MacWorld Update: Apple today unveiled its new MacBook Pro notebook computer line. The MacBookPro features a new Intel Core Duo processor which delivers up to four times the performance of the PowerBook G4. The new MacBook Pro features a aluminum enclosure just one inch thick, weighs just 5.6 pounds, includes a built-in iSight video camera… Read More Apple Intros Blazing Intel-Based MacBook Pro Laptop
Native Instruments has released an update to its virtual modular synthesizer, Reaktor 5.1. Reaktor 5.1 takes Native Instruments versatile sound studio a step further: Alongside numerous improvements, this latest version offers a wide range of new and updated instruments and sounds – the total number of synthesizers, samplers and effects included has risen to a… Read More Reaktor Updated to 5.1
Here’s one for the benders & DIY’rs: Highly Liquid is offering MIDISpeak Module – Version 2, a talking toy MIDI retrofit for the Speak & Spell, Speak & Read, or Speak & Math. Features: Adds a standard MIDI IN port to your Speak & Spell, Speak & Read, or Speak & Math. Non-English versions also… Read More Add MIDI to a Speak and Spell
Version update 1.1 for Voxengo BMS plug-in has been released. BMS is a bass management system PC VST plug-in for surround sound professionals. BMS is able to extract low-frequency content from non-LFE channels in up to 7.1 surround configurations. The main purpose of BMS is to evaluate low-frequency content present in non-LFE channels during mastering.… Read More Voxengo Updates Bass Management System
iCompositions, a community for sharing music made with Apple’s GarageBand, has partnered with Perimeter Sound Arts to give away what they describe as “the largest package of free Apple Loops in history.” The collection, available exclusively for registered users of iCompositions, consists of 264 loops and joins existing free packages available from iCompositions, bringing iCompositions… Read More iCompositions Announces Free Apple Loops Collection
2006 NAMM Preview: Waves has announced the latest in its ongoing series of plug-ins: Z-Noise. Z-Noise is not just a more precise version of X-Noise — it’s based on a new algorithm that reconceptualizes the way noise is treated. Z-Noise’s breakthrough features include dynamic noise profiling, innovative transient preservation and increased low frequency resolution. Other… Read More Waves Intros Z-Noise Plug-In
The Vienna Symphonic Library welcomes the New Year with a special concert recording. They’re not playing Johann Strauss at the Wiener Musikverein, but they’re presenting Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition on the virtual stage of the Great Hall of the Wiener Konzerthaus, orchestrated by Maurice Ravel and realized with various sample libraries of the… Read More Free Virtual New Years Concert
Kjaerhus Audio has announced the release of a new software synthesizer called Spectra. Spectra is a synthesizer plug-in which combines multistage additive synthesis with subtractive synthesis in an easy to operate and intuitive product. It provides a wealth of timbral possibilities, ranging from classic synthesizer sounds to re-synthesized instrument sounds and sound morphing. It features… Read More Kjaerhus Audio Launches Spectra, A Multistage Additive and Subtractive Soft-synth
Apple has released a free online seminar, Making Music on the Mac with Garageband. The 1 1/2 hour seminar is designed to introduce Garageband and how it can be used to turn a Mac into a musical instrument and recording studio. The seminar covers: Playing Garagebands virtual instruments Using Apple Loops to build a “band”… Read More Free Seminar – Making Music with Garageband
The Musicrow Group has released Crow Gold Pack for Native Instruments Reaktor-5, a collection of 23 Reaktor ensembles. The pack contains a variety of audio tools for the contemporary music producer: vintage synthesizer emulators, exciting futuristic synths, a turntable emulator, an authentic accordion synth, a bass sampler-synth, a plate reverb emulator, vintage effect emulators, filters,… Read More Reaktor Ensemble Collection Released
