PC and Music News

V-Plugs announces Mr. Soundman summer competition, with special prices for the winners.

Mr. Soundman is a free challenging Ear Training game for music producers and sound engineers, that enable users to assess and improve their frequency detection skills, to compete with other users around the globe, and to win prizes.

The Mr. Soundman summer competition will run until August 31, when the winners will be announced. The competition's standings can be viewed in real time on V-Plugs site.

Resonance Sound & Aiyn Zahev present Transitions for u-he DIVA.

Using state of the art modeling technology, DIVA offers an incredible hardwarelike sound, great flexibility and impressive effects. It`s remarkable versatility lends itself greatly to contemporary electronic music and sound design.

This sample pack is true to our heart and we can never get enough of those classic and retro sounds.

'Old Skool House Grooves' is the pinnacle of the 90's and early 00's house sounds ranging from those classic house hooks through to some retro rollin percussion and grooves.

Neyrinck today announced the availability of an AAX DSP version 3.0 of V-Mon the popular post surround monitoring plug-in for Pro Tools utilizing the power of the new Pro Tools|HDX cards for processing.

V-Mon is a professional post monitoring system with all the features you would expect to find in a large format film console monitoring section. V-Mon supports up to ten 5.1 or six 7.1 inputs, eight stereo aux inputs, four talk-back inputs, and two listen-back inputs.

This pack is perfect for the songwriter looking for a wide variety of basic drums for a broad spectrum of playing styles. It covers anything from mellow ballads to funky midtempo swing and straight uptempo rock, all categorized in different songs and full 4-8 bar song part blocks.

- More than 500 individually played files
- Categorized in different songs
- Full intro / verse / pre-chorus / chorus / bridge / fill sections in each song
- Ballad / Midtempo / Uptempo / Shuffle
- Swing and/or straight feel in 4/4 and 6/8

Shiverware introduces SpeakBeat 1.0, a new metronome app for iOS devices. The app is unique among metronome apps because it uses spoken words to mark the beat rather than clicks or ticks.

The app is widely customizable, with a variety of high-quality studio recorded voices to choose from, as well as a large high-contrast numerical display. The spoken metronome improves timing over click metronomes for music students, dancers, and cheerleaders as well as saving the voices of instructors.