PC and Music News

FXpansion presents Tremor: a software Drum Machine with powerful synthesis, effects, modulation and step-sequencing.

DCAM circuit-modelled sound generation is fused with new ideas to produce original sounds with the punch and extreme sound pressure of old-school analogue. Tremor's dance drums, funky beatscapes, abstract machines and undiscovered sonic terrain are suited to all kinds of electronic, urban and experimental music.

The Dance & Trance soundset offers a hand-picked selection of over 400 meticulously programmed sounds for ElectraX, designed by a team of professional sound-designers.


With its anthemic leads and gates, massive basses, pulsating arps, multi-layered sequences and lush warm pads Dance & Trance is the perfect sound library for your Electronic productions.

The Dance & Trance soundset is suitable for Dance, Trance, Electronic, House, IDM, Techno, Hardcore, Electro and a wide variety of other music genres.

Voxengo Drumformer update version 1.2 is now available for download. Voxengo Drumformer is a multiband drum and
master track dynamics processing plug-in for professional music and audio production applications, available in AudioUnit and VST plug-in formats (including native 64-bit support), for Mac OS X (v10.5 and later), and Windows computers.

Version 1.2 update includes the following changes:

- Equalizer's virtual keyboard issue fixed.
- A rare crash issue happening in Logic Pro fixed.
- Plug-in now works correctly on ProTools via FXpansion VST-RTAS adapter.

At time of launch, joining Plugin Alliance founder member Dirk Ulrich's renowned German M/S mastering tools and audio plug-ins company Brainworx are fellow German analogue and digital audio processor designer/manufacturer SPL;

US quality-crafted audio hardware and software developer Chandler Limited ; fellow American high-quality microphone manufacturer and signal processing developer CharterOak Acoustic Devices ; Australia's acclaimed classic Neve and modern circuitry combination specialist Custom Series 75 ; German pro audio hardware and software specialist elysia ; American elite professional audio gear manufacturer Mäag Audio — all set to enter the plug-in arena in February 2012; American fine audio equipment maker Millennia Music & Media Systems ; and German pro audio manufacturing venture Vertigo Sound . More members will be announced soon.

The Reamp® JCR is a passive Reamper that allows you to take a prerecorded track and send it back to a guitar or bass amplifier and re-record it.

The benefits are tremendous: instead of worrying about the sound of the track, you can focus your attention on getting the best musical performance. Once the magic has been captured, you can send the guitarist home and Reamp the track at will as you move the mics around the room, try various amplifiers or introduce effects. Best of all, you can Reamp the track later as the production develops.

Moog Music has announced the release of Minitaur, the newest addition to Moog's Taurus Bass Synthesizer family. Minitaur is a compact and powerful analog bass synthesizer that features a classic one knob per function layout.

Most notably, it is the first instrument in the Taurus family that does not have foot pedals. At only 8.5" x 5.25" and less than 3lbs, the Minitaur puts powerful analog Moog bass into a package designed to fit seamlessly into today's performance and production environments.