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NAMM2104 Roland AIRA: The TR-808 revival!

Roland Engineers discuss the initial concept of the TR-808 which was conceived and built in 1980. Although it was designed to create "backing tracks," creative musicians started to use the Rhythm Machine as an instrument and music changed forever. Now the evolution begins again.

NAMM, the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM), commonly called NAMM in reference to the organization's popular NAMM trade shows, is the not-for-profit association that promotes the pleasures and benefits of making music and strengthens the $17 billion global music products industry. association—and trade shows—serve as a hub for people wanting to seek out the newest innovations in musical products, recording technology, sound and lighting. NAMM's activities and programs are designed to promote music making to people of all ages.

Anaheim Convention Center
800 West Katella Avenue
Anaheim, CA 92802

Thursday, Jan 23 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Friday, Jan 24 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Saturday, Jan 25 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Sunday, Jan 26 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
*Hall E and Levels 2 & 3
open at 9:30 a.m.

Artifacts from human beeing's speech

Cobweb is a new library that features manipulated speech samples.
Each single sample of the library passed through a sophisticated processing chain in order to remove the original informations of the words.
What's left after processing is the sound that is hidden between the lines. It's an interesting collection of distinctive noises and syllables that don't deny their origin of the human beeing's speech but are also abstract enough to work as source material for odd soundscapes.

Cobweb Live Pack contains 45 carefully crafted Instrument Racks that work as perfect starting points for further explorations in sound.
Cobweb Universal contains a selection of 47 processed speech samples with embedded loop points.

Specifications
Live Pack: compatible with Live 8/9, 45 Instruments, 120 MB
Universal: 47 WAV files with embeded loop points, 125 MB

Cobweb is available to purchase as download for 9.00 Euro

Developed in association with world-renowned mixing engineer Andrew Scheps (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Adele, Black Sabbath, Lana Del Ray, Jay-Z), the Scheps 73 plugin is a colorful 3-Band EQ modeled on the classic 1073 console's EQ and mic preamp module.

Pure Acoustic Guitars Special Edition for Reason or Kontakt is now on sale 1/3 off until January 15th!

Audio Mind Project has announced a Thank You Discount offering 25% off the regular price for all their soundsets until January 7th, 2014.

Available are soundsets for d16 LuSH-101, NI FM8, FXPansion DCAM: Synth Squad, TAL-U-NO-LX, TAL-Bassline, Novation V-Station and discoDSP Corona.