Native Instruments Announces Traktor Pro 4 DJ Software

video uploads by Native Instruments

"Meet Traktor Pro 4. Traktor is the go-to software for hundreds of thousands of DJs at every level – from mixing with friends to headlining festivals.

The latest version brings stem separation, flexible beatgrids, iZotope Ozone mastering technology, and more. Plus, there are the Traktor staples like studio-grade effects, club-ready sound, and compatibility with the hardware that works for you."

Playlist:
Introducing Traktor Pro 4 | Native Instruments
What’s new in Traktor Pro 4 | Native Instruments
Introducing Ozone Maximizer in Traktor Pro 4 | Native Instruments
Introducing stem separation in Traktor Pro 4 | Native Instruments
Introducing Pattern Player in Traktor Pro 4 | Native Instruments
Introducing flexible beatgrids in Traktor Pro 4 | Native Instruments

Press release follows:


Berlin, July 17, 2024 – Native Instruments today announced Traktor Pro 4, the latest version of their flagship 4-deck DJ software. Building on the core features that made Traktor Pro the go-to software for hundreds of thousands of DJs around the world, the latest version brings next-generation creative tools including flexible beatgrids, high-quality stem separation, Ozone Maximizer, and Pattern Player. Wherever you are and whatever you’re playing, Traktor Pro 4 gives you the freedom and flexibility to mix your own way.

What’s new in Traktor Pro 4?

Stem Separation powered by AI and RX
Transform the way you mix and remix with stem separation powered by AI and iZotope’s legendary RX technology. Precisely isolate and manipulate drums, bass, instruments, and vocals individually. With each stem waveform right in front of you, you can apply filters and effects with a high level of accuracy to get everything sounding just right.

Flexible Beatgrids
Traktor Pro 4’s flexible beatgrids are ideal for moving between genres or mixing tracks with a changing tempo. With flexible beatgrids you can precisely follow each tempo change throughout a track, enabling highly accurate looping, beat jumps, beat effect layering, and beat alignment—all without impacting the audio quality.

Pattern Player
Bring the sounds of iconic drum machines and leading producers to your sets. Pattern Player is packed with percussion kits including the signature drums of industry legends like Rebekah, Luke Slater, Len Faki, Chris Liebing, Dubfire, and many more.

Ozone Maximizer
Take your sounds and sets to new heights while protecting the mix from clipping and distortion. Ozone Maximizer utilizes technology from iZotope’s award-winning Ozone mastering software. Its Intelligent Release Control allows you to finally boost the loudness of your sets without distortion.

Traktor Pro 4 features

Core functions
Complete control over up to four decks in Track, Stem, and Remix Mode
Highly reliable Sync to keep everything sounding on point
[New] Advanced flexible beatgrids for precise effects, looping, navigation and mixing between tracks with changing tempo
[New] Ozone Maximizer with iZotope’s award-winning technology to boost loudness while preserving transients and dynamics
Mix recorder to record your sets
A range of EQs and filters modeled on industry-standard mixers
Key detection and shifting feature for harmonic mixing
Smart Playlists for efficient library organization
[New] Two free months of Beatport Streaming Advanced or Beatsource Streaming

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FM Synthesis Simplified w/ Legends Stephan Schmitt & Manny Fernandez

video upload by Anthony Marinelli Music

"Join us for an incredible masterclass into the world of FM synthesis with two legends in the field! Stephan Schmitt, the visionary founder of Nonlinear Labs and Native Instruments, and the genius behind REAKTOR, teams up with Manny Fernandez, renowned for his groundbreaking FM programming on Yamaha’s iconic synthesizers including the DX7II, SY77, SY99, FS1R, DX200, RefaceDx, Montage, and his insightful tutorials on YamahaSynth.com.
In this video, Stephan and Manny will demystify FM synthesis, breaking down complex concepts into simple, actionable steps. Whether you're a seasoned synth enthusiast or a curious beginner, this masterclass will empower you to create the sounds you’ve always imagined. Learn from the experts as they share their tips, techniques, and secrets to mastering FM synthesis, making it accessible and fun for everyone.
Don't miss this chance to elevate your sound design skills with insights from two of the greatest minds in the industry."

