HOLLYWOOD — EASTWEST, exclusive U.S. distributor of Best Service products, is helping to make producers dance tracks “a fuego” with Best Service’s latest sample library—Reggaeton meets Dancehall.
Reggaeton meets Dancehall, produced by $ir. Martin & BlackBoxx for Audio Bomb, connects the unmistakable style of club music with the sounds of modern Reggaeton and Dancehall. Engineered and mixed to perfection, this powerful “Radio Ready” sound library comes packed with 30 ground breaking construction kits. To further add island flavor to their productions, users have access to Reggaeton meets Dancehall’s huge collection of amazing loops and impressive samples which includes hard hitting drums, warm basses, unique claps, excellent percussion, hi-hats, cymbals, groovy acoustic and electric guitars; keyboards, orchestral instruments, pop brass, ethnic instruments, new age ensembles, morphing atmospheres, club-synths, synth leads and effect drops. more
iZotope brings serious beat-making tools to iPhone and iPod touch
Cambridge, MA (August 11, 2008) – iZotope, Inc., a leading developer of tools for musicians and audio professionals, today announced that iDrum, its beat creation application for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch is now available on the Apple App Store. The new application makes beat-making available to everyone with its simple interface and professionally produced content.
“iZotope sees the iPhone platform as a perfect opportunity to bring mobile music making to everyone,” says Jeremy Todd, CTO of iZotope, Inc. “With iDrum for the iPhone and iPod touch, we’ve created a unique music-making application that is fun for everyone from complete beginners to professional beat-makers.”
iDrum allows users to combine professional sound content and patterns to create their own music. The iDrum application takes advantage of unique features of the iPhone platform—users can tap virtual pads to create rhythms, shake the handset to clear patterns, and use slide and flick gestures to navigate the application’s interface. Immersive, colorful visuals show the relationship between different sounds in the beat, allowing users to create new rhythms by creating visual patterns. Using a special companion application, beats can even be turned into ringtones for iPhone.
The original iZotope iDrum application for Mac and PC is already a favorite tool of both home musicians and GRAMMY-winning producers for its ease of use and versatility. The iPhone adaptation of iDrum combines the power and professional sound of the original iDrum with a completely new interface designed to let even users with no musical experience create original beats.
The first two versions of iDrum, Hip Hop Edition and Club Edition, are now available for US$4.99 each from Apple’s App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore/ iZotope plans to release different genre-based editions of iDrum in the coming months.
HOLLYWOOD — There’s certainly truth to the long-standing adage, “What’s old is new again.” EASTWEST, exclusive US distributor of Best Service products, proves this true by making eight new sample collections by Best Service, which feature European historical instruments, available to today’s users. The newest sound libraries, developed in cooperation with Realsamples, include Pianoforte, Early Pianoforte, Grand Piano, English Harpsichord, Dutch Harpsichord, Dulcitone Celesta, English Spinet and Italian Harpsichord. more
Steinberg North America today announced the shipping of Sequel 2, a new version of Steinberg’s successful music creation and live performance software. Sequel 2 introduces new features, including a hardware Controller Learn mode, Track Freeze, a virtual keyboard, Track Icons and many more.
“This new release builds on the successful launch of Sequel last year, with more functionality that makes music creation even more creative and fun, while making no compromises on ease-of-use and accessibility,” comments Nadine Roos, Steinberg’s Marketing Manager for Sequel. “Many Cubase owners will also find Sequel an attractive, mobile composition tool for sketching out musical ideas, with the included content and the new Sequel Content Sets add even more audio content to fuel creativity.”
The new features include a unique Controller Learn Mode, which allows extremely easy setup for almost any hardware controller to offer tactile control over practically any Sequel 2 function, instrument or parameter. Track Freeze enhances CPU efficiency, while the new Track Icons visually label tracks, making them easy to find and adding an attractive new element to the Sequel user interface. The Sequel MediaBay sound management system has also been improved, while new the new Audio Reverse effect and the Audio Warp features offer even more creative options.
Steinberg has also released three new Sequel Content Sets for the genres of Rock, Industrial and Hip Hop. Each content set adds 200-300 top quality loops in the respective style, and are available from www.steinberg.net.
Sequel 2 is currently available at authorized Steinberg retailers for $99. Updates to Sequel 2 from the previous version are available exclusively from Steinberg’s online store for $29.
HOLLYWOOD — EASTWEST, exclusive US distributor of Best Service Products, is helping producers lay down some new red-hot dance tracks with HipHop & RnB Producer Pack 1 from Best Service.
Produced by Sir. Martin and BlackBoxx for Audio Bomb, HipHop & RnB Producer Pack 1 offers users a flexible and comprehensive means to expand their dance sound library with over 1,700 samples and 2.5 GB of material. From clubbin’ styles to HipHop & RnB, these groundbreaking grooves and samples can easily fit into many different musical styles and musical settings. HipHop & RnB Producer Pack 1 is fully loaded with bangin’ drum, percussion, shaker and hi hat loops. The collection also features special and harmonic arpeggio, bell, guitar, keyboard, motion harmonic, modulated synth, organ and string loops. Ranging from 53 to 120 Bpm, all loops are adaptable to any project. In addition to loops, HipHop & RnB also includes a large selection of high-quality hiphop samples such as bass drums, snare drums, claps, percussions, open and closed hi hats, shakers, bass tones, rides, crashes, hits, brass chords, piano cords, string chords, vinyl scratches and fx samples.
“The huge variety of samples and loops found in HipHop & RnB Producer Pack 1 makes it a great tool regardless of the musical genre you’re working in,” says President and CEO of EASTWEST Doug Rogers. “With HipHop & RnB Producer Pack 1, users will always find something to stimulate their creativity.”
