Ableton introduced Live 9.5 this morning, and one the elements of the update is the new Link feature, which lets you play in time with multiple iOS devices and multiple instances of Ableton Live music software over a wireless network. Developer Oliver Greschke of Elastic Drums was allowed to implement an early alpha version of… Read More Elastic Drums + Ableton Link Sync Engine Previewed
Ableton has announced Live 9.5, a free upgrade for Live users that introduces a number of new features. Most notably, the Simpler device has been overhauled, waveform displays and metering have been improved and new analog-modelled filter modes have been introduced. Designed in collaboration with Cytomic (who also developed the Glue compressor introduced back in Live… Read More Ableton Introduces Live 9.5 – Here’s What’s New
Sonic Faction has released a new Kontakt bundle, Archetype. Achetype is a collection of eight virtual instruments (Beatdown, Sickness, Evilfish, Hatchet, Clone, Pulsator, Whoosh Machine and Rogue-One) which run the gamut of vintage and modern instruments. They asked composer Oscar Flores – who has scored trailers for many films, including The Martian, Terminator: Genisys and Jurassic… Read More Oscar Flores On Scoring With Archetype For NI Kontakt
Avid has has announced Pro Tools 12.3, which offers new workflow and editing enhancements, and a new EUCON control surface, Pro Tools | Dock. Here’s what’s new in Pro Tools 12.3:
Cakewalk has announced their ‘Jamaica Plain‘ update for their Sonar Artist, Professional and Platinum versions. This is the ninth in a monthly series of rolling updates, each named for a different town in Massachusetts. The Jamaica Plain update introduces Patch Points and Aux Tracks as additions to Sonar’s Universal Routing Technology. Users can now route… Read More Cakewalk Sonar Updated With Patch Points and AUX Tracks, Upsample on Playback
Today Sonic Faction announced their Archetype virtual instruments are now also available for Native Instruments Kontakt users. Archetype is a collection of eight virtual instruments (Beatdown, Sickness, Evilfish, Hatchet, Clone, Pulsator, Whoosh Machine and Rogue-One) which run the gamut of vintage and modern instruments, which are manipulated and controlled with Archetype’s controls and interfaces.
Arthur Kerns has introduced midiSTEPs a new step sequencer for iOS that he describes as ‘powerful but fun’. midiSTEPs was designed to be easy to use, in a way that’s similar to the SH-101 sequencer, where you can just quickly enter a few keyboard notes and you’re ready to hit play. At the same time, it also… Read More midiSTEPs For iOS – A Step Sequencer Inspired By The Roland SH-101
Free Music Software: HoustonTracker 2 is a free app that turns your Texas Instruments graphing calculator into a chiptunes synth + sequencer.
Bremmers Audio Design has released an update to MultitrackStudio for iPad, adding support for Audio Unit effects and MIDI instruments. Here’s what’s new in MultitrackStudio for iPad 2.3.1:
Bitwig has released Bitwig Studio 1.3 – the latest version of its music production software for Windows, Mac and Linux – as a beta ‘release candidate’. The latest version of Bitwig Studio features multi-touch, tablet display profile, gestures, pen control, and more cowbell.
