Mac and Music News
| Jun 6 - 03:45 PM | Computer Hardware > M-Audio |
M-Audio announces three Wirelss MIDI devices : the new MidAir 25 is a 25 key controller featuring the new MidAir receiver, eight MIDI-assignable knobs, mod&pitch bend wheels, assignable sustain button and a pedal input. The MidAir 37 features 37 and nine assignable faders. At last, the MidAir receiver is a 2.4GHz wireless USB-MIDI interface working on Mac .
The MidAir 25 ships now for $249.95. The MidAir 37 will ship in July ($299.95) and the MidAir wireless MIDI interface will ship in August (price TBA).
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| Jun 6 - 01:55 PM | Plug-ins > Sonic Studio |
Sonic Studio today announced a new driver for their Series 300 hardware that includes a Sonic equalizer. Running in the +DSP environment of the Series 300 hardware, the new Sonic EQ carefully recreates the minimal phase equalizer that first appeared in the original Sonic System. The Sonic EQ is a proprietary implementation of equalizer that includes 12 different topologies, including multi–order parametrics, multi–order shelves, multi–order high/low pass, multi–order bandpass/stop, infinite notch, DC removal and de–emphasis for both AES/EBU emphasis and RIAA pre–emphasis.
The new driver that includes Sonic EQ, is available now to all current Series 300 owners by direct download on Sonic Studio's site.
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| Jun 6 - 11:27 AM | Virtual Instrument > Swar Systems |
Swar system announces that both SwarShala and Swar Librarian have been compiled as Universal Binaries and therefore run natively on both Intel and PowerPC (PPC) computers. Swar also announces the release of two new updates :
- improved Swar Librarian : BPM control, drag&drop and more..
- SwarShala Pro update : drag & drop sequences to your sequencer.
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| Jun 5 - 04:12 PM | Misc > Ueberschall |
Ueberschall released a new version of the Liquid Instruments Series engine. This version 1.1.0.7 mainly features :
- All Mac version except the RTAS version are Universal Binaries (Mac Intel)
- VST version supports VST 2.4
- RTAS version supports RTAS 7.0
- RTAS 7.0 (Mac Intel) is under development
- memory requirement optimized
- AU validation fixed
- up to 32 soundbanks possible.
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| Jun 5 - 03:20 PM | Music Hardware > Moog Music |
Moog Music announces that its Little Phatty is still on schedule for summer delivery and it is "looking and sounding great! ". The Little Phatty is a monophonic analog synthesizer designed for performance, with 100 user editable presets, 2 VCO, 1 VCF, 2 ADSR, 4 waveforms LFO, and full analogue path 37 notes keyboard.
Little Phatty ships for $1475.00.
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