Category Archives: Muzaq

[MacOS] How To Uninstall Waves Entirely

Well, in case you just upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mavericks (like we did ;-) ) and your Waves plugins don’t behave as expected a new installation of Waves could make sense, but first things first. A proper uninstallation does not always work entirely well with Waves’ uninstaller. So in case something goes wrong, follow these steps for manual uninstallation:  Continue reading

[Bitwig] The Platform-Independent DAW Is Out NOW

bitwig-logo-screen2One of the most promising tools of the last view years – the platform independent DAW Bitwig Studio has eventually been released yesterday. It is available for MacOS, Windows and Linux. Bitwig is a Berlin based company, originally founded by former Ableton developers. The relation to Ableton is something that put the expectations of Bitwig to a comparative high level in the field of DAWs.

We’re gonna check out Bitwig in depth during the next few days and let you know what we think. In the meantime: get yourself a demo run for free. Since the save and export feature is disabled in the normal demo version, we recommend to go for a trial license, which requires registration. Head over to https://www.bitwig.com/en/account/register.html and give the next generation of platform independent DAWs a serious go.

[iOS] iPhone 4 and the iOS 6.x firmwares

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You are using an iPhone 4 and you coincidentally updated to iOS 6.1.3, which cannot be jailbroken at the moment. Since you saved the SHSH blobs you think you can restore by doing a replay APTicket attack with TinyUmbrella or Cydia. Sadly iTunes shows errors like 1600, 1601, 1602, 1604 etc.

If you have an iPhone 4s or iPhone5 you can stop reading here. This article will not be able to help you. The iDevices with an A5 CPU or later cannot be downgraded with replay attacks at the moment. Continue reading

[Muzaq] Ableton Live 9 and Push Release On March, 5th

Until March, 5th Ableton Live 8 and Ableton Suite 8 are available with a 25% rebate! Don’t miss the chance to get Ableton Live or Suite 8 including a free upgrade to Ableton Live or Suite 9 for such a fair price. The boxed version is even more rebated when you buy it via Thomann. So folks enjoy…

[Muzaq] Namm 2013: Bitwig Studio in Action (Video)

Besides Ableton Live 9, the uber-most anticipated music software so far is still Bitwig Studio.

Although the beta test, announced almost exactly a year ago, seem to have included only a tiny part of their potential target market, the people are still more than keen on what the current status of development is…

Check the following video from the NAMM 2013 to get the latest insights – and pray with us that we get a public beta soon ;-)

[Muzaq] Coldcut meets the Orb

Quoting Ninja Tune’s Soundcloud entry fits perfectly here. Enjoy ;-)

Recorded on the anniversary of JFK’s assassination and 21 years after their historic ’92 New Year mix on Kiss 100 FM, Coldcut meets The Orb inna Uptown Youth House for the Return Trip. Matt Black and Jonathan More alongside studio accomplice Dor Wand got suitably enhanced with Dr LX Paterson and Youth for a multi-player late night jam session lasting over 3 hours. They then entrusted the multitracks of the set to DJ Food who heroically edited, condensed and massaged the sprawling swamp of sound into a tight – but also loose – 2 hour Solid Steel session.

Listen to Part 1+2 here:

Listen to Part 3+4 here:

 

[iOS] Steinberg Cubasis for iPad Released

Steinberg just released an iOS App of Cubasis. The iOS version allows exporting projects to Cubase for Windows and Cubase for MacOSX. The GUI looks quite familiar to the desktop version of Cubase and we suppose, for Cubase users this is a real fun tool when being on the road. Via background midi/audio other iOS-Apps can be used as virtual instruments.

According to Steinborg’s website, Cubasis got these features:

  • Unlimited audio and MIDI tracks (depending on the device used)
  • Over 70 virtual instrument sounds based on HALion Sonic
  • Mixer with over 10 effect processors (insert and send effects)
  • Over 300 MIDI and audio loops
  • Virtual keyboard and virtual drum pads
  • Sample Editor and Key Editor
  • Export to Cubase, Dropbox, SoundCloud, AudioCopy & email
  • Core Audio and Core MIDI compatible hardware supported
  • Sequence other Core MIDI apps (MIDI recording only) and run Cubasis simultaneously via background audio
  • Import audio from your iTunes music library or using iTunes filesharing, use AudioPaste or set up a Wi-Fi server in Cubasis

All this sounds very appealing and the AppStore price of about 45€ seems fair aswell. The only real downside is Cubasis requires iOS 6.01. And many iPad music-app-users are still having nightmares when thinking about operating system updates. iOS 5 update from iOS 4 for instance broke compatibility to many muzaq apps and hardware devices.

[Muzaq] ximekon’s latest track: surrogated reality

Merry Chrismas and happy hanukka lads and gents. Here we are with a special tune, performed by erm… us :-) atmospheric spheres with broken beats and trancey melodies on top… it is gonna be available on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify etc. at the end of january 2013. Until then enjoy this preview…

[Muzaq] Fingerlab’s Drum Machine DM1 for iOS For Free

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Fingerlab’s drum machine DM1 is available for free at the moment from the AppStore. So grab your copy now. The App requires iOS 6 on the iPhone or iOS 5.1.1 on the iPad. The normal pricetag was 6€ for the iPad version and 2.70€ for the iPhone version.

DM1 comes with 86 electronic drum kits, 21 vintage electronic drum kits, 45 in-house produced electronic drum kits plus 20 classic melody kits, edited and mastered at Fingerlab professional studio.


Specs

  • Step Sequencer with multi-touch matrix
  • Mixer page with pitch, length and level rotary controls, pan controls, and custom drum kit per channel
  • Automation Panel for a precise and intuitive control of any Mixer parameter over time *
  • 9 Big Drum pads, quantized recording and pitch-bend ribbon
  • Duo FX Trackpads for real-time sonic destruction and multi-FX **
  • Time signature
  • 16 or 32 Steps per patterns
  • FX automation
  • The Randomizer tool
  • Extra fast drum kit loading
  • Playable pattern selection for extra creativity
  • Mode song with intuitive editing
  • export to email, iTunes shared folder or AudioCopy
  • Audio background mode
  • WIST synchronisation technology by Korg for syncing 2 iPads/iPhones together
  • Midi IN, Plug’n’Play with Camera Connection Kit *
  • Export : Master or separated tracks, WAV or AAC encoding
  • Dropbox workflow