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The Amazing Rolo has announced Loop Machine 2.0.

Loop Machine is music software that uses the Nintendo Wii remote as a wireless gestural interface for creating loop-based music. It’s an easy to use, powerful, and fun music creation and performance tool. According to the Amazing Rolo, you can load in any audio ?les or loops and start mixing, chopping, and crazinating within minutes, just by using the wireless Wiimote and dancing around and looking totally awesome.

The Loop Machine 2.0 was rebuilt. Features include:

• Four channels of independently controlled audio
• Three effects and a ?lter on each channel
• Effects, ?lter, and channel volume are all mapped to the user’s movements
• Live audio sampling on each channel
• “Learn Mode”, which records the movement of the controller and applies it to an effect on the loop or sample
• BPM tempo adjustment, with time signature and loop length
• Recorder for saving your set

Instasampler is a new free sampler for OS X.

Description: 

The plugin takes its samples (instantly) from the audio input whenever you hit a specific MIDI note for the first time. Every consecutive time you hit the same MIDI-note, it plays back the recorded fragment (or shorter, depending on the note’s length).

When you play the sampled fragments, you have the possibility to vary the following:

• velocity – Playback volume
• attack and release – Both attack & release times are configurable
• floor – The level of the input audio which is passed along unaffected when no samples are played
• playback speed – Speed up or – down the sample playback using the pitchbend control with a configurable range
• reverse playback – Playback in reverse

You can hear an example of Instasampler in action below.

 

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Remember the annoying music that made you remember why you hate Windows?

Now you can hate Mac sounds, too:

Faber Acoustical has introduced version 2 of the SignalScope and SignalScope Pro real-time signal analysis software.

SignalScope’s new interface places each signal analyzer tool in its own window, allowing users to multiple data displays simultaneously. Each analyzer display offers hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics for fast on-screen drawing, and Quartz graphics for high-resolution off-screen drawing to PDF files or the printed page. Advanced cursor options enable users to zoom and pan data displays, in addition to pinpointing specific data points within a display for further inspection.

All analysis tools within SignalScope and SignalScope Pro offer more advanced measurement configurations, which can all be saved in project files, along with the measurement data itself. SignalScope Pro also now includes a stereo signal generator with support for Audio Unit generator plug-ins. Significant new features in both products also include comprehensive AppleScript support, direct comparison of captured and live signals, and multi-channel analysis.

Pricing and Availability:

• SignalScope 2 costs $129 and SignalScope Pro can be licensed for $299.
• Licensed users of previous versions of SignalScope can upgrade to SignalScope 2 for $59, or to SignalScope Pro 2 for $189.
• Licensed users of previous versions of SignalScope Pro can upgrade to version 2 for $129.
• Special education pricing is available.

NAMM Update: SoundToys announced that it is planning full VST support for both Mac and PC for the SoundToys Native Effects bundle and the native-capable plug-ins of the SoundToys TDM Effects bundle.

Full VST support for OS X and Windows XP/Vista platforms is expected to ship in late spring of 2008, marking the first time SoundToys plug-ins have been available for applications like Steinberg’s Cubase and Nuendo, and Sonar and Project 5 from CakeWalk.

“The VST platform is exciting for us.” Says Mitch Thomas, SoundToys sales director, “We get so many requests for VST support we had to make this happen. After all, we got into this business to bring cool tools to the people who wanted them.”

Once released, VST support will be included in SoundToys bundles and with individual plug-ins that are native capable. Also upon release, upgrades for previous clients will be available. More information will be posted on the SoundToys web site as it becomes available.