NAMM 2017: Sparkular

Sparkular is a safe option for indoor visual effects! It's the only indoor fountain display machine and it can shoot up to 90 second blast intervals from 1 to 5 meters in height! You can adjust the volume of the fountain, the effect, and can even have custom DMX control.

Fake Feathers - Bumba ft. Tay Coliee

Joe Perry & NAMM TEC Awards Winners Announced

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CREATIVE & TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT WINNERS ANNOUNCED AT THE 32^nd ANNUAL NAMM TEC AWARDS

PRESTIGIOUS LES PAUL AWARD PRESENTED TO AEROSMITH’S JOE PERRY WHO JAMS LIVE WITH BANDMATES

JOHNNY DEPP & ALICE COOPER

AEROSMITH PRODUCER & ENGINEER JACK DOUGLAS INDUCTED INTO

NAMM TEC HALL OF FAME

Comedian Sinbad returned as host

Presenters included Johnny Depp, Lita Ford, The Foo Fighters’ Rami Jaffee & Jessy Green, Om’Mas, Jerry Harrison, Geoff Emerick, Jeff Greenberg (Village Recorder), Eric Boulanger

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Anaheim, Calif., (Jan. 21, 2017) – Winners in 31 technical and creative achievement categories were announced at the 32^nd Annual NAMM TEC AWARDS, presented annually by the NAMM Foundation and held January 21 in Anaheim, CA. The annual event celebrates the best in professional audio and sound production and is held during The NAMM Show, the world’s leading global music industry trade event. Comedian Sinbad returned to host for the third time.

  

Four companies – AVID, iZotope, Sennheiser and Solid State Logic – scored several Outstanding Technical Achievement awards, each taking home two statues each. AVID’s Pro Tools Dock and Pro Tools 12.3 picked up in Workstation Technology and Audio Apps & Hardware categories; iZotope in a new designation: Audio Education Technology, for the company’s Pro Audio Essentials and the Ozone 7 Advanced in the category of Signal Processing Software; Sennheiser in Wireless and Headphone/Earpiece Technology categories for the Wireless G3 A-1 Band and the HD 25 Plus and finally Solid State Logic for Large and Small Console Technology categories for the System T and the Sigma Delta. Outstanding Technical Achievement honors were chosen in 23 categories.

“Game of Thrones” returned for its second win in a year for Outstanding Creative Achievement in the Television Sound Production category. Following a posthumous recent birthday milestone, David Bowie’s Blackstar EP won in two categories – Record Production Album & Single respectively. Several Star Wars-themed projects beat out the competition as well: Star Wars: The Force Awakens from Lucasfilm won for Film Sound Production while Star Wars: Battlefront won for Interactive Entertainment Sound Production. Outstanding Creative Achievement honors were chosen in eight categories.

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Joe Perry, one of music’s most significant artists and executives, received the evening’s highest honor, the Les Paul Award, presented to remarkably-distinguished and accomplished individuals from the music industry. Hollywood Vampires bandmate and actor Johnny Depp presented Perry with the award, then joined Perry, Brad Whitford, and Alice Cooper on stage for a live performance.

Perry dedicated the award to his manager Howard Kaufman, who recently passed away. News is forthcoming related to Perry’s upcoming sixth solo album. Learn more here.

Keeping it in the family, famed Aerosmith engineer and producer Jack Douglas also became the newest inductee to the NAMM TEC Awards Hall of Fame. Douglas engineered and produced many multi-platinum associated for many of Aerosmith’s most iconic releases and is affectionately dubbed "the sixth member” of the band.

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See the complete list of awards: 

Lightning in a Bottle Lineup Released!

Here is the lineup for LIB 2017 beginning May 24th! 

Feast Your Eyes and Prepare your Ears for the Greatest LIB Lineup Yet

Los Angeles, CA: Do LaB has just announced the lineup for the twelfth edition of the Lightning in a Bottle Arts & Music Festival, taking place Memorial Day Weekend, May 24th to May 29th at San Antonio Recreation Area in Bradley, CA. The announcement continues the festival’s tradition of serving up unique and trendsetting lineups that have helped sell out LIB tickets the last 2 years in a row as well as offer a preview of up-and-comers that will be headlining festivals around the country in the years ahead. In addition, this year’s lineup is a carefully crafted complement to the community spirit of the multi-faceted festival where participants gather to learn about environmental stewardship, elevate cultural awareness and unleash art across the landscape - all to the rhythm of multiple internationally acclaimed dance music stages.

