Ableton has updated Live 8 and Suite 8 to v8.0.4.

For more details upon the several bugfixes and improvements, please follow the link below :

Put some fun back into audio recording with Retro Recorder by McDSP. The highly stylized yet simple interface makes recording easy on any iPhone. Patent pending Audio Level eXtension (ALX) technology improves recording quality beyond the capability of hand held recorders costing many times more. Even without an external microphone, Retro Recorder can capture detail other recorders cannot - up to 32 times more signal level.
Recorded files can be exported individually or in batches. Exported files may then be downloaded to a PC or Mac, using a Wi-Fi network.

Feature highlights:

• Up to 30 dB (32 x) more signal level with ALX technology
• Audition ALX processing instantly during playback, the original recording is preserved
• Export original recordings or ALX enhanced ...

In order to make up for the late shipping of Duende V3, SSL has just announced that they're "blowing out" existing Duende plug-ins until July 1. If you are a registered user you can expect more than 50% off the regular prices.

For more information, please visit their website.

MXL unveils the R44, a brand new ribbon microphone.

Features :

• 1.8-micron aluminum ribbon
• Figure 8 polar pattern
• High SPL capability
• Delivers natural sound and realism to vocal and instrument recordings
• Distinctive body design with purple and chrome metal finish
• Includes R44 ribbon microphone, shockmount, carrying case, cleaning cloth, manual & application guide

The R44 will be available at the end of the month with an MSRP of $159.95 and an estimated street price of $99.99.

Highly Innovative plug-in manufacturer, Flux:: today announces the release of the Recording Pack bundle and offers a time limited introduction special providing 25% off the bundle retail price.

Recording Pack provides the most versatile and comprehensive set of precision tools for your everyday recording and mixing session work giving you the best processor for each task within the range of dynamics and equalization processing.

The following plug-ins are included in the bundle:

Flux:: Pure series Compressor, Dcompressor, Expander, Dexpander, Limiter and the Epure II EQ.

Recording Pack is available in all major native formats for both Windows (VST/RTAS) and OS X (VST/AU/RTAS).

Click here for further information about the Recording Pack bundle from the Flux website

Samson unveils the Zoom R16 which is three production tools in one device: a multi-track recorder, an audio interface and a control surface.

Features :

• Digital recorder with 16-track playback and 8-track simultaneous recording utilizing Secure Digital (SD) memory
• 16/24-bit/44.1kHz linear PCM recording in WAV format
• Built-in stereo condenser microphones
• Included 1GB SD card and with support for up to 32GB SDHC
• Battery operation for remote recording (6 AA batteries)
• USB power for audio interface and control surface operation
• 8 mic inputs / 2 outputs (8 x 2)
• 8 combination XLR-1/4-inch inputs
• High-definition 24-bit/96kHz recording capability using digital audio software
• 100+ built-in studio effects coming from ...

Acousticas has announced the release of its impulse response version of what have managed to manifest itself as the "Studio Standard" throughout many years. Consisting of 711 unique impulse responses this library covers a wide range of the capabilities of the Lexicon 480.

The library has been divided into 9 categories ranging from the complete Lexicon Factory presets to carefully tweaked plates, churches and chambers etc. The "Stereo Maker" category is very special and is exclusively made for providing width to any sound source. A cluster of 4 delays have been assembled to achive this and the delay time is variable by adding multipliers to the delay times.

Besides being compatible with any convolution reverb capable of reading .wav files, Acousticas offers proprietary preset support for the following plug-ins on both Mac and Windows platforms : Altiverb, IR1 & IRL, Revolver, TL-Space, Space Designer, Structure, Kontakt 2 & Kontakt 3.

Pro Tools users receive presets for the Short Delay II Plug-In which emulates the modulation of the actual device. Users of other DAWS are provided with the information, via screen shots of digidesign's Mod Delay II, on how to recreate the modulation within their choice of DAW and plug-in.

The Acousticas L480 IR Library is available now and is priced at €69. Note that many sound demos and a blind test video are provided at :

Solid State Logic is proud to announce that X-Desk is now shipping. Designed to be at the heart of high-end project studios, it's a "superanalogue" line mixer with eight dual-input mono channels, stereo and mono auxiliary sends and comprehensive monitoring control.


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Teaboy Audio is proud to announce that they have just released the first version of the Teaboy software/service. For the first time ever, engineers and producers don't have to reply on tedious pencil and paper to document their equipment settings. It can now be done in the digital realm simply using a laptop and an internet connection. Instead of pencil and paper you get real pictures of gear to interact with for much higher precision. And because it's digital, you no longer have to start each documentation project from scratch like you do using Pencil and paper! Create templates and use Copy/Paste functions. This power tool saves hours of valuable time and money.

