It’s that time of the year again where people around the world vote for the annual DJ Mag Top 100 DJ’s. Last year (2010 just to be clear) about half a million people from more than 167 countries voted for their favorites. The debate rarely leaves the dance world all year, but during the next few months the speculation on the world’s top spinner, new entries, and biggest climbers, will...

Avid has announced the release of Sibelius 7, the newest version of the company’s flagship musical notation software. Complete with a newly recorded professional-quality sampled sound library, native 64-bit performance, full MusicXML interchange support, and advanced typography and graphics features, Sibelius 7 is more powerful and versatile than ever before. Here’s what’s new in version...

Retronyms have Tabletop for iPad, a modular environment where you can mix and match different devices (keyboards, drumpads, compressors, etc). You can pick your things from more than a dozen devices including samplers, mixers, effects, sequencers and more. Tabletop is built exclusively for the iPad to be expressive, playable and fun. Both professional artists and those with no knowledge of music production...

Wondering how Mord Fustang managed to get the spine-tingling synthesizer sound for his hit ”Magic Trooper” (Plasmapool), currently #27 on the Beatport Top 100? The tech tutors at Sounds To Sample walk you through the shape of the sound and the arrangement of the breakdown, utilizing a three-oscillator synth, bitcrush, EQ, stereo spread, reverb, compression, and seven automation channels. It’s...

Image Line has updated FL Studio Mobile to version 1.1. Here’s what’s new: User instruments can be created from .instr and .zip files (video here) Sonoma AudioCopy. Audio can be sent to other apps via AudioCopy from the Export window Clipboard in the bar editor: tap and hold a selection to see the copy and paste buttons Filter track editing in the bar editor Record button in the Filter...

Synthix is a Mac and Windows compatible virtual recreation of the much-sought-after Synthex, a lush-sounding, 1982-vintage, eight-voice programmable analogue polysynth (independently designed by Mario Maggi and built by Italian home-organ manufacturer Elka). Synthex was much beloved by synth luminaries of day, such as Jean-Michel Jarre, whose well-known Laser Harp performances still emanate exclusively...

Hypersynth has released the Mac OS X AU version of Miniak-editor. Miniak-editor is a software editor for advanced controlling over the Akai Miniak (analog modeling synthesizer) in your DAW. Miniak-editor is able to retrieve presets from Miniak memory or load it from hard drive into the editor. You can send a complete program to Miniak via sysex or change any parameter of synthesizer in real time. Main...

Today, most digital audio workstations (DAWs) come with loads of high-quality built-in plugins, and I guess that would be enough to get you some amazing results.  And the first thing that comes in my mind when thinking about stock-plugins, is Apple’s Logic Studio. It’s one amazing piece of software, with great functionality, and (dare I say) EXCELLENT PLUGINS! The compressors sound great,...

Findremix has teamed up with Hyline Music to kick off a new top remix contest featuring the United Kingdom’s trance artist Kuffdam. Winners will get released on Hyline Music plus prizes by NUSofting, Sknote and Tek’it Audio. Kuffdam has in recent years come to embody the future of trance with a string of hit productions and remixes. A favourite with the trance establishment worldwide and especially...

discoDSP has released Corona, a virtual analog / wave synthesizer plugin for both Windows and Mac OS X. The description doesn’t say that much, and I don’t have a demo right now to tell you more, but here it is: “32 and 64-bit, virtual analog and wave synthesizer for Audio Units, VST hosts featuring 3 VA + WAVE oscillators, up to 14 combine modes between oscillators resulting in extensive...