Reaper 4 – the $60 DAW

REAPER 4 Audio Production Tool DAW is out. they call themselves evolutionary, so it’s best to browse yourself for details. what’s interesting with Reaper is it’s low price compared to the popular DAWs like Live, Logic and Cubase  – but also it is closer and from people who are more into open source kind of thinking compared to others. about the look and feel – well, it looks a lot like a mix out of the most and better known ones – except the little picto-style images on the top left…

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New at / Neues bei Curetronic

There’s a real long images to paste but is almost self explanatory – there are new modules from Curetronic – and looks like they’re all improved – including nice ones like probability, the Stonehenge one looks a lot like a Steiner-Parker Filter. up to 5 LFOs in one Module and a classic 3379 VCF – all in one: most new modules got more in one which is good and decreases needed space – even on the 5U modules (moog sized). so – this is moving on on the path of…

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NI – Komplete 8, Kontakt 5, Mix (EQ,Compressor) & Real Drum Instrument like virtual drummer kind of stuff

Native Instruments releases Komplete 8 and Kontakt 5 soon (September). they also add a real drummer kind of instrument – so this includes recorded full loops but still hosted within Kontakt Player – so this may not be as „intelligent“ as the virtual drummer (Addictive / Easy Drummer) kind of plugins around called studio drummer – uhm, I’d really like some algorithmic kind of tool to be honest… – along this there’s EQ & Compressor pack called solid mix and transient master. so this is -like UAD – a mix…

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Hard Disc . bent – Controller – just looks interesting..

this just looks cool, saw people playing with something like this live, so just to keep the idea.. all bent. it’s a hack this time.. Larv-R performance 1 – timeFrogII from Undead Instruments on Vimeo. timeFrogII – virtual synth playing from Undead Instruments on Vimeo. just in case you want to something real, check this – an iPad controlling a Buchla 200e. Glowing tribute from Eldancer on Vimeo.

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Ensoniq Infos, Downloads und Geschichte

Ensoniq Infos, Downloads und Geschichte. ist eine sehr einfache aber informative Site über ENSONIQ. Als alter Nutzer der ersten Stunde eine schöne Sache, hier gibts auch Anleitungen und ähnliches.Schon deren Herkunft (Soundchips für Commodore) ist und war sympathisch. Und ja, es ist kein einziges Bild auf der Site von Beats & Bytes, aber egal.. Angestaubt? Ensoniq? Eigentlich nicht, schade das sie und deren Einkäufern in leider nicht mehr viel einfiel und von Macfreundlichkeit spreche ich besser nicht seit der Übernahme.

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