UVI Offers Free iLok USB Smart Key
Here’s a solid new promotion to get your head around. Rock a free iLok from UVI. The French audio developer UVI has launched a new promotion, whereby they cover the cost of a new PACE iLoK USB smart...
View ArticlePrimary Wave Music & BMG Enter Into $150 Million Strategic Alliance
One of NYC’s fastest-growing forces in music rights management, Primary Wave Music, has entered into a joint venture with BMG to the tune of $150 million. The deal will focus on new recordings by...
View ArticleNovation Announces Launchkey Mini Controller
Novation has added another product to their ‘Launch’ series of controllers combining the best of both worlds (keys and illuminated launch pads) with the Launchkey Mini. The 25-key controller has 26...
View ArticleGreat City Post Names Steve Simons Managing Director, Upgrades Facility
Chelsea-based Great City Post – which was previously known as Great City Productions — has been a beehive of activity lately, making a significant personnel move as well as upgrades to their audio post...
View ArticleProduction Music Association appoints Hunter Williams as Executive Director
There’s a new mouthpiece for the Production Music Association (PMA). Hunter Williams joins the Production Music Association as Executive Director after 20 years at SESAC. The PMA is the organization...
View ArticleFall Album Preview: 25 Upcoming Records & The People Behind Them
Summer’s over, back to business. There’s a looooong list of records en route from studios and labels around the country due to drop over the next couple months. Here’s our quick-hit list of anticipated...
View ArticleMOTU Releases 8pre – 16 x 12 USB Audio Interface
The new 8pre interface from MOTU has arrived, with the goal of being an ideal standalone interface — or even better, as an expansion to an existing system. MOTU has packaged 8 of their high quality...
View ArticleWestern Dynamo Launches 19-09 500 Series Optical Compressor
The fall gear season is beginning with a bang: The innovators at Western Dynamo have launched the 19-09 500 Series Optical Compressor. The Western Dynamo 19-09 provides up to 30 dB of gain reduction....
View ArticleOD-11 Cloud Speaker by Teenage Engineering Available for Pre-Order
Editor’s Update — July 16, 2014: Teenage Engineering has announced that, as of July 18th, the OD-11 will be available in the US at the two MOMA Design Store locations in New York City — across from the...
View ArticleRolling with Two Rooms: Galaxy Smith Studios
How do you go from home studio to a flourishing indie facility, in the thick of New York City? The control room of Galaxy Smith, centered on a Sound Workshop 34C console. There are a lot of ways to...
View ArticleBMI Names Michael O’Neill President & CEO
There are only three people who can say they lead the one of the United States’ Performance Rights Organizations (PRO): Michael O’Neill just became one of them. BMI has a new leader at the helm in...
View ArticleAvid Debuts S6 Control Surface for Recording, Mixing, Editing & Post
There may not be a new version of Pro Tools in the immediate offing, but Avid has a big revelation of a different nature for the 2013 Fall season: the S6 control surface. A melding of the ICON and...
View ArticleMy Ray Dolby Story — by Martin Porter
Thirty-five years ago I was involved in a start-up magazine for recording studios. Those were the days when there actually were recording studios. And recordings were made on 2-inch tape, which was the...
View Articleu-he Releases Satin Tape Machine Plugin
The plugin developer u-he has made quite the name for itself with its popular Zebra synth engine along with their many Uhbik FX plugins that are available as Propellerhead Rack Extensions. Their latest...
View ArticleFREE NYC EVENT: IMSTA FESTA – Music Technology Gathering, Sat. 9/28
In New York City, September and the music technology celebration called IMSTA FESTA go hand in hand. Otherwise known as the International Music Software Trade Association, IMSTA is putting on its FESTA...
View ArticleMastering Studio Sweet Spot: The Ranch Mastering – Beacon, New York
Attended sessions happen all the time in mastering – destination sessions, however, are a relatively rare beast. The Ranch Mastering is bucking that trend in Beacon, NY, an upstate hamlet with a deep...
View ArticleEvent Choice: 3rd Annual Brooklyn Autumn Guitar Show, Sun. 9/22
Guitarists and the people who love them will be converging on Brooklyn in glorious fashion this Sunday. That’s when the Third Annual Brooklyn Autumn Guitar Show takes place at Brooklyn Bowl in...
View ArticleVertigo Sound Launches VSP-2 Dual Mic Pre 1976 w/Discrete Twin Op Amp Circuit
The first trilogy of heroic hardware from Vertigo Sound is complete: The Munich-based audio masterminds have launched their latest release, the VSP-2 Dual Mic Pre 1976. Vertigo Sound has eschewed the...
View ArticleLVC-Audio Releases ClipShifter – Wave-Shaping Plugin
Following the success of their original transient dissector plugin, LVC-Audio has now released ClipShifter. Their latest plugin has a unique limiter function in that, depending on the incoming...
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