Plogue announces that a new version (v0.92) of Bidule has been released, which features : New disk streaming code,ReWire master support on MacIntel, Added possibility to turn off fading windows, ReWire temporary files are now created in a Bidule owned folder, SDK: added support for plugins with no output and Bug Fixes. Bidule is a realtime modular creation studio aimed mainly at artists seeking a new creative environment to experiment with. With Bidule, you create your own live music creation environment, inserting audio and midi devices, ReWire Devices, Au and VST instruments and plugins.
AirEQ is the very first product released by Eliosound and ships today. AirEQ is a new musical equalizer created to meet every single expectation of musicians, mixing engineers and producers. It's been conceived to be the high quality equalizer you need in most situations. Mixing, mastering, tracking, whatever your sampling frequency is, AirEQ always brings you the same quality of equalization in the whole audio range. And you can use it on every track, without overloading your CPU.
McDSP unveils its new ML4000 Mastering Limiter, designed for music, mastering, post, and live sound, in single and multi-band configurations. It contains the ML1 single-band configuration mastering limiter (brick wall design) and the ML4 Mastering Limiter with Gate, Expander and Compressor, both in mono and stereo versions.
The ML4000 will ship in July of 2006 for $495 (TDM, AudioSuite, RTAS).
Native Instruments announces that registered Akoustik Piano users can now download the 1.1 update for free. This new version now supports up to 150 voices and includes many other performance enhancements. It also features an improved user-interface as well as a new recorder, stretched tuning, re-pedalling and a bass boost.
Akoustik Piano 1.1 now also supports both Kontakt 2 and Kore.
Few days after the release of the demo version, Arturia announces that its new Analog Factory is now shipping on the Arturia web shop, and in real shops very soon. From classic phat lead lines to crystalline digital pads, Analog Factory provides the contemporary musician with a broad, versatile and instantly striking sonic palette. But Analog Factory is not only a collection of sounds. Since it is based on synthesis, all sounds are dramatically modifiable. A set of the most essential parameters provides the user with an efficient way to tweak and alter the sonic character of the sound. Presets all carefully selected from the Arturia Classic Synths (minimoog V, Moog Modular V, CS-80V, ARP 2600 V, Prophet V and Prophet VS).
Analog Factory ships now as Stand-alone, VST, Audio Units, RTAS (ProTools 6 and 7) for $249 / €199.
PSPaudioware announces an update for Neon and Neon HR to version 1.1. With this release, Neon can now report proper latency value, fixes several latency problems, adds new Peak meters, and fixes several bugs. PSP Neon is a fully featured linear phase equalizer that offers eight bands of equalization, each of which can be assigned one of seven filter types. PSP Neon uses frequency-domain fast convolution based linear phase algorithms for the best balance between CPU efficiency and phase accuracy.
Neon is available as RTAS, Audio Units and VST formats.
Digidesign announces its new Turbocharged Pro Tools LE Exchange Program. Owners of legacy Pro Tools LE systems can trade-in their hardware for a Digi 002 Factory, Digi 002 Rack Factory, or Digi 002 Rack and get special exchange pricing, along with massive savings on the Music Production Toolkit. Digidesign Turbocharged Pro Tools LE Exchange Program enables you to exchange your legacy Mbox, Digi 001, or Digi ToolBox systems up to Digi 002 Factory, Digi 002 Rack Factory or Digi 002 Rack, systems at tremendous savings. As part of the deal, you also get the Music Production Toolkit, which offers a huge set of plug-ins, up to 48 mono or stereo tracks, and extended Pro Tools functionality, with a significant discount.
Mbox, Digi 001, and Digi ToolBox owners can apply now until August 30th.
