Electronic Musician

The BR-800 battery-powered digital recorder allows for up to four tracks to be recorded or eight tracks played back simultaneously, plus an additional stereo track dedicated to the built-in rhythm generator.

DJ Aquilina has recorded and created a collection of Deep House samples for Loopmasters, providing producers of Deep, progressive and minimal house and techno music with a range of samples.

Komplete 7 is a significantly expanded version of the company's software bundle. The next generation of Komplete now combines 24 instruments and effects—including five entirely new products—with more than 10,000 sounds and 90 GByte of samples.

The FL Studio 9.5 beta is available to all registered FL Studio 9 owners for testing. Users can download the FL Studio 9.5 beta from their user account page. The installer is available below the regular FL Studio registration.

The PSP 85 benefits from aggressive algorithm optimization and adds significant new features while retaining full preset and bank compatibility with the PSP 84 delay. The plug-in comes with 60 new presets and a supplementary bank containing more PSP 84 factory programs.

In Ethno World 5, users will find more than 240 professionally recorded ethnic instrument samples in the following categories: bowed instruments, stringed instruments, woodwind and brass, key instruments, bell-type instruments, metal type instruments, world drums, world percussion, and gongs and bowls, as well as new category voices and choirs.

Dante Virtual Soundcard acts like a physical sound card or audio interface, including the ability to play and record audio using any Windows audio application with standard ASIO multichannel audio support, or any Core Audio Mac application. This includes applications such as Cubase, Nuendo and Logic, and additionally for Mac, more general audio applications such as iTunes.

For those already using Ableton Live, Ableton is giving away the Partner Instrument Compilation—a free 4.4GB Live Pack that provides a selection of content taken from the Partner Instruments. It includes everything from acoustic pianos and electronic drums to exotic instruments and cinematic soundscapes; 58 Instrument Racks, 16 Drum Racks, five Live Sets and 80 Live Clips.

This free app—now available from the Apple app store—allows Digital Performer (Version 7.2 or later) users to control DP over a WiFi network using their iPhone, iPad or third-generation iPod Touch.

The xpressor 500 stereo compressor available in API's 500 Series format offers a discrete audio path running in constant Class-A mode and features auto-fast attack mode, switchable release characteristic and a Warm mode switch for instant coloration of the signal.

Gen16 by Zildjian makes its debut with the Digital Vault, offering authentic, high-resolution acoustic samples of the company's exclusive master "reference" cymbals, along with rare, limited-edition cymbals never available to the public. Each cymbal has been hand-selected by Zildjian's Master Cymbal tester Paul Francis from the "cymbal vault" at the company's Norwell, Mass., workshop, and recorded by percussion samplist John Emrich.

With the release of the AmpliTube iRig interface and the Amplitube for iPhone app, IK Multimedia now lets you get modeled guitar-amp-and-effects tones from your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad.

AmpliTube for iPad is now available for download from the iTunes App Store. With the currently available iRig interface adapter, this combination allows for a portable multitouch tone-modeling solution for guitar and bass players.

Sonic Academy's latest video tutorial series, “How to Make Progressive House,” is currently released for Ableton Live users; it will be released for both Cubase and Logic Pro users in the coming weeks.

Now available are free Rapture/Rapture LE 1.22 and Dimension Pro/Dimension LE 1.5 updates for Mac OS and Windows.

Science Friction Composers George Martindell and Frank Sonsini interviewed by Sarah Benzuly in EM August 2010 Issue

The low-profile AT2021 offers an extended frequency response (30-20k Hz), high maximum SPL and wide dynamic range. The microphone’s condenser design provides studio-quality performance for vocal and instrument applications, and can be used for acoustic guitar, overheads, piano and group vocals. The AT2021 is also available packaged with the AT2020 in the AT2041SP Studio Pack.

MOTU is now shipping Digital Performer 7.2, a free update for all DP7 users now available for immediate download at motu.com. Version 7.2 adds new features and enhancements, including Themes, which allow users to completely change the look and feel of Digital Performer's entire user interface with one click.

Mackie’s Onyx Blackjack ($199.99) premium 2x2 USB recording interface offers industry-leading recording quality in a compact and ergonomic desktop design perfect for home studios