The collection retails for $130.00 and is available in Wav, Rex2 and Acid formats — all in 24-bit quality.
HOLLYWOOD — EASTWEST, an exclusive US distributor of Best Service products, is helping to bring users into a whole new sound universe with Convolution Space, a sonic landscape collection. Convolution is the first soundware to offer innovative Convolution-Based Spectral Recombination technology.
Produced by world-renown Swedish producer, Magnus Lindberg, Convolution Space features 8.5 GB of handcrafted stereo and 5.1 surround textures. Equipped with a Native Instruments Kontakt 2 Player, users can combine the 625 instruments to create unique soundscapes and atmospheres using Convolution-Based Spectral Recombination. With over 15 years of experience as a sound designer, creating esoteric sound designs for clients such as Microsoft, Nokia, MTV, Steinberg, and Native Instruments, Lindberg was able to develop a collection that can be adapted to all kinds of atmospheres. Types of sounds featured in the collection include:
• Abstract: Metaphysical and esoteric sounds.
• Emotional: Sounds that evoke emotion from pleasing, to sad, to ecstatic.
• Fantasy: Magical and otherworldly —these are sounds for the imagination.
• Mental: Sounds of the states of mind; ranging from psychotic to the spiritual and psychedelic.
• Scary: Provides horror soundtracks with all the sinister and malice they require.
• Sci-Fi: Helping to bring the feel of the future and all of its technology to your high-concept soundscapes.
• Underground: Provides a feeling that is dark and devoid of hope.
• Deep & Rumble: Earth shattering and relentless in the pursuit of deeper realms.
• Structures: These eerie and strange sounds give the feeling of places you normally avoid.
• Technology: The imaginary sounds of communicating CPU’s, searchlights and other futuristic machines.
“The technology involved in Convolution Space is complex and yet the software is very simple to use,” says Doug Rogers, CEO of EASTWEST. “Simply select an instrument, play it on a keyboard and tweak it with the ModWheel - and the texture being played suddenly starts transforming into something completely different, providing users with endless combinations.”
Convolution Space retails for $260.00. For more information on Convolution Space, visit the EASTWEST website, www.soundsonline.com.
Ontario, Canada (July 7, 2008) – ASK Video Interactive Media, creator of software tutorials on DVD for popular music software applications such as Pro Tools, Cubase, Live, and Garageband, has announced their first title for Cakewalks flagship product, Sonar 7. For a limited time, the company is offering a 20% discount on all pre-orders at www.askvideo.com.
In this first of three Mac OSX and Windows Vista compatible DVD, seasoned audio engineer and musician Mike Baggley guides users through more than 30 high-quality videos, detailing everything from basic setup to audio and MIDI recording, editing, mixing and more.
“As one of the top DAW innovators over the years, we are proud to add Cakewalk to our list of titles,” said Steve Kostrey, President of ASK Video. “Sonar 7 is a powerful and mature product used by home studio owners and professional studios alike. This first DVD will get new users up and running fast and serve as a great reference for the pros!”
Great for users of Sonar Producer Edition or Studio Edition, the DVD begins with introductory topics such as First Run, Audio and MIDI Setup, New Project, and chapters dedicated to getting around Sonar 7; Tracks, Transport, Toolbars, and Metronome. The middle chapters are devoted to “heavy-lifting” subjects such as Recording Audio, Recording Modes, Recording MIDI and Looping. The last third of the DVD are vides that cover Editing Audio, Editing MIDI, Layers, and Mixing, followed by Key Commands, The Navigator View, Folders, The Track Manager and Inspector, and Managing Audio
In addition to being a great “how-to” introduction to Sonar 7, this DVD series employs ASK Video’s easy-to-use interface, making it a great reference for any and all users to find any topic at a moments notice.
Pricing and Availability:
The Sonar 7 Tutorial DVD is available from July 14 for $49.99 USD. Pre-order by July 18 for $39.99 USD - a savings of 20%. Ordering information and video examples are available at http://www.askvideo.com.
About Mike Baggley
Audio engineer and musician Mike Baggley possesses an extensive background in audio consulting, as well as engineering and composing. Along with working as an editor with ASK Video, Mike has worked in many studios and post-production houses, including working at CBC, one of Canada’s largest media outlets.
About ASK Video
ASK Video Interactive Media is a professional audio/video company based in Ontario, Canada. Well versed in today’s cutting edge technology, ASK Video uses high quality video and audio to bring a rich and inviting learning experience to digital audio and video customers around the world through interactive video DVD’s. ASK Video also provides professional audio services from their state-of-the-art studio facility as well as professional video services complete with on-site shooting, editing, and post-production.
ALAMEDA, CALIFORNIA, JULY 3, 2008—Clear-Com® Communication Systems, a brand of The Vitec Group, announces that its first software-based intercom system, Clear-Com Concert™, is now available through its worldwide network of dealers and distributors. This new multi-user conferencing and intercom product provides organizations of all sizes with a reliable and cost-effective way to easily intercommunicate. more
EASTWEST, the industry leader in soundware development and distribution, is pleased to announce that all of its EASTWEST/QUANTUM LEAP SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA “PLAY” EDITIONS will start shipping July 15, 2008. more
HOLLYWOOD, JUNE 5, 2008 — Harmonization of both vocals and brass has been made easier with Best Service’s Vielklang harmonization instrument, created by Z.Plane Development. EASTWEST, exclusive U.S. distributor of Best Service products, is helping to bring this cutting-edge harmonization technology to musicians, songwriters and producers. more
