Mac and Music News

Steinberg is extending the Logic Crossgrade Offer until 31st December 2002. Registered Logic Silver, Gold and Platinum users can crossgrade to Steinberg's professional music production software for only Euro 299.00/USD 299.00*. All that's required is the first page of the Logic manual. This offer is also available for all Logic Mac users from the 10th of October 2002. As before, Logic owners can still keep their old software.

Euphonix and Steinberg have announced at the AES "a strategic alliance"...
Stay tuned for the next episode...

Access just issued new OSs for the Virus range, enjoy!

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 ...