Musical party provocateur Barry Ashworth is well known as front-man for the Dub Pistols, a London band whose highly-danceable mash-up of dub, rock, electronica and hip-hop has taken them from the brink of multi-million dollar international success to the edge of destruction and back again. Ashworth is also a sought [...]
One of my favorite things about Propellerhead’s Reason is the small (but certainly not lacking) collection of interesting and adaptable instrument modules. Today I’ll be focusing specifically on the Kong Drum Designer, the innovative and endlessly useful drum machine with a user-friendly layout and incredible sonic possibilities. The most immediately [...]
IK Multimedia announces iRig MIX The first mobile mixer for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad for DJ’ing anytime, everywhere January 2012 – IK Multimedia is proud to announce iRig™ MIX, the first mobile mixer for iPhone, iPod touch or iPad devices. iRig MIX offers the same controls you would expect from [...]
For years I’ve been torn between many different computer-based recording solutions, both lightweight/economical and extensive/expensive. Until now, most software solutions have managed to cover all the basics of recording pretty well, often with one outstanding feature, like Ableton’s clip view or Logic’s bundled synths. Finally, one program seems to have [...]
Billed as The Groove Sketchpad, iMaschine follows hot on the heels of the 1.7 release of the full software, and the launch of Maschine Mikro, a slimmed down version of the original hardware. The family is growing, and given Native Instruments’ versatility with their software to date, it’ll [...]
Native Instruments’ Maschine has really led the way in terms of solid updates since its impressive, but admittedly premature 1.0 release back in 2009. User requests have been incorporated and great new features added such that the all-in-one production studio is really starting to live up to its [...]
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have a full blown production console at your fingertips, while also accessing the speed and storage capacity of your PC or laptop? Enter: Native Instruments Maschine. Native Instruments unveiled their revolutionary Maschine console hoping to take the industry by storm. [...]
Love the hype or loathe it, the iPad is happily changing the way a generation of musicians interacts with sound. From new implementations of classics, like Korg’s iMS-20, to mainstays like GarageBand, to a growing number of interfaces for existing performance software, the touchscreen input is redefining our [...]
The awkwardly named iXiMix is a UK based development team specializing in iOS control interfaces for your favorite music software. At the time of writing, they’ve released touch controllers for Traktor, Access Virus and, of course, Ableton. This last one pits them against some increasingly stiff competition, but if there’s one [...]
Last month we reviewed Pioneer’s achingly beautiful DDJ-T1 Traktor controller, and bemoaned the unfortunate timing that saw the hardware coincide with the most substantial update to the software in a decade. Pioneer had promised a 2.0 upgrade to the manufacturer’s edition of Traktor in July, and they’ve delivered. Bundled with [...]