Every Flux plug-in now features an Automation button managing the A/B Morphing slider. When engaged , only the Morphing slider is used to control the host automation in read and write modes. No other plug-in parameter is managed by the host automation.
When it comes to audio hardware modeling, Waves sets the standard to which others aspire. Their plug-ins don’t just mimic components and circuit schematics, they recreate every last nuance of actual hardware behavior. Now, Waves has captured the most respected recording consoles in the world. The consoles that made music history. The big budget studio sound.
Strum Acoustic GS-1 is an acoustic guitar software synthesizer based on the latest AAS physical modeling technology. Strum provides an impressive collection of steel and nylon acoustic guitars and includes elaborate voicing and strumming modules for the realistic reproduction of a guitarist’s playing techniques. Chords played on the keyboard are automatically voiced for the guitar while strumming and picking actions are reproduced by an auto-strum function, special strumming keys, or MIDI loops. EQ, multi- effect, and reverb modules complete the package.
Sonoma Wire Works announces RiffRumble VIII, an online song contest for RiffWorks recording software users. Contestants will compete for $4000 in prizes including a Taylor Standard SolidBody Guitar, an IK Multimedia StompIO USB floor controller/audio interface, AmpliTube ‘Jimi Hendrix’ guitar amp and effects rig, Recording Magazine subscriptions, and more. Three contestants worldwide will win. There is no contest entry fee.
Digidesign and M-Audio have joined together to create two special limited-edition packages that offer complete professional music studios, all in one box. The Pro Tools Music Creation Studio and Pro Tools Personal Studio both provide everything you need to record, edit, mix, and promote your music, including a complete Pro Tools audio system, microphone, and monitors. Take the guess work out of putting together your own home or project studio, and save hundreds of dollars in the process, simply choose the bundle that best suits your needs
Nomad Factory and NUSofting Introduce the Analog Strings Station Virtual Instrument. Nomad Factory and NUSofting are proud to announce their collaboration in creating top-of-the-line virtual instruments. The first announced of this collaboration is the Analog Strings Station, an advanced emulation of vintage electronic keyboards.
Minimal House is a sophisticated specialists sample collection comprised of productions with condensed tonal intensity for maximum emphasis. This library comes with 900 Loops and Samples, gathered in 24 construction kits and contains over 1.6GB of sample content. Main tasks of this Ueberschall product are live use, DJ sets and behind the scenes sound commandos. Sound awakenings for novice and advanced mix makers.
To make their set of tape plugins more complete Virsyn have added a Tape Flanger plugin simulating the playback of two tape machines running at slightly different speed. In addition to this new plugin they also updated Saturator and Delay to version 1.1.
‘ITCH (ich) noun. a persistent, uncontrollable desire’ – After more than two years in the making, Serato Audio Research today announced a new DJ technology called ITCH. Serato ITCH is an integrated software and hardware solution for digital music selectors and DJs. Serato is working closely with select hardware partners to offer a level of integration, ease of use, and reliability never before seen in the digital DJ realm.
At this year’s NAMM a few details on Version 3 of the VSL Vienna Ensemble emerged carefully. Clearly though is the fact that this new version is in it’s final development stage.
Sonoma Wire Works introduces RiffWorld.com, an online music collaboration community for RiffWorks users. RiffWorks easy-to-use guitar recording software with built-in online collaboration and podcasting has been updated and integrated with RiffWorld.com. During the beta test, over 600 songs were created by 200 collaborators worldwide (US, Canada, UK, EU, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil and more) with no latency or distance problems. RiffWorld.com is now out of beta, and 20,000 RiffWorks users are ready to play.
Electronisounds has released a new version of their first VST effect, ‘Ubergate’. It is a multi-fx plugin comprising of a pattern based gate and two effect chains. Each effect chain features delay, filter with LFO, modulation (chorus/flanger/phaser) and 3-band EQ with Drive.
Vir2 Instruments is proud to debut the latest two products in its series of innovative and groundbreaking virtual instruments: Elite Orchestral Percussion and BASiS. Elite Orchestral Percussion offers 19 gigabytes of sterling orchestral percussion with a sophisticated script engine, and BASiS fills the low end with a large collection of electric, upright, fretless, and synth basses with the most features and artificial intelligence ever built into a virtual instrument.
iZotope has announced iZotope RX audio restoration plug-ins, featuring the essential tools for cleaning and restoring audio.
IK Multimedia is pleased to announce that a special edition of IK Multimedia’s SampleTank, with sounds from over $3500 worth of IK’s awardwinning virtual instrument products, such as Miroslav Philharmonik , SampleMoog, Sonik Synth 2, SampleTron, Studiophonik and SampleTank 2.5, will come bundled inside the Yamaha X-Factor DVD, which ships with all Yamaha music production products, including Yamaha’s KX Series MIDI controllers, Motif XS Series Synthesizers, Mo Series Synthesizers, MM6, S-Series Synthesizers, MW, N and 0 Series Mixers and more.