Taking place from 22 to 25th of march in Amsterdam (Netherlands), the main workshops will cover Surround, Coding PCM /DSD, MPEG-4 development and so on ... The lectures will be centered on numeric audio, room acoustics, audio levels monitoring and the setting of a 5.1 monitoring speaker system.
Metropolis DVD creates Bonus DVDs against unauthorized copying. Asked by a few majors which want to stop the unauthorized copying and what they called the "napsterization" of their catalogues, Metropolis DVD decided to add Quality Bonus in order to push people buying the original ones. The increasing sales of the tittles which use this brilliant marketing idea seem to prove the efficiency of this system.
Edirol announced their new assignable control surface with USB Audio and MIDI. The UR-80 is an all-in-one studio box for computer musicians, combining a fully assignable control surface, USB audio interface with 24-bit/96 kHz capability, MIDI and the GM2 Hyper Canvas software synthesizer. The UR-80 control surface resembles a digital mixer, with transport controls, time wheel, and assignable switches for quick access to music software functions. It comes with a Control Map Editor and eight pre-loaded control maps supporting popular sequencers, such as Cubase and Logic, plus a variety of soft synths.
Edirol introduces the World's First Hi-Speed USB 2 Audio Recording Interface.The UA-1000 is multi port on 10 separate channels via a wide variety of connections:
- 4 x front-mounted XLR/TRS combo jacks, with Phantom power and preamps
- Hi-Z guitar in
- SP/DIF (Optical/Coaxial)
- 8 channel ADAT
- MIDI
- 2 x Stereo (4) Inserts for effect send/return
TC-Helicon brings in April his Voice modeling technology to the Powercore platform. The Voicemodeler can change or improve a voice, a "thin" vocal into a "throat" one, a "male" into a "female". A complete control is possible on the parameters of the voice: morphing, crispness, breath, growl can be adjusted in real time. You can expect more voice effects in charts in the coming month after this release, from the natural to the extreme. Price $249-215eu
Yamaha revamps the 01 mixer the mLAN way. It is in fact a 01V96 in mLAN with 9 motorised faders, transport controls, DAW support for Cubase SX, Nuendo, Logic Audio, Digital Performer and softs synths.
- 28 Channels with dynamic processing and 4 band parametric EQ
- 2X 32 bit effect processors
- large LCD screen to display names on top of the faders.
- 3 VST plug-ins for enhanced vocal processing, pitch correction and mastering.
- VST channel module to show hardware and functions of the mixer on the computer screen
- mLAN input and outpout
Certainly a tough competition for Digidesign Digi002.
mLAN support is included in OSX 10.2.4
Due in Q3 2003 for $1700-1700eu
The fourth generation. REAKTOR 4 comes with new modules as
well as with an enhanced functionality.
REAKTOR 4 features graphical sample mapping that allows velocity splits and 32-bit sample support for maximum flexibility and sound quality.
The reworked snapshot manager. The interface has received a completely new design with redesigned graphics, a trimmed-down toolbar, and much more.
Reaktor 4 will support MacOSX and AudioUnits...
TC electronics will ship in May the Powercore Firewire, a version of their Powercore PCI card but in Firewire (I'm smart, yes, I know ;)
Powercore firewire is twice the power of the PCI version and retains the principle of processing audio in Powercore and not in the computer host. The DSPs used here are faster and have more available RAM than on PCI so the result is a more powerfull rack and more plug-ins available than previously. Laptop users will definetly be interested.
- AudioUnits and VST support
- 4 Motorola 56K DSP 150MHz
- 512K words SRAM by DSP
- 1 Motorola PowerPC 266 MHZ
- 8MB DRAM for the PPC
- 3 Firewire pass thru connectors
- Price TBA
Small (!) detail, support of VST AND AudioUnits ;)
Propellerheads annouce the beginning of the public beta test of Reason 2.5. The new features are:
- RV7000 Advanced Reverb: A stereo reverb with a multitude of algorithms. Everything from large halls to cool sounding spring reverbs.
- BV-512 Digital Vocoder: A 4 to 512-band vocoder with the power to equalize.
- Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit: A behemoth distortion unit capable of every kind of destruction, from subtle tape compression to digital bit-loss mayhem.
- UN-16 Unison: A classic chorus-like effect designed to fatten and widen any sound. Fans of classic eighties synths will like this one, only now you can add unison to any sound in the rack!
- Spider Audio Merger & Splitter: A small and indespensible utility for audio path scientists. ...
BIAS release a stand alone version of Soundsoap, its plug-in of noise reduction already available in VST format. So now users of non-VST compatible softwares can use Soundsoap like the others.
This stand alone version is available as a free update for registered users of the plug-in version, and others can purchase it for $99. Soundsoap is OS X only.
Elektron as announced is delivering the last SIDstations Final 100 Edition numbered 100 to 1 as their chip stock is about to end. The MOS6581 SID is the chip used in Commored 64 as a complete synth onboard and has gained vintage status.
900 euros in Europe and $760 in the rest of the world
More info on the upcoming Monomachine from Elektron, our swedish Monomaniacs:
The Elektron Monomachine SFX-6 is a multiple synthesis and FX synthesiser with unique parameter sequencer control. The Monomachine SFX-6 is scheduled for public release in the third quarter of 2003 and delivers musical synthesis and sequencing in certainly the friendly Elektron way, built upon the traditions of previous Elektron synthesiser models SidStation and Machinedrum. The last one being a joy to use, you can count for a great user experience.
The new VG-88 Version 2.0 software takes this guitar and amp modeling system to all-new heights. For starters, there are three new COSM guitar models including Sitar, Wave Synth and an even more realistic nylon guitar.
There is no shortage of amp models either, 18 new amps total! Version 2.0 also adds entirely new features to the VG-88's repertoire, such as Defretter and Uni-V effects, plus five types of COSM wah models and more.
HALion 2.0 due in April impresses with new Waldorf filters, surround capability, a new surround library by Wizoo, Roland S770 data import, extended GIGA support, OS X compatibility and much more.
Xphraze is a sample-based instrument combined with a powerful multi-timbral synthesizer that offers practically unlimited sound-shaping and real-time modulation capabilities. Xphraze is powered by an integrated polyphonic phrase generator, allowing this new VSTi to generate practically all types of rhythmic sound textures imaginable, from polyphonic chord patterns, through drum grooves and bass lines to tempo-synced pads and arpeggios.
Groove Agent is a virtual drummer for VST. Like the well-known Virtual Guitarist, this plug-in actually "plays" an instrument, providing dynamic drums in dozens of different styles - just like a top studio drummer. Groove Agent includes a specially crafted drum sound library that provides a huge variety of styles from many musical eras.
Arboretum Systems announces Montage, "the first media software that lets creators work like they think". Montage features a groundbreaking "trackless" workspace that allows the free manipulation of video, audio, stills, and text in an infinitely expandable window. Montage was built for OS X from the ground up and is 100% Cocoa native.
Gmedia Music are in the process of developing Apple Audio Unit (AU) versions of the M-Tron and Oddity (currently VSTi) and it's anticipated that theses will reach the final beta-test stage shortly.
A new bundle on sale for Mac OS X which combine :
- Cubase SX , the Midi and Audio sequencer from Steinberg and
- 6 plug-in from Native Bundle 3.0 (TC Works)
Clavia announced today the availibility in june of the G2, which stands for Nord Modular G2 (the 2nd generation without Piccard ;). It is a dsp driven synth, like the "old" Nord Modulars, with features long awaited by the NM followers:
- Bigger keyboard (3 octaves instead of 2)
- pitch stick like other Nords (yeepeee!)
- backlit LCDs and LED rotary encoders (perfect for gig)
- assignable buttons (8 physical buttons X 10 pages = 80 virtual buttons)
- 8 morph groups per patch for quick and heavy external mods to patches
- or a rack 1U version (no panel editing, but the power within)
- 24 bit 96 KHz AD/DA
- 4 analog audio Ins with one on XLR with an amp.
- 4 analog audio outs.
- On-DSP RAM so longer delays than the NM G1, reverbs?
- Add Granular synthesis and physical modeling to t ...
