The TRAKTOR team is excited to announce TRAKTOR KONTROL S2 – the 2-deck, all-in-one DJ controller system with serious pro credentials. Its “2.1” design rewrites the rule book – featuring 2 decks and a mixer, plus a third channel for adding additional loops and sounds via powerful Sample Decks. Built in the image of its hugely popular big brother TRAKTOR KONTROL S4, the highly compact...

Steinberg Media Technologies 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 boxed set contains three DVDs encompassing 24 sections on a range of useful topics from MIDI to audio recording techniques....

Kirsten Price‘s music is likely already familiar to you. With TV licensing placements to high profile shows on VH1 and MTV, Price has thrived in the modern music business landscape where publishing is the key to longevity. Her style is eclectic, yet focused. Whether it’s a rock track, a pop ballad, or a hip hop tinged beat it sounds decidedly like a Kirsten Price track. In the video she...

Set to return to the Australian festival circuit in summer 2012, the forthcoming edition of Future Music Festival may have just received a major injection of cowbell lovin’ courtesy of New York disco rockers The Rapture who have revealed their own appearance at the festival. “It hasn’t been announced yet but I think in March hopefully we’ll be back for Future” the band’s Luke Jenner told...

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...

Did you ever see a commercial and thought your music would fit just right? Well, today I’ve found a website that does just that. Produced in association with Soundcloud, The History of Advertising Trust and Soundlounge, this project lets you add your own audio to 9 classic adverts – from Hugh Hudson’s British Airways Face, to Jonathan Glazer’s VW Tango dancers. You’ll need a Soundcloud...

Sure, we’ve seen robot bands before. But even when insecure and egotistical, they never quite capture the youthful disaffection we want from our mechanical pop stars. Until now. End of Life is a robot band consisting of a cello, and electric guitar, drums, and, for some reason, a flat-bed scanner — maybe he’s the cute one? The group recently covered Marilyn Manson’s three-string...

The entire new TRAKTOR family, featuring TRAKTOR 2 Technology Inside, is now available worldwide! And to highlight how cutting-edge technology can enhance world-class turntable skills, check out the amazing DJ Craze video. Performing with TRAKTOR SCRATCH PRO 2, TRAKTOR KONTROL X1 and his customized white MASCHINE, this routine highlights perfectly the power and creative potential of this TRAKTOR generation. More...

macProVideo.com have produced this helpful tutorial video for Native Instruments Razor, the new amazing reaktor-based soft-synth that everyone is talking about. It provides a comprehensive overview of RAZOR’s enormous feature-set. Enjoy! Share this:

Native Instruments are showing off their new synth, resulf of a collaboration with Errorsmith, dubbed RAZOR, via a video on YouTube. Prior to YouTube, they would send us, and a few other online magazines, a close-up of their latest wares, but no more. Additive synthesis, onboard, beat-synced effects, vocoder, and other goodies, to deliver Dubstep producers the engine they need to create the nasty...