PC and Music News

Billed as being a one-man media production workspace for recording, mastering, and mixing, today the DUODESK 60 is available as standard in a silk matt black lacquered finish for €1,780.00 EURO (excluding VAT).

Featuring a cleverly-concealed cable management system, its two 10-degree-angled desktop-mounted side racks (10HE each), two front-facing floor-level vertical side racks (16HE each), and two rear-mounted horizontal racks (4HE each) all amount to a lot of rack space — surely enough to satisfy most recording requirements, while its ergonomic shape, look, and feel simplifies workflow, creating the impression of being in a professional studio environment — perfect for impressing clients, whether working in a fully professionally-designed studio or otherwise.

IZotope RX2 is the most complete audio repair toolkit on the market, enabling you to remove noise, hiss, buzz and hum, eliminate clicks and crackle, restore clipped audio, visually select and suppress unwanted sounds, resynthesize missing audio and much more.

Need even more professional tools?
Get the Advanced version of RX2 for additional features and even greater control over your audio for £549 - that's a saving of £250!

Vielklang Instant Harmony generates harmonies with 2-4 voices. It is packed with musical intelligence and music theory: it detects the best fitting harmonies for each individual input melody, and automatically synthesizes up to four voices with the voices not merely running in parallel but with their voicings selected to sound most natural (voice leading).

Some new features:
- Advanced pitch editing with direct tool access
- New sleek interface
- Vibrato and tremolo generator
- Hybrid view for score-like harmony visualization
- MIDI harmonization
- Multiple file harmonization
- Vielklang LE is a light version .

Quantum Loops are proud to announce the latest pack of audio loops and samples, in the form of Transitions. Weighing in at just over 1GB of WAV files, this pack is a must-have for DJs and Producers of all shapes and sizes. Wether you're looking for some subtle reverse sounds, or huge distorted impacts, this pack has it all.

Transitions has been carefully put together by Quantum Loops regular, Ben Wilson (AKA Bonn Lewis / DivKid), to be used across multiple genres from Deep House to Techno, with each loop being timed at 125BPM and ready and waiting to be manipulated even further.

SongStarter is an organic music production app for jamming. Musicians
can instantly jam with the 31 built-in instruments or record loops
from a microphone or external instrument, and build up songs quickly.

SongStarter's unique workflow captures the ease of jamming with real
instruments on the desktop for the first time, and makes it a great
companion to USB MIDI keyboards.

Prime Loops present "The Sound of Wretch 32 & Knox Brown". Wretch 32 has combined with hotly tipped producer and all-round studio wizard Knox Brown to masterfully craft a star-studded Prime Loops pack.

This stellar pack contains a whopping 10 Construction Kits with a wide range of mixes from 72-134bpm covering an abundance of flow patterns embossed with authentic UK flavour. Expect booming bass kicks and super-clean claps, orchestral keys and dramatic melodies.