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Sweden (MuseWire) — Library of the Extreme – Fill Insanity has been announced. Dirk Verbeuren (Soilwork, Scarve) is back with the third pillar in his much appreciated series of extreme metal MIDI for drums: Library of the Extreme III – Fill Insanity.
MONTREAL, Quebec (MuseWire) — AAS announces Chromaphone, a brand new creative percussion synthesizer plug-in. According to the company newsletter, ‘We have designed a synthesizer that combines acoustic resonators to create drums, percussion, mallet, string, and synth-like instruments.’
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (MuseWire) — Moog Music launches Season Two of Moog Sound Lab, a unique performance series giving artists the opportunity to experiment with various forms of synthesis and soundscaping. Season Two marks a partnership with music tastemaker, SPIN.com. SPIN will exclusively present one performance from each session.
LONDON, U.K. (MuseWire) — Sample Magic announces the release of The Secrets of House Music Production: iPad Edition. After selling 10,000+ copies of the The Secrets of House Music Production book, Sample Magic is delighted to announce the release of the all-new iPad Edition.
PORTLAND, Ore. (MuseWire) — Audinate announced today that Inter-M, South Korea’s largest PA and installed sound manufacturer, has agreed to collaborate to produce a line of products that will feature Dante, Audinate’s patented media networking technology.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (MuseWire) – iZotope, Inc., a leading innovator in digital audio signal processing, announces the release of Ozone 5 and Ozone 5 Advanced. Ozone 5 is an update to iZotope’s critically acclaimed software mastering suite. Ozone 5 Advanced is a professional mastering suite that expands Ozone’s feature set with individual component plug-ins, extended features, […]
AUSTIN, Texas (MuseWire) – Open Labs, LLC, the industry leader and pioneer for nearly a decade in all-in-one music production workstations, is proud to expand its product line by introducing, Music OS 3.0. Music OS 3.0 or MOS (moss) is the world’s first music creation and live performance software designed specifically to address the needs […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (MuseWire) — SoundExchange announced this week the appointment of Jonathan C. Bender to the role of chief operating officer (COO). Jonathan will assume responsibility for the organization’s operational structure, including oversight of distribution and account services.
NEW YORK, N.Y. (MuseWire) — Earlier this week Hit Songs Deconstructed released its Hit Songwriting Trends in Pop: Q3-2011 Report which analyzes the key song elements present in top ten hits and reveals how hit Pop songwriting is shifting over time.
Music Industry Newswire COLUMN: Smoothly written and dynamic, Sean Wilentz’ book is full of insight, commentary, and historical perspective about songwriting’s greatest poet. Like his subject, the work is reflection and refraction of fact, fancy, and fable.
Pfinztal, Germany (MuseWire) — VirSyn Software Synthesizer has announced this week that KLON 1.1 now supports 64-bit operation. According to the company, ‘The heart of the vocal designer plugin KLON is a harmonic pitch shifter for natural pitch and formant manipulation of vocal sounds in realtime.’
PORTLAND, Ore. (MuseWire) — Audinate will be a co-sponsor at this year’s Audio Engineering Society’s 44th International Conference on Audio Networking. Audinate is the creator of Dante, the leading audio over IP media networking solution for the Pro Audio/Visual (A/V) industry.
LONDON, U.K. (MuseWire) — The National Association of Record Industry Professionals (NARIP) president Tess Taylor leads a music delegation from Hollywood to London this week for meetings to protect intellectual property (I.P.), preserve creativity, and create new opportunities for musicians and music, whose uses contribute to the national economies of the U.S., the U.K. and world culture.
Music Industry Newswire COLUMN: Storytellers are to be cherished and Clark Terry should be on a pedestal for his thoroughly entertaining autobiography. Brimming with life, love, music, and great characters, this book is as much a history of the twentieth century as it is a history of his ninety years (and counting!) .
