Mac and Music News
Through Monday August 3, 2009
| 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
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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 ...
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| Jul 21 - 03:44 PM | Audio Hardware > Sony Professional |
Meet the smallest addition to Sony's family of portable audio recorders. The new PCM-M10 Linear PCM Recorder adopted many of its features and style from the PCM-D50 model, including rugged construction, compact size and cool design.
The PCM-M10 is conveniently small on size, but packs in many cool features: a five-second pre-record buffer, WAV and MP3 format record and play, USB port for easy upload/downloads, Digital Pitch Control and a MicroSD/Memory Stick Micro slot. Providing 96 kHz 24-bit recording, a 4 GB built-in flash memory and user friendly operation, the PCM-M10 is the ideal choice for making live musical, nature sound and field recordings.
The PCM-M10 should be available in Octobre at a price of $399.
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| Jul 21 - 03:24 PM | Plug-ins > VirSyn |
VirSyn has updated its reverb plug-in Reflect to version 2.01. What's new :
Features
- 12 new reverb presets using the new RealIR engine.
Bugfixes
- VST3/Mac version: Keyboard focus sometimes got lost in preset name field.
This update is free for registered users.
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| Jul 20 - 04:03 PM | Computer Hardware > Numark |
The STEREO|iO by Numark is an interface box with a USB cable. One end has female RCA phono plugs for use with virtually any audio equipment from DJ mixers to turntables, and the other end has a USB connector. DJs can connect any line or phono-level gear to their Mac or PC via USB for recording, mixing or processing. DJs can also use STEREO|iO as an output cable from their computer to inputs on an analog mixer, enabling them to mix MP3s and other music from their computer in their traditional DJ mixer.
STEREO|iO is a low-cost problem-solving tool that can be invaluable for DJs and musicians at the gig or in the studio when a connection needs to be made. The class-compliant USB device works plug and play for Mac and PC, requiring no software-driver installtion or external power for operation.
Pricing and Availability TBA.
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