Blue Cat Audio has enlarged their audio analysis plugins offer with the release of the Blue Cat’s StereoScope series, two new stereo image analysis DirectX and VST plugins for Windows. They both analyze the stereo image in details and provide a visual representation of the signal in the stereo field. They also allow the detection of potential mono compatibility issues.
BIAS, Inc. announced today that the Master Perfection Suite, a powerful ensemble of six professional audio processing plug-ins, has been updated to version 1.2 and now supports additional host applications on Mac and Windows computing platforms. The Master Perfection Suite is aimed at musicians, recording and mastering engineers, audio and video editors, sound designers and other audio professionals.
Eventide announced a new RTAS plug-in that provides real-time control of its award-winning Eventide H8000 series, H7600, and Eclipse multi-effects processors.
Puremagnetik is pleased to announce the first in their line of Artist Signature Series Micropaks. Puremagnetik has teamed up with Australian producer Neon Stereo to create 35 expertly crafted audio effect racks for Ableton Live.
Synapse have announced that their complete instrument plugin suite is now available in VST 2.4 format for Mac OS X Tiger. The plugins are universal binaries, thus they can be used both on Intel and PowerPC-based systems.
Tone2 introduces Gladiator as a revolution in synthesis. It will be one of the most powerful synthesizers which have ever been built. This is a tough statement, but you should read the features list.
Temper is a MIDI+Audio sequencer with an emphasis on MIDI. Temper is distinguished by two basic design goals: To provide you with tools that operate on sequences as easily as individual events, and to decouple what gets processed by how it gets processed.
TASCAM has posted updated drivers for the FW-1082, FW-1804 and FW-1884 audio interfaces to support Windows Vista 32 and Vista 64, Microsoft’s latest operating systems. In addition, drivers for TASCAM’s legacy USB products US-122, US-224 and US-428 have been updated. Nearly all of TASCAM’s interfaces have been now been updated to support Windows Vista.
Right in time to the 20th anniversary of the German company, Ueberschall releases a mass content of sampling CDs gathered in five units of the so called RetroFit series. The RetroFit series contains fifteen of their most popular sample CDs, but now converted to famous Elastik player format.
Zplane released a maintanence update for vielklang: version 1.1.1. The update ensures compatibility with Leopard (MacOsX 10.5.x) and is, due to additional bugfixes, recommended for all users.
Following the successful release of Sonar 7, Cakewalk has announced the launch of new academic versions of Sonar 7 Producer and Sonar 7 Studio Editions.
After its initial release of Glass Viper just last week, QuikQuak has issued the first update. Glass Viper is a synthesizer with unique waveform shaping, that has a deep and natural sense of movement. Going beyond analogue simulation, into a truly organic sound, from simple old synths to grungy filthy basses, or delicate pianos to strange unnatural film effects.
Gateboy is an advanced gate sequencer which allows to add motion to any audio. It includes a swing-capable sequencer with up to 16 steps having individual levels and two working modes. Each step can trigger the flexible envelope generator with multiple forms and unique shaping options such as lag processor and modulation saturation. Sinevibes just released version 1.2.0.
TRAKTOR 3.3 has arrived, delivering incredible new performance and compatibility for DJs. The new version can now be used with TRAKTOR SCRATCH, giving you hands-on control of all four virtual decks via turntables and CD players. Many other new features make this version the most powerful and intuitive TRAKTOR ever. While TRAKTOR 3 users can download the free update, TRAKTOR SCRATCH users can upgrade to TRAKTOR 3.
Angry Red Planet announces the first version of Temper, a new sequencer designed for creative MIDI composition. Temper is a modern DAW with expected features like a modular environment, flexible routing system, multiple takes per track and more, but the focus is on providing a clean user interface and a powerful set of MIDI editing tools built around three basic ideas: Operating on phrases of musical data, interactive, realtime phrase manipulation via MIDI keyboards and extensive flexibility by decoupling what gets processed from how it gets processed.