Mac and Music News
Jan 28 - 02:14 AM | Virtual Instrument > Novation |
![Virtual Instrument : Novation's First Soft Synth Brings K-Station to your Mac - macmusic](https://static.440net.net/skins/macmusic/images/cat/2006.gif)
At the core of the V-Station is Novation's Liquid Analog synthesis engine, delivering rich, dense sounds that offer vast creative potential. The plug-in combines these with a clear and responsive front panel interface, with all the key sound shaping controls a simple mouse click away.
Any one of the 200 factory presets can be recalled, modified and saved instantly in one of 400 program locations. The patches, that are named and not numbered, cover a huge sonic range, from searing leads and passionate pads, to delicate electric piano ...
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Jan 28 - 12:11 AM | Plug-ins > Waves |
![Plug-ins : Waves Version 4.0 Adds Mac OS X Support - macmusic](https://static.440net.net/skins/macmusic/images/cat/2005.gif)
Version 4.0 will initially support TDM, AS, RTAS and VST, while forthcoming releases will support the full gamut of plug-in formats under Macintosh OS X. The powerful, UNIX-based multithreaded nature of the OS X operating system makes it ideal for audio, and allows the highly efficient DSP optimization coding schemes developed by Waves to be used to their fullest capability, maximizing single and dual processor availability for DSP operations, freeing up the power needed to run many more plug-ins, and in the case of host-based systems such as Nuendo 2.x, making it possible to handle significantly more tracks and simultaneous functions.
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Jan 27 - 11:21 PM | Virtual Instrument > Native Instruments |
![Virtual Instrument : NI Kontakt 1.2 - macmusic](https://static.440net.net/skins/macmusic/images/cat/2006.gif)
The separately available Direct from Disk extension enables KONTAKT to
play samples directly from the hard drive. Sample size will no longer be
limited by the amount of physical RAM - an instrument can be as large as
available hard drive space. All KONTAKT instruments will load many times faster than RAM-based instruments.
The Direct from Disk extension requires the update to KONTAKT 1.2
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Jan 27 - 07:07 PM | Computer Hardware > Edirol |
![Computer Hardware : M-100FX Mixer/Audio Interface from Edirol - macmusic](https://static.440net.net/skins/macmusic/images/cat/2003.gif)
This 10-channel mixer/ 24-bit USB audio interface is optimized for the videographer with its wide array of Voice effects, including: Narration and Vocal Enhancers, Compressor, Chorus, Noise Reduction, Reverb, Radio, Robot, Male & Female pitch & formant effects.
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Jan 27 - 09:09 AM | Audio Hardware > TC-Helicon |
![Audio Hardware : TC-Helicon Announces Next Generation Harmony Processors - macmusic](https://static.440net.net/skins/macmusic/images/cat/2008.gif)
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