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Roland R-Mix software is powered by Roland’s newly developed V-Remastering technology in conjunction with VariPhrase, but what is this & how does it work?

What is V-Remastering Software?
This is proprietary Roland signal processing technology by which musical information such as level and panning is extracted from the audio signal for each frequency band, allowing total control of everything from the balance of the individual sounds to reconstructing the reverberation.

What is VariPhrase Technology?
This is proprietary Roland signal processing technology which allows the three elements of an audio phrase – pitch, time, and formants to be controlled independently in real time. Of these elements of VariPhrase technology, R-Mix can control the pitch and time allowing you to perform slow playback or key changes with minimal loss in audio quality.

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Are you the next RØDE Rocker? The search is on.

Think you’ve got what it takes to make it big? RØDE Microphones is looking for the very best unsigned artists around the world in the ‘RØDE Rocks’ talent search.

Enter now and you could be on your way to Record Plant in Hollywood to record with all-star producer Alain Johannes (Chris Cornell, Queens of the Stone Age, Arctic Monkeys, Them Crooked Vultures)! continue reading…

Having been out of stock due to its overwhelming success, Native Instruments Komplete Audio 6 is back at a more competitive price than ever – permanently! Now only £189.00 the critic’s favorite USB 2.0 Audio Interface packs serious punch with 6 pristine channels, four analog ins/outs, digital in/out, MIDI and low-latency performance – all in a sleek, ready to rumble frame. It’s not a comeback. It’s a Komplete knockout, whether you’re recording, performing or playing music.

Presonus Studio One 2.0.5 is now available . This version of the professional DAW Software adds many enhancements and fixes, and is recommended for all users.

Highlights among the new features are:

• Any Studio One command can now be assigned to any MIDI CC message. Use any MIDI control surface with Studio One, even if it isn’t natively supported.
• Markers can now have a Stop flag that stops playback at the marker.
• Ampire™ XT amp models have been reworked to sound significantly better.
• The new Macro Toolbar is an extension that allows powerful customized workflow within Studio One. With this feature, you can create macros that string together multiple commands to form a single action. Groups and buttons can be freely added to the Macro Toolbar for existing commands, making it possible to bring what is important to your personal workflow to the surface. You also can map buttons on a MIDI controller to trigger macros, even when using control surfaces that are not natively supported.
• In addition, the Studio One manual is now available in German, Japanese, Spanish, and French. continue reading…

Software plug-in manufacturer iZotope announce Iris, an exciting new virtual synthesizer instrument that will be released at the end of April 2012.

Inspired by their RX2 audio repair suite, Iris is the first ever virtual instrument from iZotope. This groundbreaking sample-based synthesizer harnesses the power of both your eyes and ears and is an extremely powerful tool for creating completely new sounds.

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An update to Sibelius 7 is now available – version 7.1.2 – including more than 150 bug fixes.

Sibelius 7.1.2 also restores compatibility with Windows XP, though with the following differences in experience compared to Windows Vista and Windows 7:

• Text measurement and display doesn’t use DirectWrite, reducing the impact of the new text handling and typography features
• No support for multi-core CPUs in the playback engine, resulting in a comparable level of performance to Sibelius 6 when running multiple VIs
• No support for the Windows Aero theme, meaning that the Quick Access Toolbar appears in a strip below the title bar and above the ribbon

Note also that the Sibelius License Server (for multi-seat networked licenses of Sibelius) now runs on Windows Server 2003.

Native Instruments gave controllerism pioneer Moldover two Traktor Kontrol F1 USB DJ Controllers to take for a weekend test drive. Combining the F1s with his Traktor Kontrol S4, he unlocked the full potential of Traktor’s new Remix Decks.

In just two days he came up with some amazing tips and tricks, which were captured on video. Watch as he slays searing guitar solos, manipulates layered vocal harmonies, and remixes tracks on-the-fly.

Read the Traktor Kontrol F1 Review

Powerful DAW software, Presonus Studio One 2 features plenty of tools for recording, editing, mixing and mastering – Read the full review here.

Presonus Studio One 2 brings new features, such as integrated Melodyne pitch correction, transient detection, groove extraction, multi-track phase-coherent audio quantisation, multi-track comp’ing, and a bundled mastering suite. continue reading…

Native Instruments remix pricing structure for their DVS enabled Digital Vinyl Systems.

The Native Instruments Traktor Scratch A10 (£399) & Traktor Scratch A6 (£249) are the newly released & re-named Digital Vinyl Systems containing everything you need to DJ using timecode Vinyl or CD’s. Striving to provide customers with a more simplified buying option, both DVS software packages include the latest version of Traktor Scratch Pro 2.5 DJ software, MK2 timecode bundle, with the only difference being that the A10 features the Traktor Audio 10, and the A6 features the Traktor Audio 6 DJ Interface. continue reading…