5 time GRAMMY award winning mix engineer, Manny Marroquin sits down with Dave and Herb on the 105th episode of Pensado’s Place! The three talk about Manny’s work on the new Imagine Dragon’s record (produced by past guest, Alex Da Kid) the latest Bruno Mars album, Linkin Park, Alicia Keys and more! You don’t want…

We first explore the new ROLI Seaboard – a multi-axis controller, Steve Reich’s recent concert exploring themes from Radiohead, the Giant Tuba of Marknuekirchen, and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinasuars live rig, Hollow Sun SOTU, with plenty of conversational diversions on the way.

Native Instruments released a teaser today for a new product that they say will ‘supercharge your beats’. They add, “The sound of the 21st century fuses ultimate power with a lightning-fast, visual workflow – seeing is believing.” Is it just a coincidence that they announced this the same day that Ableton Live 9 is released? You make the…

Ableton Live 9 is now available, for Mac & Windows. In addition, Ableton Push is now available for pre-order. Updates in Ableton Live 9 include: Session automation New browser New sounds New studio effects You can now extract musical information from samples Improved editing tools Max for Live is now included in Live Suite. These features are common…

http://soundsandgear.com/ik-multimedi… checking out the iRig Keys mobile/portable keyboard controller from IK Multimedia as well as the new iLectric Piano EP app for iOS.

Producer Greg Wells joins Dave Pensado and Herb Trawick on stage at the Avid booth at NAMM 2013

Checking out a new sound design library for Kontakt called Project Alpha http://soundsandgear.com/hybrid-two-p… this is a new product from Hybrid Two distributed through TimeSpace and requires the full version of Native Instruments Kontakt.  

Waldorf Music has introduced the Rocket Synthesizer – a new module they describe as ‘an ideal fun sound design machine’. Here’s what they have to say about it: It’s incredible sound is a powerful weapon of mass destruction, and never before has this been achieved with such an enormous fun factor. It features an analog multimode VCF with lowpass,…

Greg Wells and Ian MacGregor share their drum tracking process on the 56th Into The Lair! Download the stems for a sample of the recording here:http://bit.ly/YgyEra