July, 2006 archive

Native Instruments has released Akoustik Piano 1.1 R2, a free update for its piano software instrument. The new version offers significant improvements and additional features, further extending its recognized strengths in sonic realism, playability, functionality and ease of use.
In Akoustik Piano 1.1, a new Overtone technology delivers strikingly realistic string resonance for all three grand [...]

Starting on August 12th, Native Instruments will take KORE, the world’s first Universal Sound Platform, on the road for a three-city tour of daily workshops and nighttime performances. The Native Lab: Kore tour is sponsored by Remix magazine and will stop over in San Francisco, New York and Chicago.
The events will be free to the [...]

Beta Monkey has introduced Music Drum Werks X, described as 100% Loud and Fast Drum Loops for Punk and Punk Rock.
Description:
The loudest and fastest member the Drum Werks Series!
Ever get the feeling you’re being cheated? Getting drum loops that say they “rock” or will work in aggressive and fast music but do nothing but fall [...]

Moog Little Phatty Analog Synthesizer was uploaded by: MoogMusicVideo
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Apple has acknowledged that a discoloration problem exists with some of its white 13-inch MacBook notebooks, where the casings of the computer may turn shades of orange after very little usage, and is repairing MacBooks that exhibit the issue.
“Some white MacBook computers may exhibit discoloration on the top case after some use,” the company wrote [...]

JazzMutant has updated the Lemur, a multitouch control surface.
Here are the highlights:
Revamped Editor
Designing interfaces for the Lemur has never been easier. Version 1.5 features a highly improved JazzEditor, that provides a more efficient way to design your personal interfaces and lets you easily route your control data – MIDI and OSC – to your applications. [...]

Summer NAMM 2006 Update: ESI Professional was showing the JamMate UG-1 guitar. The JamMate is designed to be a basic computer music guitar, with a USB connector and amp software.
The JamMate UG-1 package includes UG-1 guitar and Amplitube Live amp simulator software for variety of guitar effects and amp modeling. Also included are the [...]

iZotope has released major updates for Ozone 3, Spectron, and Trash. The updated versions include many usability enhancements as well as support for the latest operating systems and host applications.
Updates for all three plug-ins:

Universal Binary versions for Intel-based Macs
Support for 64-bit Windows applications
Improved authorization system
Improved delay compensation support with delay freeze function
“Alt-Solo” bandwidth can be [...]

At the Tenori-on Report, Toshio Iwai writes that the European version of Electroplankton has arrived from Nintendo.
I took a photo of it with other releases.
The upper is the European version and the manuals(each languages).
The lower left is the original Japanese version, the lower right is the North-American version. The color of European version is slightly [...]

SynclavierX By Synclavier Digital is a Mac OS X native application that is designed to control Synclaviers.
The Synclavier Digital Audio System used a proprietary 16-bit computer both to manage sound files and to operate its sequence engine (called a “digital memory recorder” at the time) and button panel. While the Synclavier’s central processor was obsoleted [...]