Xpander: Troy Reigleman's Oberheim Xpander recreation // Free Reaktor Instrument User Library

video upload by Julian Doe

Available here: https://www.native-instruments.com/en...

"Fauxberheim Xp-6. The Xpander name is officially licensed.

Oberheim and Xpander are trademarks of Marion Systems, LLC"

Created: March 20, 2024
Made with: Reaktor 6

Hardware Jams Weekend Challenge - MazeRunner (WIP)

video upload by SynthAddict

"Maschine+

Synthwavey jam as you meander through a maze. Some pleasant and contrasting elements overlap to give a sense of unease while going through the maze.
Notice the center, right, and left whooshes as you pass gaps and corners going diff directions.
Unfinished but there it is..."

3D t-rex drawn on an analogue oscilloscope 🦖

video upload by Hexial

Curious if what we are hearing is the drawing or modulating the drawing per the video description:

"A 3D animated t-rex drawn on an analogue oscilloscope from 1982, with its redraw frequency modulated by MIDI from ‪@Ableton‬ Live. The amplitude of the audio left & right signals move the X/Y position of the beam which cycles through the vertices of the 3D mesh hundreds/thousands of times a second."

Update via Hexial: "The audio is creating the entire drawing you're seeing, moving the beam across the screen very quickly. The audio frequency is the number of times it's redrawing it per second."

Oscilloscope test #2 ft. Serum

video upload by Hexial

"I'm using 2 synths (Serum) routed into the X and Y axis of the beam, changing pitch/effects with sine waves and saw waves.

Beware, if you listen to it on headphones it might make your brain go weird because it's panned hard left & right 🫠👌"

Hardware Jams Weekend Challenge - Wrong Patch (WIP)

video upload by SynthAddict

"Maschine+ (of course)

Unfinished, but ran out of time so I had to upload... busy weekend. :-P

Starts out normally then goes into wacky circus animal and noise territory, then brings you back to keep your sanity. :-)"

The beautiful & scenic Taconic Parkway in Westchester County, New York

video upload by CatSynth TV

"We take a ride along the beautiful and scenic Taconic Parkway in Westchester County, New York. The Taconic functions as a freeway in the northern suburbs of New York City and one of the main routes connecting north to the state capital in Albany. The highway is designed to be in harmonic with its landscape, sometimes broad and open, sometimes narrower and winder, as the terrain changes.

In this first of multiple videos, we start just north of its junction with the Saw Mill Parkway (as seen in a previous video) and heading north passing NY routes 100 and 133 in Millwood and Chappaqua (where CatSynth creator and host Amanda Chaudhary grew up), crossing the Croton Reservoir on the AMVETS Memorial Bridge, and passing Franklin D Roosevelt State Park. We turn off the Taconic onto the Bear Mountain Parkway, US 202 and NY 35.

The music through most of this video is the track "Taconic Parkway Bridge" off of Amanda Chaudhary's new album January Suborbital Denomination. The track features composer and musician Jerry King on electronic guitars in addition to Amanda on keyboards and synthesizers. You can hear (and purchase) the album at:
https://amandachaudhary.bandcamp.com/...

Synthesizers on "Taconic Parkway Bridge" include:
Arturia Pigments, 2600 V, Synthi V, Delay Brigade
Arturia MiniFreak
Yamaha RX5 vintage drum machine
Cherry Audio Elka-X, GX-80, and Stardust-201 tape delay

Additional music features:
Cherry Audio MemoryMode, Chroma, and Stardust-201
Arturia CMI V
Big Fish Audio Grindhouse (Kontakt)
AudioThing Wires

00:00 Introduction
00:10 Hawthorne, Briarcliff Manor, and Mount Pleasant
02:13 Millwood, Chappaqua, Ossining
04:02 Crossing the AMVETS Memorial Bridge into Yorktown
06:05 Exiting onto the Bear Mountain Parkway, and US 202 / NY 35


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Hardware Jams Weekend Challenge - 210bpm WIP (Middle Eastern)

video upload by SynthAddict

"Maschine+

With the M+ set to 210bpm and a Middle Eastern scale I varied notes and arps to quarter, eighth, and sixteeneth notes to vary the cadence. You can see the BPM is set to 210 in my display.

