PC and Music News

Audio-Technica celebrates its 50th anniversary with an array of limited edition introductions offering stunningly clear, high-resolution sound quality and elegant design.

2012 is an exciting landmark for Audio-Technica. In 1962, our founder, Hideo Matsushita, opened the doors of our company in a one-story workshop handcrafting stereo phonograph cartridges. 50 years later we have grown into a worldwide audio innovator. They have branched out from our roots in Japan to a presence throughout Asia, Europe and the Americas - offering with each new product and new location more of the acclaimed fidelity and durability that have become synonymous with our name.

Blue Microphones announces Tiki, the world's first USB microphone that mimics the intelligence of human hearing by focusing on desired sounds, minimizing background noise and knowing when to mute altogether.

Combining proprietary noise-cancelling technology, Voice Isolation and Intelligent Mute, Tiki dramatically improves the intelligibility of communication in any environment.

Emulation II features a set of unique instruments to reproduce that typical sound and music from the 80s: from warm digital sounds to the most analogish textures.

UVI followed an hybrid approach to create these sounds, combining deep multi-sampling and powerful modeling tools (analog filters, LFO, envelopes...) inspired by the original machine, enhanced with today most modern audio processing and script technology.
Sounds were recorded and carefully selected from an authentic restored instru- ment, with the very best analog and digital gear, following the non-compromis- ing UVI quality standard. This process guarantees the lo-fi charm of the original sounds!

Discover also Drumulation : an utter beatbox with step sequencer from the eighties loaded with 500+ drum and percussion sounds. Make your beats sound 12 bits!

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.