Apple is bringing the world's most exciting retail experience to Europe for the first time, with a brand new store in the heart of London's West End. The Grand Opening of the Apple Store, Regent Street, will take place on Saturday November 20th at 10.00 am.
Free T-shirts will be given to the first 2,500 people through the doors, and 300 Lucky Bags worth over £700 will be available for just £249.
The famous Dave Smith Instruments Evolver synth (4 oscillator, 4 LFO, 3 Envelope, VCF, and VCA) will go into virtual world with the help of Psicraft Audio Designs. The forthcoming editor for the DSI Evolver will be the first in a series of "hardware virtualizers" by Psicraft.
The editor for the DSI Evolver is still in pre-beta and will be available in December, 2004.
Camel Audio have released the second in their series of add on sound banks for Cameleon 5000 additive synth. The add on sound bank is called Biomechaniks, and was programmed by designer Kolin Biomechanoid. It comprises of a collection of 128 futuristic sounds. The bank includes textures, effects, basses, pads and atmospherics.
Biomechaniks costs $24.95 or 19.95 euros. You also can download free demo presets or listen to an MP3 at the Camel Audio website.
It's new, it's fun ! Apple today unveils iPod socks. Now you can dress your iPod up in any one of six vibrant color socks (green, purple, grey, blue, orange, and pink). This set of knit socks provides a stylish, fun, and practical way to protect your iPod.
Bass Tuner is an easy, hands-free way to tune your bass guitar. Listens while you tune and visually guides you through the tuning process. This is an all-new rendition of Rustle Laidman's famous Bass Tuner, completely rewritten for Mac OS X. This new version features : added Low-B and Hi-C and pdated the eSellerate engine.
XA1 is aN AudioUnit plug-in made by Peter Mark. Unlike the wast majority of analyzers that use FFT for analyzing the audio, XA1 use bandpass filters as most of the hardware devices. Therefore XA1 has a very musical display, the algorithm used for analyzing has the same resolution across the spectrum, so the response in the low end of the spectrum is just as fast as the high end response unlike FFT based analyzers that has very bad timing in the low end.
This new version fixes several bugs. It's available in the MM softwares section.
Here is a great link for Ableton's Live user's. They are free and intuitive tutorials on how to use Live in different situations. Many users just don't know there are many ways to use this powerful software. here you can see how a guitarist, a DJ or a Reason user would approach Live. Technically speaking, you can use Live as an arrangement tool, an effect device, or for creating ambient guitar loop collages. And this is just the beginning of what is possible.
Read tricks like :
- Get Your Guitar Groove On
- Routing: Creative Flexibility
- DJing with Live 3
- A Loop is what you make of it
- and many more...
ApulSoft has updated Smart Electronix' Cyanide to version 2.0 in Audio Units format. Cyanide is a variable waveshaping distortion. Note that ApulSoft has also updated the SupaPhaser and MadShifta ports.
Ozone is a mastering tools system running 64-bit DSP algorithms, complemented with enhanced visual meter displays, and integrated in a single interface This version 3.06 addresses an issue with the Logic 7 Audio Unit validator.
The popular iDrum application by Glaresoft has now been given an RTAS release, for use directly in ProTools. iDrum is a rhythmic sequencer for Mac OS X. The design of this virtual drum machine is based on a single axis: the simplicity of use.
The RTAS version can be downloaded by registered users from their iDrum account.
Audio Hijack is constantly growing and improving, and Rogue Amoeba has just released Audio Hijack 2.2. This new version adds several new features, including a new AIFF Sample Rate selector, a "Stop Recording After" setting, and two new post processing scripts to "Add To iPod" and "Encode To Wav". Several other features have also been added, and minor bugs have been fixed. Audio Hijack is the perfect tool to record any audio on your computer. With Audio Hijack, you can quickly and easily save audio from almost any application to an AIFF file. This file can then be burned to a CD, or played in any software audio player like iTunes or any hardware audio player like an iPod.
Audio Hijack 2.2 is immediately available for download and purchase. Users are encouraged to take it for a free test drive, then purchase it for just $16. Version 2.2 is a free update for all previously registered owners of Audio Hijack.
You can now download the last versions of the modularing soft for MAC on their website www.modularing.com (betatesters are needed). These downloads are light versions of the soft without presets, demos or samples. The MAC version won't save. There a few new elements to this soft but they are not implemented in the MAC version so far. Don't forget that it is a beta version that you can download and use to give feedback to its developer. You can find the MAC operation manual here : www.milprod.com.
PS (Clouvel) : Our friend albaron also looks for people that are ready to develop animations and presets for the soft, they would get free licences in return. He can also organise a public demo of the soft in Paris.
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Here is a great link for Ableton's Live user's. They are free and intuitive tutorials on how to use Live in different situations. Many users just don't know there are many ways to use this powerful software. here you can see how a guitarist, a DJ or a Reason user would approach Live. Technically speaking, you can use Live as an arrangement tool, an effect device, or for creating ambient guitar loop collages. And this is just the beginning of what is possible.
