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Serene Music February 2010 Star - Reason 5
Reason 5 is an expandable all-in-one music production environment, complete with its own realtime sequencer. It comes with synthesizers, samplers, drum machine, REX file loop player, professional mastering tools, mixer, vocoder, world class effects, pattern sequencer and more. Reason is designed to go easy on your computer, you can have get as much samplers and compressors as you like. And if you have created more machines than you have mixer channels, just create another mixer. It will be a great virtual studio for you!
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Serene Music March 2010 Star - Boss VE-20 Vocal Performer
The new, easy-to-use VE-20 has been designed from the ground up for singers, featuring some of the finest vocal-effects technology on the market. With the click of a footswitch, you can instantly add lush vocal layers and harmonies to your singing, add realtime pitch-correction, and you can show your creative side with special effects such as Distortion, Radio, and Strobe. You can even create loops and layers in real time with the onboard Phrase Looper. Perform anywhere with the VE-20 since it runs on AC or battery power. The effect include reverb, delay, doubler, harmony, radio, strobe and even pitch shift.
Product Information: http://www.bossus.com/gear/productdetails.php?ProductId=1043
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Serene Music April 2010 Star - Podio BA-205 Bike Audio
Podio portable bike audio is the first ever invented pocket Hi-Fi device, and furthermore, a special-made Hi-Fi for a bike. It takes a portable-grade size, while produces amazing sound effect — with a crispy and natural and full-span sound effect. After two years’ intense research and development, Agios Technology Co. proudly succeeded to present a super-mini audio product through incorporation of a proprietary MicroAmp circuit with Japanese FOSTER speakers, which is adapted for a palmtop or a pocket for audio enjoyment. It offers never-had-before convenience and easiness — with portable handiness at one hand, and earphone dispensation at the other hand, which rids of potential hearing damage. Moreover, mounted by a special bracket over a bike handlebar,Podio Audio is transformed into a bike audio, and from then on, bike hiking is not mere exercising, but also an enjoyable melodious tour.
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Serene Music May 2010 Star - Korg Mini Dizi
A Chinese Flute VSTi by Korg. Mini DiZi covers Tenor DiZi, Xiao, and some different expression styles to give you a taste of the various Dizi sounds. Just copy the Mini_DiZi.dll file to your VSTi plugin folder, and you are able to use it for your arrangement. It’s easy to use, try it today!
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Serene Music June 2010 Star - AKGK77 & K99 Headphones
These headphones become a hit topic when it was launch.Which is the best? Some people evaluate according to the code of manufacture, which K99 suppose to be better than K77. However, I did and experience and here is the outcome.
From it’s looks, K77 is more more fashion and intimacy,K99 looks more professional and stable.Worth to be mention that,most of the headphones with same prices as these unit uses low cost leather,K77 and K99 uses thicker leather with better quality and it’s very confortable wearing it.
Compare with sound, K77 have 18Hz-20kHz frequency range and K99 with 18Hz-22kHz. From here, K99 will have a better performance with it high frequency.Most of the music production nowadays are MIDI produce which you can sequence as many instruments as you like. Thus,K99 is very suitable for pop music maker, as the wide frequency can makes your instruments sounds more outstanding.If you having live session for your music, K77 is recommended as it’s more origin without frequency boost.K99 using semi-open ear cups but K77 is using closed one. That’s why I prefer K77, how bout you?
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Serene Music July 2010 Star - Roland Juno Di
If you loves to play and sing along with a keyboard, you’ll loves this - Juno Di! It’s strong yet amazingly lightweight (only 5.2kg) making it easy to lift and carry. It consist of over 1000 great world class sounds to chose.
Guess what, it’s not just a simple keyboard as you know in your life, JUNO-Di lets you plug a microphone into its external input and process your voice through the built-in vocoder (Vocal performing will never be boring again with these effects) ! Again, it’s not just a simple keyboard, it’s a battery powered keyboard! haha, sounds like a toy or what? no worry, Roland is well-known in it’s professional sounds and technology! Last but not least, it comes with D beam controller which you can play around during your performing, what is D Beam? have a look at this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR2dkROg-Js
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Serene Music August 2010 Star - Samson G-Tracks
G-Track is the world’s first USB condenser microphone with a built-in audio interface and mixer, allows for simultaneous stereo input and gain control of vocals and guitar, bass. Now singer/songwriters can directly record vocals and instruments quickly and easily with one device.
G-Track is fully USB bus-powered and compliant with any Mac or PC computer. The unit works brilliantly with any DAW software program ideal for the traveling musician or the project studio or anyone who records audio, particularly podcasters, educators and business professionals. G-Track provides answers for those business professionals in need of revitalizing their corporate communications. Regardless of the specific application (web design, multimedia presentations, company meetings, corporate events, etc.), G-Track’s features allow for the easy, cost-effective recording of studio-quality audio clips to be used to invoke interest among internal stakeholders or event attendees.
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Serene Music September 2010 Star - Alesis MultiMix 6fx
Alesis MultiMix 6fx is a 6-channel mixer that always wanted by musicians that work with project studio. Price is so much affordable which is cost only about RM540
It comes with a basic needs of 2 high-gain mic/line (XLR and 1/4″ balanced) inputs with phantom power, 2 stereo balanced 1/4″ line inputs, aux send (can send to onboard or external effects), stereo aux return. Also, 100 onboard preset effects including reverbs, delays, chorus, flanging, pitch, multieffects and 3-band EQ per channel with high/ low shelving and mid bandpass/rejec which you can play with.
MultiMix FX mixers are the most compact, affordable, high-quality mixers with built-in 28-bit digital effects and choice of configurations. MultiMix FX mixers are perfect for musicians and engineers needing a portable, flexible mixer with digital effects for sound reinforcement, rehearsals, studio recording, sub-mixing, field recording, and digital audio/video computer workstation mixing.