Published on March 30th, 2007.
Author: Devon.Brent
Category: Virtual Instruments.

Rob Papen’s name should be very familiar to long-time readers of Trax Music. With our previous reviews of Albino 1 in 2003, a Trax Music Gold Award for Albino 2 in 2004, and Rob’s other adventure with Jon of ConcreteFX with Blue in 2006, Rob and Peter of LinPlug have yet again upped the ante [...]

Published on March 26th, 2007.
Author: Darren McEntee
Category: Uncategorized.

At Musikmesse 2007, FabFilter announces RTAS versions of FabFilter Timeless, Twin, Volcano, Simplon, and One. With this upcoming release, Pro Tools users will finally be able to use all FabFilter plug-ins. FabFilter will demonstrate the new RTAS versions at Musikmesse (hall 5.1, D48). The final release is currently planned for the end of April.
With this [...]

Published on March 19th, 2007.
Author: Darren McEntee
Category: Uncategorized.

n-Track now supports the new WaveRT audio driver standard introduced with Windows Vista.
WaveRT is a new audio driver standard that allows for more efficient playback and recording at very low latencies.
WaveRT drivers are currently available for Vista for a small number of audio devices including many audio interfaces built into motherboards such as the Realtek [...]

Published on March 16th, 2007.
Author: Darren McEntee
Category: Uncategorized.

Pro-Sounds has announced the immediate availability of ‘Metamorphosis’ for Arturia’s CS-80V Vsti synthesizer.
Metamorphosis is comprised of over 150 presets designed by sound designer Bryan “Xenos” Lee.  This new bank combines the sinister styling of  Bryan Lee with the legendary sound of the CS-80V to provide producers of film scores, video games, and other audio for [...]

Published on March 15th, 2007.
Author: Darren McEntee
Category: Uncategorized.

Garritan Ships Gofriller Solo Cello Software Instrument
March 14, 2007
Garritan today announced that the Gofriller Solo Cello, the latest software instrument using the revolutionary ’sonic morphing’ process, is now shipping. This Solo Cello software instrument, created by an Italian team in collaboration with Garritan, expands the company’s solo instrument series following the release of the Stradivari [...]

Published on March 14th, 2007.
Author: Darren McEntee
Category: Uncategorized.

Native Instruments today released PRO-53 3.0.3, an update for its renowned virtual analog synthesizer. Introducing Universal Binary support, the new version enables users of Intel-based Macintosh computers to utilize the full potential of this faithful emulation of the much-famed analog synthesizer from the 80s.
The 3.0.3 update for Windows and Mac is now available as a [...]

Published on March 13th, 2007.
Author: Darren McEntee
Category: Uncategorized.

GForce M-Tron gets Universal binary update
GForce announce that M-Tron is going to be their first Universal binary instrument update and promise a fast roll out for their remaining award-winning instruments…
After what GForce Software describe as an ‘epic and exhausting’ task, the first of the company’s Universal Binary instruments, the M-Tron, is ready for download. This [...]

Published on March 11th, 2007.
Author: Darren McEntee
Category: Uncategorized.

Renoise 1.8 Final
The best tracker out there has got even better with the 1.8 final release.
Renoise 1.8 Final has gone gold.
An exceptionally streamlined music production [...]

Published on March 11th, 2007.
Author: Derik.White
Category: Sounds.

Camel Audio’s Biolabs Absynth Sounds
We’ve all heard of Absynth, right? It’s that crazy, weird, spooky, hard to control synth from NI that is famous for its pads, soundscapes, and organic sounding atmospheres. If that’s what you like, then you would do yourself a service to look into the banks of presets created by [...]

Published on March 6th, 2007.
Author: Devon.Brent
Category: Virtual Effects.

ArtsAcoustic Reverb review
Coming from the world of hardware, I can tell you trying to find a good reverb in native VST or DX format has been next to impossible. I’ve had a hard time matching that clean, lush reverb tail that only seemed to come from top dollar hardware units. Most software equivalents either have [...]