Overall it's pretty fast, but not blinding speed since that wouldn't make sense with traditional instruments. :-P"

Hardware Jams Weekend Challenge: Exotic Heat

video upload by SynthAddict

"Maschine+

Japanese scale, mixed Asian and synthy instruments, and some large drums and raspy bass."

Hardware Jams Weekend Challenge: Biological (WIP)

video upload by SynthAddict

"Maschine+

Not quite finished but here is goes...

Human rhythm values, incuding a resting heartbeat for the kick drum 70 bpm (overall tempo), base respiratory rate for the raspy synth 16 bpm, and resting blink rate for the occasional tambourine 15 bpm.
Jam evolves a bit for the "evolution" part of the brief. :-)"

Hardware Jams Weekend Challenge - Disruption

video upload by SynthAddict

"Maschine+ - featuring Ney (flute) and Oud (lute)

Messing around with tempo FX to add some disruptive surprises to a quick hybrid jam with an Arabic scale."

Hardware Jams Weekend Challenge - Microstep/Microtonal

video upload by SynthAddict

"Maschine+ with Amritavarshini scale (pentatonic)
and some microstep perc and "microtonal" elements."

Hardware Jams Weekend Challenge - Orbital Mechanics (Mars)

video upload by SynthAddict

"Maschine+

Mars orbital mechanics (diff. 3 body config.).

I used the closest reasonable multiple of Mars' orbital period for the tempo - 114 bpm

I used the closest reasonable multiples of the orbital period of Mars' 2 moons, Phobos and Deimos.
3 and 2 respectively for a 3/2 time signature (limited options on M+ for custom tempos).

Some odd LFO modulations added on FX too for a little chaos. :-)"

Hardware Jams Weekend Challenge - Polymeter 5/4 with 4/4

video upload by SynthAddict

"Maschine+

Arabic scale fun with non-Arabic drums/perc"

8 Bit Super Computer | Midicake ARP

video upload by midicake

Fun video. How many games can you identify?

"👾I've been experimenting with #8Bit Computer Game Music and #MidicakeARP. 🕹️

I made a long video but failed to record one of the MIDI channels, so I need to re-record it. Anyway, here's a little snippet.

Using the fantastic #SuperAudioBoy for #NativeInstruments #Kontact."

Soniccouture Releases Kora: 21 String African Harp For Kontakt Player NKS

Andre Louis: Kora Improv With MIDI PLayer video upload by Soniccouture

"Andre Louis improvises with the built in 'kumbengo' MIDI backing generator in Soniccouture's Kora VI."



via Soniccouture

A beautiful & fascinating African instrument, the Kora is hard to classify. With 21 strings and a cow-hide resonator, it's a type of bridge harp, but with some lute or guitar DNA in the mix.

The kora is made from a gourd, which is cut in half and covered with cow hide. This forms the resonator of the instrument. There are 21 strings, suspended by a double notched bridge - 10 on one side, 11 on the other. This is typical of a double harp and it is classified as such. However, because the strings originate from a 'neck' and cross a bridge into a resonator, this also makes it a lute.

Soniccouture’s VST version is incredibly playable and versatile, featuring a MIDI pattern player for authentic accompaniment.

• 40 VELOCITY LAYERS + MUTE ACCENTS / KEY OFFS • MIC + CONTACT CHANNELS
• MIDI PATTERN PLAYER
• MICRO-TUNING
• 6GB LIBRARY
• KONTAKT PLAYER + NKS
INTRO OFFER
€89 (€129) | $89 ($129)

Until May 15th 2024. Price as marked on website, no code required. Offer excludes other discount codes.

Hardware Jams - Guess the Jammer (WIP)

video upload by SynthAddict

"Maschine+

Quick and dirty jam with almost no time to finish it completely before the upload deadline. I know mine is very easy to guess. :-P"

Void & Vista: FOLDS

video upload by VOID & VISTA

Void & Vista: FOLDS Playthrough (No Talking)

video upload by VOID & VISTA

"A tour of some of the sounds available in Void & Vista's new vocal sound design instrument, FOLDS."

