Freeverse and Felt Tip Software have announced the imminent release of Sound Studio 3. This easy-to-use recording tool for Mac features 24-bit / 96 kHz sampling, in stereo or mono, low latency monitoring, using Core Audio, markers with text labels, Applescript and Automator support, Audio Units support, and serveral effects (compressor, expander, chorus, flanger, echo, and more).

Sound Studio 3 costs $79.95 and will ship before the end of this month.

 

During its "One More Thing" Keynote Address , Steve Jobs may has just introduced a new iPod including a larger screen and video features.

Apple has also released a flat iMac featuring a built-in iSight webcam and a new 6 button-multimedia remote control, looking like an iPod shuffle.

iTunes 6 has also been presented and will allow to directly buy music clips and some TV programs....

Very exciting! :-/

ps Clouvel : Bad news for some of us, the only affordable and complete Mac, the eMac, has disappeared from the Apple range

It's the end now for the 2005 AES Show in New-York. The whole MacMusic team and myself were on the alert to keep you up-to-date. You can read bellow all news items we published about the AES in the daily news section.

Native Instruments announces at AES its new Essentials bundle, a new instrument collection including the full versions of Absynth 3, the semi-modular synthesizer; Battery 2, the percussion sampler; PRO-53, an emulation of the legendary Prophet 5 analog synthesizer; Kompakt, the multi-format sampler that includes a comprehensive instrument library; and one amp emulation of choice from the Guitar Combos series that includes the Plexi Combo, Twang Combo and AC-Box Combo, all derived from NI's Guitar Rig amp emulation system.

NI Essentials is available immediately for of $499. A special limited-time upgrade offer also allows all owners of at least one product from the NI Essentials to upgrade to the full bundle for $339. This upgrade offer expires on December 31st 2005.

BIAS announced that the Master Perfection Suite, a collection of six plug-ins for mastering and sound design, will be available in Q1 of 2006 for Audio Units, DirectX, RTAS, and VST host applications on Mac OS X and Windows XP. BIAS first released the Master Perfection Suite last month as part of Peak Pro XT 5, an extended technology edition of Peak Pro 5 that also includes SoundSoap and SoundSoap Pro audio restoration tools. While currently compatible within Peak Pro 5, the Master Perfection Suite will soon be offered as a separate product with universal plug-in host compatibility on Mac OS X and Windows XP. The Master Perfection Suite includes: Repli-Q (spectral/EQ matching), PitchCraft (pitch correction/manipulation), Reveal (seven tool analysis suite), Sqweez-3 & -5 (linear phase multi-band compressor/limiter/expander), SuperFreq (new edition of the 4,6,8, and 10-band parametric equalizer suite), and GateEx (gate/downward expander). The plug-ins were designed from the ground up by carefully listening to professional user feedback and they offer more features and many user interface improvements over other plug-ins in their class.