AUSTIN, Texas (MuseWire) – Music Computing, the makers of all-in-one keyboard production stations and multi-touch touchscreens announced today its new line of Mac OS X compatible keyboard and music production stations. ControlBLADEs are all-in-one music production stations complete with piano keys, drum trigger pads, knobs, sliders, thousands of sound presets and software for live and […]
MuseWire COLUMN: Not a musician, yet a giant of jazz. Undiplomatic, but an ambassador of American culture. Often impolite, but always truthful. Unequaled, yet a champion of equality. And that just touches the surface of Norman Granz, producer of more music than one might think humanly possible. Social justice made great strides in the United […]
MuseWire REVIEW: With so many XLR to USB adapters now available on the market, it’s tough to decide upon which interface will be the best bang for the buck. The Shure x2u XLR to USB Adapter has shot out in front of the pack, acting not only as a pocket-sized adapter that can turn any […]
Risskov, Denmark (MuseWire) – The new iPhone app compiles all TonePrints for TC Electronic’s TonePrint enabled guitar pedals in one place and allows users to “beam” new TonePrints to their pedals in a matter of seconds. The idea behind the technology is as simple as it is ingenious: Each TonePrint has been converted to a […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (MuseWire) – For the fifth consecutive year, the NFL held a football game in London. Once again, Britannia Row Productions provided live audio for the event to the 86,000 crowd inside Wembley Stadium. In order to deliver pristine sound throughout the venue, Audinate’s patented Dante™ technology distributed the audio for the sound reinforcement […]
BERGEN, Norway (MuseWire) – The third volume in the Octagon series: “Battle Without Dishonour” is an instrumental hip hop album and contains some of Age Rissnes’ all-time favourite tracks in the dance genre – Harlequins Enigma refuses to leave the dance scene as of yet. The album was mastered at Last Drop Mastering, Safeandsound mastering […]
Risskov, Denmark (MuseWire) – From classic power metal over ultra-tight thrash riffs to a complete riot of unleashed power, this pedal is the ultimate one-stop station for all things heavy! TC Electronic’s Rottweiler Distortion goes the extra mile and delivers an unparalleled sound that will inspire any hard rock and metal guitarist to be shredding […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (MuseWire) – The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announced today a new partnership with the Association of American Voices to engage with people across the world through music. Known as American Music Abroad, this people-to-people exchange will feature a wide variety of American musical genres through international cultural […]
MuseWire COLUMN: You may think of spoken word recordings as esoteric or antiquated, but in Jacob Smith’s new book they have a different purpose: to illuminate the roots of today’s society. When NASA launched the Voyager missions during 1977, the two spacecraft contained gold-coated phonograph records and music from around the globe. Among the recordings: […]
GRENOBLE, France (MuseWire) – ARTURIA has announced its fourth and most sophisticated keyboard in the Analog Experience series: Analog Experience THE LABORATORY 61 keys, is now shipping. Analog Experience THE LABORATORY 61 is a 61-note MIDI keyboard with velocity and aftertouch-sensitive keys that is designed to easily integrate into any studio and stage environment. Packaged […]
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (MuseWire) – Throughout Moogfest weekend (October 28-30), The Bob Moog Foundation will provide a hub for Moog history and education at the festival’s Moogaplex, located in the heart of downtown Asheville in the Haywood Park Hotel. In addition to hosting panels and discussions beginning at noon each day, the Foundation will share a […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (MuseWire) – The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announced today the 2011 late fall tour schedule for The Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad in partnership with Jazz at Lincoln Center. Using music and culture as diplomatic tools to bring people together and foster mutual understanding, The Rhythm Road: […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (MuseWire) – SoundExchange announced on Tuesday that it has distributed nearly $88 million to more than 18,300 payees designated by recording artists and labels during the third quarter of 2011. SoundExchange is the non-profit performance rights organization (PRO) that was appointed by the Copyright Royalty Board to collect and distribute statutory performance royalties […]
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (MuseWire) – The Rack Gizmo is the new flagship switching product of the RJM Music line. For years now, professional and amateur players alike have been relying on RJM Music Technology effect switching systems to be the core of their guitar rigs, helping them integrate all of their effects and amps into […]
BERLIN, Germany (MuseWire) – Native Instruments has just launched a special offer for its acclaimed MASCHINE groove production systems. From October 27th to December 31st, every new purchase of the regular MASCHINE version will include two MASCHINE Expansions of choice as a free download, while new owners of the compact MASCHINE MIKRO can select one […]
Grenoble, France (MuseWire) – Ahead of the official release, planned for December 2011, Arturia has exposed the detailed features, graphic interface and the first exclusive sound demos on its website. Not only the Oberheim SEM V, powered by the latest innovations in Arturia’s TAE(R) technology, is a faithful “recreation of the original,” but it will […]
NEWS (MuseWire) – KV331 Audio announces the release of version 2.5 of their semi-modular synthesizer and effect plug-in SynthMaster – finally out of BETA. With version 2.5, SynthMaster becomes a cross-platform plug-in running on Windows (32/64 bits) and Mac OSX (32 bits) operating systems in VST and AU formats. The latest version comes with 400 […]
