Ableton has announced Live Intro, a starter-version of Ableton Live, which will replace Live 7 LE. The new Live Intro has all the essential basic features as Ableton Live at a lower price and comes with a 7 GB Library of Sound, including sampled instruments, Drum Loops, Beats and Breaks, 200 Audio and MIDI Racks and Effects and 500 Instruments and Drum Kits from...

Native Instruments has announced Traktor Kontrol X1, a MIDI DJ controller due in February 2010. NI has been rumored to be developing a MIDI DJ controller for the last couple of years, and the X1 appears to be the fruit of their labors. Traktor Kontrol X1 allows DJs to control loop, cue, effect, track selection and transport functions of their system. The unit...

Nov 3, 2009

WaveArts has released Tube Saturator, a real-time analog modeling plug-in for Mac and PC. Unlike other tube simulators which use radically simplified models, WaveArts claim that Tube Saturator uses state of the art circuit simulator technology to capture every nuance of an analog system. The actual schematic (consisting of resistors, capacitors, tubes, and so...