Despite the terrible market situation, Frankfurt has some relevant news for the electronic musician. First, a newcomer, Teenage Engineering has this toy, OP-1 , which is still not available for a while, but previewed. It is a small USB MIDI controller plus a modeilng synthesizer and a sampler in...

On the table what you can see is Cakewalk 's new hardware system for their sequencer, Sonar V-Studio 700 . It targets the serious producers with its motor-fader console, the I/O module with 24/192 resolution, and the synth brain from Roland - a full-featured hardware Fantom VS which is integrated...

Cakewalk 's flagship sequencer will have a new version in 2nd, October. Sonar 8 will feature a new track type, instrument for plugin synths, Loop Explorer is 2.0 already, QuickTime export/import is introducing, BeatScape is a new loop instrument, TruePianos is a new piano instrument, plus there...

E-mu has released all the Proteus sample content they have for Cakewalk's Dimension samplers. The full package is called Proteus Pack, and consists of the next elements: - Proteus 2000 - general purpose samples, - Mo' Phatt - hiphop-kit, - Xtreme Lead - dance/electronica, - Planet Earth -...

After Logic 8's debut, Cakewalk also refreshes their sequencing system with Sonar 7 . Released in two versions - Producer Edition for 620 USD and Studio Version for 370 USD - the new Sonar has several improvement over the previous version. Probably the biggest hit is the newly integrated Step...

Cakewalk 's supersynth has just got a new version. Rapture 1.1 is fully Vista compatible at frist, plus works as stand-alone also, equipped with a multi-stage DSP section with new DSP functions, its envelopes can be tempo-synced, there are ne filter characteristics and much more. Click for the...

Cakewalk adapts Roland 's multichannel audio standard introduced in their Digital Snake system. The system is capable of transmitting 40 channels of 24/96 digital audio on a simple low-cost Ethernet cable with virtually no latency. The next version of cakewalk's Sonar will accept this standard via...