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Keyboard Covers for Pros

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

You don't have to buy the overpriced Pro Tools custom keyboards (or keyboards for any other application for that matter), or settle for the stickers. Now, KB Covers and zCover are selling keyboard covers in latex with application shortcut maps printed on them. They work on Apple keyboards (old and ...

Apple MacBook Air: Solid State Drives taking over computer audio?

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Today at Macworld 2008, Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, introduced what is the first introduction of a high-capacity Solid State Drive-capable Mac computer product, the MacBook Air. This may be the beginning of the end of a long wait for something better than the "slow" current hard drives with moving parts. Solid ...

Digidesign releases Pro Tools 7.4cs2 update

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

The fresh new 7.4cs2 update comes with a huge pile of bug fixes and feature enhancements, so if you're a 7.4 owner, check it out! This will probably sort out some little instability issues I noticed with cs1.  To everyone who complained about not having track color saturation control since ...

Spectrasonics Stylus RMX Xpanded now available

Tuesday, December 25th, 2007

A new all-included Stylus RMX package that includes all 5 SAGE Xpanders (Backbeat, Retro Funk, Burning Grooves, Liquid Grooves, Metamorphosis) for a discount price was released by our almost-industry-standard VI sampling buddies. This is a very opportunistic repackaging of this already famous product. Despite the sucky logo and website design, ...

Gracenote Music Map - Statistics for the Music Business

Friday, November 16th, 2007

Gracenote makes a music popularity world map, where you can check top artists and album charts by geographical location, in most countries (at least definitely all countries that actually have an influence in international music sales, and then some). All you need is to have the Flash plug-in in your browser, ...

Line 6 Spider Valve - The True Hybrid

Friday, November 16th, 2007

Line 6 teamed up with all-tube amp maker Reinhold Bogner and released a pleasant surprise to all faithful lovers of the "authentic tone": tubes. 12AX7 in the preamp, 6L6 in the power amp, and even Celestion Vintage 30 speakers for the cabinets and combos. All tube Bogner-branded gear for ...

Digidesign Pro Tools 7.4 already available

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

Finally! Elastic Audio, new beat detective features, re-written Audio Engine (according to Digidesign engineers at AES), and it runs... apparently... kinda faster in some computers. Well yeah, that part is complicated. Some people say it feels faster, while other users are outraged about how slow 7.4 is. Confused? Digidesign takes pleasure ...

Taylor Solid Body Electrics?

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Wow. The famous acoustic guitar maker announced three Taylor Solid body models with new proprietary pickups. It's a completely original design by Bob Taylor, as opposed to a Gibson/Fender/PRS copy, that most players started expecting lately. Prices range from $1,748 to $3,098 and they seem to be very blues-oriented, although ...

KRK releases VXT Protection Grills

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Monitor Speaker-maker KRK released rugged protection grills for VXT4/6 reference monitors. After a while, that's something new - recent studio fashion dictates that studio monitors should show their speaker cones bare naked. Right? But now, for around $60/pair, KRK sells these grills to retrofit your VXTs.

Brauner releases new Phantom Classic Condenser

Monday, November 5th, 2007

German Microphone brand Brauner, somewhat known as the new Neumann competitor, announced the Phantom Classic condenser. Based on the Brauner C, a design aimed at creating an affordable microphone while still maintaining Brauner-like aspects and characteristics, the Phantom Classic follows the success of the limited Phantom Anniversary Edition that celebrated Brauner's ...