Ableton Live 8.3 Update Berlin based music software company has just released the Ableton Live Update 8.3, now featuring Soundcloud integration and autoupdate. Ableton Live now comes with 6 months premium membership for SoundCloud. Ableton Live Lite For Soundcloud Members For all the SoundClouders Ableton gives away for free a copy of Ableton Live Lite [...]
Archive for 2012
[Muzaq] Ableton Live 8.3 Released & Live Lite 8.3 Free For SoundCloud Members
April 3rd, 2012 
J. Epstein 
Posted in Allgemeines, Muzaq 
Tags: 8.3, Ableton, April, Berlin, Bitwig, DAW, Donation, Free, Germany, Gift, Giveaway, Howto, integration, Lite, Live, Live 8.3, soundcloud, SoundCloud Integration, SoundCloud Upload, Suite, Suite 8.3, update, Upload 
No Comments »[Muzaq] All Recordshops Worldwide In ONE Map
March 22nd, 2012 J. Epstein Check this: http://www.recordshops.org/
Posted in Allgemeines, Muzaq Tags: Alternative, Berlin, Deutschland, Electro, Elektro, Hardwax, Musik, Musikladen, musique, Muzaq-Production, Pladde, Platte, Platten, Plattenladen, Record, Records, Recordstore, Schallplatten, Techno, Vinyl, Weltweit No Comments »[Muzaq] Win A UAD-2 Quad DSP Card Every Day
March 21st, 2012 B. Kreisky UAudio at the Frankfurt Musikmesse 2012 One of the leading suppliers of digital signal processing devices Universal Audio will be at the Musikmesse in Frankfurt between March 21th and 24th and they will raffle off a UAD-2 Quad DSP Card each and every day. They will also be publicly demoing their latest flagship Apollo. So don’t [...]
Posted in Allgemeines, Muzaq Tags: Apollo, AU, Deutschland, Digital Signal Processing, DSP, Fab Dupont, Frankfurt, Frankfurter, Germany, Giveaway, Giveaways, Jenniffer Lopez, Liza Colby, Mac OS X, Mark Ronson, März, Musikmesse, PCI, PCIe, Plugins, Realtime, Santigold, UAD, UAD-2 Quad, Universal Audio, VST, Windows No Comments »[Muzaq] Waves V9 Abandons iLok-Dongle Finally
March 20th, 2012 J. Epstein Waves Audio Ltd. just announced the release of version 9 of their Waves plugins. Finally Waves V9 will support 64bit architectures and in contrast to their predecessors Waves V9 will not require the controversial Pace iLok-Dongle anymore. They rather introduce the “Waves License Center“. However, customers used to iLoks can keep using them. It is [...]
Posted in Allgemeines, Muzaq Tags: AU, Filter, iLok, iLok2, Pace, Plugins, TDM, VST, Vuvuzela, Vuvuzela Notch Filter, Waves, Waves Audio, Waves Diamond, Waves Gold, Waves Horizon, Waves License Center, Waves Noise Suppressor, Waves Platinum, Waves V9, WNS No Comments »[Muzaq] RME Presents PCIe Audiocard With 390 Channels
March 19th, 2012 J. Epstein Just in time for the Musikmesse in Frankfurt (March 21st – 24th, 2012), the german audio company RME just presented a new possibly record breaking digital audio card. According to Digital Audionetworx and Synthax Store (both german only) the “HDSPe MADI FX” will feature: a max of 194 input- and 196 output channels 192 channels [...]
Posted in Allgemeines, Muzaq Tags: 2012, Apple, Delay, DSP, Echo, Frankfurt, German, Germany, HDSPe MADI FX, Mac OS X, Mac OS X 10.5, Mac OS X 10.6, Mac OS X 10.7, Mac Pro, MacPro, Musikmesse, Muzaq-Production, PCI, PCIe, Professional, Release, Reverb, RME, Universal Audio, update, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP No Comments »[Muzaq] Audacity 2.0 Released
March 15th, 2012 J. Epstein The platform independent and Open Source driven audio editing software Audacity has been released in version 2.0. Audacity is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Many people say, Audacity is simply one of the best software audio editors with a huge amount of well designed built-in functions (fading, normalizing, vocal remover etc.). It [...]
Posted in Allgemeines, Labs, Muzaq, Muzaq-Production, News Tags: Adobe, Audacity, Audition, Download, Release, Sonic Foundry, Sony, Soundforge, Steinberg, Wavelab 1 Comment »[Muzaq] German Data Protection Officers Criticize Spotify
March 14th, 2012 J. Epstein German IT-News Golem.de reports that german federal data protection officer Peter Schaar and his Berlin collegue Alexander Dix recommend not to use Spotify services as it does not comply to german data protection law (“Telemediengesetz”). The german Telemediengesetz requires anonymous or pseudonymous registration of internet services. By forcing customers to use Facebook this law is [...]
