Last week, we reported, rather breathlessly, that “Microsoft Songsmith Makes Everybody A Composer!” Here’s Microsoft’s ad for Songsmith: Microsoft Songsmith promises to let you create fully arranged songs by just singing into your computer. You sing, it adds music and nobody gets hurt, right? Not exactly. We’ve heard what Microsoft can do – and it’s not… Read More 7 Reasons To Hate Microsoft Songsmith
At the 2009 Winter NAMM Show, Cycling ‘74 and Ableton announced Max for Live – a tool that lets you create and edit new features for Ableton Live. Max For Live devices look a lot like any other device in Live (right) – except that they have an edit button. Cycling ’74 founder David Zicarelli offers his perspective on Max For… Read More On Integrating Max & Ableton Live
2009 Winter NAMM Show: Cycling ’74 and Ableton have announced Max for Live – an alt/electronica synthgasm. Max for Live permits users to create devices that extend and customize Live by creating instruments, controllers, audio effects, and MIDI processors. In other words – it lets you make up bizarro electronic music stuff and put it… Read More Max For Live
2009 NAMM Show: Celemony Software introduced Melodyne Editor, the first product with Direct Note Access (DNA). DNA technology allows, for the first time, the editing of individual chord tones in audio recordings. Melodyne editor provides all the editing functions of the existing editions of Melodyne. With the integration of DNA, though, the harmonies in an… Read More 2009 Winter NAMM Show: Melodyne DNA
2009 NAMM Show Update: Focusrite introduced its first collection of VST/AU plug-ins, the awesomely titled Focusrite Plug-in Suite. The Focusrite Plug-in Suite offers a high-end collection of EQ, compression, reverb and gating VST/AU plug-ins for tracking and mixing: The Compressor and Gate have been modeled on Focusrite’s hardware devices, using the measurement of Focusrite’s custom optos… Read More Focusrite Plug-in Suite
http://vimeo.com/2850728 This is a demo, via Stretta, of Volta – a virtual instrument that turns your audio interface into a control voltage interface.
At the 2009 Winter NAMM Show, Focusrite launched its Guitar FX VST/AU Plug-in suite; the result of a collaboration between Focusrite and Overloud. The Focusrite Guitar FX Suite provides eleven VST/AU plug-ins that Focusrite claims are “sonicaly equal to, or better than any Guitar FX plug-ins on the market.” These include five guitar amp… Read More NAMM: Focusrite Guitar Effects Suite
NAMM Show: Overloud announces TH1 Triode, its “Essential Guitar Effects Suite”. Description: Exclusive features such as SLR amplifier morphing, free life-like microphone positioning around cabinets, ReSPire cabinet technology, and BREVERB-based reverb, are combined with a radically different and transparent user interface, a selection of mics, cabinets, and amps, stomp-boxes, pedals and rack effects. TH1 Triode… Read More Overloud Intros TH1 Triode Guitar Effects Suite
Winter NAMM Show: McDSP has announced the new vintage Retro Pack plug-in line, featureing the 4020 Retro EQ, the 4030 Retro Compressor and the 4040 Retro Limiter: The 4020 Retro EQ is a four-band EQ and complimentary filter set. The HF and LF bands are shelving EQ, with two additional parametric EQs at the HMF and… Read More Winter NAMM Preview: McDSP Retro Pack Bundle
Prosoniq has released NorthPole – a free effects plug in for AudioUnit compatible applications on the Macintosh. It adds a fully programmable virtual analog synthesizer filter with resonance, envelope follower and an integrated post-filter digital delay to your audio production environment. This product at a glimpse: Platforms: MacOS X Formats: AudioUnit Latest version: 1.0.1 Free You… Read More Free Mac Audio Filter Plugin – Prosoniq NorthPole
