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DKS Intros Drum Synthesizer

By joining the classical oscillator-based electronics drum synthesis approach with simple FM synthesis, physical modeling of the drum shell, a powerful set of effects, and a beautiful user interface, DKS is a unique, easy-to-use, and incredibly versatile drums synthesizer.

Big Fish Intros Loopalicious RnB

Big Fish Audio has introduced Loopalicious RnB Volume 2, a collection of sample loops in AIFF/Apple Loops/REX/WAV formats.

Use Reaktor To Turn A Sponge Into A Drum Machine

Mekarer, who may be the MacGyver of the music world, has turned a sponge into a snare drum, using a guitar pickup and a piece of string....

How To Make Beats

In case you were wondering - here is how you make beats.....

Man Destroys iPod In A Blender

Blendtec, a company that makes heavy duty blenders, is destroying iPods to help sell $400 blenders.

RedGorilla Music Festival Looking For Musicians

The RedGorilla Music Fest, being held in Austin, TX from March 14-17, 2007 is looking for independent artists, bands, and solo artists submissions.

Battery 3 Demo, Update Now Available

The Battery 3 demo version is now available as a free download for Windows and Mac on the NI website. The demo includes a selection of 6 scaled-down drum kits taken from the Battery 3 factory library.

Smart Loops Releases SL Reference Kit Drum Sample Set

Smart Loops has released the SL Reference Kit, an all-new drum sample set for use with leading Mac and PC software samplers. SL Reference Kit includes over 300 MB of 24-bit drum samples, performed live on a Pearl Reference kit, and recorded at the world-renowned Platinum Labs in Nashville.

Notion Expands Percussion Support

Notion Music has announced two new percussion sound kits: Sessions: Rhythm Section and Expanded Mallets 1.

Smart Loops Releases MIDI Drum Loops Volume 2

Smart Loops, a provider of pro audio loops and web-based recording services, has released MIDI Drum Loops Volume 2, a follow up to its best-selling Volume One collection.

FXpansion Intros BFD Percussion

Featuring everything from latin, world and drumkit-centric percussion to junk and kitchenware, BFD Percussion even includes the Kitchen Sink - in full BFD multi-sampled, multi-articulated form!

New iPod shuffle Available Worldwide This Friday

Nearly half the size of the original, the new iPod shuffle is just half a cubic inch in volume, weighs just half an ounce and features a minimal aluminum design with a built-in clip, making it the most wearable iPod ever.

Smart Loops Intros SL Hit Tracks

Smart Loops has announced the launch of SL Hit Tracks, downloadable audio loop packs that recreate the live drum performances of hit songs from artists like Led Zeppelin, The Who, The B-52s, Sublime, Van Halen, and others.

Smart Loops Releases Pro Drum Works Libraries In REX Format

Smart Loops has released its flagship Pro Drum Works libraries in REX format. Now musicians using Reason, Pro Tools, Digital Performer, Logic, Cubase, Nuendo, and other REX-compatible audio software can create millions of unique drum tracks with the extensive Pro Drum Works Volumes One and Two libraries.

New Kontakt Library Captures Seventies Drum Sounds

Pettinhouse has released Vinyl Drumkits, a drum kit library on two CDs for NI Battery 2-3 or Kontakt 2.

Topless DJs Going Mainstream

DJ Niki Belucci is a 23-year old DJ from Budapest, Hungary. Belucci specializes in playing house music topless.

ModernBeats Releases Sequel to Urban Anthemz Instrument Loops

Urban Anthemz 2 contains 400 loops of urban melodies, riffs, and hooks where styles range widely from ganksta hip hop loops all the way to unheard of modern hip hop melodies & hooks.

NAMM: Alesis Intros Control Pad USB/MIDI Percussion Controller

Alesis announced the introduction of the Control Pad USB/MIDI Percussion Controller, a compact and versatile tool for expanding percussion options on stage and in the studio.

Digidesign Announces Strike – The Ultimate Virtual Drummer

One part intelligent virtual drummer, one part professional drum module, Strike features a wide range of high-definition drum kits and style choices.

Beta Monkey Music Drum Werks X

Beta Monkey has introduced Music Drum Werks X, described as 100% Loud and Fast Drum Loops for Punk and Punk Rock.

