Posts Tagged 'software'

DashSignature announces new Swoosh synth
Studio Software

DashSignature announces new Swoosh synth

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Dash Signature has announced SWOOSH Machine and released several free updates for EVE owners. By the first week of July, Dash Signature plans to release SWOOSH Machine, a VST DashSound Player like EVE and EVE ONE, but with a dedicated 1 GB library including a wide range of natural and synthesized audio effects – it will be sold bundled with a default 250 MB sample set for US$75, three further expansion packs (250 MB each) will be available for US$29.90 each.

DigitalMusician.net offers a free service
Synths and workstations

DigitalMusician.net offers a free service

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DM Digital Musician has now finalized their pricing structure. Digitalmusician.net will launch as a free service in August 2005 with a standard account that will offer full access to the digitalmusician.net (DMN) community web site and free use of the Digital Musician Link VST plug-in for real time audio and MIDI recording via internet with audio transmission rates that are equivalent to 128/bit mp3 compression.

Native Instruments ships new Reaktor 5
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Native Instruments ships new Reaktor 5

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The fifth generation of REAKTOR, the modular sound studio, is now available from authorized dealers worldwide. Core Technology lays the foundation for this powerful new version of REAKTOR and breaks new ground in flexibility and sound quality. Included with REAKTOR 5 are more than 20 new and re-designed instruments: Generate completely new and distinctive sounds with the outstanding synthesizers, samplers, drum machines, effects and many other highly specialized and unique instruments.

Steinberg ships Virtual Bassist
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Steinberg ships Virtual Bassist

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Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH today announced that its latest VSTi product, Virtual Bassist, is now shipping worldwide. Based on real performances by studio bass players, Virtual Bassist offers a range of bass phrases, grooves and styles and covers musical styles ranging through rock, pop, reggae, metal and hip hop to name but a few.

Applied acoustics Stringstudio now shipping
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Applied acoustics Stringstudio now shipping

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The String Studio synthesizer trades the traditional oscillator, filter, and envelopes for real-life string instrument components. At the core of String Studio lies cutting edge string models interacting with picks, bows, hammers, fingers, frets, dampers, and soundboards. Through this direct approach, String Studio delivers stunning guitars, basses, harps, clavinets, bowed instruments, percussion as well as rich and animated tones that blend the warmth, naturalness, and density of real-life with unique and innovative timbres from yet unheard instruments.

KORG offers virtual OASYS Interface
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KORG offers virtual OASYS Interface

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Korg USA and Karma Lab have posted a Flash-based OASYS Virtual GUI, an online demo that allows users to explore a virtual replica of the graphic user interface of the Korg OASYS Open Architecture Synthesis Studio. This full-blown simulator provides an interactive, in-depth tour of the OASYS interface in a way that gives a true feel for the logic, layout and capabilities of OASYS. It was co-developed by Karma developer Stephen Kay and avid OASYS enthusiast Bob VanDamme, in partnership with KORG USA.

FabFilter Volcano 1.01 released: important bug fix
Studio Software

FabFilter Volcano 1.01 released: important bug fix

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FabFilter has released FabFilter Volcano version 1.01 which contains an important bug fix. A serious flaw caused FabFilter Volcano to load its filter sound characteristics ‘Smooth’,
‘Raw’, ‘Hollow’ and ‘Hard’ incorrectly. The 1.01 update fixes this issue, so
the different beautiful filter sound characteristics that make FabFilter
Volcano stand out will now sound as intended.

Ableton announces Live 5
Studio Software

Ableton announces Live 5

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Ableton is proud to announce the release of Live 5, the team’s biggest development effort since the initial release of Live in 2001. The version 5 feature set extends each aspect of Live-from creation to production to performance-while making the program easier and even more fun to use.

WAVES Introduces Audio Processing Accelerators
Studio Hardware, Studio Software

WAVES Introduces Audio Processing Accelerators

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Waves Ltd., a leader in audio processing, has announced two hardware accelerators that let users easily run multiples of the companies most CPU-demanding plug-ins. The APA products offer a new paradigm that uses Ethernet connections and switches to enable stacking several APA units together and even sharing them among several DAW workstations. There are two models of APA. The APA32 is a 1U rack-mount unit, while the APA44-M, a half-rack unit that features up to 30% more processing power and nearly silent operation, is ideal for mobile use. A kit enables two APA44-M units to be mounted in a 1U rack space. The APA units are connected to the host computer via a standard Ethernet port. Up to eight units can be used together with an Ethernet switch. The units can also be shared among several DAW workstations via a suitable V-LAN configuration, with each workstation accessing up to eight APA units.

Exclusive Benelux demo tour with Reason guru James Bernard
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Exclusive Benelux demo tour with Reason guru James Bernard

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Propellerhead Reason guru James Bernard (USA) demonstrate all the new features of Reason 3 plus a lot of other interesting possibilities and solutions around Reason. Ever thought about using Reason as your main software workstation or as mastering suite? Of course James will show also new Reason 3 features like The Combinator, M-Class Mastering Suite, Line-Mix 6:2, Remote Control and the new Reason browser etc. etc. On top of that you can hear the outstanding sonic-quality of Reason3.