PC and Music News

Joerg Piringer today is pleased to announce his new music creation app RealBeat for iPhone and iPad. Available for download from the App Store this software enables the users to record and manipulate sounds in an immediate and fast way. Users can cut and loop samples and create rhythms out of them in an instant. It also features an easy way to let the iPhone or iPad speak and use it as a source material for rhythms and loops.

Features
- Sampler (record sounds easily)
- Text to Speech (let your device speak for you)
- Modify the sound (pitch, reverse, distortion, reverb, etc.)
- Sequencer (make rhythms)
- Patterns (modify the rhythm easily)
- Live effects (manipulate in realtime)
- Mixer
etc.

From serious recordists to beginners, PreSonus' FS Mobile Studio package provides the tools for high-fidelity recording. With two matched "pencil" condenser microphones and X/Y stereo bracket included, FS Mobile Studio is great for live recording, multi-track song production, demos, songwriting, podcasting, and field recording for video or sound effects.

This limited-edition bundle is available worldwide at select PreSonus dealers—until the supply runs out!
The FS Mobile Studio bundle includes:
FireStudio Mobile FireWire audio and MIDI interface with cables.

The latest release from Prime Loops, "Epic Build-ups & Breakdowns" brings you all that you need to create perfect breakdowns and build-ups for your tracks whether they are House, Trance, Techno, Electro, Dance and more!

The 1.2 Gigabytes of sounds, samples and FX contained in this pack have been created exclusively for your production work, with all files mastered professionally at 24Bit, to provide you with top-notch quality without any royalty hassles.

Formats include: .WAV, FL Studio, Garageband, Ableton Live Pack, Acid Loops, Apple Loops, Reason Refill...

Propellerhead has released ReBirth 1.2 for the Apple iPad. Version 1.2 adds WIST (Wireless Sync-Start Technology developed by Korg). WIST uses a Bluetooth signal to simultaneously start two compatible iPad or iPhone apps. The free update to current owners is available now from the iTunes AppStore.

ReBirth 1.2 users can perform with a friend or expand their iPad/iPhone ensemble by using two units at once, expanding the ways they can create and perform music on their mobile devices. Mix and match ReBirth with TableTop, iMS20, iElectribe and other compatible apps in new dynamic ways.

Sequel 3 includes more than 5,000 high-quality loops and sounds of various music styles, which are easily accessible through Steinberg's acclaimed MediaBay media management tool. With an additional 500+ workstation sounds, the HALion Sonic SE plug-in nicely rounds out the quality content included in Sequel.

The Performance Mode turns Sequel 3 into a live tool for creating impromptu arrangements and live mixes by triggering the 24 live performance pads with song sections and variations.
Sequel's one-click tempo detection is a great tool when it comes to working with rhythms of varying tempos. In Performance Mode, this feature can be used for creating remixes.

The Anvil is a digital emulation of a three channels tube preamplifier for guitar.

It has been developed to accurately model its real hardware counterpart, designed by Andy Zeugs.

Some features:
- Dynamic 12AX7 / ECC83 coupled triode stages analog modeling.
- Three channels: clean, rhythm and lead, each with fully separated controls.
- Mono / Stereo processing support.
- Selectable oversampling rate (up to 8x).
- Global input / output level controls.
- Double precision (64 bit) floating point mathematical model.
- Fully automatable controls.
- Zero latency.