The critically acclaimed plug-in bundle is now the top of its class, featuring outstanding sound quality, more signal processing power, stunning visual interface design, and world class customer support at a tremendous value. These new Version 5 plug-ins cover the essential aspects of sound design, tracking, mixing and mastering.
Renoise is the next generation of music tracker software, combining studio quality sound and virtually infinite expandability with a clear and concise interface putting every parameter and option literally at your fingertips. Renoise has been updated to version 1.5.1.
Way Out Ware has perfected the software synth version of the ARP 2600, called the TimewARP 2600. They have created a remarkable digital simulation of the 2600s fat analog sound while keeping all of the original control features. Plus, some new goodies have been added, making the TimewARP 2600 even better than the real thing!
Spectrasonics today announced the release of the New Orleans Strut mini drum loop collection to benefit the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The library features 50 ALL NEW live grooves from seven world-class drummers.
From the company that revolutionized vocal production with Auto-Tune comes AVOX, the Antares Vocal Toolkit. With AVOX, Antares has combined five 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.
According to their Japanese website, Korg has announced the Legacy Collection – Digital Edition. This collection consists of updates to the Wavestation and MDE-X plug-ins plus the addition of a virtual version of the Classic M1 synth. All three elements of the Korg Legacy Collection – Digital Edition will support RTAS, VST and Audio Units plug-in formats for Windows XP and Mac OS X.
Steinberg announced today that Studio Case II, its new budget music production package, is shipping to its resellers worldwide. Studio Case II is a combination of Cubase SE3, Steinbergs new entry level music production software, with SE versions of six high quality VST instruments. Available for both PC and Macintosh computers, Studio Case II provides a full set of upgradeable, entry-level music production software.
Cakewalk has introduced the next version of their music sequencing software and digital audio workstation Sonar. Striking the perfect balance between passion and precision, SONAR 5 shatters the limitations found in ordinary digital audio workstations. Offering a complete spectrum of creative technologies, SONAR 5 inspires your artistic expression. These technologies are fully integrated within a cutting edge engineering and mixing environment to transform your musical dreams into professional finished productions.
Steinberg is pleased to announce that the update to version 3.1 of its Nuendo Media Production System is now available. Nuendo 3.1. includes new features targeted at professionals in post and audio production. The free Nuendo 3.1. update offers a variety of new features which are mainly targeted at post production for film and television. Additionally, this version of Nuendo provides significantly optimized workflow and performance features; it is also the first which is capable of interfacing with Euphonix hardware control by means of the Euphonix EuCon protocol.
FabFilter has released version 1.11 of the FabFilter Volcano filter effect plug-in, and version 3.02 of the FabFilter One synthesizer plug-in. These updates are free for existing users and contain small enhancements and bug fixes.
ReBirth is dead, long live ReBirth! Ladies and Gentlemen, Propellerheads hereby announce that ReBirth is officially discontinued. September 1, 2005 marks the end of the ReBirth era, and they are celebrating this by opening the ReBirth Museum to commemorate its history.
Voxengo is pleased to announce the release of CurveEQ version 2.3. A professional WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) linear-phase spline equalizer PC VST plug-in. This version features a visually redesigned user interface. Previously, CurveEQs visual appearance was considerably different to other recently released Voxengo plug-ins. So, we have decided to fill this gap by updating CurveEQs interface to the current design outlines.
Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH is pleased to announce that the latest update to its Cubase SX and Cubase SL music production software products are now available as downloads from the Steinberg website. The update features over new 50 new functions as well as numerous other enhancements.
Groove Analogizer is an Audio Controlled Drum Synthesizer, it means that like a vintage electronic drum tone generator (e.g. Simmons) the percussion sound is triggered by an audio input, not by a MIDI message. This also means that you must not load, in the host, Groove Analogizer as a VST instrument, it loads as a VST effect, usually in an insert slot.
TC Group today announced the complete acquisition of TC-Helicon, world-leading manufacturer of vocal technology products. TC Group previously owned 50% of TC-Helicon, which is headquartered in Canada. By purchasing the remaining 50 % of the shares from IVL Technologies Ltd, TC Group now welcomes TC-Helicon as a full-fledged member of the group, which includes Tannoy, Lab.gruppen, TC Electronic, TC Applied Technologies, and TC-Helicon.