PC and Music News

Propellerhead today announced the immediate availability of PX7 FM Synthesizer, a new six operator FM synth for Propellerhead's Rack Extension format.

As a recreation of the popular DX series keyboards*, PX7 provides a wealth of new sounds to the Reason rack, ranging from classic 80's bass and brass to modern textures, leads and growls.
Propellerhead has improved on the original too, with macro controls for easy tweaking of sounds and stereo panning as notable new introductions. PX7 is fully integrated with the Reason rack, allowing users to create layered sounds, combining it with effects, and even control operator levels through CV.

Audio Mind Project has updated their FM8 Experience soundset to version 1.2. The set includes 12 new sounds and now contains 192 sounds total.

Audio Mind Project has also announced that the soundset will be alternatively available in volumes 1-3, each containing 64 sounds pointed at more specific genres.

The first volume has just been released as FM8 Experience Vol. 1: Dance/Trance. Volumes 2 and 3 will follow in near future.
The full soundset, as well as Vol.1: Dance/Trance, will be discounted until January 6, 2012.
Price:
$17.99 for FM8 Experience Full (instead of $27.99).
$7.99 for Vol. 1: Dance/Trance (instead of $9.99).{P]

ModernBeats.com has just unveiled new products & services for modern music producers and musicians.

Covering all aspects of Hip-hop, Pop, R&B, & Dance music production, the site provides new downloads to sounds, loops, music tutorials, music contracts, & vst plugins. Additionally, its new song submission service "Song Submit" now allows musicians to submit music directly to Record Label, Radio, Film, & TV music executives online.

The SixPack is Radial's sixth power rack in their ever growing 500 series range.

Add this to the 15 modules that are currently available and it is clear: Radial has certainly taken a most proactive stance with respect to building and supporting the 500 series standard.

Austin based Real Software today announces Real Studio 2012 Release 2, the latest version of its popular object-oriented, cross-platform software development tool.

Real Studio enables users at all levels to create powerful, stand-alone, native applications for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and the web. Release 2 focuses on improved cross-platform support and specific additions, like Web Control SDK and WebCanvas, to enhance web application development.

RME surprises with an unconventional move, updating its two-year-old portable USB interface with two exciting new features: full USB Audio 2.0 Class Compliance for connection to the iPad and a stand-alone mode.

The update is free of charge and can be done by the user with a simple firmware update via USB.