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The forthcoming CM129 features the most impressive software and sample giveaways yet, including a new PC VST synth from Homegrown Sounds, Astralis Orgone CM, and a vast selection of workstation patches for CMplay, Computer Music’s exclusive ROMpler instrument for Mac and PC.
In a surprise move Tascam has ceased development of its GigaStudio range of sampler software, including GigaViolin, Giga Virtual Instrument, and GigaPulse convolution reverb. Sales and support for the software will end on December 31st 2008.
Now both PC and Mac users can “enjoy the Sylenth” as Lennar Digital’s
Everyone and their dog are going ape-spit over the new 3G iPhone, but for us the most exciting iPhone news is the launch of Apple’s App Store.
It's not often that music software plug-ins make the press, but we found this article from the Arts and Culture section of The New Yorker on - predictably enough – AutoTune worthwhile thanks to some interesting background info on AutoTune’s creator and comment from R&B man of the moment T-Pain.
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We have not one but TWO fantastic M-Audio ProFire 2626 audio interfaces up for grabs in our competition, thanks to the generous peeps at M-Audio. If that's not quite to your taste, the winners may choose to receive a bundle comprised of a MicroTrack II handheld recorder and a copy of iZotope RX instead!
Now here's a cool invention - forget the D-Beam, this amazing MIDI controller allows you to play the very air in front of you as if it were a piano, or pretty much anything else with the right software.
Korg aren't "bigging up" their new nanoSeries USB-powered MIDI controllers – quite the opposite, in fact, as they're some of the most compact controllers we've ever seen. They seem to be designed with the laptop musician in mind, which is sweet music to our ears; as we've noted before, by the time you've factored in an audio interface, MIDI controller and whatever else you need to make music on the move, it all starts to look a lot less luggable. Anyway, check 'em out:
The Computer Music Specials team have spent months on a search-and-test mission to hunt down the best freeware out there right now. The result is this bang-up-to-date collection of stunning synths and samplers, cutting-edge effects, amazing amp...
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