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Here’s a little Ableton Live 8 sexiness: The Livid guys put together this demo video for LividStep – a step sequencer built in Max For Live :
This details the major functions of Livid’s Max For Live device, LividStep, including ...
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Looking for a gift for an electronic musician – or maybe a cool new toy for your music laboratory?
Here are 10 electronic music instruments under $100 to check out:
10 Cool Electronic Music Instruments Under $100
The Bliptronic 5000 LED Synthesizer looks like it could be the ...
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Alex Under
This is unconfirmed by Technics , but DJ equipment retailer DMC says that DJing on a turntable is officially dead – Technics is discontinuing the classic SL-1210 MK5 Direct Drive Turntable:
Panasonic (the manufacturer of Technics) have announced that production of the world famous ...
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Technics
discoDSP has announced a Black Friday special – 50% of everything, November 27th only.
See our full list of Holiday Electronic Music Gear Deals for more end-of-the-year specials.
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Access Music has announced a limited edition of the Virus TI Desktop for the holidays – the Virus TI WhiteOut Special Edition .
It has the same specs as the Virus TI Desktop – just a sexy alternate loo and a laser engraved serial number.
Download the Virus TI Desktop WhiteOut ...
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Folktek designer Arius Blaze created this awesome custom steampunk synthesizer:
The “Time Scape Wave Sequencer” is a sampler, processor and synthesizer with a built in 8 step sequencer. The touch board controls the polyphonic synth part which can be fed through delay or any ...
Music
SynthGeek has introduced SG-UglyVerb , a free Windows reverb plugin:
There are times when I want a reverb for its smearing, tail-producing qualities, but a regular reverb isn’t ugly enough. This was created to solve that problem. It sounds just like the name implies, and sometimes ...
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Here’s another example of what you can do with Max For Live – a Max for Live Marshall JCM800 .
Modeling with Cycling’74 Max/MSP and Ableton M4L.
via akihikotube
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Luxonix’s LFX-1310 is a free plug-in multi-effector, for Mac & PC, that includes 24 types of algorithm and 3 serial slots.
Effectors:
S’Filter 12 / S’Filter 24 / 3-band EQ
Peak Compressor / RMS Compressor
Overdrive / Distortion / Amp Distortion
Crusher / LP ...
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Solar System
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MixVibes has introduced VFX CONTRO L, a VJ-DJ solution that lets you mix, scratch, crossfade and synchronize your multimedia files – such as music videos, movies, music – through the interface of a classic DJ booth: 2 channels and a central ...
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Relatives staying just a bit too long?
Maybe it’s time to freak them out with the 8-bit goodness of Kasio Kristmas .
Kasio Kristmas features traditional Christmas songs recorded entirely with Casio instruments. It’s “an electronic arcade of ...
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Propellerhead has announced a holiday music gear deal , good through the end of the year:
Buy and register Reason before the end of December 2009 and you will get the brand new Reason Soul School ReFill for free! That’s a $99 value for all new ...
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Tastiere roventi in Vigevano – Red hot keyboards in Vigevano (Italy)
via the Synthtopia Flickr Group
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Music Blogger Sean Yee ( Key Of Grey ) has posted an unboxing video (above) and the first review of the Apple store only Vestax Spin DJ Controller .
It’s a $249.95 entry-level all-in-one digital DJ controller that will be sold elusively in ...
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Vestax
Here’s the latest Holiday Electronic Music Gear Deal :
Native Instruments is celebrating Thanksgiving with a feast of synths at an amazing price: For 4 days only, you can get REAKTOR 5 , ABSYNTH 5 , MASSIVE or FM8 for $/€99 each and save up to 75%.
This offer is valid from November ...
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Moog Music has announced official specs and pricing for the new Taurus 3 Bass Pedals .
The Taurus 3 is a modern update of the original Taurus bass pedals, which were used by Pink Floyd, ELO, Rush, Styx, Led Zeppelin, Genesis and many others.
The pedals, described by Moog as “the ...
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Korg has announced a free control surface plugin that lets you use the Korg nanoKontrol with Apple’s Garageband digital audio workstation.
Here’s what they have to say about it:
nanoKONTROL – CONTROL SURFACE PLUG-IN FOR GARAGEBAND/LOGIC
The Korg nanoKONTROL, already ...
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It’s that time of year again – time for holiday electronic music gear deals !
Here are some holiday deals on electronic music gear & software that you may want to check out:
Sonivox – Save 30% off everything. Enter the code “TURKEY” at checkout. ...
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Cakewalk has announced that it’s now offering it a bunch of free Windows music software , including synths and effects processors.
Here’s what Cakewalk has to say about each of the freebies:
SFZ+ is rgc:audio’s SoundFont player sample-playback engine, packed in a ...
