos below, which come courtesy of flash frames in the video, this [...]
Sharper Image Unveils beamz - Laser Music Performance System
The Sharper Image has unveiled beamz, a 19? tall “music performance system” that utilizes laser beams to trigger
sounds. (But can you use it as a MIDI controller?? —Ed.) The beamz system has a “W” shape, with six laser beams spanning the two sections. Apparently, you connect the beamz to your computer via USB, hook [...]
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Ableton Announces Distribution Agreement With Focusrite - Novation Live Controller On Its Way?
Image from WikipediaAbleton has announced a new UK distribution partnership with Focusrite, who owns Novation. The partnership has raised speculation among Ableton aficionados that a sanctioned controller could be on its way to the Live faithful.
Many Ableton Live users have wondered aloud whether the concern would ever get into the hardware game and release a designated controller [...]
de la Mancha Releases Machin - Free VST Plug-In For Windows
de la Mancha has released machin, a random, probability-based, step-sequenced multi-fx VST plug-in for Windows. Machin was co-developed by de la Mancha and France’s sink music, after their initial collaboration on TRUC. It appears to be a match made in tweakers heaven since both these nutty concerns seem to have an affinity for plug-in weirdness. [...]
Vintage Ad Monday Madness: Roland CR-78
FutureMusic’s Vintage Ad Monday Madness continues with this gem from Roland. This black and white special declares “you’re only limited by your own imagination” — that, and of course the 14 sounds…
The preset disco rhythms must have been a big selling point since they dedicate eight of the 34 just for that genre - oh, [...]
Saltline Releases Cadence, Jekyll & Ichi - Free Windows Plug-Ins
Saltline has released three new products, Cadence, Jekyll, and Ichi for Windows. Saltline’s website is horrendous, so it’s hard to give you specifics, but Cadence and Jekyll are two new VST effect plug-ins, and Ichi is a VSTi virtual analog synth.
Cadence is an LFO controlled filter and pan effect, and Jekyll is some sort [...]
U2 Signs Mega 12-Year Deal With Live Nation
Live Nation has announced a 12-year mega-deal with U2 for the band’s merchandising, licensing rights, and online properties. Live Nation already has a two decade relationship with the Irish band for touring, but will most likely include ticketing when their own system goes live in 2009. The deal does not include recording and publishing, [...]
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Weekend Fun: As My Guitar Gently Vibrates
Thanks to technology, the days of your girlfriend straddling your Peavey 6505 for a little extra “impact” while you practice Running With The Devil are a thing of the past. Some nutters over NOTCOT, decided to hook up their Les Paul to a to a VOX Amplug and and a OhMiBod self pleasure device. The [...]
Weekend Fun: Hammacher Schlemmer Monocycle
From The How To Kill Yourself In 60 Seconds File
The folks at Hammacher Schlemmer are now selling a motorized Monocycle for a mere 13 large. According to Hammacher, this monocycle can travel up to 25 mph and is powered by a 31cc, four-stroke, 1.5 HP engine. Based on an original design conceived in Marseilles, France [...]
Fujistu Siemens Computers Reveals A Green, Sustainable Future
Fujitsu Siemens Computers executives outlined the company's strategic commitment to environmental sustainability in a podcast
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