Mac and Music News
| May 25 - 09:45 PM | Music Software > BIAS |
Bias began shipping SoundSoap Pro, an audio restoration plug-in for Mac OS X. SoundSoap Pro uses an integrated interface that allows the user to access any tool from within a single plug-in window. Tool navigation tabs are labeled "Hum & Rumble," "Click & Crackle," "Broadband," and "Noise Gate".
SoundSoap Pro is available at a suggested retail price of $599 US and SoundSoap customers may upgrade to SoundSoap Pro for $499.
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| May 25 - 09:16 PM | Apple > Apple |
Apple posted a Mac OSX update to address a theoretical vulnerability in the Help Viewer application that could have been exposed when browsing the web. The update is available automatically to all users through Apple's free Software Update service or by going to: www.apple.com/support/downloads/ |  1 users'comment |
| May 25 - 06:30 PM | Plug-ins > Line 6 |
Digidesign, who distributes it, announces that Echo Farm goes to version 2.2. This effect plugin for Pro Tools TDM (HD Accel, HD, Mix) on mac OS X adds these new features : support for Pro Tools|HD Accel, tempo Lock feature allowing Echo Farm to automatically lock to the tempo of the Pro Tools session, support for D-Control, internal clip detection, support for Stereo 96 kHz sampling rate (HD Accel required) and support for 192k Hz sampling rate (HD Accel required).
Echo Farm 2.2 is a free update.
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| May 25 - 04:00 PM | Plug-ins > URS Plugins |
3 EQs are coming to complete URS's A and N series, and URS presents the S serie :
A 10 : digitally recreates the sound of API's 550B vintage 4 band equalizer ;
N12 : digitally recreates the classic sound of Neve's 1073 vintage equalizer as a 12 band graphic ;
S Serie : a six band equalizer with four bands of EQ and low and high pass filters. Each band offers overlapping frequencies panning 4 to 5 octaves.
The S serie invention allows URS to update all plugins : I/O Plasma style VU metering, completely variable Cut/Boost to 0.1db increments, completely variable Input trim to 0.1db increments, numeric display/entry Windows for 0.1db increments.
All the series make the URS EQ Bundle 2.0.
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| May 25 - 02:13 PM | Music Software > Granted Software |
With AudioUnits and hosts multiplying practically daily, users with growing collections of both soon want to be able to specify subsets of AudioUnits to be loaded with particular hosts. AudioUnit Manager comes on 1.0 version and provides a simple way to organize AudioUnits into sets so users can load just the AudioUnits they need for a particular application.
Audiounit Manager 1.0 is a donationware.
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