Mac and Music News
Through Monday May 11, 2015
Apr 22 - 09:42 AM | Music Software > Mutools |
Highlights:
- Greatly improved LFO module with fully editable vectorial wave shapes.
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgDzeLMghTc
- New "Note Dispatcher" module which dispatches the incoming notes to one of its outputs depending on the mode: Random - Round Robin - Keyed - Key Range.
- New MIDI Channel Remapper module to remap the 16 MIDI channels to another channel.
- New One Pole Lowpass module.
- Renamed the term "Session" to the more familiar term "Project".
- New Sinc-16 sample interpolation algorithm which sounds much better when transposing samples with lots of trebles.
- When working with many tracks and audio parts, scrolling, zooming and editing the composer is (much) faster now.
- Number MIDI inputs and outputs has been doubled from 8 to 16, resulting in up to 256 possible output channels.
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Jan 24 - 10:24 AM | Music Software > Spectrasonics |
This is the first v2.0 of any Spectrasonics instrument and it's truly a gigantic one!
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Jan 22 - 03:17 PM | Music Hardware > Dave Smith Instruments |
To celebrate this auspicious event, at this week's NAMM show, Dave Smith Smith's is debuting a new analog poly synth bearing the Sequential name: the Prophet-6. The new instrument features voltage-controlled oscillators, filters, and amplifiers. Its emphasis is on vintage analog tone with modern reliability.
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Jan 22 - 05:34 AM | Music Hardware > Roland |
Equipped with 37 mini keys, this compact instrument delivers fat, warm analog bass and lead tones with ample controls for hands-on tweaking, plus polyphonic PCM essentials like pads, strings, brass, and more. Create impressive loops in a flash with the pattern sequencer and built-in drum kits, and explore expressive vocal textures with the gooseneck mic, Vocoder, and AutoPitch.
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