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Presets For PPG Wavegenerator

Sunsine Audio releases Generation


Sunsine Audio's new pack for PPG Wavegenerator features 32 presets including 5 basses, 7 leads, 5 keys, 2 arps, 9 pads, and more. In addition 20 unique wavetables have been included, and exchanging these between presets allows a large degree of tonal variation very easily. Each preset has parameters mapped to both the horizontal and vertical keyboard control for expressive performance opportunities.

Format:

  • 32 Presets in 1 .bin file
  • 20 WaveTables in .wts files
  • Full horizontal and vertical key modulation support.
  • Easy Installation Instructions

Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.1 or later and PPG Wavegenerator.

Pricing and Availability:
$1.49

More information:
ww.sunsineaudio.com

GC Pro Updates Website

Redesign makes the site a more effective tool for customers


Guitar Center Professional (GC Pro), the outside sales division of Guitar Center that focuses on the needs of professional users, has announced the launch of its newly redesigned website. Here's the details in their own words...

For several years, gcpro.com has been a key hub of GC Pro information, and the new site features regularly updated content and access to the most knowledgeable sales staff in the industry. The launch of the updated site coincides with new dedicated GC Pro YouTube and Facebook pages.

Many key features of the new site will be familiar to regular visitors – installation profiles, press releases, news articles, educational partners, Affiliate Program members, Audio Solutions back issues, access to GC Pro Account Managers and much more. This is the content that site visitors have come to rely on at gcpro.com, and it continues to be a powerful set of resources in facilitating an informed customer base with a close relationship to the GC Pro family. The new site improves upon those elements with new features that make the site an even more keenly effective tool for customers.

First, the new site is more fully integrated with GuitarCenter.com, allowing GC Pro to offer online "GC Pro Shopping." Key products in the realms of high-end recording and lighting – GC Pro's bread and butter – will be vetted and endorsed by GC Pro's force of Senior Account Managers and linked directly from the online shop at GuitarCenter.com. GC's online store offers a truly expansive inventory, but the GC Pro Shopping feature allows users to narrow the search to only the most appropriate products for professional use.

The new site also adds a "Find the Expert" section. Depending on where site visitors are located across the U.S., this feature will display the six geographically closest Account Managers from GC Pro's 43 locations. Users can then click on individual microsites for each Account Manager – with access to specialties, backgrounds, interests and expertise – and strike up an email conversation with the correct person right away. The "Find the Expert" feature can also be sorted by product category, whether it be recording or lighting, or even keyboards, software, microphones, live sound and more.

GC Pro Vice President Rick Plushner stated, "Installation profiles, products and personnel – it is all perfectly integrated at the new gcpro.com. The time was right to give the site a boost, so that the level of comprehensive, expert service that our physical locations and Account Managers are known for throughout the industry could make the move to the digital domain. This is all in the name of finding ways to better serve our customers. We are excited for these latest developments as we continue to proudly do what we do."

Derek Snyder, GC Pro Business Development, Western Region, noted, "I am super-excited about our continued forward momentum. Our integration with Guitar Center's main site, along with our new Facebook page and YouTube Channel, gives our customers more visibility into exciting new technology and equally important, a better customer experience by offering the quality and breadth of product they expect from GC Pro locations at the click of a button!"

Michael Guilfoil, GC Pro Manager, Administrator & Installations, noted, "GC Pro can now offer a personalized shopping experience online. Log onto GCPro.com, find your nearest expert, and order all your high end gear without leaving your living room. The site not only offers the latest deals on products, but also provides exclusive installation profiles and updates from industry professionals."

"I'm excited about recent updates to the GC Pro website, as our customers have access to more high quality content," added Dan Scalpone, GC Pro Regional Manager, Southern U.S. "We posted the online versions of Audio Solutions magazine, which has dozens of insightful interviews with industry professionals. We also added The Top Shelf Video program, a one-of-a-kind web-based TV program launched this past fall. The video series features real-world trials of the latest gear and interviews with the folks who actually build the products we sell."

More information:
www.gcpro.com

Binary Music Sale

50% off all Kontakt, Ableton Live and EXS24 instruments


Binary Music has announced 50% off all products, from now until 01 January 2013. Kontakt instruments from £6.00 and all Ableton Live and EXS24 instruments are at £5.00.

Pricing and Availability:
See website

More information:
www.binarymusic.co.uk

The Propellerhead Holiday Countdown

Savings, Tutorials, Giveaways...


On Monday December 17, everybody who follows Propellerhead's Countdown to the Holidays will be a winner. For 24 hours only Propellerhead, Cakewalk and iZotope are offering a 25% discount on some of the most popular Rack Extensions from the previous week:

  • iZotope Ozone Maximizer
  • Propellerhead Radical Keys
  • Propellerhead Radical Piano
  • Cakewalk Re-2a Compressor

About Holiday Countdown
In December this year Propellerhead is staging the Holiday Countdown. Every day until the 24th Propellerhead will present a new theme, and give users a chance to win software, Balance audio interfaces, Rack Extensions and ReFills. Propellerhead also provides a collection of tutorials, videos, and articles for learning more about the topic of the day -- ranging from song writing and mixing, to drum programming and FM synthesis.

