Bob Moog – An inspiration to many
As we reported yesterday mr. Moog died at the age of 71 this weekend. His death moved the (electronic) music community very much. To express our respect for Bob Moog and his work a few more words.
Posts Tagged 'software'
Digidesign Acquires Wizoo
Digidesign today announced the acquisition of Wizoo Sound Design headquartered in Bremen, Germany. Wizoo is a pioneering developer of virtual instruments, sample libraries, and real-time effects. Popular Wizoo-branded products on the market today include Darbuka, Latigo, and WizooVerb. Wizoo also provides the essential components of many other influential virtual instrument products throughout the industry with their broad array of synthesis and sampling Engineware Technologies and high quality sound libraries.
Luxonix updates Ravity Series and opens new user forum
Luxonix has updated their Ravity series with minor bugfixes. Among them were bugs that made the Ravity series crash on some Mac dual CPU systems.
SE releases VPN version for Source Connect
Source Elements has announced the release of Source-Connect VPN, an upgrade to Source-Connect, the recently released Pro Tools networking plug-in. Source-Connect VPN leverages the full potential of your existing network, bringing secure streaming audio directly from one Pro Tools system to another utilizing your leased and privately owned lines. As a complement to Source Connect, the VPN upgrade provides an additional layer of network control. Together, they allow direct to timeline recording with real time, broadcast quality audio using only T1, Cable, or DSL Internet connections, from anywhere in the world.
Rob Papen starts new partnership with ConcreteFX
RPCX stands for ROB PAPEN CONCRETEFX. This is a new partnership which is developing for you new Virtual ROB PAPEN Synthesizers. RPCX is formed by sound designer Rob Papen and music software developer Jon Ayres. For porting into the Mac platform RPCX is using the outstanding software skills of Adrian Pflugshaupt.
Elemental Audio releases Inspector XL
Elemental Audio Systems released The big brother you need – the InspectorXL analysis plug-in suite. InspectorXL (a.k.a. IXL) is a new approach to analysis and was designed to address the most common analysis tasks with professionalism, style, and finesse.
Miroslav Philharmonik is now shipping
IK Multimedia announced that Miroslav Philharmonik is now shipping. The wait is over for composers, arrangers, producers and every musician looking for the ultimate orchestral sound source with the beautiful sound of a timeless classic.
UPDATE: Rob Papen announces new virtual synthesizer: BLUE
Rob Papen, famous for his soundsets for Emu, Native Instruments, Alesis, and many more, plus the Albino (developed with Linplug), has announced a new virtual synthesizer project: BLUE!
reFX has updated Vanguard to v.1.5. and Slayer2 to v.2.5.3.
Vanguard and Slayer2 have been updated by reFX. VANGUARD combines the good old analog synthesizer idea with the latest technology. All analog devices of classic synthesizers are emulated by high-quality DSP (digital signal processing) functions. SLAYER is a FX plugin that can use up to 16 effects simultaneously; half of them before, and half of them after the amplifier. You can place any of the sixteen available stomp-box effects in any of the sixteen available effect slots.
Steinberg ships HALion String Edition 2 worldwide
Steinberg today announced that the update to its HALion String Edition product is now shipping worldwide. HALion String Edition 2 offers a 9GB library of solo and ensemble strings including violins, violas, cellos and double basses, accessible through a dedicated player VSTi that is based on its renowned HALion sampling technology.
New plugins available for Receptor
Plugorama announce the immediate availability on Receptor of several of the best commercial plug-ins from Native Instruments, East West and Garritan!
Ueberschall releases Liquid Instruments Electric Bass
Ueberschall has released the anticipated second entry in their Liquid Instruments series. The L.I.S. bass edition contains a great range of styles played on 78 Musicman Stingray, 77 Fender Jazz Bass (Maple neck) and 62 Fender Jazz Bass (Fretless). stylistically, the bandwith spans funk, soul, disco, house, pop, rock, beat through jazz, nu jazz, latin brazil, styles up to downtempo, lounge and easy listening and many more.
PSP Audioware releases MasterComp dynamics plugin
PSP Audioware has released MasterComp, a high fidelity stereo dynamics processor. Its double-precision (64-bit floating point) and double-sampled (FAT – Frequency Authentication Technique) processing offers transparency even at extreme compression settings and high sample rates. It includes a wide range of controls that make it an exceptionally versatile tool for mastering compression and expansion, as well as bus processing during mixing.
URS releases Everything EQ Bundle v4.0.1
Unique Recording Software has updated the URS Everything EQ Bundle to v4.0.1 (AU/VST, Win/Mac). Version 4.0.1 includes a major bug fix for Audio Units and VST Cubase, Neundo, Sonar and Wavelab PC users.
Steinberg unveils Studio Case II
Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH is pleased to announce Studio Case 2, the successor to its highly successful Studio Case product. Featuring a brand new version of Steinbergs Cubase SE budget sequencer and special versions of six Steinberg VST instruments, Studio Case II will be available for Mac and PC from September 2005.