Everything in one place: this was Nine Volt Audio's guiding principle behind the creative approach to The Beat Aesthetic.

Forty-four unique beat suites for 44 songs, with each suite containing everything a track needs to get from start to finish in style.
In order for a song to evolve, contract and expand, each of the 44 suites present a core beat, all parts of the core beat broken into stem and solo mixes, a minimum of six fills and a minimum of six "alternate mix" beats that range from complimentary to textural to glitch laden to attention grabbing ear candy.

The "everything in one place" concept continues through out the library with individual folders containing solo loops of kicks, snares, hi-hats, "top mixes" and more for quick and unique beat creation from the ground up.
Available as a DVD or download
RRP: £69.95 / €80.95

DM1 is an advanced drum machine exclusively designed and developed for the iPad, powerful, elegant and very easy to use. It will appeal to musicians with its special selection of "vintage" drum kits and its smart features for sound editing and song writing.

It will equally appeal to music fans with its fast, intuitive and "fun" approach to beat making.

For its release Fingerlab offers a special deal with a 70% discount ($ 1,99 instead of $ 7.99).

Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH today announced that it will be distributing Alan Parsons' Art & Science of Sound Recording video series by Keyfax NewMedia. With multi-platinum producer Alan Parsons presenting video footage on recording techniques, studio equipment and instruments, the three-DVD boxed set is available from Steinberg through its web store for EUR 119/GBP 101.

The boxed set contains three DVDs encompassing 24 sections on a range of useful topics from MIDI to audio recording techniques. The show covers various methods of signal processing in the analog and digital domain, using compressors, EQ and reverbs among many others. This is followed by providing a detailed look at recording the essential parts of each band: guitars, keyboards, drums and vocals. Eventually the different processes come together when addressed in a live recording setting.

The idea to sample this drum kit came up as we have been looking for new and fresh drum samples which have not the usual sample sources from famous and legendary drum machines like a Roland TR808, TR909 and so on.

Urban Drum Assault contains 100 different Bass Drums, 75 Snares and 25 HiHat samples which match for modern Urban/HipHop productions. Each of this samples exists in two different sound variations so that you get 200 Bass Drums, 150 Snare and 50 HiHat samples.

Apart from all the amazing features of the original VoiceLive 2, this new Extreme Edition offers twice the looping memory, an enhanced microphone preamp for ultimate transparancy, new breathtaking Extreme Edition presets and an appearance that is sure to make a major impact on any stage with its new, extruded aluminum chassis and artwork in the coolest of blue!

VoiceLive 2 Extreme Edition will deliver: auto-adaptive compression & equalization, reverbs, delays, modulation effects, harmony processing, doubling, and more. All effects can be combined, tweaked and stored as personal presets for anything from 'smooth-producer-like' sounds to 'dirty-and-in-your-face' outrage to 'downright-spacious' weirdness – or anything in between. At the end of the day, it's all about every singers' natural right to express themselves on the stage.