TASCAM has posted updated drivers for the FW-1082, FW-1804 and FW-1884 audio interfaces to support Windows Vista 32 and Vista 64, Microsoft’s latest operating systems. In addition, drivers for TASCAM’s legacy USB products US-122, US-224 and US-428 have been updated. Nearly all of TASCAM’s interfaces have been now been updated to support Windows Vista.
Right in time to the 20th anniversary of the German company, Ueberschall releases a mass content of sampling CDs gathered in five units of the so called RetroFit series. The RetroFit series contains fifteen of their most popular sample CDs, but now converted to famous Elastik player format.
According to the Japanese website of Korg, new firmware for the KaossPad 3 has been released. Only a matter of time that the rest of the world will have access to this 2.0 version of the firmware.
Zplane released a maintanence update for vielklang: version 1.1.1. The update ensures compatibility with Leopard (MacOsX 10.5.x) and is, due to additional bugfixes, recommended for all users.
Following the successful release of Sonar 7, Cakewalk has announced the launch of new academic versions of Sonar 7 Producer and Sonar 7 Studio Editions.
After its initial release of Glass Viper just last week, QuikQuak has issued the first update. Glass Viper is a synthesizer with unique waveform shaping, that has a deep and natural sense of movement. Going beyond analogue simulation, into a truly organic sound, from simple old synths to grungy filthy basses, or delicate pianos to strange unnatural film effects.
Ultra-small USB Pro Tools LE solution enables playback, editing, sequencing, and mixing on the go. As the much anticipated answer to one of the top requests from Pro Tools users, Digidesign is excited to introduce the new Mbox 2 Micro, the smallest member of the Mbox 2 family, enabling Pro Tools users to edit, sequence, and mix sessions created on Pro Tools|HD, Pro Tools LE, and Pro Tools M-Powered systems on the go, as well as compose music with virtual instruments and loops.
Gateboy is an advanced gate sequencer which allows to add motion to any audio. It includes a swing-capable sequencer with up to 16 steps having individual levels and two working modes. Each step can trigger the flexible envelope generator with multiple forms and unique shaping options such as lag processor and modulation saturation. Sinevibes just released version 1.2.0.
TRAKTOR 3.3 has arrived, delivering incredible new performance and compatibility for DJs. The new version can now be used with TRAKTOR SCRATCH, giving you hands-on control of all four virtual decks via turntables and CD players. Many other new features make this version the most powerful and intuitive TRAKTOR ever. While TRAKTOR 3 users can download the free update, TRAKTOR SCRATCH users can upgrade to TRAKTOR 3.
PreSonus Audio Electronics is proud to announce the new ADL 700, a single-channel Class A tube preamplifier compressor equalizer. Presonus second partnership product designed by Anthony DeMaria and manufactured by PreSonus, the ADL 700 is an all-discrete high voltage Class A channel strip (preamp/compressor/EQ) based on the award-winning ADL 600 two-channel tube preamplifier.
Angry Red Planet announces the first version of Temper, a new sequencer designed for creative MIDI composition. Temper is a modern DAW with expected features like a modular environment, flexible routing system, multiple takes per track and more, but the focus is on providing a clean user interface and a powerful set of MIDI editing tools built around three basic ideas: Operating on phrases of musical data, interactive, realtime phrase manipulation via MIDI keyboards and extensive flexibility by decoupling what gets processed from how it gets processed.
BFD2 will be the most powerful acoustic drum production workstation ever, according to FXpansion. BFD2’s easy to use interface is redesigned from the ground up to give you more power and control for shaping your drums than ever before. It is fast and easy to set up and integrate into your digital audio workstation of choice.
The ASX is a DSP board which goes into the expansion slot of UF and VX series keyboards and provides a flexible synthesis engine, turning the CME MIDI controller keyboard into a stand-alone synthesizer.
Glass Viper is a synthesizer with unique waveform shaping, that has a deep and natural sense of movement. Going beyond analogue simulation, into a truly organic sound, from simple old synths to grungy filthy basses, or delicate pianos to strange unnatural film effects.
VirSyn has updated Reflect to v1.2. This new version comes with a completely revised modulation algorithm to simulate the air movement in natural rooms to greatly enhance the liveliness of the reverb tail.