Teaboy Basic – The Basic subscription lets you use the Teaboy service for an unlimited period of time. You can load as much gear as

NuGen Audio has just updated its audio analysis tool Visualizer to version 1.8.

This new version introduces the ability to set independent ballistics, peak and colour settings for the primary and secondary level meters. An intermittent problem affecting the accuracy of time averaging view Snapshot data has also been fixed.

12DECODE offers a system exclusive based sound editors for Waldorf's MicroWave Synthesizers. There is an editor for the original MicroWave (aka MicroWave I, with software version 2.0 installed) and an editor for the MicroWave II (including the XT line).

"The sound generating architecture of the MicroWave II is very similar to the MicroWave I, except the different concept with the "modulation matrix" and the possibility to change many parameters simply by control change messages and by turning the little knobs manually, so system exclusive programming may not be so important.

Nevertheless, I think it is always a nice feature to get control over the wave control tables, because these nitty gritty 8-bit samples are that, what makes these old synthesizers finally unique.

Another main feature that has been build into version 4.0 was the library centered sound program design. While it is nice to edit any parameter of a sound, it is even more practical to have an overview of all available sounds and also be able to save/restore them at any time."

Download those editors for free at :

Slip-N-Slide by Intelligent Devices is a unique frequency domain audio morpher/mangler. It offers several different frequency domain effects, each with a significant amount of control over the effected as well as uneffected portions of the sound and each affording either a little or a lot of "ra n do m n e s s ."

With Slip-N-Slide you can create almost anything from shimmering, temporally rigid, spectral tremolos to slurred speech, to quirky, reverse-gate sounding effects, to new ambiances to continuously new rhythmic and sonic artifact riddled accents. The combination of spectral processing with controllable randomization is very powerful.

Features :

• Modify existing sounds or to create whole new sounds from existing material.
• Create patterned or random slides of the spectral content, create a spectral sample and hold
• Pluck out individual components from complex sounds.
• Or mix and match.

Slip-N-Slide is available now for both Mac OS X and Windows in VST format at a price of $79. Note that audio examples are available at :

Univers-Sons/ Ultimate Sound Bank introduces a brand new UVI Soundpack called Upright Grand Piano. Here is the official press release :

"Once again, we are glad to introduce a new beautiful sounding piano, this 5 GB library brings up a strong upright piano full of personality and musicality.

After the successful launch of the UVI SoundPack Acoustic Grand Piano and UVI SoundPack Baby Grand Piano, the number one request of our customers was to have a very good Upright Piano, that would be used a lot these days in modern Rock, Pop and even Jazz music.

To find a good sounding upright piano was not an easy task, so we did look over several models and several places, until we found the one that delighted our team, and to be honest: we love it. A modern and high-end version from the manufacturer Seiler was unanimously picked to be the one. As you can hear in the demos, it sounds really close, warm and musical.

As for all our sounds, we did use extremely good microphones, excellent sounding mic pre and insanely good analog to digital converters. Every single note was carefully multi-

Five12 Inc. today announces the release of Numerology 2.1 for Mac OS X. This release features a new Chord Sequencer module, step recording for sequencers, sequencer groove timing controls, and a major update to the ReWire implementation with full support for Audio Unit plugins.

Other new features in Numerology 2.1 include:

- A Transport Loop
- A Keyboard module which emulates a MIDI keyboard. It can be use for triggering sounds, and for monitoring MIDI note streams.
- A new set of I/O modules for additional flexibility in routing MIDI, Audio and CV signals.
- A new 'step-trigger' option for all sequencers to make it easier to emulate the behavior of analog step sequencers.

And, of course, many general fixes and updates. The complete list of changes can be found in the readme file included with all Numerology installations.

Numerology 2.1 is currently available for $119.

IAnalyse can synchronize the pages of a score (or PDF images) on an audio or video file. You can draw annotations (graphics, texts or images) on the score, the fade in and fade out of these annotations are also synchronized with the audio file. Moving a cursor on the score to the rhythm of music can be drawn very quickly. The fullscreen and export (images or Quicktime movie) functions allow you to show or distribute your work.

The LE version is free and offers the basis for the annotation scores. The Pro version, at 15€, contains many tools useful for musical analysis.

Today we are glad to publish a great review about the Axiom Pro 49 by M-Audio.

Introduced at the latest Winter NAMM Show, the Axiom Pro 49 is an hardware MIDI controller for Mac and PC with the benefit of automatically mapping DAW and virtual instrument controls. It is currently compatible with Pro Tools, Reason, Cubase, Live and Logic.

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