Mac and Music News

MacMusic is proud to present you, in its article section, Dominique Bassal's study on "The Practice of Mastering in Electroacoustic Music". Today we propose you the second chapter of this article (that includes three in total) : "The Practice of Mastering : Means, Functions and Underlying Logic".

Enjoy your reading

GT Player is a stand-alone multi-effects processor application for chaining any VST 2 compatible VST instruments and plug-ins, which allows control of all chained VST instruments and plug-in parameters from any MIDI controller. GT Player 2.5 features : ReWire support, track recording, VST plug-in functionality, keyboard transpose and 80 new presets made by Djordje Eric.

GT Player is available in the MacMusic softwares section.

MM reminds you that tonight, in the EEC countries, at two o'clock sharp, clocks move forward, because it's summer time, and remain so until Sunday 30 October.

Good night to all MacMusicians of the night and a bright morning to all the others !

WaveArts is now offering a boxed version of Power Suite, which contains : TrackPlug (all-in-one 10 band EQ/compressor/gate), MasterVerb (silky smooth reverb), WaveSurround (stereo spatial enhancement), MultiDynamics (up to 6 bands of dynamics processing) and FinalPlug (mastering limiter/volume maximizer).

From now until April 30th, you can buy Power Suite at a $100 discount from WaveArts website, for a total of $399.95. A free 30-day demo version is also available.

The S2 is an integrated synthesizer; all modules (sound sources, modifiers, modulators and controls) are linked together in the way to offer the greatest possible flexibility with creation and reproduction of sounds. The S2 is an analogue monophonic synthesizer. It can by used as a sound generator, an shaper/modifier for external sound sources and as a mix of them.

Crossfader is an "online community for the global electronic artist". Microsoft is building this web site with forums to "help you connect with people who share your love for creation, great music, technology and modern culture". The focus of this site is clearly on DJs and electronica.

And because it's Microsoft, Crossfader is still in beta form.

Toontrack announces that its virtual drums and percussions software DHF Superior is updated to version 1.4.1. This new release features automatic toms substitutionned volume controls, individual velocity controls, tools in construction page, revised documentation and much more.

SpinAudio Software has updated RoomVerb M2 VST and Audio Units to version 2.2, which now features : improved reverb engine that provides denser, more realistic reverberation and better stereo image spatialization, redesigned set of 250 factory presets, and other improvements and minor bug fixes.

This updated is available in our softwares section.

Audio Ease has updated Altiverb to v4.2.8. in order to fix a problem with initializing on a system with an incomplete set of IRs, in the Audio Units version. Altiverb is a sampled acoustics processor that offers realistic one-, two- and four-channel sampled acoustics of real halls, cathedrals, bathrooms — and virtually any acoustic environment.