Dave Malham, from the Computer Music Center of Switzerland brings to the public use (with a GNU licence) the last version of its "Bpan - Ambisonic encoder vst".
Doggiebox is a versatile drum machine application for Mac OS X that empowers you to create and manipulate percussion-based songs. With Doggiebox, you can create drum tracks in minutes, ranging from the realism of a human drummer on a full kit to imaginitively bizarre experimental pieces.
With this Free Art Licence, you've got the right to copy, broadcast and arrange songs in full respect of the author's copyrights.
Far from ignoring copyrights, this Licence acknowledges and protect them. It re-formulates the principle in allowing people to use works of art with creativity.
When the regular way of using the copyright is restrictive, only a few got access to the work, the Free Art Licence encourages access to all the people.
The aim is to make songs accessible to everyone and to authorize use of the resources' work by a majority. To have the right to use it in order to increase pleasures, to build new conditions of creating and magnify possibilities of creation. Of course, all in respect of the authors with acknowledge and preservation of their moral right.
You'll find the last artistic news of this Licence and its artists in a short article in Liberation (in french...)
http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=90295
The forthcoming Digidesign french site organise a Story competition about ProTool LE for all people who use the Mbox. Send your unusual stories and amazing photos about your way to use the Mbox to :
sophie_taieb@digidesign.com (expiry date april 1st).
A free ProTool LE 6.0 OS X update for the winner and other surprises...
IRCAM is announcing the list of his main training courses for 2003.
Software course:
- Sound treatment : 1st and 2nd of March
- Composition assisted by computer : 8th and 9th March
- Introduction to spacialization : 15th and 16th March
- Morphing on Diphone: 26th and 27th April
- Real time on Jitter: 17th and 18th May
- real time on Max/MSP : 24th and 25th May
Sonor designing course :
- Sonor design for architecture : 3rd and 4th April
- from Words to sounds : 15th and 16th March
Next workshops of the Forum :
- from 26 to 28th march
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Taking place from 22 to 25th of march in Amsterdam (Netherlands), the main workshops will cover Surround, Coding PCM /DSD, MPEG-4 development and so on ... The lectures will be centered on numeric audio, room acoustics, audio levels monitoring and the setting of a 5.1 monitoring speaker system.
Metropolis DVD creates Bonus DVDs against unauthorized copying. Asked by a few majors which want to stop the unauthorized copying and what they called the "napsterization" of their catalogues, Metropolis DVD decided to add Quality Bonus in order to push people buying the original ones. The increasing sales of the tittles which use this brilliant marketing idea seem to prove the efficiency of this system.
Edirol announced their new assignable control surface with USB Audio and MIDI. The UR-80 is an all-in-one studio box for computer musicians, combining a fully assignable control surface, USB audio interface with 24-bit/96 kHz capability, MIDI and the GM2 Hyper Canvas software synthesizer. The UR-80 control surface resembles a digital mixer, with transport controls, time wheel, and assignable switches for quick access to music software functions. It comes with a Control Map Editor and eight pre-loaded control maps supporting popular sequencers, such as Cubase and Logic, plus a variety of soft synths.
Edirol introduces the World's First Hi-Speed USB 2 Audio Recording Interface.The UA-1000 is multi port on 10 separate channels via a wide variety of connections:
TC-Helicon brings in April his Voice modeling technology to the Powercore platform. The Voicemodeler can change or improve a voice, a "thin" vocal into a "throat" one, a "male" into a "female". A complete control is possible on the parameters of the voice: morphing, crispness, breath, growl can be adjusted in real time. You can expect more voice effects in charts in the coming month after this release, from the natural to the extreme. Price $249-215eu
Yamaha revamps the 01 mixer the mLAN way. It is in fact a 01V96 in mLAN with 9 motorised faders, transport controls, DAW support for Cubase SX, Nuendo, Logic Audio, Digital Performer and softs synths.
Steinberg release a bundle "Waldorf Edition" with the following VST plug-ins from Waldorf:
Steinberg releases a bundle of the following OS 9 and X products:
With this Free Art Licence, you've got the right to copy, broadcast and arrange songs in full respect of the author's copyrights.
