Digidesign, a part of Avid Technology, today announced the immediate availability of Pro Tools 8 software, the company's highly-anticipated, next-generation music creation and audio production software

Pro Tools 8 is the latest version of the industry-leading digital audio workstation. A dramatically enhanced feature set is highlighted by a completely updated user interface, more than 70 bundled plug-ins and virtual instruments, fully-integrated MIDI and score editors and an expanded array of editing features for both music and post production applications.

For composers and musicians, Pro Tools 8 provides powerful functionality for streamlining the creative process, and delivers the most versatile sonic palette ever available out-of-the-box for Pro Tools. New music creation feature ...

Till 7 of January, delaydots.com offers grand XMAS sale offer : all plug-ins, Spectral Suite and SpectrumWorx, for price $55 !

The Spectral Suite is composed of five unique DSP plug-ins line that bring innovative sound FX processing to you.

Spectral Morpher allows you to completely alter the source stream according to another, loaded sample or side chan stream with different transformation modes. There 11 processing modes available: Convolution (cross synth), Magnitude only convolution, spectral Vocoder effect, Blend and 7 mutation modes: uniform, linear, non-linear and combined mutations.

Phat is a bass exciter (based on subharmonic synth), used to excite and mix low frequency harmonic content.

PitchShift is a spectral pitch shifter that preserves the incoming signal's ...

Waves TLC Theft & Lost Coverage is an exclusive program which safeguards your Waves licenses in case your iLok gets lost or stolen.

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Apple has announced that this year is the last year the company will exhibit at Macworld Expo. Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, will deliver the opening keynote for this year's Macworld Conference & Expo, and it will be Apple's last keynote at the show.

Apple is reaching more people in more ways than ever before, so like many companies, trade shows have become a very minor part of how Apple reaches its customers. The increasing popularity of Apple's Retail Stores, which more than 3.5 million people visit every week, and the Apple.com website enable Apple to directly reach more than a hundred million customers around the world in innovative new ways.

Apple has been steadily scaling back on trade shows in recent years, including NAB, Macworld New York, Macworld Tokyo and Apple Expo in Paris.

Apogee is pleased to announce compatibility with the recently released Mac OS X Leopard update, 10.5.6. All of Apogee's Mac-compatible audio interfaces have been tested with 10.5.6, which includes :

- Symphony 64
- Symphony 32
- Symphony Mobile
- Ensemble
- Duet
- Mini-Me/DAC Firewire
- Mini-Me/DAC USB
- X-Firewire