MuseWire COLUMN: Rock and roll allows for a wide range of styles, including music that shocks listeners, attacks social conventions, intimidates casual onlookers, and angers the vast majority of people. A band called Foul Play accomplishes all of those things. Fortunately, they are quite good. And very funny. It is eleven-thirty on a Thursday night […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (MuseWire) – SoundExchange, the non-profit performance rights organization authorized to collect royalties for the digital performance of sound recordings, and CD Baby, the online music store and digital distributor, recently announced a reprise of their initiative to notify hundreds of recording artists owed back royalties. The match, which the organizations hope to make […]
MuseWire REVIEW: Mysterious goth band The Catholic Comb created a disturbing smoky concoction in 2005 and then apparently remained underground. Yeah, I hadn’t heard of them, either, but now that I know, I’m a convert. Sometimes a good album goes unnoticed. For a while. This one came to me purely by chance. I say by […]
MuseWire COLUMN: Larry John McNally uses emotion like a paintbrush when creating songs. You may not know his name, but you’ve heard his work performed by Eagles, Bonnie Raitt, Don Henley, Aaron Neville, Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, Jennifer Warnes, Atlantic Starr, Average White Band and more. When a songwriter emphasizes emotional truth in his songs, […]
MuseWire COLUMN: “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Abraham Lincoln quoted this basic concept of unity versus isolationism in his famous speech to the Republican Convention of 1858. 600 years later, Admiral Spock, as he lay ill onboard the Starship Enterprise, uttered with his dying breath, “The needs of the many outweigh the needs […]
DENVER, Colo. (MuseWire) – Singer/author Dee Dee Phelps is now performing in Doo Wop Shows nationally. “Dick and Dee Dee” will appear at the Denver Paramount Theatre as part of the Ultimate Doo Wop Show on October 29, 2011 at 8 p.m. Also on the show are: The Fleetwoods, The Crystals, The Marcels, The Olympics, […]
Sydney, Australia (MuseWire) – To commemorate the Classic and Classic II tube microphones, RØDE has announced a custom edition of its Classic II, exclusively limited to an edition of 500 worldwide. The release of this microphone coincides with RØDE’s decision to retire the RØDE Classic lineage, following a celebrated 15 years as the Australian microphone […]
Barbados and New York (MuseWire) – Korg Kronos Volume #1 – Vintage Synths – is the first collection of sounds for the Kronos HD-1 Sound Engine from Kid Nepro, described as: “An amazing assortment of fully KARMA-fied Programs and Combis perfect for producers and keyboard players looking for some great classic synth sounds to add […]
Berlin, Germany (MuseWire) – Native Instruments today announced DAMAGE, a new instrument that provides hard-hitting cinematic percussion for professional movie scoring and high-impact music production. Created by premier sound design house Heavyocity and powered by the latest KONTAKT 5 engine, this unique sonic resource expertly combines industrial sounds and orchestral percussion to add true wide-screen […]
Grenoble, France (MuseWire) – Arturia announces the upcoming release of the “Oberheim SEM V.” After years without any addition to their Synthesizer Anthology series, Arturia will bring back to life in software format one of the world’s most sough-after synthesizers. The Oberheim SEM V accurately emulates the famous sound and interface of the original Synthesizer […]
COLUMN: Well, it began as what appeared to be yet another anti-Apple fanboy rant about Steve’s passing – he’s sick again, Apple is doomed, etc. — not unheard of in this era of fake news, junk news, and mis-read signals about celebrities and their antics. But word was soon confirmed from Apple that Steve Jobs […]
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (MuseWire) – The Songwriters Hall of Fame, in association with the GRAMMY Museum, will be presenting a Songwriting Legends-in-the-Round event at the Museum’s Clive Davis Theater. Before an intimate audience of 200, hear a stellar gathering of Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees discussing their careers and performing their songs including: Jeff Barry […]
Sacramento, Calif. (MuseWire) – Calif. Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 550 (Padilla) on Sunday. The new law will help reduce music and movie piracy by allowing inspections and verification to ensure that large-scale disc replicating plants are complying with California anti-piracy laws. The law takes effect January 1, 2012. “I applaud Governor Brown for signing […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (MuseWire) – As the birthplace of jazz, the United States was proud to sponsor, in partnership with 31 UNESCO board members, the resolution adopted today by the Executive Board of the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recommending that the organization’s General Conference proclaim April 30 of each year as “International Jazz […]
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (MuseWire) – Grammy-winning American jazz composer, arranger and pianist Clare Fischer has devotees in all corners of the world. This month his fans get to enjoy two new albums from the prolific artist. His 50th album, “The Clare Fischer Voices “…And Sometimes Instruments,” and his 51st is titled: “Continuum” with Clare Fischer […]
HAMBURG, Germany (MuseWire) – Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH today released its new CMC controllers. Dedicated to Steinberg’s Cubase advanced music production system, the six USB-powered CMC units offer an integrated control solution that provides a desirable degree of flexibility and configurability. The CMC controllers are equipped with a combination of control elements that provide tactile […]
Grenoble, France (MuseWire) – Arturia announces a major update to its classic virtual synthesizer, the Minimoog V. The software recreation of the “Holy Grail of Synthesizers” is now fully compatible with 64-bit hosts. This new version also includes better MIDI control assignment, and a new triangle LFO waveform. The Minimoog v 2.5 still offers an […]
Portland, Ore. (MuseWire) – Audinate, the leading developer of IP media networking technology for the AV industry, announced today that it has entered into a distribution agreement with Digicustics S.R.L., to support the South American market. Under the agreement, Digicustics shall act as an Authorized Distributor and Engineering Partner for all of South America. Digicustics […]
REVIEW: Music of the avant-garde is for those who are open to outrage, shock, conceptualized art, and boundary-pushing ideas. If you fit in that category, you will enjoy these tales of pioneers wrestling with the 1960s triumphs of their tragedies. Or perhaps it’s the other way around.