MacMusic is proud to present you, in its article section, Dominique Bassal's study on "The Practice of Mastering in Electroacoustic Music". Today we propose you the third and final chapter of this article: "The Practice of Mastering : The Position of Electroacoustics."

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Nomad Factory announces a free plugin bundle available as a download. This pack bundles a Phaser plugin, a Sweeper, and a Tremolo plugin. This free bundle is available as HTDM, RTAS,Audio Units and VST for Mac OS X 10.2 on the Nomad Factory web site.

Muse Research released the version 1.2 software update for its hardware VST plug-in player, Receptor. This new release adds new features including Adat output support (increasing the number of outputs to a total of ten), new MIDI mapping features (with flexible support for keyboard zones and layers), and a new "Z-Load" technology, which speeds plug-in loading.

Plogue announces an update to version 0.8001 for Bidule. This new release adds a peak meters and clip indicators, adds an option to save to multiple mono files, features faster loading of bigger files, and fixes several bugs.

Yellowtools annouces Candy, an extensive soprano, alto, tenor, baritone and bass saxophone collection.if all available playing techniques and their dynamic layers and variations are used, your performance will select from 30 different samples per note,or even more. In addition, the instruments were sampled playing their maximum dynamic range. This variety makes possible saxophone performances of such high quality that they can be used in the most demanding, professional contexts. Candy is not hard to use, though, the MVI engine remains nevertheless intuitive and easy to play. The 4 different variations of the same tone of a note can be selected during the performance automatically.