Mac and Music News

URS announced Audio Units support for the Classic Console EQ Bundle (A and N series only). The URS A equalizer is digital emulation of a vintage Neve EQ, and the URS N is a digital emulation of a vintage API equalizer.

The Audio Units versions are a free upgrade for both TDM and Native Classic Console EQ Bundle owners.

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.

Info and download on Yellow Tools web site.

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.

More info in MM softs section.

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.

Info and download on NI web site.

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.

SignalSuite is available from MM Softs section.

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.

Info on the macMusic softwares section.