Posted in Allgemeines, Muzaq, News Tags: Alexander Dix, Datenschutz, Datenschützer, Facebook, Peter Schaar, Registration, Registrierung, spotify, zwang, Zwangsregistrierung No Comments »[Muzaq] Spotify Launched In Germany
March 13th, 2012 J. Epstein Today Spotify has eventually been launched in Germany. For all german users having registered in other countries via proxies now it is the time to change the country to Germany. Sadly for new registrants: sole Spotify accounts are not available anymore. Registration requires a Facebook account since november 2011. There is no way around it. [...]
Posted in Allgemeines, Muzaq, News Tags: 2012, Facebook, Germany, Launch, March, Muzaq-Production, requirement, spotify, ximekon, zwang No Comments »[misc] Das Riester-Dilemma – Die Riester-Lüge? ARD Reportage vom 09.01.2012
March 13th, 2012 J. Epstein Die Reportage “Das Riester-Dilemma” ist nun sowohl in der ARD-Mediathek auch auf Youtube (s.u.) verfügbar. Für alle, die schon lange wissen wollten, ob sich die Riester-Rente wirklich lohnt, ist dies wohl einer der wenigen Beiträge, die sich auch der Entstehung des Riester-Rentengesetzes kritisch rekonstruktiv nähern. So kommt auch die Lobbyismus-Expertin Dr. Diana Wehlau zu Wort, [...]
Posted in Allgemeines, Short Stories Tags: ARD, Dokumentation, Finanzbranche, Lobbyismus, Politik, RBB, Riester-Dilemma, Riester-Rente No Comments »[MacOS] VMWare Fusion 4.1 Allows Installation of Snow Leopard Client and Leopard Client Versions
March 11th, 2012 J. Epstein Fusion 4.1 Allows Mac OS X Client Installations With the release of Mac OS 10.7 Lion VMWare seem to have decided that all of Apple’s latest operating systems can be virtualized. VMWare Fusion 4.1. (released Nov 17th, 2011) thus allows the installation of all Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, and 10.6. Snow Leopard versions; vulgo: [...]
Posted in Allgemeines, Labs, MacOS Tags: 10.5, 10.6., 10.7, Client, hackintosh, leopard, Lion, Mac OS X, netkas, Server, Snow Leopard, Virtualization, VMWare Fusion 2 Comments »[MacOS] Backup Chameleon Boot USB-Stick
March 10th, 2012 J. Epstein 1. Abstract You have the situation that you installed Chameleon for security and compatibility purposes on an external USB-stick. For safety reasons you should consider making a backup. But all diskimaging (either Apple’s Diskutility, Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper) tools fail to create a proper backup since the bootblock is just not copied. So [...]
Posted in Labs, MacOS, News Tags: Backup, boot, Bootloader, Chameleon, hackint0sh, hackintosh, Help, Restore, tutorial, usb, USB-Bootstick, Walk Thru, Walkthrough 1 Comment »[Ableton] Emulating 808 Bass Drum with MaxForLive Device
March 7th, 2012 J. Epstein The device is named AnalogKick 1.0 and was done by Peter McCulloch. Description: The author says: “AnalogKick is a bass drum synth based on the design of the TR-808′s bass drum, and is capable of producing sounds quite similar to the original.” In contrast to the original 808 the emulation adds some nice-to-have’s: FM and [...]
Posted in Labs, Muzaq, Muzaq-Production Tags: 8 MaxForLive, 808, Ableton, Analog, Analog Kick, AnalogKick, Bass Drum, BassDrum, Device, Emu, Emulation, Kick, Live, Max, Max For Live, Roland, Suite, TR, TR 808, VST No Comments »[Muzaq] Beyoncé – End of Time (AGIJ REMIX) — VOTE NOW
March 5th, 2012 J. Epstein Visitors and fans from all over this lovely planet, We really need 20 seconds of your valuable lifetime these days. Listen to our remix here: and support us by voting here: **** http://endoftime.beyonceonline.com/tracks/2293 **** You either need a Facebook account, a Soundcloud account or a valid eMail-address to help us. It takes 20 secs and [...]
Posted in Muzaq Tags: 10, 2012, 50, agij, Berlin, Berlinstep, best, Beyoncé, Beyoncé Knowles, Columbia, competition, contest, DubStep, End of Time, Facebook, Fifty, Hip Hop, incomplete muzaq, ivo303, jan gabler, Jay-Z, Jay-Zee, Knowles, March 13th, Muzaq-Production, nezoomie, re-edit, Remix, RnB, Sony, soundcloud, Top 10, Top 50, Top Fift, Top Fifty, Top Ten, Vote, Warner, ximekon No Comments »[iOS] Apps Crashing iOS 5.01
February 14th, 2012 J. Epstein Abstract You’re running a jailbroken iOS 5.01 on an iPad 2 and you cannot use Firewall iP. Installing Firewall iP shows no indication of errors, but when you try to start it, it just splashes shortly and closes instantly. This behaviour is known to some more applications (like Safari or Mail). Workaround It looks like [...]
