Native Instruments Announces Traktor Pro 4 DJ Software

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"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

Clan Analogue Accepting Contributions for Upcoming FM Synthesis Compilation Album

This one is in via supporting member Nick Wilson.

Deatils via Clan Analogue:

"Clan Analogue are seeking tracks for their new compilation album, a celebration of FM synthesis.

Just over 40 years ago, in 1983, Yamaha released the DX7 synthesizer and inaugurated a new age of digital FM synthesis. To celebrate the rich history of this innovation in sound creation, Clan Analogue are looking for new explorations of FM synthesis for their next compilation album. FM synthesis takes many forms. Whether you use a classic Yamaha DX7 or its Dexed emulation, Operator in Ableton Live or Native Instruments’ FM8, FM-patched modular rigs or analogue synths with FM functionality, your contributions are welcome.

FM synthesis was the sound of funky basslines and keyboard riffs in many 80s pop hits but was also heard in the hypnotic ambience of Brian Eno and experimental compositions by FM guru John Chowning. Whatever your inspiration, we invite you to move beyond the preset to explore sounds of the future, the past or a sideways alternative reality.

Submissions are being accepted up until the 31st of July."

See Clan Analogue for additional details on how to enter.

UDO Super 6 - "Cinematica" Soundset (40 Patches)

video upload by LFOstore

"LFO Store’s professional sound designer, OttO K. Schwarz, is proud to present this fascinating soundset for UDO Super 6, a 12-voice polyphonic, binaural analog-hybrid synthesizer. The “Cinematica” soundset brings out the gorgeous powerful tone of this synthesizer with its advanced digital FPGA hardware oscillators and voltage-controlled analog technology.

This set contains sounds useful both for scoring electronic soundtracks and for personal creativity. Soft exciting pads, intriguing cosmic leads, cinematic ornate atmospheres, multi-faceted plucks, extraordinary effects and much more - each patch is carefully prepared and can be modulated the sound using velocity, modulation wheel and pitchbend.

These sounds were created by OttO K. Schwarz, known for his cooperation with Access Music (Virus Ti), Modal Electronics (Argon, Cobalt), Native Instruments (Kontakt), and other leaders of the music industry. We wish you a pleasant journey through the sound universe and inspiration in creating your own musical compositions!"

Void & Vista: FOLDS

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Void & Vista: FOLDS Playthrough (No Talking)

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

Void & Vista: FOLDS - Walkthrough

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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

UDO Super 6 - "Dance Evolution" Soundset (40 Patches)

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"LFO Store is proud to present an extraordinary soundset for UDO Super 6, a 12-voice polyphonic, binaural analog-hybrid synthesizer. This soundset brings out the gorgeous analog tone of a powerful synthesizer using its advanced digital FPGA hardware oscillators and voltage-controlled analog technology.

Here you will find different categories of patches - ARPs, bass, leads, pads, plucks, synths, etc. These sounds created by the professional sound designer, OttO K. Schwarz, known for his cooperation with Access (Virus Ti), Modal Electronics (Argon, Cobalt), Native Instruments (Kontakt), and others. Each patch is carefully crafted and you can model the sound using velocity, modulation wheel and pitchbend. These patches are ideal for electronic dance music (synthwave, trance, techno, etc.), modern cinematic music and other styles.

We wish you a wonderful journey through this world of sounds and inspiration in creating great musical compositions!"

Tristan Arp meets Gliss

video upload by Bela Platform

"This video is the second in a series in which we get Gliss in the hands of artists we deeply respect. A native of the Detroit suburbs, Tristan Arp has been making explorative electronic music for more than a decade. In this video he explores Control Mode on Gliss as a strumming interface for Mutable Instruments' Rings.

Check out our blog for the full story: https://blog.bela.io/tristan-arp-meet..."

DAWless jamming with HYDRASYNTH and MASCHINE+

video upload by Woody Piano Shack

"Demo of ASM HYDRASYNTH DELUXE synthesizer and NATIVE INSTRUMENTS MASCHINE+, doing quick unrhearesed improvised jams on whatever drums and sounds I can conjure up!"

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Native Instruments Introduces Action Woodwinds

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"Action Woodwinds delivers the lively sound of full orchestral woodwind ensembles, adding drama and impact to any composition. From the vibrant tones of clarinets, English horns, oboes, and flutes to the deep resonance of bassoons, contrabass clarinets, and beyond, explore and tailor over 1000 true-to-life phrases for instant results."

"Discover Action Woodwinds: https://www.native-instruments.com/pr...

Get it as part of the Action Suite and save on a hard-hitting orchestral trio with Action Strings 2 and Action Strikes."

00:00 - Intro
00:45 - Overview
02:38 - Main Page
04:15 - Scaler
04:58 - ‚In C’ mode
05:28 - Selecting Themes and Phrases
06:44 - Playing Techniques
09:15 - Action Woodwinds & Action Strings 2
09:58 - Working in the Editor
13:27 - Mixer Page
14:06 - MIDI Output
15:03 - Outro

5 Minimal House Tracks and Easter Eggs // Hydrasynth // Maschine+

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"Improvising and live beat making with NATIVE INSTRUMENTS MASCHINE+ SAMPLER GROOVEBOX and ASM HYDRASYNTH DELUXE WAVETABLE SYNTHESIZER. All kits and patterns from the MINIMAL ESCAPE expansion pack.

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Making MELODIC HOUSE with MASCHINE+

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"Live looping to create a melodic house beat with the NATIVE INSTRUMENTS MASCHINE+ and DEEP MATTER expansion for MINIMAL and MELODIC HOUSE.

