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Through Monday May 12, 2003
| Feb 5 - 10:38 PM | Music Hardware |
The Toaster is a captation system dedicated to real time applications.
Analog sensors can easily be connected to the Rack.
Most usefull are flexion, pressure, light, acceleration, magnetic field,
potentiometer, switch, etc... The Toaster is also MIDI compatible.
It can be connected to OSC (Open Sound Control) software (for exemple Max/MSP and Pure Data).
Sensors are connected to the box through stereo jack connectors.
The 1U Rack gets analogical information from sensors and transmits them to one computer or more, with a high band (Ethernet (10MB/s), UDP network protocol), with a precision of 16 bits by sensor.
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| Feb 4 - 09:23 AM | Music Software > Digidesign |
The ProTools 6 release for Mac OS X will be available mid February. Prices for upgrades will be :
- 195 $ USD for any previous TDM version
- 75 $ USD for any previous LE version
- free upgrade for ProTools bought in october 1st 2002 or later
- and a special price for users who get the last upgrade (5.1.1 and 5.1.3) in october 1st or later
New features : an iLok USB Smart Key required for Pro Tools 6.0
and plug-in compatibilities (40 $)
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| Feb 3 - 10:13 PM | Plug-ins > IK Multimedia |
IK Multimedia announced that its T-RackS plug-in will soon be available for VST. T-RackS plug-in provides an all-in-one mastering solution. These tools include five sound processors, 6-band EQ, classic tube modeled compressor, multi-band master limiter, soft-clipping stage, and a complete mastering suite containing the modules in one efficient, "gold sounding" mastering plug-in constructed with actual physical models of tube (valve) circuitry. Users of Cubase and Logic will be happy indeed!
T-RackS sound is created with algorithms based on real analog circuitry, using 32 Bit floating-point resolution. T-RackS' GUI resembles typical hardware devices, making it easy to control the five powerful processors and accomplish professional mastering results. More than 50 mastering presets, cover ...
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| Feb 2 - 12:03 AM | 440network > MacMusic |
The story of a switcher from PC to Mac, originally written by stonga and translated from french by Presto.| Read the artcle | Post a comment ? |
| Feb 1 - 07:03 PM | Computer Hardware > Mark Of The Unicorn |
MOTU announces OS X Drivers availability for the PCI 324 and PCI 424 cards, which makes all MOTU interface (2408,1292,328...) compatible with OS X.| Post a comment ? |
