MOTU announced the upcoming release of Digital Performer 6, which promises to be a major upgrade to the company’s flagship digital audio sequencer. DP 6 features a redesigned user interface, which includes the ability to zoom in the Track window.
Cakewalk, the world’s leading developer of powerful and easy to use products for music creation and recording, today announces The Minimoog Tribute Expansion Pack for Rapture and Rapture LE. Created by Craig Anderton, the Minimoog Tribute Expansion Pack pays tribute to Bob Moog’s legacy and pioneering work in the field of music synthesis. Using Rapture’s advanced engine, Craig has created a truly innovative collection that blends classic Minimoog sounds with modern synthesis.
Over at ‘Create Digital Music’, Peter Kirn had an interview with Didier Dambrin, Image-Line’s lead programmer talking about FL Studio 8, which is in full development now.
Native Instruments today announced an upcoming expansion of its recently established KORE SOUNDPACK line, with four additional high-quality libraries scheduled for release in March.
Native Instruments today announced Kore player, a free software instrument that adds full ready-to-play capabilities to the recently established line of KORE SOUNDPACK libraries. Based on the innovative KORE 2 host system, the Kore player enables musicians and producers to efficiently access and play any KORE SOUNDPACK material in their host sequencer and as a standalone instrument – opening up a new and highly affordable way to use a wide range of inspiring high-quality sound material from Native Instruments in the studio and on stage.
After many years of development, Spectrasonics previewed their brand new flagship virtual instrument Omnisphere at the Winter NAMM show. The revolutionary ‘Power Synth’ breaks completely new sonic ground by combining a wide variety of hybrid realtime synthesis techniques, an epic library of remarkable ‘Psychoacoustic’ sounds, and many innovative features that have never been seen before in any hardware or software synthesizer.
The URS Saturation plug-in digitally recreates four different and distinct pre amplifiers each featuring: a different type of input stage saturation, even and odd ordered harmonics and soft clipping.
Solid State Logic, the world’s leading manufacturer of professional digital and analogue consoles, is proud to announce that the quality, precision and DSP driven power of SSL plug-ins is now available in a cool new compact, portable desktop box: Duende Mini.
PreSonus Audio Electronics is proud to announce that they will be featuring 3 brand new products at the 2008 NAMM show, including the DigiMAX D8, AudioBox USB, and the FireStudio Tube.
Euphonix has announced the MC Control and MC Mix professional control surfaces for its new Artist Series line of products that boasts revolutionary ergonomic, slimline designs and brings the unparalleled speed, resolution and DAW integration of Euphonixs highend professional consoles to the personal studio.
NAMM 2008 plays host to the worldwide launch of Nocturn, the latest controller from Novation, innovators in music software control. Novations most affordable hardware controller to date, Nocturn promises to unleash the full potential of all your favourite instrument and effect plug-ins.
Following the monumental success of Novations revolutionary Automap Universal, a protocol exclusive to Novation controllers, providing automatic and intelligent control of your music software, NAMM 2008 sees the arrival of the eagerly awaited Automap Universal 2.0.
Steinberg is pleased to announce a new Personal Music Production System: Cubase Essential 4. Tailored to musicians, home studios and anyone on a tight budget, Cubase Essential 4 is a streamlined version of Steinberg’s award-winning Cubase 4.
Sonnox is excited to announce the launch of its first new plug-in since the Company became independent in April 2007. The Oxford SuprEsser joins the existing range of highly regarded audio processing plug-ins in the Sonnox line-up.
Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH is proud to announce the release of the Software Development Kit (SDK) for VST3, the latest generation of its VST platform. VST3 offers new capabilities to developers of host applications, audio plug-ins and virtual instruments.