Renoise is the next generation of music tracker software, combining studio quality sound and virtually infinite expandability with a clear and concise interface putting every parameter and option literally at your fingertips!
In a technology preview of the next offering in a series of H3000-based plug-ins, Eventide will be showing the H3000 Factory™ plug-in for Digidesign TDM ProTools. The H3000 Factory plug-in is based on the Factory algorithms used in the legendary H3000, ubiquitous in music production since its introduction in 1989.
The H3000 has been a staple of music production live and in the studio for fifteen years, said Ray Maxwell, Eventide vice president of sales and marketing. The Factory plug-in brings three of the most versatile and most popular H3000 algorithms to the Pro Tools desktop.
The heart of H3000 Factory is the ability to combine up to 18 effect modules together in completely unique ways using the “anything to anything” patchbay, delivering a virtually limitless array of sounds. Users can create their own signature effects with a combination of effects blocks, including delays, amplitude modulators, envelope followers, pitch shifters, filters, and low frequency oscillators. Each individual delay effect block offers looping capabilities, system tempo lock and high cut filtering. Filters have sweep and modulation capability and are selectable between band pass, high pass and low pass, all with variable Q. A Function Generator for parameter modulation is also included, giving users the options of 19 wave shapes, white noise generator, MIDI control, and side chain inputs.
Way Out Ware has perfected the first software synth version of the classic ARP 2600 analog synthesizer: the new TimewARP 2600.
Applied Acoustics Systems has announced that the demo version of Ultra Analog VA-1 si now available. Ultra Analog VA-1 is a virtual analog synthesizer with 32 voices of polyphony.
Demonstrating its commitment to worldwide customer support, Roland Corporation US has now made product manuals available online. From Quick Start Guides, to Owners Manuals and Applications references www.RolandUS.com now offers it all.
We understand how important it is to have this information readily available to our customers, said Roland Director of Product Management and Marketing. Hopefully, due to the intuitive nature of our products, most of our customers will never even have to consult their product manuals—but for those who do, the resources are just a few keystrokes away.
Effective immediately Roland Corp. US will offer online manuals for the current Roland product line. The company intends to post manuals for legacy product in the near future.
Firium 2.1 and Eqium 2.1 now available – Elemental Audio Systems today announced the availability of the newest versions of its two flagship audio equalizer plug-ins, Firium and Eqium. In addition to new features and improvements, these new versions include improved Audio Unit support for better compatibility with Apple Logic 7 and other up-to-date Audio Unit applications. Firium and Eqium support a range of common plug-in formats and are compatible with popular host applications including Digidesign Pro Tools, Steinberg Cubase, and BIAS Peak. Firium and Eqium are available individually for $129 each or bundled for $169. The updated versions are free to registered customers.
A new virtual instrument beyond your imagination. IK Multimedia is proud to announce that Sonik Synth 2 plug-in synth workstation, a cooperative effort between IK Multimedia and Sonic Reality, will start shipping in November 2004. Sonik Synth 2 is an integrated synth workstation plug-in offering ten times the sonic power of hardware workstations combined with a virtual museum of vintage keyboards.
The SONAR 4.0.1 maintenance release provides a number of feature enhancements and updates which include Prosoniq’s MPEX3 superior time scaling algorithm, the update to MPEX2 which was not available in time for the initial SONAR 4 launch, and new Yamaha OPT Level 1 support extensions, allowing for bi-directional communication; OPT Editors now automatically read the state of gear via a Sysx bulk dump, improving the Motif and O1X user experience. The update also addresses a number of minor bugs discovered after SONAR 4 began shipping.
Behringer, one of the world-leading designer and manufacturer of a full line of professional-audio products, today announced the immediate availability of B-control edi, a JAVA®*-based editor/librarian program specially-designed for the current line of B-control products. The beta version of B-control edit is available for free-of-charge downloading at www.behringer.com.
Steinberg, the audio group of Pinnacle Systems Inc. is excited to announce the latest version of its acclaimed Nuendo Media Production System software. Nuendo 3 offers new features and technologies for top-level professionals in post production, surround mixing and high-end studio recording, mixing and editing.
The free update will add four more stomp boxes to the guitarists arsenal, all painstakingly modelled after popular real world units. Offering two distinctive new flavours of both classic fuzz overdrive and powerful hi-gain distortion, version 1.2 makes NI’s critically acclaimed digital guitar studio even more powerful.
The new features of GUITAR RIG 1.2 in detail:
– Fuzz Ace (fuzz pedal based on Arbiter™ Fuzz Face™)
– Big Fuzz (fuzz pedal based on Electro Harmonix™ Big Muff™)
– Cat (distortion pedal based on ProCo™ Rat™)
– Demon Distortion (distortion pedal based on MXR™ Dime Distortion™)
– More than 40 additional presets which make use of the new components
– Various minor improvements, cosmetic changes and fixes
Native Instruments presented the new Absynth 3 at the Remix Hotel convention, being held in San Francisco from the 28 till the 30 of October. ABSYNTH 3 has been greatly enhanced, surround sound features and a live audio input enabling ABSYNTH to be used as an extraordinary effect unit are just a taste of the extra power in store.
After the release of the Acid 5.0 Musicstudio version, earlier this month, Sony announced today that ACID Pro 5 software, the latest upgrade to its award-winning, professional loop-based music creation tool, will be available for purchase on Nov. 8. 2004.
Enhancements include two new patent-pending technologies: The Media Manager is a powerful new technology for browsing and tagging media assets that greatly enhances the user’s ability to track, label and store media files including loops, video and stills. Additionally, the unique Groove Mapping and Groove Cloning technologies provide enhanced ways for users to sonically interact with their loops and samples collection.
Apple has announced that it has begun shipping Logic Express 7, the next major release of its music composition and production software.
E-MU has announced the Proteus X Desktop Sound Module for Windows PCs that offers the synthesis and Z-Plane filters of E-MU’s sound modules, with the disk streaming, file management and interface advantages of software instruments.