Millennia announces the TD-1 Twin Direct Recording System with Twin Topology - Millennia's innovative merging of vacuum tube and discrete solid-state circuit topologies. Much more than an ordinary "direct box", Twin Direct offers instrument input (1/4"), line input (XLR), Speaker Soak input (1/4"), and optional HV-3 mic preamplifier (XLR) in a single half-width, road-hardened, rack-mountable chassis.
Twin Direct offers vacuum tube and discrete solid-state DI buffer amplifiers (switch selectable), 2 full range parametric EQ (20 Hz - 25 kHz), three input impedance settings (470K, 2M, 10M), and up to 35 dB of standard gain. Combine this with Millennia's acclaimed HV-3 microphone preamplifier (65 dB gain, optional) and TD-1 begins to look less like a direct box, and more like a feature rich analog "channel strip", akin to the STT-1 Origin. TD-1 main signal path is entirely "discrete" from input to output.
If you want an additional proof that Apple is the platform for musicians: The Los Angeles Times make a citation in their 11 April edition concerning a persistent rumor that Apple and Vivendi Universal are heavily and frequently discussing about the selling of Universal Music to Apple for $6 billion. Universal Music stands for a quarter of the total CD sales worldwide!
The rumor details that Apple is planning to make his offer before the meeting of the Vivendi director board on 29th of April.
Native Instruments announces that VOKATOR is available worldwide in stores today. Vokator is a revolutionary vocoder that defines a new standard for transparency, detail, and smoothness. It is not only an exceptional vocoder, but also a sophisticated synthesizer, a granular sampler, and a virtual sound-fusion laboratory. Vokator's high-resolution FFT spectral engine is a milestone in vocoder development. Previous vocoders used eight, sixteen, twenty, or thirty-two frequency bands at the most, Vokator's advanced engine uses 1024 bands.
Vokator is now available at music retailers at recommended retail of $299 and 289 Euro.
The Jaguar update for OS 10.2.5 is now available. As usually, use the software update in your preference pannel's system. This update will be on the Apple website very soon.
Antares Audio Technologies have released Tube RTAS and VST for OS X. The RTAS version requires Pro Tools 6 TDM or LE and Mac OS 10.2.3 or later. The VST version requires an OS X compatible host application that supports the VST plug-in architecture and version of OS X as required by your host. Tube RTAS and VST for OS X are free upgrades to current owners of Tube.
Pro Tools|HD compatible versions of Antares Microphone Modeler TDM and RTAS for Mac OS 9 and OS X are now available. The new versions, which support 88.2 kHz and 96kHz sampling rates on Pro Tools|HD systems, are available as upgrades to registered owners of earlier versions of Mic Modeler TDM or RTAS.
Digidesign announced the release of the Hi-Resolution Parametric EQ plug-in for Pro Tools|HD created by acclaimed audio expert George Massenburg of Massenburg DesignWorks (MDW).
As a result of countless hours of critical listening and design by George Massenburg, one of the industry's foremost authorities, the MDW Hi-Resolution EQ provides Pro Tools users with a high-end EQ plug-in solution.
At NAB, Apogee Electronics Corporation unveiled its latest multi-channel converter the Rosetta 800. With standard 96k and optional 192k sampling rates, the Rosetta 800 bundles some of Apogee's most celebrated features, found in its flagship unit the AD 8000 and the Rosetta AD, with the latest in high-definition digital audio.
The Rosetta 800 offers such Apogee attributes as 'SoftLimit', 'UV22HR', and 'Intelliclock'. These features combined with converters that are the benchmark for the digital audio industry and optional Firewire connectivity make the Rosetta 800 an ideal choice for those seeking a high-definition, professional solution at a project studio price.
Digidesign is pleased to preview the Pro ToolsŪ 6.1 software, an update to the recently released Pro Tools 6.0 software for the Mac OS X platform that added a powerful set of new features and improvements for Pro Tools TDM and LE systems. Now, with the Pro Tools 6.1 software, Windows XP users can enjoy the enhanced Pro Tools functionality added in Pro Tools 6.0 for Mac OS X systems, as well as take advantage of a host of other exciting new features.
Along with a streamlined new look for the Mix, Edit, and Transport windows, Pro Tools 6.1 software brings to the table the powerful DigiBase file management utility, enhanced MIDI functionality (including high-resolution groove templates!), additional Beat Detective features, new Import Session options, plug-in functionality enhancements, MachineControl additions, a host of new enhancements to Pro Tools LE, and much more.
Due to strong request the Germany based company propagamma / usb-audio.de released the Mac OS X public beta version V0.8b of their USB audio driver. This driver connects external soundcards with audio applications via CoreAudio. ASIO support will be added as soon as it's available on Mac OS X.
The commercial version of the driver supports Digidesign Mbox (currently only digital input), Edirol UA-1A, Edirol UA-3, Edirol UA-3D, Griffin iMic, Opcode DAT-/SonicPort (optical), Onkyo MSE-U33, Onkyo SE-U55 and Roland-ED UA-30.
Since a numer of companies licensed this driver it will also be available soon for Apogee MineME, ESI U24, Sound Devices USB pre, Swissonic USB Studio, Media-Assistance USB One, Yamaha UW500 and others.
According to the company the latency is still high but will go down with V0.9b. A demo version is available.
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Millennia announces the TD-1 Twin Direct Recording System with Twin Topology - Millennia's innovative merging of vacuum tube and discrete solid-state circuit topologies. Much more than an ordinary "direct box", Twin Direct offers instrument input (1/4"), line input (XLR), Speaker Soak input (1/4"), and optional HV-3 mic preamplifier (XLR) in a single half-width, road-hardened, rack-mountable chassis.
If you want an additional proof that Apple is the platform for musicians: The Los Angeles Times make a citation in their 11 April edition concerning a persistent rumor that Apple and Vivendi Universal are heavily and frequently discussing about the selling of Universal Music to Apple for $6 billion. Universal Music stands for a quarter of the total CD sales worldwide!
Native Instruments announces that VOKATOR is available worldwide in stores today. Vokator is a revolutionary vocoder that defines a new standard for transparency, detail, and smoothness. It is not only an exceptional vocoder, but also a sophisticated synthesizer, a granular sampler, and a virtual sound-fusion laboratory. Vokator's high-resolution FFT spectral engine is a milestone in vocoder development. Previous vocoders used eight, sixteen, twenty, or thirty-two frequency bands at the most, Vokator's advanced engine uses 1024 bands.
The Jaguar update for OS 10.2.5 is now available. As usually, use the software update in your preference pannel's system. This update will be on the Apple website very soon.
A translations of a french article from our member Domz, concerning Audio plug-ins on the Macintosh platform (originally from Claude Borne). Enjoy.
Digidesign is pleased to preview the Pro ToolsŪ 6.1 software, an update to the recently released Pro Tools 6.0 software for the Mac OS X platform that added a powerful set of new features and improvements for Pro Tools TDM and LE systems. Now, with the Pro Tools 6.1 software, Windows XP users can enjoy the enhanced Pro Tools functionality added in Pro Tools 6.0 for Mac OS X systems, as well as take advantage of a host of other exciting new features.
