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PreSonus has announced it has acquired Nimbit and integrated its technology and services into Studio One Artist, Producer, and Professional to provide a complete solution for music and audio creation, sales, and promotion.

With integrated Nimbit, Studio One users can:

• Instantly sell and promote their music and audio the moment it is created.
• Sell MP3s, CDs, merchandise, and event tickets through beautiful stores for their Facebook pages, their Web sites, NimbitMusic.com, and services like Jango, FanBridge, and PledgeMusic.
• Create sharable, interactive promotions for Facebook, Twitter, and email that feature music and video players, messages to fans, and free downloads to drive sales.
• Grow their fan base and understand their fans better thanks to detailed analytics and sales reporting.

From Studio One Artist, Producer, and Professional v.2.0.6 and later (with the free Nimbit Extension), you can select an individual song right from the start page, or select File >Export and upload to Nimbit. You then add details, upload a product image, and set a price, and your music will be immediately available for sale.

Studio One Professional users will reap additional benefits. When you export to Nimbit from the Project page, your project metadata pre-populates the Nimbit product setup, allowing you to sell and promote your music almost instantaneously.

A Complete Solution

With the addition of Nimbit technology and services, Studio One users can now go from creating the first track to marketing and selling a finished project, all within Studio One and associated Web sites. Studio One Professional users can record, mix, master, digitally release, burn CDs, upload to the Web via SoundCloud, and market and sell through Nimbit without leaving the DAW.

In short, Studio One has become a complete musician’s solution.

Registered Studio One 2 customers will be able to download the Nimbit Extension free from the PreSonus Exchange. Having installed the Extension, they can sign up for a Nimbit Free or Nimbit Plus account from within Studio One and start selling and promoting their music.

The benefits of Nimbit are not limited to PreSonus Studio One customers. Anyone who would like to sell and promote their music, other audio products, and merchandise can sign up at www.nimbit.com or can install the free Nimbit store for Facebook.

The integration will be available on August 1, 2012, via a free Nimbit Extension for Studio One 2.0.6 and later.

More information: PreSonus / Nimbit

A.I.R. Music Technology has introduced Ignite, a new software solution with a revolutionary approach to music creation.

Ignite is a discrete, standalone music ideation and creation software built from the ground up to spark creative ideas and enable musicians to build songs in an organic fashion. It’s not another DAW with complicated controls or engineering-centric workflow. In fact, it’s not a DAW at all.

With Ignite, musicians are set free from the rigid and stale interfaces of the past. Ignite conforms to the user’s creative process and represents a fresh way of thinking about music creation—a way that complements and energizes a musician’s natural workflow. It’s a whole new way of creating, capturing, and sharing musical ideas and compositions, the perfect creative partner for a musician. Ignite helps musicians unlock creative energy and construct songs in an instinctive and satisfying way. Songs can then be exported to a sequencer or DAW if desired.

M-Audio Ignite with Axiom AIR 32 Mini.

At the heart of Ignite is its non-linear Arranger, which replaces the traditional timeline and tracks-and lanes format. Just open the software, connect an M-Audio keyboard and start capturing musical ideas. Individual ideas can be snapped together in pairs or groups to intuitively construct entire songs. Ignite’s Smart MIDI technology assists in the creation of chords, phrases, patterns, and complex arrangements, and five premium virtual instrument expansions are included. All of Ignite’s built-in instruments and included expansions are based on A.I.R.’s professional virtual instruments, which were originally developed for Pro Tools.

“We are very proud to announce Ignite. This is the result of more than a year of research and development, blood, sweat and tears. It is exciting for the whole team to see it come to life,” said Samara Winterfeld, Principal Product Manager, A.I.R. Music Technology. “We’re musicians who were never really satisfied with the music-making experience on any DAW, so we built Ignite for ourselves and for musicians everywhere who want to capture and develop their musical ideas in ways that are intuitive and inspiring. This first release introduces key features that are central to the product. We have many more new features in development and look forward to sharing them soon.”

Ignite provides an immediate outlet for natural music creation and ideation—its unique tab interface eliminates distraction, presenting users with all the tools they need for each step of the process and nothing more. Select an instrument, record, edit MIDI in the Piano Roll View, organize and arrange clips and more, all in a clean, inviting interface with straightforward controls and zero clutter.

With Ignite, musical collaboration and sharing are easier than ever. Its Sharing Tab includes direct links to SoundCloud, Facebook, email and more. Ideas can be shared instantly, empowering musicians to craft, collaborate and create songs together, whether they’re separated by a few miles or on different continents.

Ignite 1.0 is focused specifically on the keyboardist’s workflow. Beginning in Q3 of 2012, all M-Audio keyboard controllers will ship with Ignite included, and other brands in the inMusic family will include Ignite with select products. This initial product release will be followed by a number of scheduled releases designed to address the complete music creation process. These processes span content access, music creation, collaboration, finishing, publishing and live performance for both keyboard-based musicians and those recording audio from analog sources.

A.I.R. will unveil Ignite at Booth 800 at the 2012 Summer NAMM show in Nashville, Tennessee, July 12-14.