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Bad Gear is MASSIVE

video upload by AudioPilz

"Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world's most hated audio tools.

There aren’t many software companies whose influence on electronic music is comparable to iconic hardware brands like Roland and Korg - Native Instruments is certainly one of them.

They defined the industry standard for sampling, established in-the-box modular synthesis and made using FM much too easy but today we are going to talk about Massive.

Putting this 2006 wavetable softsynth and primary ghost writer of the first three Skrillex EPs on the show is - quite literally - long overdue as, after the usual venture capitalist fustercluck and discontinuation of Absynth, it can only be a matter of months until this classic plugin stops working properly on contemporary computers.

Bad Gear is MASSIVE
Plugin, VST, Software Instrument

Chapters:
00:00 Intro Tune
01:05 Overview Native Instruments Massive
01:48 Oscillators/Wavetables/Noise/Mod OSC
02:28 Feedback
02:39 Filter Section
03:04 Modulators ( Brostep Edition ), Wubs, Wobbles
03:37 Modulation Routings, Sidechain
03:54 Patch Settings, Unison,...
04:15 FX Section
04:29 Macros
04:48 What else??? (Pricing,...)
05:13 Hate
05:39 Jam 1 ( Moog Style Techno )
06:32 Jam 2 ( Dubstep for Boomers )
07:24 Finale ( Meme Psytrance )
07:51 Verdict
08:59 Patreon Vocoder Shoutout ( Soma Lyra-8 )"

Meet the free Jacob Collier Audience Choir | Native Instruments

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"We’ve teamed up with Jacob Collier to celebrate the release of his Djesse Vol. 4 album with this one-of-a-kind audience choir instrument. Relive the magic of his recent world tour and conduct thousands of voices from across the world. Plus, there's a selection of unique body percussion samples and vocal triads layered by Jacob himself.

Download it for free at: https://www.native-instruments.com/pr..."

SEGA GENESIS MUSIC TOOLKIT | Free sounds and samples

video upload by Woody Piano Shack

"All the sounds used to make every SEGA MEGADRIVE / SEGA GENESIS game ever made, and all for free! I'll show you how to download all the classic FM sounds and samples for the games console that used the legendary YAMAHA YM2612 4-operator sound chip (also used in arcade cabinets such as Outrun, Paperboy).

We'll also explore using FM8 on NATIVE INSTRUMENTS MASCHINE+ for a standalone groovebox device to rival the Sonicware LIVEN MEGA Synthesis.

The Sega Genesis/Sega Mega Drive Music Archive
► https://project2612.org

For all you FM lovers out there...
► https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewto...

FM8 Sega Genesis Collection
► https://github.com/hunterbridges/gen-fm8"

Sequential Prophet 5/10 rev 4 | Sound Bank Demos

video uploads by Synth Universe

"In this video I play original sounds created for the Prophet 5/10 rev 4 synthesizer. I demo patches 1 - 20 from the Synth Universe Prophet 5/10 rev 4 Sound bank: a bank of 80 patches containing a wide range of pads, strings, brass, poly synths, keys, bass, leads, tuned percussion and sines.

Each patch is demonstrated first raw in mono, as output straight from the synth. For the majority of the patches I then repeat the demo but with stereo and reverb or delay applied, so you can hear the sounds more like they would be in a musical context. Please refer to the other three videos for demos of sounds 21 - 80. The time stamps below mean you can easily access specific sounds in this video and compare MONO with STEREO.

Buy this sound bank here: https://synthuniverse.sellfy.store/pr...

In the making of this video no chorus, modulation or thickening effects were used (software or hardware). The only effects used were reverb (mainly the Valhalla Vintage Verb plugin) or delay (Logic native delay plugin). No EQ was used to enhance either the low end or the high end.

The Prophet 5/10 has a single mono audio output, so to create a stereo image I used old-school layering in my DAW. When I recorded each audio take, I also captured MIDI data and used this to record new tracks of the original take. Using the Vintage knob on the Prophet set at 3 means that each MIDI take has subtle differences in pitch, envelopes and filter. Panning and slight detuning of the tracks creates, to my ears, a nice rich stereo image and retains the core sound.

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is that a DX7 in your GROOVEBOX !?

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"Enjoying once again the most splendid factory preset sounds on the iconic vintage YAMAHA DX7 FM synthesizer, but this time on the most unlikely host, the NATIVE INSTRUMENTS MASCHINE+ MUSIC PRODUCTION GROOVEBOX."

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ASM HYDRASYNTH Demo & Review

video upload by Woody Piano Shack

"Demo and review of the ASM HYDRASYNTH DELUXE Synthesizer.
With Special Guest NATIVE INSTRUMENTS MASCHINE+

MY HYDRASNTH PLAYLIST


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AXEL F COVER ON HYDRASYNTH

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AXEL F BEVERLY HILLS COP HAROLD FALTERMEYER
PERFORMED ON ASM HYDRASYNTH DELUXE
DRUMS AND PERCUSSION - NATIVE INSTRUMENTS BATTERY
CRAZY FROG


ASM HYDRASYNTH - First Impressions, Overview and Demo [posted here]

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Introducing Spotlight Collection: Ireland | Native Instruments

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"Bring authentic Irish flavor to any composition with Spotlight Collection: Ireland. Recorded with care, it puts 11 traditional instruments at your fingertips, including the fiddle, bodhrán drum, tin whistle, Irish harp, and more. Loaded with a selection of scales and patterns, it's got all you need to craft and layer expressive performances in an instant.

Discover Spotlight Collection: Ireland: https://www.native-instruments.com/pr..."