Pro Audio

Algeria's JIL FM, a channel of national broadcaster Radio AlgÈrienne, has upgraded to the Netia Radio-Assist 8.1 digital audio software suite to automate playout of its blend of Algerian and international music.

The Integra-7 SuperNatural Sound Module, Roland's next-generation rack, now offers music production capabilities within a Mac-based DAW when paired with the new Integra-7 Editor Plug-in for Mac.

Sample Magic, an electronic music app developer, has released its newest plug-in, the Magic AB, which allows users to switch between the audio they are working on in their DAW to up to nine reference tracks.

Turbosound's Flashline speaker system supported Emeli Sande's show at the Hammersmith Apollo show at the conclusion of her seven-date UK tour. It was specified by her live sound engineer Darren Connor, and supplied by Mansfield-based Entertainment Sound Specialists (ESS) via Britannia Row Productions.

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Lighting designer François van der Merwe of Wizardry Group chose Robe moving lights to be the central fixtures of his classy lighting scheme for the 2013 Metro FM Music Awards event, staged at the Durban International Conference Centre Arena in South Africa.

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Mexico's Monterrey Institute of Technology sourced key equipment for audio production programs at the school's headquarters and new Mexico City campus from GC Pro.

The BBC has announced that it has scrapped an IT project to convert all its tape library to archive, after burning £100m of licence payers money. The Digital Media Initiative (DMI) was intended to enable staff to share video and audio material and was seen as an important part of a move of resources to Salford. It could be argued that the whole project was utter madness, with Avid and Apple already offering tapeless workflows, even the idea of creating a proprietary system was not wise. John Linwood, the BBC’s chief technology officer, has been suspended. We also understand that the entire team is to be disbanded.

MacProVideo has released a new Kontakt 5 tutorial. It’s an advanced course, Kontakt 201, building on the Kontakt 101 course. In this first advanced course we handed the keys to the very talented Matt Vanacoro who lifts up the hood and shows you some of the cooler stuff Kontakt can do. You learn all about creating rich multi-instruments and how to extend the power of some of the included patches. From there Matt plunges into advanced sampling techniques, mapping and effects processing. I haven’t seen either one of them but the second course is described like this: Seriously, Kontakt is a tweaker’s dream come true. From recording your own samples to creating you own custom instruments, Kontakt does it all! You can even create your own scripts to graphically design your own user interface. Yes, this is one deep sampler that enables you to conceptualize and build instruments that are uniquely yours. Apparently there’s a part 3 in the works as well. This course concludes with a sneak peak at scripting as a teaser for what might me coming next in what we know will be the best Kontakt kourse kollection on the planet! Anyone have any experience with MacProVideo?