It gives Leapfrog great pleasure to announce that Rephrase is now released! You can now order your copy of Rephrase directly from their website. There is also a free 14-day demo version available to try. They’ve been working very hard over the last months, and they hope that you will like the result!
Sunday november 14th we were present with our very own stand at the Dj Expo, held in the Auditorium of the Eindhoven University. An expo showcasing all the latest Dj gear and electronic music production gear (Hard- and Software). It started at an very early hour to built the stand and getting everything set up for the opening at 09.30 am. For entertainment we had set up a three turntable Dj setup. Over the whole of the day we had invited around 15 Dj’s to do 30 minutes sets, which we broadcasted live on the internet.
With more than 3,500 musical artists endorsing its products, Yamaha Corporation of America boasts one of the largest artist rosters in the industry. To showcase those valued relationships, Yamaha has launched a new section on its Website devoted to its affiliated artists.
Edirol has released Version 2.0.1 of Mac OS X drivers for 10 audio interfaces. These new drivers offer improved performance under high CPU loads as well as a further reduction in the already-minimal latency factors. In addition, Edirol has also added an uninstaller for easy removal.
Edirol audio devices with version 2.0.1 OS X drivers for the following products:
-M-100FX
-PCR-1 S.L.I.M
-PCR-A30
-SD-90
-UA-20
-UA-25
-UA-3FX
-UA-5 USB
-UA-700
-UR-80
After the release of the BATTERY 2 full version, the demo version for Mac OS X and Windows XP are now available as well. The extraordinarily intuitive and multi-facetted drum sampler has been completely renewed. The extended and customizable cell matrix, multi-mode filters, compressors and much more make BATTERY 2 the ultimate weapon for firing blazing beats.
Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH is excited to announce a new addition to its highly successful VIRTUAL PLAYER range of virtual musicians: Virtual Bassist.
Featuring the talents of the programming team behind Virtual Guitarist and Groove Agent, Virtual Bassist provides all manner of bass guitar phrases, sounds and styles, comments Helge Vogt, Steinberg’s Product Manager for VST Instruments. Steinberg is now in the unique position of offering a whole backing band of intelligent, musically-oriented VST instruments directly within the virtual audio environment, adds Vogt.
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.