This year’s AES show in San Francisco sees the launch of Focusrite’s new multi-channel firewire audio interface, the Focusrite Saffire PRO 40. It is the best sounding interface in its class, attentively designed with today’s project studio in mind.
At this years AES, Apogee Electronics unveiled Symphony 64, a 64 channel, 24bit/192kHz PCI Express card made to interface Apogee’s X-Series and Rosetta Series converters directly to Apple’s Mac Pro.
Steinberg is pleased to announce two new Content Sets for its Sequel 2 Music Creation and Performance Software. The two new sets each add over 250 MB of first-class loops to the already formidable loop library included with Sequel 2 covering the genres Funk and Electro.
Native Instruments has just released REAKTOR ANIMATED CIRCUITS, a new KORE SOUNDPACK that explores the world of complex self-generating soundscapes, textures and rhythms. Powered by several highly advanced REAKTOR-based sound generators including the innovative “Spiral” sequencer, REAKTOR ANIMATED CIRCUITS provides a literally endless resource of unique atmospheric sound material for various electronic music styles, movie and game scoring, art projects, and more.
Solera has been improved to reflect the last evolution of our algorithms which have been enhanced during the Alchemist development. Now, it features an external side chain management. Hysteresis Threshold, Max hysteresis, Hold, Detection Mode, Dynamic Profile, and a variable knee soft clipper are the new implemented features. Note also that this serious upgrade is free of charge for every Flux plug-in user.
MX4 version 2.2 is now available as a free download for all registered MX4 version 2 users. Version 2.2 takes full advantage of DP6’s instrument pre-rendering. You will be amazed at the number of instances of MX4 you can run in DP6 with virtually no hit on your host computer’s CPU. Together MX4 and DP6 deliver an incredible combination of music making power and control.
TC Electronic announces a new addition to the PowerCore platform: PowerCore 6000. By combining TC Electronic’s System 6000 algorithms with its PowerCore platform users now get the ultimate studio tool for their DAWs. PowerCore 6000 will be available at the end of October 2008 for a suggested price of EUR 2650 ex. VAT.
The URS Saturation plug-in digitally recreates six different and distinct pre amplifier algorithms, non linear tape head saturation and transformer core saturation. Each features a different type of input stage saturation, even and odd ordered harmonics and soft clipping.
Waves has released the Silver plug-in bundle, which gathers 16 of Waves most popular and useful plug-ins in one affordable package. The new Silver bundle serves as a gateway for independent engineers, producers and musicians who want to take their artistry to new levels.
Alchemist is primarily designed for mastering and re-mastering applications. However, it can also be used as a regular dynamic processor for absolute control.
Kong Audio is happy to releases Chineekong V2+, a powered-up version with additional 170 MB all new content of new gongs, cymbals, drums and other Chinese percussion instruments, added
to the original Chineekong V2. The upgrade is free for all existing registered Chineekong V2 users.
With this video NI gives us a first glance at the upcoming Spiral sequencing instrument, built in Reaktor 5.
An updated version 2.3 for Voxengo Crunchessor is available for download. Voxengo Crunchessor is a general-purpose track compressor for professional audio production applications. It is available in AudioUnit and VST plug-in formats, for Mac OS X and
Windows XP and Vista computers.
Version 2 firmware for the revolutionary multitouch-screen controller is announced making it even more powerful, more intuitive and more flexible.
reFX has updated Nexus to v2.0.5 and announced the release of two new expansions for Nexus: Bigtone 2 and Rauschwerk.