Posted in Allgemeines, iOS, Labs Tags: Conflict, Conflicts, crash, crashs, Firewall iP, Fix, Fixing, Help, How To, iOS, iOS 5, iOS 5.01, issue, issues, iTunes, Jailbreak, Permission, Permissions, Process, repair, Safari, Splash, Stable, Task, Unstable, Workaround No Comments »[iOS] Finding Information About Crashed Apps
February 13th, 2012 J. Epstein Crashes and system freezes have become an exception nowadays. However, they still do occur. Here we show you two ways of accessing detailed log information on your iOS devices. 1. Finding Logs inside of iOS This approach does not require a jailbreak. Inside the filesystem you may find logs here: Settings » General » About [...]
Posted in Allgemeines, iOS, Labs Tags: Apple, bug, Bug Tracking, crash, Crash Log, iExplorer, iOS, iOS 5, iOS 5.01, iOS Explorer, iPad, iPhone, iPhone Explorer, iPhone OS, iPod Touch, Jailbreak, Log, Macroplant, osx, Report, Tracking No Comments »[Muzaq] ximekon: nooz #2 & wholistic extrusion
February 9th, 2012 J. Epstein Enjoy ximekon‘s latest aural works… Nooz #2 (Dec 2011) … in collaboration with NeZoomie and Ivo303 Wholistic Extrusion (Jan 2012) … in collaboration with Jan Gabler) Album scheduled for mid March, stay iTuned ;-)
Posted in Muzaq, News Tags: agij, Berlin, Breakbeat, Downbeat, IDM, incomplete muzaq, Intelligent Dance Music, ivo303, jan gabler, Muzaq-Production, nezoomie, soundcloud, ximekon, ximekon.de No Comments »[iOS] Attention: Social Media App PATH Uploads Entire Addressbook
February 9th, 2012 J. Epstein Attention iPhone, iPad and iPod-Touch users: Singapore based Arun Thampi found out that the social media App PATH uploads the entire addressbook to the PATH servers without asking the user for permission. You can find more details on Arun’s blog. Recommendation 1. Update to latest version If you’re a PATCH user we strongly recommend to [...]
[Ableton] Normalize Recorded Audio Samples
January 26th, 2012 J. Epstein Situation: You recorded a nice sample from an external source (name it a bass synthesizer or anything else). After recording you see that the sample’s gain is too low. Solution 1: copy that pattern from the pattern view to the arrangement view consolidate that sample in the arrangement view (CTRL+ J on Windows or CMD [...]
[Science] ARTE/3Sat Dokumentation Expedition ins Gehirn…
January 19th, 2012 H. Frahm Die aus dem Jahre 2005 stammende 3-teilige Dokumentation “Expedition ins Gehirn” ist endlich auch auf Youtube gelandet. Die Doku befasst sich mit dem menschen Gedächtnis und seiner Fähigkeit höchste Leistungen zu erbringen. Im Fokus stehen dabei als Abgrenzungskriterium zwischen der Leistung der Gehirne “normaler” Menschen immer wieder die besonderen Leistungen der inselbegabten Savants. Zu Wort [...]
Posted in Allgemeines, News Tags: Barriere, Bewusstsein, Denken, Expedition ins Gehirn, Filter, Gehirn, Hirn, Psychologie, Savon, Savons, Science, Wahrnehmung, Wissen No Comments »[Muzaq] Bitwig Prepping To Launch Beta of Bitwig Studio Soon
January 18th, 2012 B. Kreisky The Berlin based company Bitwig has eventually presented some details about their upcoming music software BitwigStudio. Bitwig Studio is targeting at professional and semi-professional musicians for producing and using live. Features in Version 1.0 In addition to what people would expect like VST support, there seem to be some groundbreaking new features to be coming [...]
Posted in Allgemeines, Muzaq, Muzaq-Production, News Tags: 2012, Ableton, Ableton Suite, Animoog, AU, Audio, Berlin, beta, Beta Test, Bitwig, Bitwig Studio, competition, Date, DAW, December, Decembre, Digital, Digital Audio Workstation, latest, Linux, Live, Live 8, Live 8.25, Live 8.26, Live 8.27, Live 8.28, Mac, Midi, Namm, Native Instruments, New, November, Novembre, Octobre, Oktober, Release, Release Date, Sample, September, Septembre, Suite, VST, Windows, Workstation No Comments »