Published on July 30th, 2007.
Author: Darren McEntee
Category: Industry News.

MOTU has released MachFive 2, the next generation of its “Universal Sampler” for Mac OS X and Windows.
MachFive 2 provides cross-platform compatibility for the latest Mac and Windows operating systems, including Universal Binary support for Mac Intel CPUs. All instrument plug-in formats are supported – VST, AU, RTAS, DX, MAS – as well as stand-alone [...]

Published on July 30th, 2007.
Author: Darren McEntee
Category: Industry News.

Freeverse and Felt Tip Software announced “Tuna Pitch” a free app and widget to help you tune your guitar or other instrument. With five built-in presets including the standard EADGBE tuning, reference tones, and the option to set all six strings to any note, Tuna Pitch has everything you need to stay in-tune! The Tuna [...]

Published on July 30th, 2007.
Author: Darren McEntee
Category: Industry News.

The introduction of the Moog Little Phatty synth in March 2006 marked a new era in Moog’s history, bringing the features and functionality of its high-end analog instruments to a broader audience. Today, Moog continues to push the electronic music world into another dimension with the introduction of the Little Phatty Editor Librarian. This computer [...]

Published on July 25th, 2007.
Author: Darren McEntee
Category: Industry News.

zplane.development has updated vielklang to v1.0.2. This update contains several stability improvements and is recommended for all users.
Changes:

Missing fonts could lead to instabilities and crashes on Mac.
GUI-related problems (white screen areas) in Logic on PPC.
Several minor stability issues.
GUI-updates could run out of sync in case of very fast snapshot changes on slower computers.
Pop-up registration screen [...]

Published on July 25th, 2007.
Author: Darren McEntee
Category: Industry News.

Antares is pleased to announce that Harmony Engine – Vocal Modeling Harmony Generator, a real-time harmony generating plug-in that puts professional-quality harmony arrangements within reach of any songwriter, producer, musician or engineer is now available.

Designed for songwriters looking for that perfect backup vocal, composers experimenting with unique vocal effects, or any musician needing vocal or [...]

Published on July 24th, 2007.
Author: Darren McEntee
Category: Industry News.

ManyBass is a bass guitar sample based synthesizer which comes with a large collection of bass guitar samples intended to form the foundation of your day to day bass instrument needs. This extensive range of sounds has then been coupled with a highly efficient sample playback engine with a powerful FX rack.

ManyBass has been designed [...]

Published on July 23rd, 2007.
Author: Darren McEntee
Category: Industry News.

Native Instruments has updated Absynth o v4.0.2.
Bug fixes:

Morph wave edits are being reset when making more than one morph wave.
Crash dragging breakpoint of envelope below GUI.
Crash loading wave in the wave editor.
Shift-scrolling doesn’t redraw envelopes.
Volume edit in filter section broken.
Transpose issue of OSC.
Wrong resolution on Envelope/LFO value knobs.
Change of tuning cannot be cancelled.

Alt+F4 doesn’t close [...]

Published on July 23rd, 2007.
Author: Darren McEntee
Category: Industry News.

SoundToys has updated SoundToys Native Effects V3 (EchoBoy, FilterFreak, PhaseMistress, Crystallizer, and Tremolator) to v3.0.1.

Changes:

Improved MIDI sync.
Improved automation support.
Fixed graphic errors.
Fixed ADSR trigger mode to work correctly.
Miscellaneous other improvements or bug fixes for a stronger performance with Audio Units applications.

The TDM and RTAS versions are also now available for Windows. More [...]

Published on July 23rd, 2007.
Author: Darren McEntee
Category: Industry News.

Image Line Software, the creator of FL Studio, has released its first additive synthesizer, Morphine. With a flexible architecture and low CPU usage algorithms that retain a warm sound, Morphine introduces a revolution to the world of Additive Synthesis. Available in AudioUnit, VSTi and Standalone versions.
“The development of Morphine was a long, stressful process – [...]

Published on July 21st, 2007.
Author: Darren McEntee
Category: Industry News.

Rayzoon is pleased to announce that Jamstix 2, the long awaited successor to the original virtual drummer Jamstix, will be released on 8/20/2007.

The World’s Most Advanced Virtual Drummer VSTi:

Real-time groove composition using dedicated style and drummer modeling (not static patterns!)
In-depth drummer limb simulation, including triangulation of hand movements, ensures that the grooves are always humanly [...]

Published on July 20th, 2007.
Author: Darren McEntee
Category: Industry News.

Audeon announces the availability of the long awaited Mac OS X version of their flagship software synthesizer UFO (Unique Filters and Oscillators).

 UFO is built upon Audeon’s proprietary TransModal Synthesis technology, which makes sound programming particularly flexible and intuitive:

The sound is defined by various perceptual attributes such as Periodicity, Brightness, Noisiness, Chaos, etc. These sound characteristics [...]

Published on July 20th, 2007.
Author: Darren McEntee
Category: Industry News.

db audioware has released two new dynamics processing plug-ins – Sidechain Compressor and Sidechain Gate.
Created to satisfy a long-standing demand for side-chain capability missing in many audio software packages, both plug-ins feature db audioware’s Universal Sidechains. This proven technology gives the plug-ins true multi track side-chaining operation in most audio programs running on Mac [...]

Published on July 19th, 2007.
Author: Darren McEntee
Category: Industry News.

Wusik has released a version 4.0.6 update of Wusikstation 4. This update requires at least v3.1.4 prior to installation.
Changes:

Added: all effects are now VSTs. (2.4 SDK) The internal code was also changed to load any VST effect. (with restrictions) A wIni file let you set special information.
Added: new option on the file-browser: Hold Effects. [...]

Published on July 19th, 2007.
Author: Darren McEntee
Category: Industry News.

Outsim has updated SynthMaker to v1.0.7. This release introduces SysEx support. The implementation has SysEx coming in via the MIDI In component and going out via the MIDI Out component. There are two new components for translating SysEx messages to and from strings which you can then manipulate or construct to send data back to [...]

Published on July 18th, 2007.
Author: Darren McEntee
Category: Industry News.

MusicLab has announced RealStrat, a sample-based virtual instrument with an innovative approach to guitar sound modeling and guitar techniques emulating on a standard MIDI keyboard.
RealStrat provides playability based on the unique performance modes and easy-to-use keyboard layout as well as the advanced key/pedal/velocity switch system allowing a keyboardist to perform guitar parts with a whole [...]