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ILIO Shipping Synthogy Ivory Upright Pianos

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

ILIO announced today the release of Synthogy Ivory Upright Pianos. Featuring 4 different sampled instruments, capturing every key in up to 10 velocities. The four pianos included are a new Yamaha U5 upright, a well-preserved 1914 Hume, an early 1900's tack piano, with genuine tacks in the hammer felts, and a ...

iZotope Announces iDrum for iPhone and iPod Touch

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Worthless software for overpriced hype device, or a little musical revolution in disguise? iZotope iDrum for iPhone and iPod Touch (so many i's) allows the sketching of beats on an everyday portable device, which could prove useful for songwriting. The application makes beat-making available to everyone with its simple interface. "The iDrum ...

Before The Music Dies

Friday, August 8th, 2008

This is not new, but it's important to talk about and make sure everyone watches it. It's about the narrowing fine line between music as art and as product. Continuing the point I tried to make with The Most Discussed Article on Moozek Yet, back in February, I believe this is ...

Google Wants to Compete With Piracy

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

From the company we can never really tell if it's evil and unscrupulous, or just evil and cool, comes a quest to kick those pirates ass, in the country where 99% (real data) of all music comes from illegal sources - China. And Chinese are one of the most avid ...

Pro Tools for Leopard: Ultimate Reason to Upgrade to 10.5?

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

As you might know by now Pro Tools 7.4.2 is out, supporting Mac OS X 10.5.3 and 10.5.4 . But if you don't know, and if you purchased 7.4 and Leopard, you can run and download it. It has been running pretty stable, but then again, it wasn't extensively tested. Even though ...

Digidesign Previews Upcoming Transfuser

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Digidesign today unveiled the Transfuser™ Preview , a free three-month prerelease version of Transfuser, a new upcoming RTAS® virtual instrument plug-in for Pro Tools. Transfuser is a real-time loop, phrase, and groove creation virtual instrument designed for quickly and easily creating, manipulating, and performing loop- and rhythm-based music on the ...

EastWest PLAY now RTAS® Compatible

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

In response to user feedback EASTWEST announces RTAS® support for Mac and PC versions of all PLAY products. Current PLAY-powered collections can be upgraded to include RTAS support through a free update posted on the company's website (http://www.soundsonline.com). The software updates (PLAY v1.0.056) are available for both Mac and PC ...

Garritan Announces Authorized Steinway Sampled Concert Grand

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Another attempt to compete with Ivory? After East West Quantum Leap Pianos were slightly mocked for being a 250 GB Library: Garritan announces that the Authorized Steinway Virtual Concert Grand Piano, Professional Edition, a software instrument developed incollaboration with Steinway & Sons, maker of the world's finest pianos, has started ...

The Most Underrated Amp Modeling Plug-In?

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Native Instruments Guitar Rig 3.  John 5, Munky, Trent Reznor, Stephen Carpenter and Kirk Hammett seem to agree... Following our previous showdown review of Waves GTR 3 vs Amplitube 2, in our eternal pursuit for easy guitar tones relying on the latest technologies of amp modeling, Native Instruments brought our attention ...

[Preview] Lok And Load - DAW Plug-in Manager

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

We're happy to (finally!) announce a new unique plug-in manager for Pro Tools (and also other DAWs that use RTAS, VST or DX) that will change the way we all work (and wait) for plug-ins to load. Directly from New Zealand, in exclusive announcement to Moozek.com, we spoke to Ian Rich, ...