Line 6 releases Pod X3 V2 Software
Give your POD® X3 a boost with the POD® X3 V2.0 update. Get a dozen additional FX models – absolutely free!
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Cakewalk SONAR 8.5.3 AudioSnap Update Now Available
Cakewalk, the world’s leading developer of powerful and easy to use products for music creation and recording, announces a free update for SONAR 8.5 Producer and SONAR 8.5 Studio. Registered SONAR 8.5 Producer, SONAR 8.5 Studio, and V-Studio 700 customers can download the SONAR 8.5.3 AudioSnap Update for free.
Voxengo VariSaturator 1.8 released
Voxengo VariSaturator version 1.8 update is now available for download. VariSaturator is an audio effect plug-in designed to apply saturation effects to audio material. It is available for Mac OS X and Windows computers, and conforms to AudioUnit and VST plugin specifications.
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.
FabFilter Pro-C compressor plugin – Video
FabFilter Pro-C is a professional compressor plug-in with versatile routing and side chain options, high quality sound and an innovative interface. This video is an introduction to the FabFilter Pro-C compressor by Dan Worrall, explaining the basic controls of the plug-in and various useful compression techniques.
Waves Introducing HLS Channel and PIE Compressor
Featuring exquisitely modeled VU meters with superfast refresh rates that recreate the accuracy, sensitivity, and ballistic behavior of physical analog meters, the HLS Channel & PIE Compressor are a tribute to the enduring legacy of these timeless pieces, and the timeless music channeled through them.
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.
FXpansion Introduce BFD Heavy Expansion Pack
FXpansion is proud to present BFD Heavy, a BFD2 expansion pack containing a pair of immaculately recorded Yamaha birch drumkits, supplied with a set of presets perfect for heavy rock, metal and other styles that require powerful, weighty drums.
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.
Modartt releases a clavinet add-on for Pianoteq
MODARTT releases a clavinet add-on, the famous electric clavichord from the seventies. It brings you the very characteristic sound featured in many rhythm & blues, pop, funk, disco and reggae songs. It also offers additional features not available in the original instrument.
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.
Blue Cat Audio Analysis Plugins updated
Bleu Cat Audio is happy to announce the update of their audio analysis plugins: the new versions include RTAS plugin format support for Pro Tools users as well as 64-bit applications support for both Mac (Audio Unit) and PC (DirectX and VST). We have aslo fixed a couple of issues (mainly on Mac/Snow Leopard).
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.