Mac and Music News
Through Tuesday January 4, 2005
| Jan 4 - 05:45 PM | Plug-ins > Audio Ease |
AudioEase announced that they're working on Altiverb version 5. This new release will support surround formats up to 192 Khz, and will deliver more instances and less CPU overhead. Dates and upgrade fees are to be announced but the upgrade to version 5 will be free for users who purchased Altiverb after December 1, 2004.
More to come...
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| Jan 4 - 04:23 PM | Apple > Apple |
Apple has released a new Xserve G5. It offers dense power in a 1U server with dual 64-bit G5 processors at speeds of up to 2.3 GHz and features unlimited clients, up to 1.2TB storage, PCI-X expansion, dual Gigabit Ethernet, fast I/O ports and an optical drive. The new Xserve starts at $3999. Apple also introduces Xsan, a storage networking solution. Xsan lets multiple computers concurrently access terabytes of storage on Xserve RAID over high-speed Fibre Channel. Xsan costs $999 per node.| www.apple.com | Post a comment ? |
| Jan 4 - 12:59 PM | Virtual Instrument > ReFX |
Vanguard 1.1 by ReFX is a VST synthetizer for Mac OS X. Equipped with 31 different types of oscillators, including rarely found digital oscillators with new modulation options, Vanguard also includes 13 filter types with different slopes and includes a new kind of combined dual-filter variations. Along with a delay and reverb, Vanguard features the Trancegate and Arpeggiator tools. Trancegate is a 16-step gate allowing you to create rhythmic gated patterns while the Arpgeggiator features inspiring patterns and several play modes.
More info in the MacMusic softwares section.
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| Jan 3 - 01:50 PM | Virtual Instrument > Pierre Couprie |
"Le Synthé" by Pierre Couprie is the third version of an AKS Synthi emulator, and is based upon a modular matrix to construct your sounds. This new version fixes several bugs, adds a new GUI, and features a new external module : the spectroscope, and of course contains all features of previous version : MIDI, VST plugins support, and more.| Le Synthé v3.2 | Post a comment ? |
| Jan 3 - 11:20 AM | Music Software > Ron Miller |
DrumThing by Ron Miller is a compact and simple application designed be a software version of a drum machine for creating drum patterns, loops and grooves. This 1.7 update features a new "Save creation before quitting" alert dialog, a Play counter for visual interest, a new option to automatically create new random creations per loop mainly for its entertainment value and more.
Info and download in the MacMusic softwares section.
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