Is The DAW Dead?

Is the DAW dead? That’s the question raised by a post at Digital Music Doctor. The Doctor argues that innovation has slowed in the world of digital audio workstations: We recently updated our Digital Audio Workstation Shootout to incorporate the changes in Avid Pro Tools 9 and Cakewalk Sonar X1. These new versions mark the first [...] Relative News

The Missing Link OSC/MIDI Translator Makes Your Electronic Music Gear Wireless

The Missing Link OSC/MIDI Translator is a new hardware device that’s designed to make all of your music gear wireless. The Missing Link contains its own WiFi radio, and translates specially-coded OSC messages sent from your mobile device or computer into standard MIDI messages to control synthesizers, drum machines, mixers, digital audio workstations, or anything [...] Relative News

NAMM 2011: API takes it to 11

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[WinterNAMM 2011] There it is - The Numark NS6 DJ Controller

Phil Morse from Digital DJ Tips has managed to get a picture of the to-be-announced Numark NS6 4 channel DJ Controller. As expected this controller will probably be a strong competitor to the other dynamic duo, the Native Instruments S4 Kontrol and... Relative News

NAMM Show Preview: Numberz Digital Audio Lab

2011 NAMM Show: Tiptop Audio is introducing Numberz – a USB device that communicates with a software front-end (for PC) and can be used to download DSP programs and display text to blank, non-volatile cartridges for use with the Z-DSP. Here’s what Tiptop Audio has to say about Numberz: This is designed to let you [...] Relative News

Future Music Issue 235 On Sale Now

New FM in shops today. Go buy! Or buy online here. Or subscribe using our fabulous 'up to 35% off' offer here and have FM posted to your door for free on launch day!This is getting to be a habit. After breaking the mold last year we decided it was time to bite the bullet and pull together our trickiest, most expansive feature of the year. Future Music issue 235 is a product of months of planning, hours of arm twisting and entire days of thanking people. This is The Producer Special 2011 and we reckon that 2011's effort is our best one yet. For a start there's that amazing double cover and star-laden photoshoot. Check out the full folded out version above.Then there's our biggest feature ever inside the mag. Starting on page 50 you'll find 50 brilliant tips from 50 of the most brilliant minds in music-making. The reviews zone this month is no slouch either. We've the world's first review of Moog's Slim Phatty, AKA the most inexpensive way to get a full-featured Moog... Relative News

How to Create Amazing Bass Patterns for Electronic Music

// Twice a month we revisit some of our reader favorite posts from throughout the history of Audiotuts+. This tutorial was first published in September 2008. Following my tutorial on creating a house drum track we received requests for information on creating bass lines, lead sounds, FX and arrangements. So, over the coming weeks I will be supplying step-by-step tutorials, demonstrating possible techniques for completing an electronic house track. I will build on the track in each tutorial so you can see things develop and make the Logic project available at each stage. Even though these tutorials are completed in Logic Pro 8 and in a one particular style of house, the techniques are very much generic and can be applied to any software and genre of dance music. Note: this tutorial contains embedded audio that will not display in a feed reader. Click back to the site to read the tutorial with audio or download the Play Pack at the end of the tut. 1. Choose your weapon Once... Relative News

[WinterNAMM 2011] Fairlight CMI-30A Prototype to be Revealed At NAMM

When the Fairlight CMI arrived on the scene in the eighties it changed the way we made music, forever. Today every sampler, digital synthesiser, sequencer and audio workstation can trace its lineage back to this legendary machine. Known for its solid... Relative News

Oxygene 2

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MOTU 828mk3 Hybrid Audio Interface Offers 28 Inputs, 30 Outputs

2011 NAMM Show: MOTU is introducing a new Firewire/USB audio interface, the MOTU 828mk3 Hybrid. It’s designed to provide connectivity to any Mac or PC via FireWire or high-speed USB 2, with 10 channels of 24-bit/192kHz analog recording and playback, combined with 16 channels of ADAT digital I/O and stereo S/PDIF. The system is expandable [...] Relative News