Mac and Music News
Through Tuesday February 8, 2011
Jul 24 - 02:00 PM | Computer Hardware > MUTEC |
Features :
• ADAT , AES/EBU and S/P-DIF interfaces working in one box
• Format and sampling rate conversions from 32.0-192.0kHz
• 16 channel SRC engine for bidirectional conversions
• AES11, Grade 1, internal reference clock (0.5ppm)
• Built-in international power supply
Applications :
• Interconnection of consumer and professional digital audio devices
• ADAT , AES3 and S/P-DIF format and sampling rate conversions
• Bidirectional conversions with different sampling rates
• Clock recovery and signal regeneration
• Usable within small studio set-ups up to broadcast installations
The MUTEC MC-4 is available at all MUTEC dealers and distributors worldwide from now on.
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Jul 24 - 12:22 PM | Plug-ins > NuGen Audio |
This update introduces a new feature in views supporting chromatic scaling. In these views, the frequency axis now displays frequency as a note name and number. The tone generator (right-click tone function in Set-up options) also snaps to note values at the appropriate dB level, when chromatic options are chosen.
This new feature can be used to simplify and accelerate tonal detection (including individual notes within existing audio), harmonic & overtone inspection and tuning compatibility analysis.
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Jul 24 - 10:47 AM | Computer Hardware > Apogee Electronics |
GiO's instrument input is specially designed for guitar and the 1/4" stereo output offers a true Apogee listening experience. GiO's five transport control buttons let guitar players record, play, stop, and quickly navigate through a ...
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Jul 24 - 09:11 AM | Music Software > Apple |
Logic Pro 9 features new Amp Designer and Pedalboard plug-ins that provide realistic virtual guitar amps and stompbox effects to create amazing custom guitar rigs. A new set of Flex Time tools allow Logic users to manipulate the timing and tempo of audio quickly and easily. MainStage 2, Apple's live performance application, includes the new Playback and Loopback plug-ins to provide backing tracks and creative, real-time loop recording for performing on stage. Logic Studio also includes the new Soundtrack® Pro 3, with new multitrack audio tools for video production, and Compressor 3.5 for encoding in a variety of fo ...
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Jul 23 - 02:02 PM | Misc |
No one was closer to Michael Jackson at the height of his creative powers than Bruce Swedien, the five-time Grammy winner who, with Jackson and producer Quincy Jones, formed the trio responsible for the sound of Jackson's records.
Friend, co-creator, and colleague, Bruce Swedien was already a seasoned recording engineer — plucked from a job at legendary Universal Audio in Chicago — when he began working with Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones on the soundtrack to The Wiz, and he was the master technician who gave the records their sound as the trio progressed to Jackson's greatest triumphs, Off the Wall, the iconic, history-making Thriller, and beyond,
Part technical guide, part anecdotal narrati ...
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