PC and Music News

Digitags today introduces iDrumming 1.0 - pro drums set, their free music app for iOS that offers a high quality, low cost, customizable drum set.

With 8 square pads on iPhone and iPod touch, and 12 pads on iPad, the app includes 6 categories of percussion samples. The app features very low latency, changeable pitch and volume for each sample, 16-bit sampling, multitouch capability, and 2 different stop modes. Including 11 unlocked samples, an additional 200+ are available via in-app purchase.

Download the Saurus demo from the website and produce a short vintage demo
song using only the factory presets. Already got Saurus? no problem, they encourage Saurus owners to
compete as well.

The three best songs will be picked by us, win a prize and featured in the new Saurus product MP3 demo.

Prizes

- 1st prize: The winner of the best song wins a $250 credit to spend in the Tone2 shop

- 2nd prize: The winner of the second best song wins a $200 credit credit to spend in the Tone2 shop

- 3rd prize: The winner of the third best song wins a $100 credit credit to spend in the Tone2 shop

Everyone else: Not among one of the three winners but still have a good song? anyone who did not win
but whose song is still used in our demo receives a free BiFilter2 license.

Arturia announces the end of an agreement with Moog Music that will see its Moog Modular V and Minimoog V soft synths soon remerging as the updated and renamed Modular V and Mini-V, and is marking the occasion by giving away a one-off 'commemorative' edition of the Minimoog-V on World Music Day...

On June 21 only, musicians everywhere can download Minimoog-V Original from the Arturia website — for free! Minimoog-V Original includes all the sounds (more than 1,000 presets created by talented artists and renowned sound designers) and features (32-voice polyphony, plus much more besides) from the latest Minimoog- V update (Version 2.5), but without the additional functionality accessible behind the 'hinged' front panel — just like the original Minimoog.

The Ozone Maximizer Rack Extension is an essential mastering tool for adding fullness and polish to music produced in Reason.

Key Features:
- 2 Intelligent Release Control (IRC) limiter modes: IRC I and IRC II
- 2 low-latency limiting modes Hard(Brickwall) and Soft
- High-precision threshold control with integrated gain reduction metering
- Speed knob control for adjusting the character of the IRC - Limiter from slow and transparent to fast and aggressive
- Variable Stereo Link control for independent limiting of left and right channels
- Inter-sample Limiting to predict when a digital signal might clip in the analog domain
- Margin control for precise control of the output level, helping to dial back peak levels for better encoding to formats like MP3
- iZotope MBIT+ Dither for highest quality results when converting 24-bit Reason sessions to audio files with lower bit depths.

Propellerhead today released new versions of their award-winning music making platform: Reason 6.5 and Reason Essentials 1.5.

New in these versions is the introduction of Rack Extensions—a groundbreaking new technology from Propellerhead that opens up the rack to third parties, enabling developers to create their own instruments and effects for Reason and allowing users to expand their collection of instruments and effects with the Reason devices they want.
Reason EUR €405 / USD $449
Reason Essentials EUR €120 / USD $129

Apple iOS 6, New MacBook Pro and OSX Mountain Lion Announced... And what about musicians? See the new MacBook Pro 13" and 15"!

iOS 6:
iOS 6 gives you more features to make the things you do every day even better. It's coming this fall, and it's free and easy to upgrade wirelessly on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.

New MacBook (the best for mobile studios):
The 15-inch MacBook Pro features the new 2.3GHz and 2.6GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processors with 6MB of shared L3 cache and Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.6GHz. And you can configure it to be even faster. Choose the 2.7GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 with 8MB of cache and Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.7GHz. And go for the new 512GB third-generation SATA solid-state drive, which is up to 4x faster than a traditional hard drive. To increase storage, upgrade to a 1TB hard drive.

The 13-inch model also speeds things up with either the 2.5GHz Intel Core i5 or the 2.9GHz Intel Core i7 — the fastest mobile dual-core processor available. With Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.6GHz, these processors bring more power to everything you do.

A MacBook Pro Retina is also avalaible with a Retina display with 5.1 million pixels and 2880-by-1800 resolution. An all-flash architecture. Quad-core Intel Core i7 processors. In a design that's just 0.71 inch thin and 4.46 pounds. But where is the FW 800 bus?

OSX Mountain Lion (= iOs in the future?):
OS X Mountain Lion brings a lot of great things from iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch to the Mac. You can send iMessages. Get your Mac in on Game Center. Receive notifications. And more. And with iCloud, now your Mac works even better with your iOS devices.
New MacPro will come around 2013, not before!