STUDIO

ARTURIA releases version 2.0 of the Jupiter-8V

The Jupiter-8V is part of the family of Arturia’s analog synthesizer recreations. Offering the unique sound palette of the Roland Jupiter 8, this virtual version is a sound designer’s dream. Based on the latest version of TAE®, the Jupiter-8V also offers a host of modern features: an advanced step sequencer, a new line of dynamic effects, a module combining LFO’s (called Galaxy) and more.

M-Audio … no more! Long live AVID

You have probably noticed quite a few changes across all parts of M-Audio and Avid this past year—changes that are part of a larger plan to bring cutting-edge technologies and solutions to you faster than ever before. As you’ve seen with products like Pro Tools M-Powered, the coming together of industry leaders can mean exciting things for our customers. While they continue their journey to create a new, unified Avid, Avid would like to give us an update about the changes you’ll begin seeing now and in the future.

NI Traktor Kontrol X1 – video

TRAKTOR KONTROL X1 – the first official TRAKTOR controller for use with any DJ software. Whether you are a DVS timecode or software DJ, simply connect the TRAKTOR KONTROL X1 to a computer running TRAKTOR (or other performance software) and gain instant control of your decks and effect parameters.

Traktor DJs like Craze, Klever, Kenny Larkin, Loco Dice, Martinez Brothers’ Stevie, Rafik and Treasure Fingers are early adopters of the Traktor Kontrol X1. In this video, they explain their decision to integrate the X1 into their setup.

de la Mancha bassbomb explodes

bassbomb is a monophonic, bass synthesizer focused on creating a wide range of bass sounds from punchy to chunky via squelchy and fat with a sprinkling of dirt on top. It does everything from dubstep wobble, electro house dirt, funky bounce, breakbeat dirt, hiphop boom, acid squelch and more besides. As well as bass lines it’s also happy banging out kick drums and bass drops, with a pure sine sub osc to really nail that low end.

Crysonics SPECTRALIVE NXT V3.5 released

Now with Custom UI Colors and Better Performance/Quality, third Generation industry Leading Professional Spectral Audio Vitality / Enhancement Processor with Countless New Features and improvements such as an 11 Band Look-ahead Soft limiter /EQ /Maximizer , New effect Mix Palette and can now be used with Mono sources with exceptional results! plus many other features and improvements. Spectralive NXT V3.5 Vitality processor available for PC & Mac OS X!

Steinberg: Support for PowerPC Processors Concludes

Steinberg announces that its support for PowerPC systems is gradually coming to an end. Due to Apple’s decision not to support PowerPC processors in its latest operating system, Snow Leopard, Steinberg has decided to focus exclusively on Intel CPUs in the development and testing processes for its Mac-compatible products.

This means that the current versions of Steinberg products will be the last versions to officially support PowerPC processors. These product versions will support PowerPC processors for the full lifecycle of these versions.

Little Phatty emulator from Xhun Audio

LittleOne is a faithful emulation of a new classic: the Moog Little Phatty analog synthesizer. To produce the same rich and warm sound of the original hardware, LittleOne emulates every single component of the Little Phatty (oscillators, filter, envelopes, LFO …), preserving the original frequency responses and frequency ranges. The result is an analog-sounding instrument – all in the digital domain. In addition to the Little Phatty synthesizer emulation, LittleOne encloses a full rack with a 16-step MIDI sequencer, a 16-step trancegate effect and two master effects slots.