MOTU announced that Digital Performer 4.1 fully supports Digidesign's Pro Tools HD Accel. DP 4.1, which is now available as a free update for registered DP4 users at www.motu.com, takes full advantage of Pro Tools HD Accel's increased maximum track and voice count. In addition, DP 4.1 users can run new Accel-compatible plug-ins such as Impact, Digidesign's new Console-style Mix Bus Compression Plug-in.

The VEMIA, the virtual auction for studio gear, analogue stuff, strange gizmos will be held from November 1 to November 15. For the ones who don't know it already it's a unique place to find rare items and sometimes great prices. The service is under the control of Peter Forrest of "A to Z of analogue Synthesizers" fame and as I've already used the VEMIA, it's top notch I can tell you.

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Independent consultancy and publisher SYPHA, has announced an all-new edition of The DAW Buyers Guide that can be accessed, free of charge, at http://SYPHAonline.com.

The guide has undergone a complete update. Each of the more than 280 product entries has been renewed, and the search facilities have been improved.

Sonic Studio LLC announced the availability of their first major software revision since taking over the Sonic Studio workstation products from Sonic Solutions. Sonic Studio HD version 1.9 is the culmination of over a year of development effort to fundamentally stabilize the workstation while boosting performance and adding long awaited functionality.

Among the dozens of enhancements and additions to HD 1.9 are an entirely new mixing desk, revamped FFT tool, 16 channel I/O support on a single board system, and a dramatically improved and optimized DSP allocation system for desk events processing. This version also resolves numerous longstanding issues with stability, synchronization, and CD imaging and is available to all Sonic Studio HD owners at no charge (Hey Digidesign...).

Drums on Demand Vol. 1 is now available in REX2 format, making the song-based drum loop CD even more functional in for Mac Users in Cubase, Reason, Logic, Digital Performer and other audio programs that support REX2 files.

Created from studio recordings of contemporary songs, Drums On Demand includes nearly 900 royalty free loops and segments : 41 Song Sets, with each set including as many as 30 verse, chorus, fill, bridge, break, intro, ending and other loops. Loops and segments range from one to five bars in length. Simply find the master verse or chorus loop that fits your song and use the other loops and segments in the Song Set to quickly build a drum track that feels like a live session drummer playing a real song -- because that's exactly what it is. Plus, you can mix and match m ...