PC and Music News

Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH today released Cubase 7 and Cubase Artist 7, two new versions of the highly acclaimed Cubase music production system for recording, editing, mixing and producing music to the highest standards.

The new mixing facilities feature the MixConsole including full-screen mode and scalability plus Channel Zones, A/B comparison, global bypass on effects and plug-in search for a high level of user customization...

Audio hardware developer Doepfer announces availability of its new Dark Energy II Analog Synthesizer, a redesigned version of the original Dark Energy, a standalone monophonic analogue synthesizer with inbuilt USB/MIDI interfacing and CV connectivity released to much critical acclaim in 2010.

the Dark Energy II features a sawtooth-based VCO core (compared to the Dark Energy's triangle-based one), which, as implied, outputs a sawtooth waveform, with a waveform Shape switch for selecting sawtooth, off, or clipped/inverted sawtooth...

123creative.com – Albino 3 psytrance preset bank is collection of 124 precisely tuned presets for psytrance music production – full on psytrance, dark psytrane or progressive.

This bank includes everything you need for proffessional sounding tracks: lead synths, FXs, basses, and other special sounding presets and space sounds.

Santa is coming to AudioThing! As the title suggests, Xmas Beer Bottles features samples from beer bottles especially brewed for Christmas. You will find carefully drunk sampled whistles, hits, and sound gestures along with custom sound designed instruments.

Details
- 16 Kontakt Instruments (.nki)
- 2 Kontakt Mutis (.nkm)
- Up to 5 Round Robin samples
- 35 Samples (44.1kHz / 24Bit)
- Formats: Kontakt and WAV
- Size: 33 MB / 18 MB Download
- Sample sets including: bottle whistle, hits and gestures
- Native Instruments Kontakt 4.2.4+ full version required

Xmas Discounts: use coupon code XMAS12 for 20% discount!

Subscribe to the AudioThing Newsletter. On December 25th we will randomly choose 10 people from the list and assign these prizes:
1 x Bundle All
2 x Environments - Temple of Mercury
3 x TX-101
4 x Strings .

Customers can put two (2) Professional
Series instruments in their cart and get a 50% discount on each!

The promotion is up until January 15, 2013. Professional Series
instruments include Tassman 4, Lounge Lizard EP-3, Ultra Analog VA-1,
String Studio VS-1, Strum Acoustic GS-1, Strum Electric GS-1, and
Chromaphone. Lounge Lizard EP-3 purchases include a free upgrade to
the upcoming Lounge Lizard EP-4.

The ChainDrive is a single-wide audio distribution module that accepts either a balanced or unbalanced source via the 500 series power rack input and distributes the signal to four front-panel ¼" TRS outputs.

Four conveniently positioned front panel level controls make it easy to optimize signal-to-noise levels for best audio. The ChainDrive can also distribute a full stereo program using TRS connectors following the tip-left, ring-right, sleeve-ground convention.