NAMM Update: Steinberg Updates Groove Agent 3

Steinberg announced a new version of its Groove Agent virtual drummer plug-in at Summer NAMM 2006. Groove Agent 3 combines an expanded drum library with new virtual drumming technologies to offer a complete virtual drumming solution in one virtual instrument.

Beta Monkey Intros Pure Country Drums Library

Beta Monkey has introduced Pure Country II: Acoustic Drum Loops for Classic and Contemporary Songwriting.

ModernBeats Releases Vintage Machinez 2 Sample Library

ModernBeats has introduced Vintage Machinez 2, a sequel to its Vintage Machinez Sample Library, offering users a 21st century version of old drum machine classics.

MPCsounds Releases Akai BeatBox Sound Library

MPCsounds has released a new sound library, Akai MPC Beatboxed Drums.

Big Fish Intros Drumatic

Big Fish Audio has introduced Drumatic Percussives, a new percussion audio library in Redrum, NNXT, Halion, Kontakt, Battery and WAV formats.

Apple Pumps Down the Volume

Apple today announced a software update for the iPod nano and fifth generation iPod, that lets customers set their own personal maximum volume limit.

New Search Site Specializes in Music

Music Sage is a new music search engine that is designed to provide clean, readable summaries for each search result.

Smart Loops Intros New Drum Sound Libraries

Smart Loops has released three new drum SL Sample Sets for SoundFont 2.0-compatible software samplers and sound cards.

New Site Creates Music Podcasts by City

Podbop is a unique search engine/podcast combination that lets users search for music events and MP3s by city.

BFD Jazz & Funk Collection

The BFD Jazz & Funk Collection is the fourth expansion pack for the FXpansion BFD premium acoustic drum module.

FCC Proposes Million-Dollar Fine Against Behringer USA

The FCC has proposed a $1 million fine against Behringer USA for apparent violation of FCC equipment authorization rules. The equipment found to be in violation of the FCC rules includes audio processors, equalizers, mic preamps, sample-rate converters, mixers, amplifiers and lighting controllers.

Sequence Doggie Style

Zygoat Creative Technical Services has announced the immediate availability of Doggiebox 1.3, an update to its percussion sequencing software for Mac OS X.

Zendrum MIDI Controller

The Zendrum is a MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) triggering controller designed by drummers to allow musicians to express their creativity in rhythmic and intuitive ways.

Beta Monkey: Drums Get Odd

As the third installment in the Signature Series, Odd Time Meltdown is a complete package, inspiring users to get their grooves on in 5, 7, 9, and beyond.

NAMM Update: ZOOM Intros SB-246 Street Box Hip-Hop Rhythm Machine

A dedicated Hip Hop rhythm machine, the SB-246 features a slim, compact design, 529 Hip Hop sounds, studio quality effects, and a built-in sequencer with loop capability.

Alesis DM5 Digital Drum Kit

The DM5 Electronic Drum Kit includes the DM5 sound module that contains a variety of pre-programmed sounds and drum kits, along with five pads (snare, kick, two toms, and a hi-hat controller) plus two special cymbal pads.

Roland Expands Electronic Hand Percussion Line

A new collection of sounds has been created for the HandSonic 10; more than 350 high-quality instruments are onboard, including congas, bongos, tabla, djembe and cajon, as well as melodic percussion, drum kit, special effects, and more.

Korg BeatLab Digital Metronome

Korg is expanding its offerings with the new BeatLab (BTL-1) Digital Metronome. Designed for use by all instrumentalists, BeatLab also contains tools that make it easy for drummers and percussionists to practice a variety of rhythms and styles, including the ability to use preprogrammed rudiments or user-programmable rhythms.

BOSS Intros Portable Digital Recorder

BOSS used the 2006 Winter NAMM Show to introduce the BR-600, a streamlined eight-track studio.

Guns, Babes, MP3s

Babes, guns and MP3s appear to be a winning combination for British audiobook publisher AudioBooksForFree.

Robot Skull Techno Drum Machine

Artist Paul Granjon creates unique machines, some of which are part robot, part musical instrument, and part performance art.

The Real Reason Gear Cost So Much in the UK - Smoke on the Water?

UK readers - ever wonder why music gear costs so much?

Big Fish Intros Two World Rhythm Sample Libaries

Big Fish Audio has introduced two new sample libaries, Mahadhi - African Rhythms and Elements: Indian.

Raven dRT Offers Automatic Drum-Sound Replacent

Digital Black has released Raven dRT, a VST plugin that is designed to automatically replace drum sounds in an audio track with sampled sounds.

