Alesis announced Playmate Vocalist: a vocal remover and microphone processor with a built-in CD player and Vocal Zapper: a ultra compact vocal eliminator.

TerraTec Producer, part of TerraTec Gmbh announced the exclusive alliance with Waldorf AG of synth fame. All the forthcoming products from Waldorf will be marketed by TerraTec and a new range of TerraTec product will grow from this alliance.

What would you need to bring company to your Vermona synths full of separated outs? In need of more channels on your mixer? Here comes the Regent, not a lot of information at present but there is a 3 band EQ on each channel, Jack plugs I/Os (combo Neutrik on the PA version so maybe a preamp there…), Power from mains is internal, wood sides to be classy.

Apple rounded out today's NAMM announcements with a peek into what's next from Apple's music software. The "next generation" of Logic so far sounds a lot like this version of Logic, but with enhanced support for Apple Loops, the looping technology built into Apple's Garage Band and Soundtrack software which the company is pushing as a "powerful open-standard file format for real-time matching of audio loops and sound effects." Let's hope Apple promotes this "open-standard" approach; it'd be great to see Apple Loops in MOTU Digital Performer or even Ableton Live.

Most of what Apple's revealing about the next Logic is in the form of new software synths and effects: Sculpture, a new component-modeling based synth for physical modeling of instruments with extensive modeling and resonant bod ...

The latest release of Apple's loop-based video scoring software adds MTC/MIDI beat clock sync, user customizable effect presets, improved support for large audio files, document compression, and enhancements to media manager and timeline. (It's unclear, incidentally, whether any of those options are available in Apple's latest, Garage Band.) A serial number is required to download the update (below).