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Sonic's NoNOISE is a suite of TDM and AudioSuite plug-ins for Mac OS based Pro Tools|HD systems that performs noise reduction and audio restoration useful in the mixing and mastering stages of audio production. The suite of processors is a faithful reproduction of the audio restoration processors found in the renowned, Emmy® Award-winning NoNOISE product offered by Sonic Solutions. Its set of plug-ins isolate and eliminate audio artifacts such as hiss, scratches, hum, mechanical, and impulsive noise. These processors work to remove bothersome noise without damaging original program material. NoNOISE can be used to restore old recordings, remove unwanted noises from field recordings, and repair audio materials that have suffered damage.

NoNOISE is designed to work in a Pro Tools context ...

Waldorf is proposing on his website a shop for buying demo machines, beta test ones, returns… Interesting prices ;)

Based around Digidesign's 192 Digital I/O, AD-16 and DA-16 24/96 converters appear in a new upgrade kit for Pro Tools HD users.

"It's criminal," RIAA president Hilary Rosen said. "Anyone at any time can simply turn on a radio and hear a copyrighted song. Making matters worse, these radio stations often play the best, catchiest song off the album over and over until people get sick of it. Where is the incentive for people to go out and buy the album?"

A tuner and a metronome for Protools, simple idea, but a useful one

With its new version 2.0 software, Nuendo delivers a complete media production system, designed with the needs of the user in mind and meeting the demands of working professionals in all genres of audio production: composition, film, broadcast, music, postproduction, surround, game sound and multimedia. As Steinberg's flagship product, Nuendo 2.0 utilizes the finest and most advanced technologies available today.

From input to final mix, Nuendo 2.0 is all about surround, with multichannel architecture through the entire signal path. Every input, audio track, effect, group and output now offers up to 12 discrete channels, ready for full-scale 5.1, 7.1, or even 10.2 productions. To make routing in the project even more transparent, Steinberg has developed a new way of organizing inputs a ...

By mixing something between the Digi001 and the MOTU 896, Roland assault the control surfaces/sound card market.
The "studio package pro" includes a SI-24 interface (control surface, 13 motorized faders), a RPC-1 R-BUS PCI card and a special logic version.

The new GrooveBox is here!

More than a few Mac Musicians were getting all het up and worried. Had Digidesign let them drop? Was the lure of the PC market blinding the creators of PT systems? Even the Mbox will soon be shipped with PTLE 5.3.3 for Windows XP.

There, there! Don't fret! All PT clients on Mac systems can now, or will soon be able to switch to OSX. How silly to think that Digidesign would forget that their old faithful clients still had money to spend. Of course, PT Free users are not clients yet, and so are not mentioned – yet!

For the biggies this concerns Pro Tools 6.0 for Digidesign-approved Pro Tools TDM systems: Pro Tools|HD, Pro Tools|24 MIX, and Pro Tools|24.

It also concerns the non-negligible market of LE system users: only support for Digi 001 and ToolBox now, but support for Mbox and ...

Apogee AP8 cards (A/D et D/A) now support 96kHz with Yamaha mix console 02R96, DM2000. A new free update is available at your local dealer.

New Roland M-1000 Digital Line Mixer:10 channel, 1U rackmount, mixes up to 4 S/PDIF stereo signals and 2 analogue inputs, up to 24 bit/96kHz, automatic sample rate conversion, will mix audio from a PC through USB, Word Clock I/O, 56 bit internal processing, units can be cascaded.

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