Mac and Music News
Through Tuesday July 21, 2009
Jun 15 - 01:19 PM | Virtual Instrument > Ultimate Sound Bank |
Univers-Sons/ Ultimate Sound Bank introduces a brand new UVI Soundpack called Upright Grand Piano. Here is the official press release :
"Once again, we are glad to introduce a new beautiful sounding piano, this 5 GB library brings up a strong upright piano full of personality and musicality.
After the successful launch of the UVI SoundPack Acoustic Grand Piano and UVI SoundPack Baby Grand Piano, the number one request of our customers was to have a very good Upright Piano, that would be used a lot these days in modern Rock, Pop and even Jazz music.
To find a good sounding upright piano was not an easy task, so we did look over several models and several places, until we found the one that delighted our team, and to be honest: we love it. A modern and high-end version from the manufacturer Seiler was unanimously picked to be the one. As you can hear in the demos, it sounds really close, warm and musical.
As for all our sounds, we did use extremely good microphones, excellent sounding mic pre and insanely good analog to digital converters. Every single note was carefully multi-
"Once again, we are glad to introduce a new beautiful sounding piano, this 5 GB library brings up a strong upright piano full of personality and musicality.
After the successful launch of the UVI SoundPack Acoustic Grand Piano and UVI SoundPack Baby Grand Piano, the number one request of our customers was to have a very good Upright Piano, that would be used a lot these days in modern Rock, Pop and even Jazz music.
To find a good sounding upright piano was not an easy task, so we did look over several models and several places, until we found the one that delighted our team, and to be honest: we love it. A modern and high-end version from the manufacturer Seiler was unanimously picked to be the one. As you can hear in the demos, it sounds really close, warm and musical.
As for all our sounds, we did use extremely good microphones, excellent sounding mic pre and insanely good analog to digital converters. Every single note was carefully multi-
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Jun 15 - 12:42 PM | Music Software > Five12 |
Five12 Inc. today announces the release of Numerology 2.1 for Mac OS X. This release features a new Chord Sequencer module, step recording for sequencers, sequencer groove timing controls, and a major update to the ReWire implementation with full support for Audio Unit plugins.
Other new features in Numerology 2.1 include:
- A Transport Loop
- A Keyboard module which emulates a MIDI keyboard. It can be use for triggering sounds, and for monitoring MIDI note streams.
- A new set of I/O modules for additional flexibility in routing MIDI, Audio and CV signals.
- A new 'step-trigger' option for all sequencers to make it easier to emulate the behavior of analog step sequencers.
And, of course, many general fixes and updates. The complete list of changes can be found in the readme file included with all Numerology installations.
Numerology 2.1 is currently available for $119.
Other new features in Numerology 2.1 include:
- A Transport Loop
- A Keyboard module which emulates a MIDI keyboard. It can be use for triggering sounds, and for monitoring MIDI note streams.
- A new set of I/O modules for additional flexibility in routing MIDI, Audio and CV signals.
- A new 'step-trigger' option for all sequencers to make it easier to emulate the behavior of analog step sequencers.
And, of course, many general fixes and updates. The complete list of changes can be found in the readme file included with all Numerology installations.
Numerology 2.1 is currently available for $119.
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Jun 15 - 11:44 AM | Music Software > Pierre Couprie |
IAnalyse can synchronize the pages of a score (or PDF images) on an audio or video file. You can draw annotations (graphics, texts or images) on the score, the fade in and fade out of these annotations are also synchronized with the audio file. Moving a cursor on the score to the rhythm of music can be drawn very quickly. The fullscreen and export (images or Quicktime movie) functions allow you to show or distribute your work.
The LE version is free and offers the basis for the annotation scores. The Pro version, at 15€, contains many tools useful for musical analysis.
The LE version is free and offers the basis for the annotation scores. The Pro version, at 15€, contains many tools useful for musical analysis.
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Jun 15 - 10:47 AM | Computer Hardware > M-Audio |
Today we are glad to publish a great review about the Axiom Pro 49 by M-Audio.
Introduced at the latest Winter NAMM Show, the Axiom Pro 49 is an hardware MIDI controller for Mac and PC with the benefit of automatically mapping DAW and virtual instrument controls. It is currently compatible with Pro Tools, Reason, Cubase, Live and Logic.
Want to learn more ?
Then...
Introduced at the latest Winter NAMM Show, the Axiom Pro 49 is an hardware MIDI controller for Mac and PC with the benefit of automatically mapping DAW and virtual instrument controls. It is currently compatible with Pro Tools, Reason, Cubase, Live and Logic.
Want to learn more ?
Then...
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Jun 13 - 03:17 PM | Virtual Instrument > Akki Plugs |
Akki Plugs has announced the release of Virtual Bouzouki, a Greek bouzouki sample library virtual instrument. Virtual Bouzouki is a Kontakt Player 2 instrument based on advanced script programming and offers different playing styles and techniques.
Features :
• 2.2 GB 24-bit samples.
• Advanced script programming.
• Choose between Natural or Tuned tuning.
• 12 keyswitches.
• 5 velocity layers of plectrum playing downwards and 5 velocity layers of plectrum playing upwards.
• All four strings sampled and each string got recorded notes throughout the full length of the string.
• Release samples.
• Control the hand position on the fret with the modulation wheel. The position is presented on the layout.
• Polyphonic playing allows you t ...
Features :
• 2.2 GB 24-bit samples.
• Advanced script programming.
• Choose between Natural or Tuned tuning.
• 12 keyswitches.
• 5 velocity layers of plectrum playing downwards and 5 velocity layers of plectrum playing upwards.
• All four strings sampled and each string got recorded notes throughout the full length of the string.
• Release samples.
• Control the hand position on the fret with the modulation wheel. The position is presented on the layout.
• Polyphonic playing allows you t ...
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