Audio Ease has finally released Speakerphone, their speaker simulator plug-in announced a year ago. A bad GSM connection on a busy sidewalk, a bullhorn with feedback and a helicopter overhead, or a 1952 rockabilly guitar amp in a recording studio live room: Speakerphone gives you authentic speakers of any size together with their natural environments.

All the walkie-talkies, distant transistor radios, Guitar cabinets, upstairs TV sets, bullhorns and cell phones you'll ever need. Speakerphone will add dial tones, operators and static, and you can select from a wealth of ambiences on either the caller or receiver's end. And with a click you can send anything from the sample-playback bay right to the cursor in your Pro Tools track.

Operation is extremely quick: you just call up one of the hundreds of carefully crafted and archived presets. If you're a tweaker just click 'show controls' and the whole dashboard slides out, at your disposal, with the most minute detail.

Speakerphone, powered by Altiverb, combines a wealth of effects including a convolution engine that uses actual samples of hundreds of original speakers, a radio receiver tuning dial, record player scratch and static generator, GSM cell phone data compression, distortion, tremolo, delay, a variety of EQ and dynamics, bit crushing, sample rate reduction, a full blown convolution reverb, and a library of samples to combine into entire environments.

And then there's the host of classic guitar amps, complete with tailor made distortion, spring reverbs, and everything else to build guitar tone like you've never heard from a plug-in.

Speakerphone is available now for Mac OS X in VST, RTAS, AudioSuite, Audio Unit and MAS formats but also for Windows in RTAS and VST formats at a retail price of $495 / € 395 ex VAT.

Ambrosia Software, Inc. announced the release of WireTap Studio 1.0.0. This innovative audio recording and editing application features patent-pending technology that brings professional caliber audio recording and editing to the masses. WireTap Studio works with Mac OS X Tiger 10.4 and Leopard 10.5

• WireTap Studio is a complete audio recording and management solution, allowing you to manipulate and manage your audio like never before. Record the discrete audio output of any application, as well as all system audio, or even record audio input from any microphone, line- in, or audio input hardware.

• Lossless master recording technology enables you to edit your recorded audio without any loss of quality or content. You can even take a file you mistakenly recorded at a lower ...

At the AES, AMS-NEVE introduced it's new Genesys product which will be available next year : 16 analogik buses, 16 faders , 8 Aux, 8 groups and 4 sends dedicated to your favourite DAW ...

Approximative price ... 50 000 €

Online retailer of computer audio hardware and software, audioMIDI.com, will be giving the local Los Angeles market an inside look at Apple's new Logic Studio coupled with Apogee's new Duet interface.

On October 27th from 3:30pm to 5:30pm, Apple representative Andrew Finley and Apogee representative David Casey will show how and why this new software and interface combination is one of the most powerful, convenient, and stable music creation and editing systems available.

The Logic-Duet event will be held at audioMIDI.com's corporate office located at 9240 Deering Avenue, Chatsworth, CA 91311. To RSVP for this event simply click here.

Parking and admission is free; food and refreshments will be served.


Solid State Logic announces the launch of Pro-Convert, a translation application for moving sessions from one DAW environment to another. Pro-Convert enables workstation users to convert session files from one format to another and can handle many commonly used formats including the latest versions from: ProTools, Soundscape, Cubase/Nuendo, Vegas, Sonic Studio, SADiE, Final Cut Pro, Audition, OMF, AES31, Sequoia, Open TL and Tascam BU.