Today the 25th edition of the "Fête de la Musique", or "Music Day" will take place in Europe and in a lot of other countries. Completely different from a music festival, the Fête de la Musique is above all a free popular fête, open to any participant (amateur or professional muicians) who wants to perform in it. This Music day allows the expression of all styles of music in a cheerful atmosphere. It aims at a large audience, working to popularise musical practice for young and not so young people from all social backgrounds. It gives an opportunity to communicate and share a very special moment through music. The musicians are asked to perform for free, and all the concerts are free for the public. It's the reason why they are used to play in open air areas as streets and parks or in public buildings like museums, train stations, castles…
Rob Papen and LinPlug release the virtual synthesizer Albino 3. There are loads of amazing new creative features added like the two new filters "Scream" and "Comb"; four FX units with new FX like LoFi and WahWah, a Compressor and an improved Reverb. But the biggest new feature is that you can layer up to four instances of Albino in a single preset! Albino 3 has more than 2100 'Rob Papen' presets in various styles of music plus two banks.
Albino 3 ships for 199 euro, upgrade price is 39 euros or free upgrade if purchased from 1st February 2006.
Denon DJ announces the successor to the popular DN-X1500 DJ mixer. The new DN-X1500S is a 4-channel, 12" mixer featuring a brushed aluminum top panel, and is a perfect complement to the DN-S3500 tabletop CD/MP3 player. This club/mobile style mixer incorporates Denon's original high performance adjustable Flex Fader, a built-in sampler, matrix switching, parametric EQ, onboard effects and a host of other features all powered by the SHARC DSP engine. The new Denon DN-X1500S offers an intuitive control surface that is adaptable to any application and suited to the diverse needs of turntablists and mobile DJs performing in clubs, bars, and an endless array of venues.
The Denon DJ DN-X1500S will be available July 2006 for $899.00.
Widisoft announces the release of the version 1.2 of WIDI Audio To MIDI, first Audio Units version. WIDI Audio To MIDI is a plugin designed for real-time Audio to MIDI conversion. The plugin receives input from an audio channel and performs real-time music recognition. Resulting MIDI events can be sent to the VST host, System MIDI Out Device or to a MIDI file.
WIDI Audio To MIDI Audio Units costs $79.90 (with a special price of $63.90 until 1st July). Cross-grade from the VST version costs $23.90.
Lynx Studio Technology today introduced the LT-HD for the Aurora 16 and Aurora 8 converters. The LT-HD is an L-Slot interface for the Aurora A/D D/A converters that provides digital input and output in a format that is recognizable by Digidesign Pro Tools | HD systems. LT-HD equipped Auroras can be connected to HD Core or Accel Core cards with standard Digidesign cabling and can operate seamlessly with all HD-compatible versions of Pro Tools software. The LT-HD contains one Primary and one Expansion DigiLink port for up to 32 channels of conversion per HD Core or Accel Core card (using two Aurora 16's).
The LT-HD will be available in July, 2006 with a US suggested retail price of $395.
Audeon releases the first Mac OS X beta version (b0.9) of their software synthesizer UFO (Unique Filters and Oscillators). UFO is a software synthesizer built upon Audeon's proprietary TransModal Synthesis technology. Its oscillator model is controlled by perceptual attributes such as Periodicity, Brightness, Noisiness or Chaos, etc, lying on 2D controllers.
It can be downloaded for free from Audeon's web site
Modular audio multi-effects plug-in SFX Machine Pro has been updated to version 1.0.1, which now adds Mac OS X Universal Binary compatibility, adds VST 2.4 support and fixes a bug with Digital Performer. Audio effects plug-in SFX Machine RT has also been updated to version 1.0.6 which adds MacIntel support too, and fixes sevreal bugs.
TubePlug version 1.0.5 is a new and free audio plugin. It can connect multiple tubePlug users via an internet connection and allows multi-channel audio exchange between users. The plugin has three modes and can be a receiver, sender or server.
TubePlug is available for free as VST or Audio Units formats.
Plasq announces an update to version 2.0 Universal Binary and another update to version 2.0.1 for its Rax. These releases add :
- Allow songs and sets to be duplicated.
- Menu and volume buttons on the IR Remote now usable.
- Some error numbers were being reported in the wrong format.
- Cancelling the PreStage process results in an error message when it shouldn't, and more.
Updates are free for current users and full version costs $49.95.
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