Mac and Music News
Through Monday January 27, 2025
Jun 4 - 11:53 AM | Plug-ins > Novation |
Some new features and fixed bugs:
- Fixed crash with Plug-In Manager under certain conditions.
- Fixed drumpad calibration issue with Nocturn Keyboard.
- Updated firmware for Remote SL Compact to version 4.2.03.
- Added partial native support for Waves 8 plug-ins (not fully implemented).
- Added notification when trying to wrap Waves 8 plug-ins in Plug-In Manager.
- Fixed some Waves VST3 mono plug-ins not able to be automapped.
- Added and improved some default mappings.
- Added 64 bit plug-in display in Plug-In Manager for Windows 7 64 systems.
- Updated VST3 search paths on Windows 7 64 system in Plug-In Manager.
- Updated Windows Novation USB Driver to 2.1 release version.
- Fixed Digital Performer 7 crash on some systems.
- Improved VST3 wrapper using the latest VST3 SDK.
- Remote SL Compact 4.2.03 release notes: Fixed keyboard sensing on some units.
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Jun 4 - 08:27 AM | Virtual Instrument > Fingerlab |
Drop your email and we'll let you know when DM1 is out. Watch out for the release promotion.
- 24 vintage and produced drum kits, mastered at in-house Fingerlab Sound Studios
- Mixer page with pitch, length and level rotary controls and individual sound loading per channel
- Super fast drum kit loading
- Playable pattern selection for extra creativity
- Big Drum pads, quantized recording and MPC-like Repeat touch-stripe
- Step Sequencer with multi-touch matrix for unexpected beat creation
- Duo FX Trackpads for real-time sonic destruction and cool multi-FX
- Mode song with intuitive editing
- High-quality export to email or iTunes shared folder.
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Jun 3 - 01:14 PM | Plug-ins > PSP Audioware |
- PSP Neon HR – compatible with PSP Neon HR version 1, so your sessions will open and your presets will load. Just like its predecessor, It offers linear phase processing as well as three spectral resolution levels.
- PSP Neon STD – like HR, but with standard (std) spectral resolution. This is sufficient for all but the most demanding mastering purposes (for which you can always grab HR). STD offers greatly reduced latency (by factor of ~3) and much gentler memory requirements.
- PSP Neon MIX – with its minimum-phase filters (no linear-phase processing) it is very well-suited for mixing, as it introduces almost no latency (just 31 samples), while still providing all other important features such as oversampling, middle-side processing, a spectrum analyzer and the advanced Neon user interface.
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Jun 3 - 10:48 AM | Music Software > Audiofile Engineering |
Now, FiRe 2 incorporates into its original elegant design a stunning list of powerful new features including:
Advanced editing suite with SmartEdits, Bezier fades, change gain, normalize, looping playback, regions and more
Improved Transport screen with faster and smoother drawing and larger waveform view
EQ and Dynamics effects developed by Audiofile Engineering
iTunes file transfer
Enhanced input processing powered by iZotope
Record in background
Dropbox integration
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Jun 2 - 04:38 PM | Virtual Instrument > 9 Soundware |
In addition to acting as source presets for resampling, these patches allow for heightened flexibility in sequencing dynamic rhythms and interactivity in performance contexts. Featuring three main components, the multi-format product includes files for the ES2 synthesizer and EXS24 sampler, as well as Channel Strips.
The 50 MB download includes 100 .pst files, 20 .EXS files, 150 WAV files (24-bit/44.1 kHz), and 10 .cst files.
Drum Tree is available now for $39.99.
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