Mac and Music News
Through Thursday July 23, 2009
Jul 22 - 01:05 PM | Music Hardware > Yamaha |
Yamaha introduces two new Arranger Workstation keyboards, the PSR-S910 and the PSR-S710.
Songwriters and arrangers will find that the PSR-S910 fulfills their needs for a great-sounding instrument with pro capabilities, but it's also perfect for so-called "one-man bands" because it puts the performer in charge of hundreds of different virtual bands that sound great due to ultra-realistic accompaniment styles. It's like having instant access to top session musicians at the touch of a key or the press of a button.
The new model adapts feature sets from Yamaha's flagship arranger Tyros3, including Super Articulation Voices, which give strings, guitars, reeds and brass sounds real-time expressiveness previously unattainable on a keyboard instrument, including the slide of a guitarist's fi ...
Songwriters and arrangers will find that the PSR-S910 fulfills their needs for a great-sounding instrument with pro capabilities, but it's also perfect for so-called "one-man bands" because it puts the performer in charge of hundreds of different virtual bands that sound great due to ultra-realistic accompaniment styles. It's like having instant access to top session musicians at the touch of a key or the press of a button.
The new model adapts feature sets from Yamaha's flagship arranger Tyros3, including Super Articulation Voices, which give strings, guitars, reeds and brass sounds real-time expressiveness previously unattainable on a keyboard instrument, including the slide of a guitarist's fi ...
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Jul 22 - 11:29 AM | Industry > Digidesign |
Digidesign is proud to announce the availability of MassivePack 8 and MassivePack 8 Pro – the next level of professional plug-ins for mixing and sound processing available from the leader in Audio. These special plug-in bundles will be available for a limited time from July 21st, 2009 through December 22nd, 2009
Designed exclusively for Pro Tools|HD, the new MassivePack 8 features a revered set of plug-ins used by leading studios and pros to create mixes for albums, TV, and film. The bundle includes 11 of the top Pro Tools Development Partners plug-ins, plus your choice of 12 more from Digidesign®, at extraordinary savings of up to $11,105 off retail (when purchased separately).
Need more processing power ? MassivePack Pro 8 provides even greater value, offering a performance-boosting PCIe HD Accel card (worth $4,995 just on its own!) and the same set of MassivePack 8 plug-ins at savings of up to $13,900 off retail (when purchased separately).
MassivePack 8 and MassivePack Pro 8 are available for a limited time through Pro Tools|HD dealers worldwide for $1,295 and $3,495, respectively.
Wanna learn more about this great deal, then visit the following link :
Designed exclusively for Pro Tools|HD, the new MassivePack 8 features a revered set of plug-ins used by leading studios and pros to create mixes for albums, TV, and film. The bundle includes 11 of the top Pro Tools Development Partners plug-ins, plus your choice of 12 more from Digidesign®, at extraordinary savings of up to $11,105 off retail (when purchased separately).
Need more processing power ? MassivePack Pro 8 provides even greater value, offering a performance-boosting PCIe HD Accel card (worth $4,995 just on its own!) and the same set of MassivePack 8 plug-ins at savings of up to $13,900 off retail (when purchased separately).
MassivePack 8 and MassivePack Pro 8 are available for a limited time through Pro Tools|HD dealers worldwide for $1,295 and $3,495, respectively.
Wanna learn more about this great deal, then visit the following link :
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Jul 22 - 10:47 AM | Audio Hardware > ATC |
TransAudio Group has announced the immediate availability of ATC's most reasonably-priced reference monitor — the SCM11 two-way passive speaker. The newest studio monitor in the ATC lineup is the passive version of the SCM16A.
The speakers feature an innovation called Constrained Layer Damping (CLD): two lightweight driver cones sandwich a constrained damping layer. CLD is dramatically more efficient than conventional damping because of the way it shears when the cone flexes. The shearing causes unwanted vibration energy to dissipate as frictional heat, instead of as acoustic distortion. Thus, ATC's CLD design reduces harmonic distortion between 300Hz - 3kHz, creates an extended resonance-free axial frequency response, improves the off-axis frequency response, and, if all that weren't e ...
The speakers feature an innovation called Constrained Layer Damping (CLD): two lightweight driver cones sandwich a constrained damping layer. CLD is dramatically more efficient than conventional damping because of the way it shears when the cone flexes. The shearing causes unwanted vibration energy to dissipate as frictional heat, instead of as acoustic distortion. Thus, ATC's CLD design reduces harmonic distortion between 300Hz - 3kHz, creates an extended resonance-free axial frequency response, improves the off-axis frequency response, and, if all that weren't e ...
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Jul 21 - 04:57 PM | Plug-ins > Sonic Reality |
Sonic Reality and Toontrack Music are pleased to announce a new power bundle of Toontrack Music's MIDI arranger plug-in, EZplayer pro, with Sonic Reality's Kontakt Player-based drum products. With the addition of EZplayer pro, Ocean Way Drums and Drum Masters will now have the powerful MIDI features found in Toontrack Music's popular drum products such as EZDrummer and Superior Drummer 2.0 plus more.
EZplayer pro will be offered as a download free of charge to anyone who purchases the following qualifying bundle products :
• Ocean Way Drums DL Edition
• Ocean Way Drums Silver Edition
• Ocean Way Drums Gold Edition
• Ocean Way Drums Platinum Edition
• Drum Masters Silver Edition
&b ...
EZplayer pro will be offered as a download free of charge to anyone who purchases the following qualifying bundle products :
• Ocean Way Drums DL Edition
• Ocean Way Drums Silver Edition
• Ocean Way Drums Gold Edition
• Ocean Way Drums Platinum Edition
• Drum Masters Silver Edition
&b ...
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Jul 21 - 04:20 PM | Virtual Instrument > ReFX |
ReFX today announces the release of Nexus v2.2 as well as two new expansions : Vintage DrumKits and Crank 2.
What's new in Nexus v2.2 :
• New insert FX: Gate.
• New insert FX: Compressor.
• New modulation destinations: Layer 1-4 cutoff and resonance.
• Clicking in the title-bar of the librarian cycles through three font-sizes.
• Under certain conditions, the ARP-shuffle would introduce clicking/noises for the shuffled notes. If an All-Note-Off MIDI-message arrived directly before a Note-On, the ARP wouldn't start. Mainly Logic was affected.
• Osc1-4 volume/panning modulations caused zipper-noise.
The Vintage DrumKits expansion features 65 complete drumkits (each containing 61 GM-mapped samples), 66 loops and 10 bonus-sequences. Virtually every cu ...
What's new in Nexus v2.2 :
• New insert FX: Gate.
• New insert FX: Compressor.
• New modulation destinations: Layer 1-4 cutoff and resonance.
• Clicking in the title-bar of the librarian cycles through three font-sizes.
• Under certain conditions, the ARP-shuffle would introduce clicking/noises for the shuffled notes. If an All-Note-Off MIDI-message arrived directly before a Note-On, the ARP wouldn't start. Mainly Logic was affected.
• Osc1-4 volume/panning modulations caused zipper-noise.
The Vintage DrumKits expansion features 65 complete drumkits (each containing 61 GM-mapped samples), 66 loops and 10 bonus-sequences. Virtually every cu ...
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