More information: inMusic

Ableton has updated its Live music production software for Windows and Mac to version 8.3.1.

Ableton Live is about making music; for composition, songwriting, recording, production, remixing and live performance. Live’s nonlinear, intuitive flow, alongside powerful real-time editing and flexible performance options, make it a unique studio tool and a favorite with live performers.

Changes in Live 8.3.1

• Improvements and feature changes:
  • Added support for Mac OS 10.8 “Mountain Lion”.
  • Improved performance when recording many MIDI CC data into MIDI clips.
  • The default takeover mode for control surfaces has been changed to “none” (this will only affect new installations).
  • Minor changes for usage data reporting.
• Bug fixes:
  • Fixed a bug which could lead to degraded resolution of automation data when recording automation for VST plugins running in Novation’s Automap shell.
  • Fixed a bug which prevented samples from being opened in an external sample editor.
  • Fixed a crash which could occur when importing two identical audio files into Live.
  • Fixed a bug which could lead to two undo steps when freezing a track.
  • Fixed a bug which could cause the save dialogue to disappear in OS X Lion.
  • Under certain conditions, Live’s splash screen wouldn’t appear on OS X Lion.
  • Opening an alias file of a Live set wouldn’t work on OS X Lion.
  • Fixed login problems in the SoundCloud uploader on Windows.
  • Fixed a rare crash which could occur with automatic updates on certain Windows computers.

The update is available to download for registered Live 8 users.

More information: Ableton

Samplephonics has announced Sound Design Competition 02, a chance to win various prizes including the release of your own sample pack on the Samplephonics label.

Find a single object, material, or ‘thing’ that you think makes cool sounds. Record sounds from this object in any way you like. Manipulate sounds in any way you like. Create 2 minute track using ONLY these sounds. Done!

Win £1000+ GBP in prizes from Shure, Camel Audio, iZotope, Audiofile Engineering, Point Blank, Soundcloud, Music Technology Magazine, and Samplephonics.

Sound Design Competiton prizes

• 1st Prize:
  • Shure PG27 microphone and pop shield.
  • Full License for Camel Audio Alchemy, iZotope Iris, Audiofile Engineering Wave Editor, Sample Manager & Quiztones.
  • Point Blank Pro Producer course of your choice.
  • Soundcloud Pro account for 1 year.
  • A years subscription to Music Technology Magazine.
  • 3x Samplephonics sample libraries + opportunity to create your own sample pack for Samplephonics and earn money.
• 2nd Prize:
  • Full License for Audiofile Engineering Quiztones.
  • Soundcloud Solo account for 1 year.
  • 2x Samplephonics sample libraries.
• 3rd Prize:
  • Soundcloud Lite account for 1 year.
  • 1x Samplephonics sample library.

The deadline for submitting your entry is 31st August, 2012, 23.59 GMT.

More information: Samplephonics

Juno Download has announced the TEKKEN Tag Tournament 2 Remix Competition, a chance to mix tracks of the upcoming game.

To mark the upcoming release of the game TEKKEN Tag Tournament 2, Juno has teamed up with NAMCO BANDAI Games to give budding producers the chance to remix tracks from the game’s original soundtrack.

The remix stems for six different tracks are available to download for free from Juno Download, and remixers can upload their track to the TEKKEN remix competition SoundCloud dropbox for a chance to win these amazing prizes

Remix competition prizes

• First prize winner will receive:
  • €500 cash prize.
  • Avid Fast Track C400 audio interface and Pro Tools MP software.
  • Vestax VCI-380 controller for Serato.
  • Novation Impulse 61 Keyboard Controller.
  • 12 month SoundCloud Pro account.
  • €200 Juno vouchers.
  • Mixed In Key and Platinum Notes.
  • Tekken Tag Tournament 2 ‘We Are Tekken’ collector’s edition.
  • A professionally mastered copy of their remix to be released on the official winning remixes free download EP.
• Four runners up will each receive:
  • €250 cash prize.
  • 12 month SoundCloud Pro account.
  • €50 Juno vouchers.
  • Mixed In Key and Platinum Notes.
  • Tekken Tag Tournament 2 ‘We Are Tekken’ collector’s edition.
  • A professionally mastered copy of their remix to be released on the official winning remixes free download EP.

The submission phase of the remix competition ends July 16th, 2012. Winners will be selected by the TEKKEN development team, and announceed via the Juno Download Facebook Page and Tekken Facebook Page on July 23rd, 2012.

More information: Juno Download / TEKKEN Tag Tournament 2 Remix Competition

Prime Loops has launched the Dubstep Gladiators Producer Competition, a chance to win the Dubstep Super Producer Combo pack.

We’re giving you a pile of FREE sounds from our latest pack and we wanna see what you can come up with. You create the song, host it on Soundcloud then post your track on our Facebook Page.

The winner will receive our best-selling ‘Dubstep Super Producer Combo pack’ valued at £155! As well as that we’ll be featuring the finalists song across our industry networks.

What are you waiting for?? Download the sounds from the product page here and crank out some dubstep bangers. Grab the whole pack or the free demos.

The contest ends June 5th, 2012.

More information: Prime Loops / Dubstep Gladiators