Yellow Tools has released Logic 7 compatible public beta Audio Units versions of Culture and Majestic plugins. Culture is a modular virtual percussion instrument and Majestic is a virtual instrument which contains more than 16GB sounds of various basses.
Expert sleepers has released Latency Fixer, a free AU plug-in that reports to the host application that it has a latency (controlled by the plug-in parameters) but does not actually apply any processing to the audio signal. This causes the host to use its own latency compensation to advance the audio fed into the plug-in by the requested amount.
Native Instruments has released a hotfix for the Audio Unit version of Kontakt, making it compatible with Logic 7. It passes Logic 7 Audio Units Validation.
In Sonasphere 1.2b, functional units, such as sound samples, effects and mixers, are represented as small spherical 'Objects' floating within 3D Space. Users can easily make connections between these objects via simple mouse interaction and establish signal stream networks.
Sonasphere 1.2b is available in our softwares section.
At the 117th AES Convention in San Fransisco CA, Tascam introduced two new FireWire audio interfaces.
1-The FW-1804 can be rack mounted and is a kind of FW-1884 without control surface.
2-The FW-1082 is a kind of mini FW-1884 with a control surface which features 8 balanced inputs (included 4 phantom powered inputs), 2 Midi inputs/outputs and costs less than $1000.
Unfortunately there's no LCD screen on those two interfaces and there is no native integration in Cubase.
Sebastien Bottin, the famous inventor of the directory, could be jealous. Indeed if you're looking for a drummer, a sound engineer, a conductor or even an electronic bagpiper, you will no doubt find it in the MacMusic directory, which lists all those who have registered and it already has 10,000 members. This directory is straightforward and easy-to-use, all members are classified by professions and countries, so you can easily contact another member to collaborate as a professional or amateur. We remind you that registration is free. You only have to modify your profile to be referenced. By the way, you may check your profile and your personal description (the one on top of the page) in particular. Indeed, the more details you give, the more opportunities you get to be contacted. If you choose to display your name for example, anyone will be able to find you quickly in Google (just have a go in Google with the name of a member to see for yourself). Otherwise you can always register in the official music guide, but not for free...
Guitar Tuner by Laidman & Katsura is an Audio Units plugin tuner for acoustic or electric guitar. It requires an application that supports "Cocoa" Audio Unit plug-ins such as GarageBand 1.1, Soundtrack 1.2, and Logic 7.
Guitare Tuner is available from our softwares section.
SignalSuite is a real time audio signal generator, takes advantage of Mac OS X compatible audio hardware to produce white noise, pink noise, or any of several periodic signals.
SignalSuite 1.2 features : support for audio devices with multiple, non-interleaved audio data streams added (including multi-channel devices and the Echo Indigo io), enhanced audio device output format controls and option to invert polarity for either or both output channels.
Spectron is a spectral processing utility plugin that uses the Spectron Engine to split audio into thousands of frequency bands, apply effects independently to each band, and then resynthesize the audio to create entirely new sounds. It can provide delay effects, but it adds the ability to selectively delay, feedback and modulate specific ranges of frequencies. It can sound like a flanger or chorus, but with additional spectral complexity and richness. It can filter signals, but unlike an EQ it has the unique ability to morph, modulate and harmonically filter sounds.
Berlioz said that composing was about managing time, all the same, it's quite annoying ! Just imagine dozens of millions little European hands fingering, almost at the same time, watches, clocks, cuckoo clocks and other alarm clocks. In a word, MM reminds you that tonight, in the EEC countries, at three o'clock sharp, you will have to put the hands back an hour, and like magic, it will only be two then ! So the choice is yours : it can either be one hour sleeping , or one partying and for some of you one exchanging in the forum ...
Good night to all the MacMusicians of the night and a bright morning to all the others !
Twenty-five years after the introduction of the first Portastudio, Tascam unveils the new DP-01 and DP-01FX 8-track Digital Portastudios. They feature 8-track recording at CD quality 44.1kHz/16-bit, 2-track simultaneous recording, dedicated stereo mixdown track, controls on each channel for volume, pan, effect send, EQ high and EQ low, two 1/4" TRS mic/line inputs, two phantom powered XLR microphone inputs (DP-01FX only), guitar level input, built-in reverb and multieffects processor (DP-01FX only), effects send and stereo return, RCA line outputs, S/PDIF Digital Optical output, USB 2.0 port and Built-in 40GB hard drive.
Ozone by Izotope is a mastering tool. Ozone is a system of 64-bit DSP algorithms, complemented with enhanced visual meter displays, and integrated in a single interface which features : Multiband Dynamics, Paragraphic EQ, Multiband Harmonic Exciter, Multiband Stereo Imaging, Mastering Reverb, Loudness Maximizer and Dither.
We announced it yesterday : Bias unveiled SoundSoap version 2, its audio cleaning software. We were waiting for the prices and we've got them now : the suggested retail price of SoundSoap full version is $99. Customers who purchased SoundSoap on or after October 1st, 2004, are entitled to a free upgrade to version 2 at no additional charge by faxing BIAS a request along with a copy of their original dated sales receipt. For customers who purchased SoundSoap before October 1st, 2004, the upgrade to SoundSoap 2 is $49.
At AES, Presonus unveils the FireBox, a compact FireWire audio interface which can record and playback six inputs and ten outputs simultaneously at a 24-bit/96k resolution. The FireBox includes two PreSonus microphone/instrument preamplifiers, two analog line inputs, six balanced analog line outputs, headphone output as well as S/PDIF and MIDI input/output.
Native Instruments launched Traktor Beatport Player, a free audio player software for users of the Beatport online music store. The Traktor Beatport Player is a versatile and easy-to-use audio player that can even be used to tear up a party thanks to its set of basic DJ functions.The Traktor Beatport Player is based on TRAKTOR DJ STUDIO and features two decks with waveform displays, pitch faders and a crossfader.
Roland announced that the Fantom-Xa is now shipping. The fantom Xa is a sampling workstation with a 61-note keyboard, 128 voices and high-resolution sequencer. You can export your finalized mixes to a Mac via USB.
GB Midi Import facilitates the import of midi information from a standard midi file into GarageBand. It creates Apple Midi Loop information which GarageBand natively understand. This version 1.1 features : added checkboxes to filter volume and pan midi events.
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