Avid has quietly announced that Digidesign as you know it is history. Digidesign, the creator of Pro Tools, is getting absorbed into the Avid brand. Based on what we’ve heard from Avid, it sounds like you’ll be seeing Avid Pro Tools from now on.
Way Out Ware’s Jim Heinz demos iSample – an iPhone sampling and sequencing application. iSample is one of the most powerful iPhone music apps available – and it offers a preview of the potential of the rumored Apple Tablet as a computer for music. Jim has done a lot of optimization with iSample – check… Read More Way Out Ware’s Jim Heinz Demos iSample
MIDIbox SID is a new plugin for Mac & Windows that emulates the MIDIbox – an open source platform for making custom MIDI controllers. The free AU/VST gives you the ability to try some MBSID patches without building the hardware.
This is a demo of Ms. Pinky Revised – a free Max For Live patch – being used to scratch in Ableton Live 8.
Tonehammer has introduced Shake Vol. 1, a deep sampled collection dedicated to shakers, rattles and bell tree percussion. Description: The fuzzy, buzzy, sandy -sounding “chuff”, “shuck” and “jingle” of hand-held shakers and bells is an essential part of orchestral, latin, electronic, hip hop and even rock music. Tonehammer says: We found, collected and even hand-made… Read More Tonehammer Intros Shake Percussion Library
New in the Free Windows Music Software department – Variety of Sound has released epicVerb 1.5 – a major update to the free digital reverb that makes it even more epic. epicVerb 1.5 contains not only some bugfixes and stability improvements but also re-worked algorithms which support “way more dense and three-dimensional reverberation processing.” If… Read More epicVerb 1.5 Is More Epic, More Verb, But Windows Only
This video tutorial, via Brian at NextStepAudio, demonstrates how you can create your own multi-sampled instruments.
Free Music Software: Overloud Slego is designed to let guitar players “rock out” with the guitar amp effect simulator engine of Overloud’s flagship product TH1, for free.
This is a preview of the KarmetiK Machine Orchestra, a group that brings together custom-built robotic musical instruments and human performers with modified instruments, unique musical interfaces, and hemispherical speaker-pods.
George Yohng’s W1 Limiter VST is a free clone of the Waves L1, It’s available in DLL, VST & AudioUnit formats. via waveformeless
