Mac and Music News

Roger Nichols Digital (RND) will unveil Detailer at Winter NAMM2007, to be held at Anaheim Convention Center, January 18 thru 21. Detailer is the first RND plug-in to be developed specifically by Roger Nichols and basically it is a stereo mastering plug-in but in fact Detailer offers a new way of increasing the perception of "detail" in the mid level of a final mix while still allowing increased loudness. The process involves a combination of three-band limiting and dynamic widening using psycho-acoustic processing.
Detailer will be available in RTAS, AU and VST formats for Mac OSX (UB) , pricing to be announced.

Alesis is shipping the IO|26 and IO|14 FireWire Audio/MIDI interfaces, which feature DICE II Jitter Elimination Technology (JET); Cirrus converters; high definition, transformerless mic preamps with NeutriK connectors; and compatibility with most DAW software. Both interfaces offer up to 24-bit, 192 kHz recording, as well as flexible, routable Hardware Direct Monitoring with the HDM Control panel software. They are also expandable: the IO|26 comes with 8 analog mic/line inputs which can be expanded to 24 inputs using 2 ADAT Lightpipe inputs; and the IO|14 comes with 4 analog inputs, expandable to 14 inputs using 1 ADAT input.
Both of them ship with Steinberg Cubase LE digital audio workstation software, the IO|26 costs $599 and the IO|14 $499.

Kentons new USB controller, with a footprint of only 320mm x 64mm, is the perfect companion to your laptop, whether you are using a sequencer, DJ-ing or VJ-ing. Just plug in the USB cable and go. Designed by Ableton Live expert Martin Delaney and John Price of Kenton the Killamix Mini features a self-centering joystick, 9 push buttons and 9 endless rotary encoders with led position indicators. With 9 MIDI channels available at the push of a knob, you effectively have 81 controllers and 81 buttons at your fingertips in a compact attractive brushed aluminium unit.

For more info see their web site.

For the next two weeks only, you can get a whopping third off all Camel
Audio products in the winter sale. Pick up their recently updated additive
synthesizer Cameleon 5000 for $133, or the award winning PhatSpace package
for $99. The discount also applies to the two plugins which make up
the PhatSpace bundle - CamelPhat - a phattening multi-effect and CamelSpace
- a rhythmic multi-effect. You can also get 33% off the Biolabs Absynth
presets and Cameleon preset bundles.

To take advantage of this offer, just head over to the Camel Audio website
between Nov 28th and Dec 12th, and enter WINT-DISC as your coupon code at
the bottom of the second page in the order process.

Teragon Audio has released beta 1 of DualComp v1.0 which also sees the addition of an Audio Unit version.

Major features in this build include:

* An Audio Unit version is now available as a Universal Binary.
* Major cleanups with overall sound. When side-chained, input signal does not carry nearly as much distortion under extreme settings.
* Added new "tolerance" parameter.

This version does not include a GUI editor, but that will probably be available in the next beta.

E-MU Systems has announced the release of a Beta Macintosh OS X driver (Apple CoreAudio) for its 0202 USB 2.0 audio interface and 0404 USB 2.0 audio/MIDI interface.

For more information, visit their web site.

Eliosound has released version 1.2 of AirEQ.

New features - L/R Settings:

* Separate settings for L and R channels.
* Link L and R channels: Absolute and Relative modes.
* Mirror mode: L/R gains are opposites.
* Auto gain compensation for mirror mode.
* Overflow or Keep Difference between values while tuning a knob.

Bug Fixes:

* Universal Binary dongle free demo version works fine now.

Pete Edwards is completely cracked ! This freaky young man spend his time on various sound toys making them sound like they never do... and it works well as his company, Casperelectronics counts clients such as Mike Patton, Rahzel or Danny Elfman !

If you want to know what your old "Speak&Spell" can do, visit his web site...

Synk Audio, a leading innovator in adaptive music, announces version 1.6 of their Musicbed DV music soundtrack generation software with Mac Universal Binary support, new music generation features, new surround music features and more than double the amount of royalty-free music content. But what's that ? Well, Musicbed DV is an easy-to-use Mac program for generating custom music soundtracks that match the mood and timing of video and audio projects. Users are offered a unique set of versatile controls for adjusting musical intensity, complexity, dynamics and more, all in real-time.
For more info see their web site.

Apogee Electronics Corporation has just released an update to their Symphony PCI driver to include two new features, VBus and Performance Tuning.
VBus provides unlimited routing possibilities across multiple applications in any Symphony equipped G5 or Mac Pro. With VBus, users have the ability to create virtual hardware buses, which allows for the routing of audio within an audio application or between different audio applications. For example, it is now possible in Logic Pro to record a submix of multiple audio tracks onto a new audio track, which was previously impossible without VBus.
The Performance Tuning feature makes it possible to further reduce the latency of a Symphony system. When set to High Performance, latency is reduced to previously unattainable levels.

For more information see their web site.

Pro-Sounds has announced the availability of "Unstable Oscillators" for the reFX Vanguard synthesizer. This new bank, designed by Lawrence Strand of Electronic Emergency, is made up of 128 rough, tough sounds in FXB and FXP formats. You won't find any "nice-guy" sounds here. Unstable OScillators is pure grit and grime, featuring ripping basses, blazing leads, dangerous rhythms, and more.

Unstable Oscillators is available for €17.95. Previous Pro-Sounds customers can enjoy a 20% loyalty discount via a special link sent via email.

As audioMIDI prepares for the Holiday Season, they like to offer a coupon to say thanks to their loyal customers. From now through the end of the year, take 10% off almost everything in their store, simply use coupon code YEAREND10 during checkout.

That sounded like something we should mention as audioMIDI has always been a great MacMusic supporter.