Mac and Music News

Bitcartel announced that their internet audio recorder application iRecordMusic is updated to version 1.4. This new release of iRecordMusic adds real time encoding support using new formats including Ogg Vorbis, Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC), LAME MP3 and standard encoding to 3GPP and Apple Lossless. iRecord Music adds some minor improvements and bug fixes.

iRecordMusic 1.4 is available as a free update for registered users and full version costs $24.95. A demo version is also available.

SSL (Solid State Logic) announces that AWS900 consoles an now be purchased in eight or 16 channel versions. These consoles are full 24-fader but have fewer inputs and outputs. Additional blocks of eight channels can also be added at any time, and total recall has now also been introduced as an option for the AWS900.

8-channel version costs £39,500, 16-channel version costs £44,500, additional 8-channel block costs £8000, and Total Recall automation costs £2500.

Wizoo announces the first five Xpansions for Xphraze, with new samples, phrases and styles, as well as the official release of version 1.2. for Xphraze, which now supports Audio Units for Apple Logic 7 users.

Xphraze Xpansions priced at $49 each, and include Xphraze 1.2 (this new version can also be downloaded).

Arboretum System announces the release of HyperEngine AV version 1.5. This audio and vidéo editing software (formerly known as "Montage") is now available as free download, and this new release fixes bugs. HyperEngine-AV is a trackless workspace software that allows free manipulation of video, audio, stills, and text.

Now available, Pluggo 3.5 is a huge collection of more than one hundred audio plug-ins that work with sequencers and audio applications that support Audio Units, Steinberg's VST plug-in format, and Digidesign's RTAS plug-in format. Effects categories include delays, filters, pitch effects, distortion, granulation, spectral effects, modulators, multi-channel effects, synthesizers, audio routing, reverb and dynamics, and visual display. Note that f you are installing Pluggo 3.5 and also use Max/MSP then you must update Max/MSP to version 4.5.3.

A demo version is available and Pluggo 3.5 costs $199,00. Upgrade from previous Pluggo version is $99,00.

Subtractive synthesis at no cost ! Alphakanal has released a freeware substrative synthesizer. Generator features :subtractive synthesis, 3 anti-aliased oscillators, 2 ADSRs for filter and amplifier, 6 modulators with tempo sync, delay with tempo sync. and more.

Generator Audio Units is available in the macMusic softwares section.

Yellow Tools has updated Majestic and Culture to versions 1.7.0 in order to improve compatibility with hosts applications. Culture is a percussions modular virtual instrument and Majestic is a virtual basses instrument and player.

More info and download in the MacMusic softwares section.

You may have noticed that your MacMusic surf is becoming more and more slow since a few months. This is due to our always growing traffic overloading our main server. Thus we bought a brand new Dual processor server, which should resolve all issues and dramatically enhance your connection speed to MacMusic.

If all is OK, the transition should happen during the next 48 hours. During this time you may be unable to connect to MacMusic for some time. Please don't worry about that, and just try again later : The offline period should not exceed 1 hour.