Sonalksis teaming up with Toontrack Music
Sonalksis announces a strategic and operative collaboration with Toontrack Music during the ongoing development of their next professional sample engine for drums, Superior Drummer 2.0.
Sonalksis announces a strategic and operative collaboration with Toontrack Music during the ongoing development of their next professional sample engine for drums, Superior Drummer 2.0.
Sequel is now available as a free trial version for download. The trial version of Steinberg’s music creation and performance software is packed with features and functions that pave the way to your first songs and productions. Functionally identical with the retail version and with a reduced sample content pack for quicker download, Sequel Trial is ideal for trying out your song ideas. The trial version will run on your system for up to 45 days, so there’s plenty of time to record audio, try out all the studio effects, and play around with over 600 playable instruments.
Musicrow releases Vintage Strings MkII, a virtual string machine that perfectly replicates
the sound of analog string ensemble keyboards from the 70’s, like the arp solina and the
crumer multiman.
Audio Restoration Redefined – iZotope RX is the most complete audio restoration product on the market, a unique standalone application designed from the ground up to combat a range of audio problems. In addition to unique workflow features designed to help you get the best results, RX’s powerful tools can do processing that plug-in based restoration products simply cannot do. This paired with completely new processing technology results in cleaner, more natural sounding noise reduction and audio repair.
BTE Audio has developed AEQ1, a high performance digital equalization algorithm that simulates the sound and feel of the world-renowned American Mixing Consoles of the late 1960s. With its proprietary topology, the AEQ1 algorithm simultaneously achieves both absolute sonic accuracy and extremely high processing efficiency.
This new release adds support for Traktor Scratch vinyl, vst and midi controller support has been improved, multi-colored waveforms have been added, various bugs have been fixed and performance has been improved.
Digidesign announced several revolutionary new products this week at this year’s 123rd AES Convention.
At the end of this week IK Multimedia announced another three new products: Advanced Room Correction system, the first acoustic room correction system in a DAW plug-in, AmpliTube X-GEAR and AmpliTube Metal.
Cycling ’74 announced Version 5.0 of its Max/MSP media development tools. This version represents a new era of Max programming, with a completely redesigned multi-processing kernel and a streamlined development environment built on a platform-independent foundation. With a new patcher interface, searchable database of objects and examples, integrated documentation and new tutorials, the new Max user will find a smoother learning curve while experienced users will see improved productivity.
TASCAM announced that Giga Virtual Instrument 4 (GVI 4) will be available for Intel-based Macs this year. Previously only available for Windows users, GVI is the only plug-in sampler instrument powered by the Giga sampling engine, and shares many of the specs that made GigaStudio the first choice for professionals worldwide. Other news from Tascam is that the new version of Gigastudio 4 supports 64-bit operating systems like XP64 and Windows Vista 64, allowing users to access up to 128 gigabytes of RAM for loading massive sample libraries and compositional templates. GigaStudio 4 also hosts VSTi and GVI virtual instruments, loading or stacking instruments alongside GigaStudio instrument libraries.
By combining a native software application and a dedicated controller-keyboard, Analog Factory Experience offers a straightforward, innovative and enjoyable experience. Based on the much-acclaimed Analog Factory 2.0, a software instrument offering 3500 legendary
synthesizer sounds, Analog Factory Experience includes a high quality 32-key MIDI keyboard.
URS recently released the MotorCity 7 Band Equalizer and M series Vintage Cinema Equalizer together in the URS M series EQ Bundle.
Bluecat Audio is happy to announce the release of Blue Cat’s FreqAnalyst Multi, their new multiple tracks spectrum analysis VST and DirectX plugin. It uses its unique data sharing technology to let you analyze and monitor the spectrum of several audio tracks on a single screen.
Ableton is excited to announce a range of new products that will be released before the end of 2007: Ableton Live 7, several new add-on instruments and Ableton Suite.
Audio Damage is on a roll, with recent new products like Dr. Device, Fluid and Liquid, they announced development of Vapor. It is sort of a New Thing. In their own words: “psychosomatic frongulator”. Quickly followed by a better description: “And what does it do? It has delay modulation, like a chorus, but it has diffusors, like a reverb. More or less. This is a semi-unstable network, and at extreme settings can make Intergalactic Robot Noises; it can also give a nice sheen to most any sound at more temperate settings, or knock the corners off pretty much anything.”