SampleScience has released Cassette Roads, a freeware electric piano instrument featuring that was resampled from an audio cassette. Cassette Roads is a virtual electric piano available as a VST plugin, VST3 plugin, and AU plugin for digital audio workstation software on PC and Mac. It is a sample-based instrument developed with Maize Sampler. The sounds…
JSplash Apps has released Rhythm Pad 5.0 for iOS. This version is a major update and includes a new and improved user interface with new features and drum kits. Here’s what… Read More Read the full story
Larry Heard and Robert Owens are suing the Chicago house label for $1 million ‘unpaid’ royalties. Attorneys Robert S. Meloni and Christopher M. Heintskill have filed a lawsuit against Trax Records and owner Rachael Cain. Several seminal tracks are listed in the 27-page federal copyright infringement, including ‘Can You Feel It’, ‘Beyond The Clouds’, ‘Bring…
Ken Liu is a graphic designer – “the creative department for small companies like record labels that don’t have a creative department”. We got him to tell us all about his job. Name? Ken Liu Place of work? I mostly work from home. Sometimes I’m needed on site for meetings, presentations, or proofing. When I’m…
Before the advent of MP3s and streaming, the only way to amass a collection of music was to buy vinyl, cassettes and CDs. Not only were they expensive compared to today’s US$0.99 downloads, but they were finite too: travelling to swap meets and digging through piles of dusty records to look for gems and rarities…
Splitting tracks into “stems” for DJing with is the current buzz among DJs, with both Virtual DJ and djay Pro adding real-time stems DJing to their software recently, services like Moises.ai offering stems creation online, and software like XTRAX STEMS giving you a desktop way to achieve this. But one new (to us) service stands…
Raising Jake Studios has released DRP2a mkII, an updated version of the DRP2a plugin offering two new controls, new presets, “mouse over” digital readouts of rotary control parameters… Read More Read the full story
Toontrack has updated EZbass to v1.0.5. New General: Added support for authorizing and using EBXs (EZbass sound expansions). The CCs for modulation, damping… Read More Read the full story