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Keith McMillen Instruments SoftStep: Treading Lightly in a Big Way
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Foot controllers are really very useful devices in taming a lot of rigs including both software- and hardware-based ones. They do, however, offer a bit of challenge during transport as they tend to be bulky. They also add in a significant amount of weight to your baggage. The Keith McMillen Instruments SoftStep is an alternative to bulky foot controllers in a package that weighs about just a pound.
Featured last Winter NAMM 2010, SoftStep boasts of being the most versatile foot controller in existence. It is a lightweight foot controller than can fit laptop cases, and has 10 assignable keys. The good part about those keys is that they are not simple on/off switches; they offer five degrees of freedom.
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Posted by admin on Tuesday, February 09 @ 00:00:00 CST (0 reads)
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Loopmasters Vintage Breaks Vol. 1: Vintage Electronic Dance Rhythmics
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To bring out something new, one has to look into something old. That statement is universal; so universal in fact that it's cliché. No matter how cliché that statement gets, the principle of it is used every day and is evident in today's music trends. As far as electronic dance music is concerned, the love for anything vintage hasn't ceased as evidenced by the new Loopmasters Vintage Breaks Vol. 1.
Vintage Breaks Vol. 1 was developed by Loopmasters content partner Industrial Strength as a sample library that features early electronic dance music breaks. This is a collection of breaks derived from a 1960s Ludwig drum kit similar to the one used in the famous "Amen" break.
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Posted by admin on Tuesday, February 09 @ 00:00:00 CST (0 reads)
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Hobnox AudioTool: Creating Electronic Music From Within Your Internet Browser
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While DAWs have been popularly known to exist in standalone formats installed within your computer, the technology that has been running over the internet has come such a long way. Nowadays, people can perform various musical processes from notation to even recording just by the use of a high-speed internet connection and one's imagination. Electronic music fans will be delighted to be able to have a chance to create their own music even without sophisticated equipment through the Hobnox AudioTool.
AudioTool is a browser-based DAW developed by Hobnox that is primarily geared towards the creation of electronic music. It is a modular system that is intuitive to use and offers a mixing console, two kinds of drum machines, a bass synthesizer, another synthesizer called the ToneMatrix, and a host of "external" effects modules. It also has transport functions for playing back a composition as well as up to five minutes of recording one session.
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Posted by admin on Tuesday, February 09 @ 00:00:00 CST (0 reads)
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Groove Monkee Twisted Beats: A Change of Direction, A Change of Pace
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There are times when people just tend to run out of ideas. Such a phenomenon can occur within something that could be as basic as a rhythmic pattern. As we all know, the most basic of things such as a rhythm played by a drum track forms the all-important musical foundation. Groove Monkee Twisted Beats offer a whole slew of new ideas for drumming.
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Posted by admin on Tuesday, February 09 @ 00:00:00 CST (0 reads)
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Realsamples English Spinet II - Edition Beurmann
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Edition Beurmann from Realsamples is in the business of bringing the sounds of authentic historical instruments into the digital realm. As such, almost everybody can get to enjoy playing the sounds of a period-authentic instrument for a more-or-less authentic-sounding performance. Another harpsichord library has been extracted out of Professor Andreas Beurmann's collection and brought to life through Realsamples English Spinet II.
If Stradivarius is a name for the finest violins ever made, 18th-century builder Benjamin Slade is the harpsichord equivalent. It is unfortunate though that only one of Benjamin Slade's instruments has managed to survived in this day and age. English Spinet II preserves such an instrument through digital means for present and future generations of instrumentalists to enjoy.
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Posted by admin on Tuesday, February 09 @ 00:00:00 CST (0 reads)
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ToadWorks Fat City: Dual Overdrive Pedal For an Overweight Guitar Sound
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Music that relies on a lot of power requires fat and heavy sounds. Guitarists are often called upon to deliver that dose of heaviness with overdriven and effect laden guitars. Getting the sounds heavy doesn't mean it has to be dirty all the time as some guitarists would love to have that boost while keeping everything still clean. ToadWorks Fat City packs in a lot of weight for the guitar.
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Posted by admin on Tuesday, February 09 @ 00:00:00 CST (0 reads)
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Marshall AFD100: Ongoing Project With Slash To Arrive Later This Year
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Among one of the world's most famous guitarists, Slash is a pop culture icon. More than having such popularity, Slash's guitar playing the Guns 'N Roses album "Appetite for Destruction" had a characteristic sound that many guitarists have sought. As such is the case, Marshall began working on a project with the iconic guitar player that recreates just that: the Marshall AFD100.
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Posted by admin on Monday, February 08 @ 01:30:53 CST (3 reads)
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Motion Samples 80's Drum Beatz: Bringing Impact Bigger Than Big Hair
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Mullets, pompadour, headbands, shoulder pads, Miami Vice, Hair Metal, New Wave, the Shredder boom, etc. could be easily traced back to the 1980s. One of the most identifiable aspects of the music from the 1980s is characterized by the distinctly digital sound of drum beats emanating from electronic drums, drum machines, drum triggers, and similar devices. The most distinct components of such beats were the snare drum and artificial clap sounds that ran rampant during that era, and Motion Samples 80's Drum Beatz is a recollection of the glory from the 1980s.
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Posted by admin on Monday, February 08 @ 01:30:48 CST (3 reads)
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Beta Monkey Music Classic Backbeats II: Vintage Grooves for Modern Times
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Time is a facilitator of change. If people would chronicle the rhythms used from the 1950s up to the present time, the huge amounts of influence intermingling with one another has introduced numerous changes in the esthetics of drumming. One, however, would want to take a look into the past to study, analyze, and even use vintage drum rhythms into today's music. Beta Monkey Music Classic Backbeats II brings vintage drumming into the 21st century.
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Posted by admin on Monday, February 08 @ 01:30:36 CST (3 reads)
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ToadWorks PipeLine Harmonic Vibrato/Tremolo Pedal
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It can be argued by some guitarists that the tremolo effect, as popularized by surf rock's luminaries, was the first overt guitar effect in existence. Going as far back as the 1940s, tremolo circuits have appeared in guitar amplifiers and became standard by the 50s. A variation of this tremolo effect, known otherwise as the "harmonic tremolo", was developed by Fender, ending a guitarist's envy for the rotating Leslie speaker effect long been used by organists. The ToadWorks PipeLine Harmonic Vibrato/Tremolo Pedal brings this legendary effect within just a footswitch.
The PipeLine Harmonic Vibrato/Tremolo Pedal is proclaimed to be the world's first stereo tremolo/harmonic vibrato pedal. Its distinction is based on the fact that it can operate in stereo where such swirling effects add more depth and dimension to a guitarist's sound.
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Posted by admin on Monday, February 08 @ 01:30:02 CST (3 reads)
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