Need more cheese in your horror themed musical score? For $80 you can grab the latest tool from Native Instruments titled ‘Paranormal Spectrums’.  Using their new KORE technology you can alter any of the 100 sound samples in a variety of ways to create creepy/dark ambiences. It’s a shame because I can see some potential [...]

Orange has used Musikmesse to announce their new line of music PCs.  Yes, you get a giant speaker with it.  Hit the jump to see a video. UPDATE (4/17/10) – Orange has updated their website with more information on this product. Source:  http://www.orangeamps.com/features.asp?ID=163 “4GB DDR2 RAM, 500GB Hard Drive, Intel chips, Windows 7 x64 home [...]

Korgs latest sequencer/synthesizer is coming to the iPad and it’s called iELECTRIBE.  Personally, I would find this very cumbersome to try and perform with but for $10 it’s a worthy toy and fun thing to mess around on.  What do you think?  Check out the video after the jump.

Career Achievement Winner Randy Thom and others discuss their experiences and take questions on practices and knowledge within the industry.

Pat Metheny has done something a little different for his latest release.  Using his guitar to trigger other instruments through MIDI signals he has made us one step closer to making Skynet a reality. Source:  http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/01/orchestrion/

Digidesign has announced through subscriber email that they will start phasing out the Digidesign brand name with Avid.  An excerpt from the notice: “In today’s rapidly changing business environment, it no longer makes sense to maintain many separate brands. It’s also impractical to have multiple marketing teams, websites, newsletters, and separate methods for communicating with [...]

Behringer just released a new mixer to protect you from your girlfriend.

MF-401 Auto De-tune – $799.00 Do the vocals on your favorite song sound like a vocoded chipmunk? Yes(?). Did you use extreme auto-tune settings in the sensitive ballad you wrote for your girlfriend, who then dumped you because, as Jay Z said, “Auto-tune is Dead”. Never fear, you can now recapture the emotive intensity of [...]