Mac and Music News
Through Tuesday January 4, 2005
Dec 6 - 12:10 PM | Virtual Instrument > NUSofting |
NUSofting releases HarpTime and Microrock, in both Audio Units and VSTi formats for Mac OS X. HarpTime is a virtual reproduction of the Celtic harp and others, such as Japanese Koto, Paraguayan and African harps. Microrock is a monophonic synthesizer made for bass, lead and powerchord lines, designed to give aggressive and expressive sound for solos and riffs.
Harptime Pro costs $59.90, Harptime Fun is $29.90 and Microrock Pro $46.90.
Harptime Pro costs $59.90, Harptime Fun is $29.90 and Microrock Pro $46.90.
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Dec 4 - 02:20 PM | Plug-ins > Granted Software |
Rax is a virtual rack for live Audio units hosting. Granted Software updated it to version 1.2.2, and it now features : mixer channel Mute is now remote controllable, setting mixer channel volume to zero eliminates instrument load on CPU, MIDI notes are no longer buffered when a rack is deactivated or a channel is muted, and external sync is now passing through tempo data to all AudioUnits.
Rax 1.2.2 | Post a comment ? |
Dec 4 - 11:40 AM | Industry |
Fraunhofer IIS, Thomson and Agere Systems have announced the launching of MP3 "surround". Its caracteristics are roughly the following : high resolution support, the final file size will weigh half as much as a file normally zipped in this norm, format compatible with all existing MP3 players and softwares.
The player/encoder for Mac OS X will be available on December 17th.
The player/encoder for Mac OS X will be available on December 17th.
www.iis.fraunhofer.de | Post a comment ? |
Dec 3 - 03:03 PM | 440network > MacMusic |
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Dec 3 - 02:40 PM | Music Software > Native Instruments |
Native Instruments announced that the NI Komplete 2 bundle is now even more complete. Now every purchase of the bundle also includes the drum sampling sofware Battery 2 and the soft synth Absynth 3 at no extra cost.
Updates are not physically included in the NI Komplete 2 package, but will be delivered free of charge after the bundle has been authorized. NI Komplete 2 costs $1149 or 999 euros.
Updates are not physically included in the NI Komplete 2 package, but will be delivered free of charge after the bundle has been authorized. NI Komplete 2 costs $1149 or 999 euros.
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