Mac and Music News
Through Tuesday January 6, 2015
Feb 25 - 02:06 PM | Virtual Instrument > New Sonic Arts |
- Manage your patches and samples with the Integrated File Browser and get your sounds into Granite quicker than ever.
- Navigate and customise Favourite Folders, and preview audio files with In-Place Audition.
- Automate any parameter, including Sample Start and End.
- Assign any parameter for MIDI control with the redesigned Assignment Manager, and store and recall controller setups with the Template feature.
- Sample Loop Recording is now available in addition to Sample Start and the other internal recorders, allowing even more twisted and evolving patches.
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Feb 25 - 11:43 AM | Plug-ins > Voxengo |
SPAN is a free real-time "fast Fourier transform" audio spectrum analyzer
plugin for professional music and audio production applications.
List of changes in version 2.5:
- Crash issue reported in Apple Logic Pro fixed.
- If secondary spectrum is active, the delta between primary and
secondary spectrums at cursor position is now displayed.
- A crash related to UI resizing function fixed.
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Feb 25 - 11:29 AM | Music Software > Repetito |
Repetito is a real time software which was developed for live music; Repetito can also be used in a studio. Its operation and its user interface are simple and intuitive.
Repetito is operated with MIDI commands. The graphic user interface takes up the whole screen so musicians can control Repetito while playing music.
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Feb 25 - 10:13 AM | Music Software > MusicDevelopments |
Improvements:
- rewritten user interface: better usability on small resolutions, still having everything at your fingertips
- chords and progressions can be based on scale degrees, several chord notations offered
- cut/copy/paste works for phrases
- simpler structure editor
- MIDI drag and drop tracks or composition to DAWs
- improved Idea Tool: generate a new composition for pressing a key
- better reliability - the new recovery feature will recover your composition if the program or a plug-in crashes
During the promotion RapidComposer and RapidComposer LE are available at a discounted price (USD 224/USD 89) until the end of March.
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Feb 23 - 02:15 PM | Music Software > Loopseque |
MIDI (iPad 2 or higher):
- MIDI-out: Clock, Events, CC, Latency.
- MIDI-in: Clock.
New layout for MIDI events:
- MIDI note for each circle: channel, velocity, volume, root key.
- Attack, Release, Start and Length for each note.
- Chord maker presets.
- New layout for MIDI assignable CCs: 4 pads controllers for X/Y parameters, sliders and buttons.
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