Hitsquad News for Musicians

Distrho has updated the Togu Audio Line (TAL) and Arctican Linux plug-ins Distrho has taken it upon themselves to update a number of Linux based plug-ins.

SONiVOX has announced the release of Wobble, a Dubstep Grime Generator virtual instrument slated for an October 1st release.

Mark Zuckerberg said today at F8 (Facebook's Conference), "It's been a lot of fun rethinking how music works".

Propellerhead is about to release Reason 6 on September 30, 2011, and has announced the "Pay What You Want" upgrade promo for users that have both Reason and Record.

Pioneer comes up with a the new DJM-250 2-channel entry level DJ mixer. It is a compact DJ Mixer with eight inputs, 2 channel Filter Effects and XLR balanced outputs.

Tape, Tubes and Transistors is a bundle of three plugins from the joint effort of Waves Audio and Eddie Kramer.

Beat100.com is a new video sharing network with integraded social networking features, available for music lovers of all backgrounds.

Cakewalk has just released two add-ons and a bundle package aimed at SONAR Producer users, or would be users. It adds more features to the already extensive toolset and will help your music productions gain new delivery options.

Focusrite have delivered the Scarlett 2i2, the newest member of it's compact USB recording interface range.

Melodyne Editor finally goes up a notch - getting an important update along with Melodyne Assistant and Melodyne Essential, the other single track audio editors of Celemony.

Tempo Rubato has updated their two iOS analogue synthesizer applications. They updated both the NLog Synth Pro which is an iPad app, and the NLog MIDI Synth which is for the small screen iPhone and iPod touch.

[Click to Enlarge] TC-Helicon based the VoiceLive Rack on the same vocal effects engine that was used by VoiceLive 2 and VoiceLive Touch.

Ableton Live 8 and Suite 8 users will get Puremagnetik's Retro Synths for free until the end of October.

A new version of Blue Cat Audio's multiband processing plug-ins bundle has been released, the Blue Cat's MB Dynamix Pack.

The iPad is musical - it's something built in to the very DNA of Apple.

Previously only available on Windows - Now available for Macintosh

Avid has announced the release of the new Keystation Mini 32 portable keyboard controller.

The new version of Blackbox Recorder - BBR64-MADI - from JoeCo can now record up to 64 channels of MADI data, while still maintaining one rack space. It is designed for recording audio and capturing multi channel live performances directly to a USB 2.0 Drive, in WAV format, without using a computer.

Avid has announced a special offer for some of their products which will run until Dec 31, 2011.

Cakewalk Announces Z3TA+ 2 Second Generation Waveshaping Synthesizer

PG Music have released Band-in-a-Box 2011.5 for Macintosh