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AudioEase on the phone!
AudioEase announced a new plugin: Speakerphone. If it is a bad GSM connection on a busy sidewalk, a bullhorn with feedback and a helicopter overhead, or a 1952 rockabilly guitar amp in a recording studio live room: Speakerphone gives you authentic speakers of any size together with their natural environments.
MOTU 64-BIT Windows audio drivers now available
Are you running an XP Pro x64 system? 64-bit Windows drivers for MOTU FireWire and UltraFast USB 2 audio interfaces are now shipping and available for download. The updated 64-bit drivers include 32-bit emulation, allowing you to freely use 64-bit and 32-bit audio software applications simultaneously.
TL Audio adds Dj Mixer to Fatman product line
The Fatman Fiddler is another addition to the TL Audio Fatman line. Next to the FAT1 stereo compressor and the FAT2 pre-amp/compressor, they launched the Fatman FAT Fiddler.
Updates for Halion and Halion Player from Steinberg
Steinberg has released updates for their Halion sampler software, as well for the Halion Player. Versions 3.2.1.1338 are recommended for all Halion 3 and Halion Player users.
M-Audio releases universal drivers FireWire- and USB-compatible products
M-Audio, a leading provider of creative tools for computer-centric musicians, is proud to bring support for Apples new Intel-based computers to the companies complete line of FireWire- and USB-compatible peripherals.
Monome starts shipping the … Monome
Monome is a collective community responsible for the Monome, a midicontroller with a grid of internally lit tactile pushbuttons. Each button has an internal light. Monome is a USB controller, with 8 rows of 8 illuminated silicone buttons powered with the mapd software (drum machines, loopers, 1bit video transformers, physics models, virtual sliders, math games, etc.) The controller receives and sends MIDI and OSC thru mapd.
Roland releases Golden Oldies for the MV-8000
Roland is proud to announce they are now offering TR-505, TR-707 and TR-737 vintage synth sound sets for a limited time. Achieving popularity in the 80s, the Roland TR series became the workhorse product for anyone wanting a play-along drum machine.
Dash Signature announces Grand Electrix Virtual Piano
The perfect emulation of the famous CP70 electroacoustic piano. Grand Electrix is a sample based virtual instrument featuring a new stream from disk custom technology (“direct from disk”), for very low memory and CPU usage. Samples are streamed in real time from the computer disk, no needs for huge RAM.
iZotope acquires iDrum and pHATmatik PRO
IZOTOPE is proud to announce the acquisition of the iDrum and pHATmatik PRO virtual instruments from creator Art Gillespie (Glaresoft). pHATmatik PRO provides unique loop manipulation features for performance and editing, and iDrum combines the fun and simplicity of hardware drum machines with the flexibility of software.
Upgrade for Elemental Audio Inspector XL
Elemental Audio Systems have announced the release of an update to its Mac compatible plug-in analysis suite InspectorXL. This update affects all InspectorXL plug-in formats, VST, RTAS, and Audio Unit, and is recommended for all Mac users. The version 1.0.3 update fixes graphical issues experienced by some users and should be downloaded as soon as possible to ensure reliable graphical performance.
Skylife presents updates and new products
SKYLIFE announces a comprehensive update for the well-tried sampling software SampleRobot. A lot of new features based on customer wishes and feedbacks are included in new version 2. Furthermore the new WaveRobot software for professional loop editing is fully integrated. SampleRobot version 2 comes with WaveRobot already included. Plus the brand-new SampleRobot Essentials offers a lot of professional auto-sampling features from its big brother SampleRobot at a reasonable price.
Ableton Releases Live 5.2
Ableton today announced the release of Live 5.2, which delivers immediate native Intel-based Mac computer support. This development makes Live 5.2 one of the first professional audio applications on the market to run as a Universal Binary to take advantage of Apples new Intel-based Mac machines.
Kyma Universal Binary
Symbolic Sound Corporation announces that Kyma X.32 (released on 13 March 2006) is a Universal Binary that runs on the new Intel-based Macs as well as on PowerPC-based Macs and Intel-based PCs running Windows.
Ampeg SVX Website Launched
IK is proud to announce the launch of the new Ampeg SVX website. The highly anticipated release of Ampeg SVX from IK Multimedia is the first bass amp plug-in modeled after the leader in bass amplification, the legendary Ampeg!
News from Novation?
Novation is cooking up something, and we have a lot of reasons to believe that this could be something really cool… there’s currently not much more that can be said about it, other than to hold your breath for more information from Novation.. check back soon!