PC and Music News

TWITCH has Touchstrips which enable you to grab your tracks and 'swipe' them backwards and forwards as you would on a touchscreen. The Touchstrips, 16x Triggerpads, Fader FX and more, have been designed to allow digital DJs and Controllerists to take hold of their music.


- Serato ITCH software can beat match tracks so you can focus on performing
- Swipe tracks backwards and forwards as if you were touching the screen
- You can instantly 'Drop' into a tune at any point in the track
- Slicer allows you to chop-up beats in time and re-arrange them on the fly
- 2 x 8 large Triggerpads let you to play eight rolling beat slices in any order
- Balanced outputs, ultra-reliable audio/MIDI drivers and microphone input
- Add different effects to either or both channels with TWITCH's FX section
- Use both channel faders for super-fast FX moves and tricks

Crysonic have started their Easter No-Brainer Deal and it will end on the 25th of April 2011. Until that date their CryEverything Bundle comprising of 7 Audio DSP Plug-ins such as Spectralive NXT V3.5, SINDO V3.5 and others plus two bonus plug-ins with MSRP of 814 for only $59, which is a 94% saving. All other individual plugins are also reduced by 75%, The No-Brainer Deal will end on the 25th of April 2011.
The CryEverything NO-BRAINER BUNDLE DEAL + 2 Bonus Plug-ins include the following; Spectralive NXT V3.5, SINDO V3.5, nXtasy V3, newB V2, SpectraPhy Pro, SpectraPhy LE, Spectra C1 and two BONUS PLUGINS Cry'Q and Spectra'Q
Four of the plug-ins in the bundle are available for both PC and Mac the others are PC Only (Mac OS versions will be free upgrades when they are released).

Tone2 are pleased to announce the 1.2 update of Warmverb, a modular multi effect plugin with routable
modules and 38 types of effects. Warmverb gives you the flexibility to program and combine effect chains
using high quality effects and up to four effects per multi-effect program.

With an easy to use graphical user interface, an intelligent 'Randomize' button and 150+ presets giving
you instant access to vocoders, pitch shifters, distortion, modulators and a large selection of essential
effects, new sounds and inspiration are just a click away.

New features:
- 64 Bit support
- SSE2 support
- Improvements:
- Slightly improved performance
- Improved compatibility for Windows7 and Vista Systems
- Smart installer which automatically fixes possible Win7
- VST folder compatibility problems
- Improved host compatibility
- Important pop-ups are always displayed on top
etc.
Fixed high CPU usage with Mac demo version
Fixed a possible crash on Mac

Big Fish Audio has joined forces with the engineers at Vir2 to create RiG - a Kontakt-powered virtual instrument that has been designed to create instant inspiration for producers of Urban music.

Featuring over 1200 patches and 26GB of samples, RiG contains multi-sampled instruments plus a wide variety of loop-based instruments all divided into seventeen categories: Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Drum Banks, Drum Loops, Electric Guitar, Ethnic, Horn Section, Keyboards, Orchestral Hits, Organs, Percussion and Harp, Percussion Loops, Piano, Sliced Loops, Strings, Synths and Vocals.

The RiG interface is really easy to use placing all parameters right at your fingertips allowing quick customisation of your sound. RiG includes a custom synth step fx editor allowing limitless combinations of gate effects, arpeggios, sequenced pan effects, attack and decay, and low and hi pass filters. You'll also find a loop playback interface allowing you to access and edit individual slices of the included loops.
RRP: £129.00 / €149.00

Watunlib.com, a Website offering virtual instruments for Kontakt, has just opened. This site is currently offering three products (downloadable demos on the site):

Watunlib is a virtual instrument of the standard and unconventional playing techniques of the Aquasonic Super Mondo Waterphone, including the ability to tune the samples!

Loop Kontrol is a Kontakt multiscript, allowing to create rythmic and melodic loops and runs.

- Wind Chimes, a virtual instrument containing samples of various wind chimes (wood chimes, glass chimes, mini mark tree, bass mark tree). Besides the usual glissando and stirring effects, the individual rods and tubes of the mark trees are recorded with three round-robin and the possibility to tune these samples!

Ultimately, Watunlib.com would like to sample other musical instruments, always in a spirit of originality and innovation, offering products at affordable prices.

Finally, for those who fear the blank page, Watunlib.com offers entertainment and promotion purposes Flight Kontrol, a free little game to play with in Kontakt!

The Audio Express connects to any current Mac or PC via FireWire or high-speed USB 2.0. Connect your mic, guitar, keyboard, and digital input, and you are ready to make pro-quality recordings in your personal studio.

Some Features
- 6-input, 6-output audio interface for Mac and Windows.
- 6 x 8 physical input/output channels — all channels are available simultaneously and operate independently.
- Hybrid FireWire/USB 2.0 connectivity — connect to your Mac or PC via either bus-powered Firewire or hi-speed USB2.
- 8-bus digital mixer — routes and mixes all six inputs to any output pair.
- Four separate mixes — each output pair (main outs, line outs, S/PDIF out, and phones) can have a completely different mix of all six inputs, with or without computer tracks.
- Two mic/guitar combo jacks — provide hi-Z 1/4" guitar input or XLR mic input with phantom power, 20 dB pad, Precision Digital Trim , and plenty of gain.
- Stereo analog inputs — on line-level, balanced TRS quarter-inch jacks. Great for keyboards or other line level-input signals.
- Stereo main outs — on balanced TRS quarter-inch jacks. Connect directly to powered speakers (or other line-level analog destination).
- Stereo 24-bit 96kHz S/PDIF digital in/out.