Author: Christopher Laird Simmons

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (MuseWire) – Audiolife (www.Audiolife.com), the Los Angeles-based Artist Services Company responsible for the development of a new media web-platform specifically designed for indie artists to sell music online and on-demand to fans, has released an in-depth report of findings on the future of selling CDs online. The report, “The New Way to […]

High Wycombe, UK (MuseWire) – Focusrite Audio Engineering Ltd, the UK distributor of KRK Systems products, today announced the availability of the R6 passive studio monitor. The R6 incorporates design cues from KRK's best selling Rokit line, including radically radiused edges along the front of the cabinet. Since 2004 Rokit monitors have provided thousands of […]

PFINZTAL, Germany (MuseWire) – Pimp up your loops with VirSyn – FDelay – The Rhythmiser! The multi-band delay machine FDELAY is an exciting tool for sound design and loop manipulation in realtime. In contrast to the delay machines you're used to FDELAY splits the frequency spectrum of the input signal into 27 bands and applies […]

Champaign, Ill. (MuseWire) – Musicians and sound designers for film, games and live electronic music now have a new supercomputer designed specifically for interactive sound exploration and live performance. The Pacarana and Paca are two new multiprocessor computers optimized for capturing, processing and synthesizing sound for the award-winning Kyma Sound Design Environment. Designed by Symbolic […]

Winter NAMM 2009 (MuseWire) – Cakewalk, the world’s leading developer of powerful and easy to use products for music creation and recording, announces a new line of four cable-based interfaces designed to easily connect musical instruments and other components to a computer. The three MIDI interface and one audio interface hardware solutions introduced today are […]

Berlin, Germany (MuseWire) – Native Instruments today announced MASCHINE, a next-generation groove production studio that makes beat creation and arrangement more immediate and tactile than ever before. The system combines an advanced software sequencer and sampler with a seamlessly integrated, highly functional performance controller. Finally merging a fast and intuitive groove-box workflow with the power […]

WINTER NAMM 2009 (MuseWire) – At a press conference this morning, Open Labs announced their new line of “generation 5” keyboard workstations. The new models include the 37 key MiKo LXD, 61 key NeKo LX5, and deluxe NeKo XXL. All models have Quad Core processors, 1TB storage (4TB with XXL), and 4GB RAM standard. All […]

WINTER NAMM 2009 (MuseWire) – Many producers and synthesizer enthusiasts asked for a full-blown Waldorf Synthesizer for their virtual rack. We listened, and now we proudly present Largo. Largo is the first pure software synthesizer with Waldorf DNA. And again – it is the cutting edge sound that makes the big difference. No wonder, as […]

High Wycombe, U.K. (MuseWire) – Novation's Plug-in FX suite provides five key effects from Novation's illustrious synth heritage, including signature effects derived from the legendary SuperNova II. The five independent VST/AU plug-ins include Chorus, Delay, Tremelo, Phaser and the famously flexible, powerful filter featuring overdrive. Each and every one of them offers a significant upgrade […]

High Wycombe, U.K. — Introducing Focusrite's first independent VST/AU plug-in suite plus Guitar FX, a joint collaboration from Focusrite and Overloud. Winter NAMM 2009 sees the launch of Focusrite's first independent collection of VST/AU plug-ins; the aptly named ‘Focusrite Plug-in Suite'. The Focusrite Plug-in Suite provides a collection of EQ, Compression, Reverb and Gating VST/AU […]