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Antares Auto Tune dead? not so much!
Antares Audio Technologies today thanked the fans of their professional world-standard Auto-Tune pitch correction plug-in for their outpouring of concern and good wishes in the face of reports of the plug-ins untimely death.
Electronic Expansion for Gladiator 2 by Tone2
The Electronic expansion is a big preset and feature expansion pack for Gladiator 2. Designed by the professional sound designers Markus Feil, Bryan ‘Xenos’ Lee and Bastiaan van Noord, ‘Electronic’ is a collection of more then 300 sounds and new add-on features.
AudioEase releases Cabinet the ultimate final stage for guitar tone
The effects in Cabinet are convolution based and rely upon actual samples made of the speaker cabinets shown, a spring reverb and a top class recording studio live room. Cabinet and the 33 cabinets in its mother plug-in Speakerphone provide the ultimate real-world sounding final stage of your guitar tone: the speaker cabinet within a good studio live space.
Jomox SunSyn OS 2.0 update available
Finally, the SunSyn has got the final update. The SunSyn has to be sent to Jomox in order to perform the V 2.0 Update. The update includes all modifications, the firmware, recalibration and testing.
Steinberg Nuendo 4.3 soon available
Steinberg is pleased to announce that the new maintenance update for the Nuendo 4 advanced audio and post production system will be available for all registered Nuendo 4 users from July 31 as a free download from the Steinberg website. Version 4.3 mainly focuses on improving the overall stability of the program by addressing important issues like file import, surround and general session handling.
Cakewalk SONAR V-Studio 100 shipping
Cakewalk, the world leading developer of powerful and easy to use products for music creation and recording, today announces the SONAR V-Studio 100 portable music production studio is now shipping worldwide.
Rob Papen shows the new RP-Verb plugin
Rob announced that the development of his new plugin RP-Verb is in its final stages. Beta testing is next. A release would be possible later this month, depending on the beta test of course. RP-Verb will not be a ‘convolution reverb’. This reverb is based on a new algorithm by RCPX (Rob Papen and Jon Ayres). What we know already is that it gives the processed audio a surprisingly warm sound and new types of colouring. Looking at the GUI and the details, that have been released, we can’t hide the fact we are kinda excited.
King Of Pop Dies at the age of 50
Legendary music icon Michael Jackson dies after reports of possible heart attack.
The Los Angeles Times, citing city and law enforcement officials, reported late this afternoon that the singer was dead after being rushed to UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles around 3:30 p.m. Eastern time.
Such a sad loss, especially for his family and for all musicians he inspired with his great music!
Dave Smith new synth Tetr4 ?
There were some rumours about a new brother for the Mopho. And there it is, the Dave Smith Tetr4. Rumours also told us that it will be a 4 voices synth.
Toontrack Solo 1.2 with game console controller support
Toontrack Music is proud to announce a major update of Toontrack Solo, the Toontrack host software for Toontrack drum plug-ins.
D16 Group Nithonat drum plugin released
D16 Group has announced that Nithonat has been released for Windows and Mac OS X in VST and AU plug-in formats and is now available for purchase for €79. The final release version includes an updated GUI and a revised feature list since the original announcement.
UAD-2 SOLO Laptop now shipping worldwide
Universal Audio is expanding its award-winning UAD platform to laptop users with the release of the UAD-2 SOLO/Laptop, a compact ExpressCard-based DSP Accelerator, now shipping worldwide.
Arturia The 10 Year Suite pack
Arturia is happy to announce The 10 Year Suite, a collection of 8 software instruments Arturia built over 10 years. This collector edition is the complete solution when high quality, authentic and modern sounds are demanded. The luxury box contains the highly awarded Minimoog V, Moog Modular V, CS-80V, ARP2600 V, Jupiter-8V, Prophet V and Prophet VS. Also included the innovative Brass and the powerful Analog Factory.
H.G. Fortune Swamp XT VSTi released
Due to constantly recurring requests H.G. Fortune did a rework of that famous Swamp thing. This synthesizer features ‘Timbre-modulation’ – now what is it about. Well it is some way difficult to describe as it is processing each oscillator’s waveform in a very unique way in changing i.e. enriching or limiting the harmonic spectrum making the sound fatter, wider or narrower even til near dissolving it to some way distorted noise depending on the input wave.
PreSonus releases Universal Control and 64-bit FireStudio Drivers
PreSonus is delighted to announce that we have released our new Universal Control version 1.11 software. The installer for this release includes three major components. The first component consists of new 32- and 64-bit drivers for all PreSonus FireStudio-series audio interfaces and the StudioLive 16.4.2 digital mixer. With the new drivers installed, these interfaces now work correctly under 64-bit Windows XP and Vista and will support 64-bit operation in Mac OS X 10.5 and later.