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KMI announces 12 Step, Chromatic Keyboard Foot Controller.
With 12 Step, keyboardists, guitar players, bassists, instrumentalists and vocalists can accompany themselves with their feet, playing bass lines, notes and chords.

12 Step opens up a new dimension in performance by giving your feet unprecedented expressive control using polyphonic aftertouch and pitch bend. Upon the heels of the success of SoftStep, KMI's versatile USB Foot Controller, 12 Step is another leap forward for performing musicians.

Avid releases EuControl V 2.6.1 software. EuControl 2.6.1 is a significant software and firmware update, offering full compatibility with Apple's new Lion OS, as well as several performance improvements, including firmware fixes for Artist Series fader slam and jitter issues.

The Avid® Artist Series is a family of high-quality control surfaces that deliver deep, hands-on control of your favorite audio and video software.

October 8, 2011

Dafact, Dualo, Feeltune, Eowave, Mutable Instruments, OTO Machines, Undead Instruments, Yusynth... Modularsquare organizes a meeting with these manufacturers and high-level amateurs. A unique opportunity to try these new tools and to meet the guys behind the french scene.
Meet them Saturday, October, 8th at Modularsquare 2pm-7pm. Free entrance.


- Where : 6 rue Marceau - 94200 – Ivry-sur-Seine (near Paris/France)
- How to come : Métro line 7, station « Pierre et Marie Curie »

On behalf of the DAFx 2011 Local Organizing Committee, we would like to welcome you to the 14th edition of the Digital Audio Effects Conference in Paris, France.
This year's DAFx is organized and hosted by IRCAM – Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique – Centre Pompidou. September 19-23, IRCAM, Paris, France

DAFx-11 is structured around three full days of conference preceded by an afternoon of 3 tutorials and followed by a full day of 3 satellite workshops. The heart of the conference will present 69 selected papers organized in 33 oral presentations, 33 poster presentations and 3 State-of-the-Art (STAR) papers. The STAR paper is a new category of submission that aims at providing an overview of a research topic.

Ever wanted a straight out the box collection of tech and tech house grooves that you could drop into your mix for inspiration and just worked? Well "Tech Grooves By Abstract Source" is that sample pack and delivers an incredible away of deep techy grooves that will twist your brain modes and modulate your mind into the deepest and grooviest realms of tech house. Comprising of 60 totally new tech grooves and massive 240 samples in total "Tech Grooves By Abstract Source" delivers a serious amount of calibre in production for an irresistible price.

Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH today announced that its Steinberg LE Pack SAE Edition is available as welcome profile package for more than 1,600 first-semester students of 26 SAE Institutes across Europe.

The pack comprises light editions of the Cubase 6 music production software and WaveLab 7 audio editing software.