All users need to do is keep an eye out on Propellerhead's Twitter and Facebook channels for opportunities to win great prizes and learn more about music making in the process. Happy Holidays!

More information:
The Propellerhead Holiday Countdown

Chord-Based Audio Loop App

SessionBand lets anyone make music on the iPhone, iPad and iPod


SessionBand is a new music app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch that ts creators say lets anyone create professional-quality music in minutes. They tell us that, with over 70 musical styles and a simple, intuitive user interface, it has been designed to capture the broadest audience possible - from pro musicians to those who can't play a note! Here's their press release

Created by UK Music Apps Ltd, SessionBand is a game changer. It's the world's only chord-based audio loop app, which means for the first time, users can create pro-quality music from almost every chord and in almost every main style. And they can do it in minutes...wherever they are, by simply selecting chords and watching them convert instantly into great sounding audio loops.

SessionBand is powered by over 80,000 precision-cut audio loops (all of which are chord-based) created by some of the UK's best session musicians and producers, who have previously recorded with Mariah Carey, Kylie Minogue, Leona Lewis, Mark Knopfler, Van Morrison, Sugababes and Cheryl Cole.

SessionBand's chord-based format has far-reaching benefits. It means that you can instantly 'flip' the track you have just created between all 71 musical styles, hearing your R&B track as Reggae or your Deep House tracks as Dubstep. Speed tracks up, slow them down, mix and arrange and share your music on the go. And because loops reside within the app itself, SessionBand is perfect for the user on the move - no internet required!

SessionBand has been priced to represent great value. Introductory price is £1.99 (iPhone) and £4.99 (iPad) and comes with 16 of the 71 styles pre-loaded on the iPhone version and 20 on the iPad. Launched on the 10th December, SessionBand has already made an impression, with the iPad version hovering in and around the Top 10 in the UK App Store music chart for two days - having reached the number 1 spot in Singapore - and it is currently among the most downloaded, newly-released paid music apps in UK, USA, Canada, Japan and Germany (iPad version).

SessionBand offers loop sets for every taste with a diverse range of genres from Acoustic, Blues and Dance, through to Country, Hip Hop/Rap, Rock and Urban/R&B. Add-on 'Style Packs' offer additional multiple loop sets, which can be purchased from within the app itself, enabling access to an even broader range of styles.

SessionBand was the brainchild of UK entrepreneur Paul Sissons, former CEO of private equity-owned GTI Media. UK Music Apps Ltd has a suite of additional apps scheduled for release in the New Year which will receive full global marketing support.

Pricing and Availability:
iPhone: $0.99
iPad: $2.99

More information:
www.sessionbandapp.com

Technical GRAMMY Award For MIDI Creators

Dave Smith and Ikutaro Kakehashi are honoured


Dave at the first public demonstration of MIDI at the NAMM show in January 1983

Dave Smith and Ikutaro Kakehashi are to get a Technical GRAMMY award. Here's the press statement that The Recording Academy has released:

In 1983, Ikutaro Kakehashi, founder of Roland Corporation, and Dave Smith, president of Sequential Circuits, unveiled MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface). Next year marks the 30th anniversary of the launch of MIDI, a standard that motivated the cooperation of an entire industry and helped move music technology into a new era. In a nearly unprecedented collaboration between competing manufacturers, what would soon prove an inescapable new technology was born when two competing manufacturers' electronic keyboards were connected, enabling them to "talk" to one another using a new communication standard. The announcement ultimately revolutionized the music world. Today, MIDI is ubiquitous in the musical equipment industry, and is the de facto standard feature on virtually every electronic music product made by every manufacturer.

More information:
www.grammy.org

Turn Your iPad Into An MPC

Akai teams up with Retronyms to introduce the iMPC


Akai has introduced the iMPC app. They say that, with more than 1,200 samples, 50 editable programs, 80 editable sequences, and iconic MPC workflow, iMPC is the first app to bring all the functionality of a classic Akai Pro MPC to your iPad.

Developed in partnership with Retronyms, iMPC includes everything you need to create a beat quickly and easily, including built-in effects, plus the ability to create new sequences and record and overdub beats. Time correction from 1/8 note to 1/32T with variable swing, and Note Repeat from 1/8 note to 1/32T with latch control are also built in. The app's built-in sampler can record samples three different ways: using the mic on the iPad, using the line input on the iPad, or using the multi-touch turntable interface in iMPC to record samples directly from iTunes or other music libraries.

Pricing and Availability:
$6.99

More information:
www.akaiprompc.com/impc
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