Three Days Left to Win Gear for Life

December 31, 2005 is the final date to sign up for the sign up for the zZounds $100,000 Gear for Life Giveaway.

Zero-G Intros New Drum Library

Zero-G has released Drum Styles, a collection of multi-format Acoustic Drum Loops & Single Hits in many popular musical styles

Drums on Demand Intros The Jazz-Latin Collection

Drums on Demand has introduced a news drum loop collection, The Jazz-Latin Collection. It offers nearly 1400 loops, Loop Layers and single hits in 31 Song Sets.

Monkey Gets Funky with New Funk Drum Library

The latest release from Beta Monkey Music is Rock Hard Funk, a two-CD collection of funk and funk-rock drum loops and samples.

Reason Releases Reason Drum Kit 2.0 Refill

Propellerhead Software has announced the release of the Reason Drum Kits 2.0 ReFill, a collection of drum kits for Reason 3.0 that goes far beyond traditional professionally sampled drum libraries.

A Lifetime of Music Will Cost you $37,000

Food for thought - a lifetime of music will set the average person back $37,000. Are you above average?

Graduate Student Researching 3D Percussive Synthesis

Cynthia Bruyns is a computer science graduate student that has created Vibration Lab, a program that uses modal analysis to analyze and synthesize percussive sounds.

Spectrasonics Updates Stylus RMX Groove Module

The update offers 750 new patches and several new features, including a Chaos Designer stutter-remix tool, a new version of the SAGE Converter, new MIDI Learn and hardware control capabilities, native support for Windows RTAS format, and over four and a half hours of new tutorial videos.

Griffin Intros Intelligent Cassette Adapter for iPod

The SmartDeck lets users control their iPod using the built-in controls of their cassette player.

Q-Be - World's Tiniest MP3 Player

The Q-Be measures just 2.4 cubic centimetres square, and weighs 18 grams.

Mix it Like a Record

Kagi Media has announced Mix It Like A Record, a DVD/Pro Tools session based mixing course taught by multi-platinum, Grammy-winning engineer, mixer and producer Charles Dye

New Sample Library to Benefit Hurricane Victims

One hundred percent of the proceeds from the $25 library will go to the Habitat for Humanity relief effort in rebuilding homes for the victims in New Orleans and Mississippi

Big Fish Intros Two New Sample Libraries

Both libraries retail for $69.95, and features samples in Reason, Audio, EXS24, HALion, Kontakt, REX, and WAV formats.

Apple, Motorola & Cingular Launch First iTunes Phone

Apple, Motorola and Cingular Wireless have announced the availability of the world’s first iTunes phone, enabling music lovers to transfer up to 100 of their favorite songs from the iTunes jukebox on their Mac or PC to their mobile phone.

Two Free Synths Released

d-lusion has released two virtual instruments as free downloads, Drumstation and Rubberduck.

Propellerhead Rebirth Now Free

Propellerhead has announced the discontinuation of development and support of ReBirth, the first software synth emulation software. The legendary product will now be available for free.

Big Fish Intros Indian Raga and Rhythm Sample Library

Big Fish Audio has released Indian Traditions, a sample library of Eastern Indian Ragas and Rhythms.

ModernBeats Delivers Platinum Rhythmz for Hip Hop

The collection delivers 400 professional radio ready drum loops.

SpeakerCraft Intros Music on Demand

The MODE, a full-color, wall-mounted screen interface with a scroll wheel and push button controls, allows home owners to access and control all of their multimedia equipment, including iPods, in up to six rooms of the home

Sirius Intros Wearable Satellite Radio

SIRIUS has announced its first wearable satellite radio, the SIRIUS S50, which allows users to capture and store up to 50 hours of SIRIUS content, or a mix of SIRIUS programming and MP3/WMA files.

Wireless iPod Music Sharing

Logitech has introduced the Wireless Music System for iPod, which lets users wirelessly connect their iPod or MP3 player to a stereo or speaker system, share their digital music and control the music using their player as a remote control.

Access iPods from Any Room in Your Home

Speakercraft has introduced the MZC/iPod Interface kit, designed to let you access an iPod from any room in your house.

Beta Monkey Releases Jazz Essentials Drum Loops

The royalty-free collection features more than 400 loops in pure and true detail, covering authentic jazz phrasing from a cool and relaxed 100 bpm, a blistering bop at 325 bpm and all points in-between.