Isotonik Studios: WORLD COLLECTION - Chris VIK - Graphic ONE

Chris Vik's first pack for our World Collection, Spectral ONE, was released to critical acclaim, supported no doubt by the impressive demo video! The World Collection is designed around the principle of a set of World Modules that produce Audio and MIDI reactive Visuals within an Ableton Live performance. Users then mix and add FX to the output with the World Viewer 
With plenty of new subscribers the feature requests came flooding in, we sifted and sorted the most popular and set about creating a new pack that would allow a user to manipulate their own images by feeding them audio.

As ever we could let the demo video do the talking but it's worth mentioning this time that the video above is also the promotional video for a groundbreaking Ableton Live collaboration project entitled the Collab Alliance.

Featuring such Ableton Live luminaries as  Mr. Bill, KJ Sawka, Julian Gray, John Miller, Slynk, SeamlessR, and Tom Cosm the track and Ableton set from the video is available for download for FREE from the Collab Alliance website - CLICK HERE - http://collaballiance.com/
The Graphik ONE pack consists of three brand new World Module visualisers and the World Viewer which allows the output of each Module to be blended togather across three layers...

MESHIFY

Meshify takes any image you throw at it and turns it into a 3D mesh for you to play with. Turn that picture of a sun into a spiky 3D sphere and use the built-in spectral analyser to modulate the mesh and the texture colours to your bassline; melt an image of a speaker into a wireframe that pulses to your kick drum; or use any image you like the colour palette of and turn it into a tunnel

CUBIFY

Cubify turns your images into an audio-responsive, 3D cluster of pixel-art-esque cubes. Using the audio streaming into it each cube can be stretched, spun and shifted independently. This powerful device allows you to animate what was once-static; logos, cartoon characters, cats… just drag and drop!

reTEX

reTex seems like a simple device at first; it’s a 2D plane covered by any image you put on it; but dig deeper and you’ll realise how many essential visual techniques can be achieved with it. Slowly rotate reTex and the 3rd dimension it sits in can be dramatically revealed. Layer multiple instances of reTex and offset the textures at different speeds to get a simply parallax effect (commonly used in animations) to give your visual set depth and movement. Use the caleidoscope parameter to collapse any image into a constantly evolving and folding geometric patterns. And of course, like all of Chris’ devices, the texture can be modulated by any incoming audio stream.

MORE DETAILS - CLICK HERE
- https://isotonikstudios.com/world-collection/chris-vik-graphik-one/

RELEASE DATE: FRIDAY 27th JANUARY

PRICE: £25.99

Native Instruments releases new MASCHINE Expansion PRISMATIC BLISS

Berlin, January 23, 2016 – Native Instruments today introduced PRISMATIC BLISS – a new MASCHINE Expansion that picks up where HALCYON SKY left off, featuring textured sounds and atmospheres that reference early electronica.

Incorporating field recordings, drones and layered sounds, PRISMATIC BLISS also contains exclusive PRISM and MASSIVE presets for more melodic elements. The Expansion is ideal for producers working in abstract and dark and melancholic styles, while also providing a rich and deep sound palette for left-field house and techno producers.

PRISMATIC BLISS runs in the latest MASCHINE software on the entire MASCHINE hardware family and is available exclusively at the NI Online Shop.

A compact version of PRISMATIC BLISS is also available as an iMASCHINE Expansion, for sketches on the go. Tracks can be exported to MASCHINE STUDIO, MASCHINE JAM, MASCHINE, and MASCHINE MIKRO for completion.

PRISMATIC BLISS  is available now at the NI Online Shop for $49 / 49 € / £44 / ¥ 6,280 / AU$ 79 and runs in the MASCHINE 2 software.

The iMASCHINE expansion is available at the iMASCHINE in-app store for $0.99 / 0,99 € / £0.79 / ¥ 120 / AU$ 1.29.

NAMM 2017: AeroSynth

AeroSynth has introduced a new line of electronic wind instruments and accessories! 
 
The AeroSynthTM is >11 ounces and can be picked up and played without a computer or amplifier with its built-in speaker. It is very rugged and great for traveling musicians as well!

AeroPodTM is for those who already own an electronic wind controller or instrument. It adds immediate portability, enhanced sound, and connectivity features. AeroPod is compatible with the Akai EWI-USB, EWI 4000, Yamaha WX5, Roland AeroPhone, and other MIDI/USB controllers.

 

Both AeroPod and AeroSynth feature advanced wavetable synthesis technology, downloadable custom wavetables and firmware, and USB/MIDI and BlueTooth connectivity. An internal rechargeable Li-Ion battery provides many hours of continuous portable operation. Headphone/audio/line-out jacks supports headphones or external amplifiers.