Following Apple with the release of Logic Studio, Apogee introduces us to GIO. GiO is the complete guitar interface for Apple’s new Logic Studio 9, MainStage 2 and GarageBand ’09. Combining effects control, recording functions and amazing sound quality, GiO delivers total access to incredible sounding guitar amps and effects in a single foot controller and interface.
Apple® today unveiled the next version of Logic Studio® with major upgrades to Logic® Pro and MainStage® and more than 200 new features that simplify complex tasks. Logic Pro 9 features new Amp Designer and Pedalboard plug-ins that provide realistic virtual guitar amps and stompbox effects to create amazing custom guitar rigs. A new set of Flex Time tools allow Logic users to manipulate the timing and tempo of audio quickly and easily. MainStage 2, Apple’s live performance application, includes the new Playback and Loopback plug-ins to provide backing tracks and creative, real-time loop recording for performing on stage. Logic Studio also includes the new Soundtrack® Pro 3, with new multitrack audio tools for video production, and Compressor 3.5 for encoding in a variety of formats.
Steinberg is proud to announce the shipping of the new The Grand 3 VST instrument, returning to claim its rightful place at the forefront of virtual piano software. Based on three of the world’s finest and most famous grand pianos as well as one electric grand and one upright, The Grand 3 provides musicians, keyboardists and composers alike with breathtaking tonal authenticity of various piano types.
Cakewalk’s SONAR V-Studio 100 music production studio is taking the recording world by storm offering, as it does, a compact and easy to use solution for a whole variety of studio tasks. It integrates a 24-bit/96 kHz USB 2.0 audio interface together with a DAW controller, digital mixer and SD recorder, and also comes bundled with a fantastic software suite called the VS Production Pack. This includes a powerful set of high quality instruments and effects for Mac and PC plus SONAR VS for PC users just getting in to digital recording.
Anatares is proud to announce the availability of AVOX Evo, the next generation of the Antares Vocal Toolkit. Now featuring Antares’ seriously evolved Evo Voice Processing Technology, AVOX Evo combines ten state-of-the-art vocal processing modules to give you the power you need to create stunning vocal tracks in any musical style as well as design unique vocal effects for audio post-production applications.
Digidesign is proud to announce the availability of MassivePack 8 and MassivePack 8 Pro – the next level of professional plug-ins for mixing and sound processing available from the leader in Audio. These special plug-in bundles will be available for a limited time from July 21st, 2009 through December 22nd, 2009.
The free Altiverb 6.3.3 update reduces the memory footprint. With last years 6.3 update Altiverb became considerably lighter on the cpu, this year Audio Ease were able to reduce the memory footprint of Altiverb by 30 to 50%. There is no tradeoff. Everything still functions the way it used to, but your larger sessions will run smoother than before.
MUTEC from Germany, manufacturer of professional digital audio and video equipment, now ships the new MC-4, a digital multichannel audio format and sampling rate converter.
REFLECT is an algorithmic reverberation plugin which combines the flexibility of vintage algorithmic reverbs with the sonic quality of convolution based reverbs. Virsyn just released a version 2.01. update.
Beat Kangz Electronics is proud to announce that the Beat Thang Virtual, the Beat Thang software application for Mac and PC, is available for purchase beginning at 8 am on July 17, just in time for Summer NAMM in Nashville.
DJ Jazzy Jeff is a legendary DJ and producer with countless hits and even signature scratch styles to his name. Jeff’s skills and knowledge have earned him a reputation as one of the industry’s musical godfathers. With over 20 years in the game and a back catalog covering soul, hip hop, jazz and house, he is still making records and developing the art of the DJ. Ableton got the chance to meet Jeff in his studio, so they took their cameras along.
Numark, the world’s leading manufacturer of DJ technology, announces its several new products which will make their debut at Numark’s booth at the Summer NAMM Show held at the Nashville Convention Center, July 17 – 19.
Modartt proudly present the brand new Rock Piano add-on (YC5). It is developed to meet demands for a specific pop/rock piano, modelled from a famous Japanese grand piano, frequently seen on stages and very much appreciated by touring artists for its musical qualities and reliability. Its bright and vivid tone makes it addictive and cuts through elegantly in pop/rock oriented mixes. It is embedded as demo instrument in the latest Pianoteq update 3.0.5.
Native Instruments today released KONTAKT 3.5, a major free update for its leading software sampler. The new version fully utilizes the capabilities of today’s computer systems to overcome existing performance barriers, and includes many improvements that make KONTAKT even more powerful and convenient.
Akai Professional announces their RPM8 reference production studio monitors specifically intended for use with the company’s MPC music production workstations and production controllers. The RPM8 monitors will make their debut at Akai Professional’s booth, number 400, at the Summer NAMM Show held at the Nashville Convention Center, July 17 – 19.