Creative Debuts Zen Vision Multimedia Player

Magnesium-encased player delivers eight times the image resolution and more than three times the screen size of the iPod Photo.

Griffin Intros iFM iPod Radio Tuner

The Griffin Technology iFM integrates FM radio tuning, recording and remote control functionality to the iPod, all in a tiny aluminum enclosure

Korg Intros New D4 Digital Recorder

The D4 allows musicians to quickly record, mix and edit complete songs from start to finish, as well as easily capture musical ideas on the fly.

NAMM Intros Updated Rhythm Trainer

The RMP-5 has a convenient one-piece molded body with integrated pad and brain, along with a great-feeling, tunable mesh drumhead.

Archibald - Shareware Virtual Drummer

Developer Eric Loillieux has released Archibald, a virtual drummer which improvises on your patterns.

Apple Takes Podcasting Mainstream with iTunes 4.9

iTunes users can now easily subscribe to over 3,000 free Podcasts and have each new episode automatically delivered to their computer and iPod.

Kid Nepro Updates Downloadable Sample Collections

The new files are a preview of upcoming Kid Nepro patch and sample collections along with an update of their vintage sound samples.

Big Fish Audio Intros Brain: One Stroke Done

Big Fish Audio has introduced a new collection of drum performances, Brain: One Stroke Done. It features samples in 24bit, multitrack, ProTools sessions.

iriver Debuts H10 Family of Portable Music Players

iriver has announced three additions to the award-winning portable music H10 series.

Hip Hop Philosophy Debuts

Big Fish Audio has a new release, Hip Hop Philosophy. Rooted in abstract hip hop, the release puts together construction kits with beats, bass lines, synth, fx and more.

Griffin Ships TuneJuice – Battery Backup for iPod and iPod mini

Using a single 9-volt battery, TuneJuice lets you extend the play time of your iPod.

Beta Monkey Releases Alt and Modern Rock Drums Collection

With nearly 700 MB of 24 bit grooves, Alt and Modern Rock III features a combination of contempory drum grooves and feels.

Zero-G Releases World Pack for Garageband

Zero-G has released World Pack for GarageBand, which comes in at over 9,000 samples and instruments.

SessionLoops Announces REX2 Artist Drum Loop Collection

Optimized for use in REX2 compatible software such as Propellerheads Reason, Drum Foundations Volume One - Classic Rock Sessions features master drummer Simon Phillips.

Spectrasonics Releases Burning Grooves S.A.G.E. Xpander for Stylus RMX

The release of the Burning Grooves Xpander is the first time the popular drum groove collection has been available with Spectrasonics Groove Control development technique.

NI Synthetic Drums 2 Now Available

Synthetic Drums 2 is a massive collection of cutting-edge drum and percussion sounds, created in cooperation with more than twenty innovative electronic music producers and sound designers.

Emoove Music Offers Bedroom Producers 50/50 Deal

Emoove music, an independent online record company and distributor, is offering bedroom producers access to host their own web page, dedicated marketing, graphic design, and artist management & development.

Spectral Intros New Audio PCs

Spectral Computers has announced a new line of high-powered Windows-based computer systems.

Zero-G Releases Drum and Bass Producer Pack

ZERO-G has released the EZ Rollers Drum and Bass Producer Pack, a selection of samples is from one of the top Drum & Bass production teams.

Musikmesse Awards Announced; Apple on Top

The award winners have been announced for the mipa Musikmesse International Press Award 2005. Award winners include Apple Garageband; Access Virus synth; Korg's Oasys synth; the Korg Legacy Collection; Genelec 8000 monitors; Ableton Live; and Native Instruments Guitar Rig.

DM Digital Musician Intros Digital Musician.Net

Digital musician.net is a new community web site for musicians and audio professionals. Music projects, capabilities and preferences together with demo songs and photo material can be presented on an individual Artist & Studios homepage.

Frankfurt Musikmesse: Native Intros Synthetic Drums 2

The latest addition to the critically acclaimed NI SOUNDLINE range is loaded with 36 extraordinary drum kits that offer unique and inspiring material for all contemporary and upcoming styles of electronic music - including various flavours of techno and house, hiphop, R&B, ambient, two-step, drum&bass, tech funk, IDM, breakbeat, electro, industrial, electronica, big beat, downbeat, experimental and avantgarde.

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