New Gear Alert: BOSS VE-500 Vocal Performer, Reason Goes Compact, Sennheiser Memory Mic & More

BOSS announces the VE-500 Vocal Performer pedal.

BOSS’ VE-500 Vocal Performer pedal offers deep layers of effects processing and harmonization functionality.

The VE-500 Vocal Performer is a unique and powerful vocal harmony/multi-effects processor pedal. This high-performance vocal toolkit offers automatic harmony and pitch correction, a vocoder, and comprehensive effects options that allow users to process their voice any way they like, from subtle sweetening to the dramatic, over-the-top effects heard on many modern records.

Plugging a guitar into the instrument input drives the harmony, pitch, and vocoder functions, while the thru output provides an unprocessed signal to feed regular pedals. Three assignable footswitches offer versatile, real time performance control, and stereo XLR outputs enable processed vocal sounds to be sent directly to a PA mixer, stage monitor, or recording device.

The VE-500’s automatic harmony engine detects the chords and key played with a guitar to generate smooth and natural two- and three-part harmonies in real time as the user sings. Selectable harmony modes provide further options for refining the harmonies to suit songs that have more complex key structures. The harmony engine can alternately be driven via MIDI (through either the VE-500’s MIDI or USB inputs), enabling users to generate pitch-perfect live harmonies with a MIDI keyboard or DAW-based backing tracks.

Pricing and availability for the VE-500 is not yet available.

Propellerhead releases the Reason Compact mobile app.

With Europa synth at its core, Propellerhead enables you to tap into the power of Reason from virtually anywhere with Reason Compact.

Reason Compact puts Reason’s flagship Europa synthesizer right at your fingertips so you can quickly capture your creativity whenever inspiration strikes. Get started quickly and easily with innovative features like the Smart Keyboard, Note Grid, and Chords tools, then expand when you’re ready. You can even export your ideas and finalize them on your desktop with Reason 10 or Europa VST.

Reason Compact features intuitive controls and informative tutorials to help you create amazing synth sounds in seconds. The app is loaded with over 35 presets made by world-class music producers for instant inspiration. Capable of creating professional-sounding melodies, lush chords, and bouncing arpeggios with the touch of a button, Reason Compact is the ultimate tool for making music on-the-go.

Reason Compact is also tailor-made for collaboration, offering support for Inter-app Audio, Ableton Link and Allihoopa, so you can connect with other creatives and share ideas.

Watch the Reason Compact announcement video here; download Reason Compact for free here.

Meet the Memory Mic by Sennheiser.

Sennheiser offers broadcast-quality audio/video capture and synchronization with the new Memory Mic.

Sennheiser’s Memory Mic is a wireless microphone for smartphones, and with its accompanying video app, is already establishing itself as a must-have tool for mobile journalists and content creators who rely on their mobile phone for quick audio and video capture.

The small, lightweight microphone offers professional-quality sound and works at any distance from the smartphone. The free Sennheiser video app offers one-touch synchronization of audio and video, sensitivity selection to optimally adapt the mic to the speaker, and a mixing function to select the optimum balance between the standard audio recorded by the smartphone and the audio recorded via the Memory Mic.

Memory Mic is available now, priced at $199.95.

Useful Arts Audio introduces the BF-S DI.

The BF-S by Useful Arts Audio is more than just a DI, featuring crucial EQ controls and a linear power supply.

Useful Arts have taken the audio circuitry of their BF-1 direct interface and coupled it with the linear power supply from their SFP-60 mic preamp. The result is astounding clarity, headroom, and noise specs that only come with the nearly-noiseless high voltage that a linear power supply can deliver.

The BF-S has a noise floor of better than 70dB, and is flat from 15Hz to 80KHz (-2db). The BF-S also offers a Class A tube preamp, a two-band EQ, and dual outputs that can be used simultaneously for your amp and console. Bypass the EQ, and you have a choice of low gain (much like a traditional DI) or high gain, which gives you the ability to go straight to the converters for pure high-fidelity line level recording with no other amplification needed.

The BF-S is priced at $999.

Hypeddit unveils Loud Links: the future of music sharing.

Hypeddit offers an inventive, forward-thinking method of growing your fan base with Loud Links.

Hypeddit, a popular music promotion and fan acquisition platform, announces the launch of Loud Links. Loud Links are a new, patent pending technology that allows musicians to add their music to any link they share online, creating a new way to reach listeners and gain more plays, drive more traffic, and grow a bigger fan base.

A musician can create Loud Links on Hypeddit.com by selecting the music title they want to promote and inserting the URL of the web page on which they would like to showcase their music. This simple setup process takes only a few seconds, and the resulting Loud Link includes a music player on the web page selected for sharing.

Loud Links work with any music that streams directly from popular hosting platforms such as SoundCloud, YouTube, Spotify, and MixCloud, as well as music uploaded to Hypeddit. Musicians can share their Loud Links via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, emails, or anywhere else on the web to increase their audience.

Check out a video on Loud Links here.

Hypeddit is offering a free Pro Membership for 1 month (reg. $9/mo); the Rookie Membership is free.

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