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Native Instruments Launches ‘Kompletely Insane’ Special Offer for KOMPLETE 5
Wed, 01 Jul 2009 – 15:39:39 -0700 PDT | No Comment

Berlin, Germany /Music Industry Newswire/ — Native Instruments has just launched the “Kompletely Insane” special for KOMPLETE 5, a time-limited special offer that gives producers access to the industry-standard instruments and effects bundle at a …

Cakewalk® Announces Guitar Tracks Pro™ Version 4 & Guitar Tracks Pro USB for Windows
Thu, 18 Jun 2009 – 18:47:50 -0700 PDT | No Comment

Boston, Mass. /Music Industry Newswire/ — Cakewalk, the world’s leading developer of powerful and easy to use products for music creation and recording, today announces Guitar Tracks Pro Version 4 and Guitar Tracks Pro USB, …

Planet Waves’ Scale Master App provides 10,000 guitar scales, modes, and arpeggios
Fri, 15 May 2009 – 15:22:18 -0700 PDT | No Comment

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. /Music Industry Newswire/ — ­Planet Waves, one of the D’Addario Company’s family of world-renowned musical instrument accessory brands, introduces Scale Wizard, a comprehensive guitar scale library as a companion to their best-selling Chordmaster …

Garritan Purchases GigaStudio Technology Assets From Tascam
Thu, 02 Apr 2009 – 18:52:14 -0700 PDT | No Comment
Garritan Purchases GigaStudio Technology Assets From Tascam

ORCAS ISLAND, Wash. and MONTEBELLO, Calif. /Music Industry Newswire/ — TASCAM, a division of TEAC America, Inc. and Garritan Corporation announced the completion of the sale of technology assets relating to GigaStudio, Gigasampler, GVI, Gigapulse …

Pacarana for Kyma Sound Design Environment
Thu, 15 Jan 2009 – 23:57:48 -0800 PST | No Comment

Champaign, Ill. /Music Industry Newswire/ — 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 …

Native Instruments Announces MASCHINE
Thu, 15 Jan 2009 – 21:42:15 -0800 PST | No Comment

Berlin, Germany /Music Industry Newswire/ — 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 …

Toontrack Music announces the release of Drumtracker
Fri, 28 Nov 2008 – 17:28:29 -0800 PST | No Comment

Sweden — Finally the long awaited (and announced) title in the Toontrack Music Toontrack Software Tools series is ready for release. Taking a new angle on the conversion of drum audio to drum MIDI and …

Ministry of Sound and iZotope release first album-themed music creation app for iPhone and iPod touch
Tue, 25 Nov 2008 – 18:17:26 -0800 PST | No Comment

London, UK — Ministry of Sound and iZotope today announced that, in a groundbreaking collaboration for iPhone and iPod touch, fans can now buy the iDrum: Ministry of Sound Anthems album from the iTunes Store …

Sony’s New ACID Pro 7 Digital Audio Workstation Offers More Power and Creative Control
Tue, 14 Oct 2008 – 18:49:59 -0700 PDT | No Comment

MADISON, Wisc. — Sony Creative Software, a leading provider of professional video and audio production applications, today announced ACID Pro 7 digital audio workstation software, available in early November. Unlike any other software offering in …

Digidesign Announces Pro Tools 8
Sat, 04 Oct 2008 – 17:20:33 -0700 PDT | No Comment

Los Angeles, Calif. — AES: Meet the new Pro Tools® 8 — the most advanced audio creation and production software, featuring a gorgeous new interface; dozens of new plug-ins; five new virtual instruments; exciting new …

iZotope Announces Ozone 4 Mastering Suite
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 – 16:20:41 -0700 PDT | No Comment

San Francisco, Calif — AES: iZotope, Inc., a leading innovator in audio signal processing technology, announces iZotope Ozone 4, an update to its critically-acclaimed software mastering suite. Ozone 4 builds on the program’s reputation for …

iZotope brings serious beat-making tools to iPhone and iPod touch
Mon, 11 Aug 2008 – 18:18:08 -0700 PDT | No Comment

Cambridge, Mass. –­ 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 …

Has Tascam Killed Gigastudio? Film at Eleven
Fri, 01 Aug 2008 – 16:16:45 -0700 PDT | 4 Comments

COLUMN: I knew something was brewing when I went to my favorite online music store (Sweetwater) to see if they had the Tascam Gigastudio GVI 4 upgrade from GVI3 in stock yet, and noticed it …

N.I. and Beatport Launch SYNC, a Free Music Playback Application
Tue, 20 Nov 2007 – 22:19:19 -0800 PST | No Comment

BERLIN, Germany — Native Instruments and Beatport recently unveiled Beatport SYNC, a free music playback application for Mac and Windows that provides a unique feature set for modern listening habits. Based on the groundbreaking TRAKTOR DJ software, Beatport SYNC combines powerful music management capabilities with basic DJ mixing functions.

D’Accord Music Releases iChords 2.0 - Allows Musicians to Download and Recognize Files from Multiple Media Sources
Wed, 24 Oct 2007 – 19:02:56 -0700 PDT | No Comment
D’Accord Music Releases iChords 2.0 - Allows Musicians to Download and Recognize Files from Multiple Media Sources

RECIFE, Brazil — D’Accord Music Software, the Brazilian leader in music software, announces a new version of its award-winning software - iChords - that recognizes and presents chords from any MP3, WMA files or CDs. By using iChords 2.0, the new version, musicians can learn how to play any song on keyboard or guitar. It also exports song videos to iPods(TM) and mobile phones.

Steinberg Introduces Nuendo 4 Advanced Audio and Post Production System
Mon, 24 Sep 2007 – 17:03:14 -0700 PDT | No Comment

HAMBURG, Germany — Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH is proud to announce a new version of its award-winning Nuendo audio production environment. Nuendo 4 offers a range of new features and technologies dedicated to mixers, engineers and editors in post production, studio recording and live recording.