Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH is pleased to announce the much-anticipated update to its renowned HALion String Edition VSTi product. HALion String Edition 2 offers a total of 9GB of solo and ensemble strings, and integrates Steinberg award-winning HALion sampling technology with a specially recorded sound library to form a unique, sonically outstanding multi-purpose virtual string orchestra.
For the first time SampleRobot, the audio software for fully automated sampling, is available as a free Demo version. Everybody is invited to see how easy it is to sample complete instruments and to turn them into software.
Apple has posted Mac OS 10.4.2 update for its Tiger operating system. This updates delivers overall improved reliability and compatibility for Mac OS X v10.4 and is recommended for all users.
Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH today unveiled its upcoming update for its Cubase SX3 and Cubase SL3 music production systems. Cubase SX/SL 3.1 offers new features and capabilities including full integration of external hardware instruments and effects including Studio Connections Audio integration, support for Steinberg Dolby Digital and DTS Encoders and expanded editing and mixing functions. The update will be available for download in August 2005.
Access is excited to announce the immediate release of version 1.1. of the Virus Powercore softsynth, which contains loads of improvements and bug fixes. The free software update is available at the TC Electronics support website.
Discord v1.5 takes the best-selling Discord plug-in to the next plateau, with customer-requested additions that expand on the original Discord feature set of vintage-style pitch-shifting and delay effects.
Now available as a free download to all Version 4.5x users, Digital Performer 4.6 delivers another audio sequencing first: pitch automation. This incredible feature allows you to manipulate pitch non-destructively in real time using Digital Performer standard track-based automation features. From simple pitch correction using the pencil tool, to individual note transposition, to wholesale transposing of an entire audio track, you have unprecedented control over the pitch of your audio tracks. Digital Performer 4.6 provides many additional new features and productivity enhancements.
According to the Propellerhead website Reason 3.0.3 is available for download. This is a maintenance update for Reason 3.0 users that brings enhanced performance and stability and a few new additions.
INDEPENDENCE is the ultimate and innovative Sonic Workstation for sample libraries and closes the gap between Virtual Instruments and Samplers. From both these systems only the advantages were combined to an intuitively operatable software solution. Furthermore this powerful tool was extended with many professional and innovative features for highest musical demands and creativity.
Muse Research today announced that they are shipping version 1.3 software for Receptor, their hardware-based plug-in player. Version 1.3 software adds several new features including support for plug-ins that allow for multiple outputs, like FXpansion BFD and samplers such as Kontakt from Native Instruments. Additionally, the new system software features new keyboard shortcuts that allow customers to quickly control their Receptor when a mouse and keyboard are attached. Also new is a plug-in registration tool that provides support for a large number of new plug-ins from a variety of vendors, including sample libraries from East West.
Besides fixing bugs and introducing numerous improvements of detail, the new version reflects important developments in other areas, with the recognition function and the ReWire integration being the principal beneficiaries.
Originally released on May 25 2005, FabFilter has released Volcano version 1.10. This update is free for existing FabFilter Volcano users. If you have not bought FabFilter Volcano yet, version 1.10 grants you a new evaluation period to try the new features.
IK Multimedia is proud to announce the launch of the official Miroslav Philharmonik website. All news and information about the highly anticipated release and detailed features of the orchestral workstation from IK are now available. The new Miroslav Philharmonik website is filled with audio examples and product information, along with press material, videos, historical information and image downloads.
Version update 1.6 for Crunchessor – a general-purpose track compressor PC VST plug-in – is now available for download. One of the main advantages of this compressor is the easiness of tuning which at the same time instantly delivers an excellent sonic performance. Another remarkable feature of Crunchessor is its valve-type processing which is applied in parallel to compression. This makes Crunchessor an ideal choice for musicians and producers who are fond of analog compression sound and its warmness.
Didj’tizer is a VST effect plug-in that can emulate the sound of a didjeridoo (or didgeridu), the traditional wind instrument of the Australian Aborigines of northern Australia, that is sometimes described as a natural wooden trumpet or Drone Pipe. Didj’tizer can process your voice (or every audio source you will choose as its input) and make it sounds like it is passing through a didjeridoo.