You Rock Guitar

An all-in one game controller/MIDI guitar/Digital guitar thing for $179? Sounds - well, quite cool...

From their site:

"100 Guitar & Synth Presets – blends, mix sounds, levels, tunings, capos, tap mode, open mode.
25 Sampled Real Guitars – Strats, Les Pauls, Acoustics, Nylons, 12-strings, Telly’s all 16 bit long samples.


25 You Rock Mode™ Tracks – just the rocking start to learning all the progressions that changes the world


50 Alternate Tunings – From Hendrix and Hutchins, Mitchell and Hedges plus the classics.


Digital Capo – No need to tune a single string.


Tap Mode – When you’re felling like Eddie, we ready to deliver
Whammy Bar – pitch bend up or down.


Vibrato Joystick – for that mushroom sustained amp feedback effect.
1/4” and stereo mini output – Yeah we got that.


On-board recorder – take the You Rock Guitar anywhere and still save your creations


MIDI & USB – the fastest and easiest, all 16 channels plus Mono modes on Channels 1-6 or 11-16"

The You Rock guitar isn't quite out yet, but check out the vid....

And then pop to their home site for more...

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ES1 Skin anyone?

Been at bit bored over the holidays, have been designing a new skin for Logic's ES1 synth. Anyone interested? Let us know, and we'll make it available for download.....

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Smack my bitch up - Ableton style

Thanks to Rhys for sending me this link - how to make The Prodigy's Smack my bitch up in Live, complete with the sample resources.....

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Free melhoman performer edition

Ohmforce are giving away their Melhoman performer edition for free! Very nice of them too.

It's a bit of a weird one, this, but very cool. Been playing around with it this morning, and it's worth a read through the manual just to see what it can do - it looks deceptively simple!

It comes in Mac and PC RTAS and VST, as well as AU, and even as a stand-alone, so just

head here to pick up your copy.

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CBGB's virtual tour

Bit of an oddity this...

Found a virtual tour of the classic NY venue CBGB's. If you never had the chance to go there, why not put on a Bad Brains CD too loud, open a can of beer, tip the contents of an ash tray over your clothes and turn up the heating until you're sweating like a pig, and experience what it was really like

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Pro Tools on the Mackie Onyx - now official!

Good news everybody!

AVID (owners of Digidesign, who make Pro Tools) have come to an agreement with LOUD (parent company of Mackie) about running Pro Tools on Mackie hardware.

This means you can now run Pro Tools LE on the Onyx 820i, 1220i, 1620i and 1640i mixers - with official support.

We'd looked at this ages ago, but this was before the official licensing agreement.

Check out the Mackie news site to read the announcement

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Rage Against the Machine for Christmas No 1?

Not sure if you've seen this already, but there's a campaign underway to stop the X Factor single reaching number 1 at Christmas, by buying Rage Against the Machine's Killing In The Name Of.

Looking at the iTunes chart this morning, Rage are at number 2 at the moment, so it'll have to gather a little momentum to defeat Joe McElderry's Miley Cyrus cover.

Check out the Facebook campaign homepage, or head straight to iTunes to join in..... but.....

Rage Against the Machine were released and published by Sony - who Simon Cowell works for.

Still, at the very least, you'll own a copy of a very cool song...

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Get yer free plugins, they're luverly!

Something a bit different for you all - a 4-band distortion plugin from TCK Plugins, called the Dirty Bastard. Good for anything from adding a little valve warmth, to distorting signals beyond recognition.

It's made using SonicBirth, so you'll need to have that installed for the Dirty Bastard to run (Mac only I'm afraid, but in AU and VST versions).

Don't worry though - SonicBirth is free, and you can use it to design your own plugins too.

(Need a little help getting started making your own plugins? Try out this tutorial).

Head to the London School of Sound website to download the Dirty Bastard.

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Minispillage

AudioSpillage are offering a free version of their upcoming DrumSpillage drum synth.....

It's a cut down version of the full version, but still pretty cool.

Just head here to download!

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New Smashing Pumpkins album

Smashing Pumpkins are releasing their new album for free, one track at a time....

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Rammstein vs. Cookie Monster

Not much to add, just check out the vid!

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