Void & Vista: FOLDS - Walkthrough

video upload by VOID & VISTA

Press release follows:

VOID & VISTA announces availability of FOLDS as intimate yet expansive boutique VI for Native Instruments’ KONTAKT platform and NKS-compatible devices

“I’m fascinated by the human voice, so anything that lets me use it in ways I’ve not heard before is a must; FOLDS can either sit amongst real voices, generating a unique and complex — yet subtle — character, or it can drive a piece up front with its own very performable and programmable settings.”
- GRAMMY-, BMI-, and World Soundtrack Awards-winning film composer David Arnold (Casino Royale, Godzilla, Independence Day), 2024

LONDON, UK: cutting-edge contemporary music-orientated virtual instrument creator VOID & VISTA is proud to announce availability of FOLDS — formulated as an intimate yet expansive boutique virtual instrument for Native Instruments’ KONTAKT platform and NKS-compatible devices, based upon the human voice and its creator’s award-winning sound design engine — as of March 28…

Creatively combining expressive, characterful, and unique sampling with powerful sound design features and an inspiring UI (User Interface) to offer 32 sound sources anchored around expressive vocal articulations and textures, both real and imagined, FOLDS is ideally suited to contemporary media composers, production music writers, and sound designers alike. And thanks to the variety of emotive textures that it offers, electronic music producers and artists across multiple genres can clearly expand their toolbox, too.

That being said, then, FOLDS’ bespoke collection of carefully curated male and female vocalist articulations incorporate soft and hard arrhythmic expressions; weaving and wavering vowels; broken reversed hums; evocative vocalisations designed for bass; sound effects; and more.

For FOLDS also features an inspiring collection of effect sounds, such as reverse granulations, as well as re-synthesised, deconstructed, and synthetically processed sounds using Eurorack modular, effect pedals, and tape machine manipulations. Sampled synth waveforms taken from a collection of analogue hardware are also featured.

FOLDS’ 32 sound sources can be layered, sculpted, and effected using a deep, two-layer sound design engine that includes multimode filters; dual motion LFOs (Low Frequency Oscillators); six envelopes; customisable LOFI effect; three-stage parallel CHARACTER effects (with presets and user impulse response import); and dedicated REVERB and DELAY in the SPACE section. Such sound design power is available to all via an inspiring and intuitive UI with over 150 controls — including access to a custom MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) mapping page and dedicated send effects — designed to keep users focused on making music.

Moreover, FOLDS comes complete with a vast collection of over 300 preset snapshots organised locally for ease of use; all have pre-assigned mod wheel and/or aftertouch modulation mappings for jaw-dropping sound manipulation and adding musical expression... evidenced by award-winning film composer David Arnold’s understandably uncurbed enthusiasm!

FOLDS is initially available to purchase for 20% off with the FOLDSLAUNCH20 discount code that is valid until May 8, 2024 — rising thereafter to its regular price of £129.00 GBP — as a KONTAKT PLAYER- and NKS-compatible AAX-, AU-, and VST-formatted virtual instrument plug-in featuring 4.5 GB of samples that is compatible with all major DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations) running on macOS 11 or above — natively compatible with Apple Silicon — and Windows 10/11 directly from the dedicated product webpage here: https://www.voidandvista.com/products/folds

Hardware Jams Weekend Challenge: Galaxies - Clusters, Walls, & Filaments

video upload by SynthAddict

"Maschine+

Galaxies - Clusters, Walls, Filaments, and Superclusters

Spacey jam, builds as the larger structures are revealed.

Andromeda Galaxy (similar to our Milky Way) ---

152,000 light-years diameter (8.93 x 10^17 miles)
2.5 million light years from Earth

Virgo Supercluster---

Concentration of galaxies containing the Virgo Cluster, Local Group (including Milky Way), and other galaxies.

110 million light years in diameter (6.47 x 10^20 miles)

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Hardware Jams Weekend Challenge - Water

video upload by SynthAddict

"Lots of homemade watery samples to celebrate International Water Day. :-)

Mostly made in harmonic minor."