Ableton has announced a special Live Lite to Full version upgrade is now available. All users of Live Lite (as bundled with products from M-Audio, Digidesign, Korg, Line 6, E-MU, Focusrite, Novation, Tascam, and Allen & Heath) can now purchase an upgrade to the full version of Live 6 at a discounted price. The full version of Live features: •...

Koch Entertainment, an Independent label and distributor, has purchased the music distribution assets of Navarre Corporation for $6.5 million. Navarre is a publisher and distributor of a wide range of entertainment and media products, including CDs, DVDs, PC software, and video games. Navarre has now shed what it believes is dead weight, the troubled...

Camel Audio has released Camel KORE, a collection of 35 presets for Native Instruments KORE, as well as KORE presets for the Biolabs Absynth Sounds collection. The presets were programmed by Biomechanoid with full controller assignments, and are free to all registered users of the Cameleon 5000, CamelSpace and CamelPhat plug-ins. Camel Audio has special pricing...

Forever For Now has updated Diatonic Shifter to version 2. Diatonic Shifter is a real-time diatonic pitch shifting and harmonizing Audio Unit effect. Features: • Real-time, low latency processing for live performances. • High precision post-processing for studio quality results. • Truly diatonic in-scale pitch shifting, harmonizing and...

Rick Rubin has officially joined Columbia Records. The label released a statement divulging that Rubin would “form a dynamic and creative executive partnership” with Columbia chairman Steve Barnett, under a new model devised by Sony Music’s CEO Rob Stringer. There are no initial details on what Rubin’s exact role at the label will be or...