Universal Audio, a manufacturer of high-quality vintage audio hardware and DSP software plug-ins for digital audio workstations, today announced the immediate availability of the UAD-1e Express PAK and UAD-1e Expert PAK, PCI Express DSP Cards & Powered Plug-Ins. The UAD-1e Express PAK (US$499 street) and Expert PAK (US$999 street) will both ship in Q3 2006… Read More Universal Audio Ships UAD-1E Paks
Cycling ’74, a San Francisco-based music software company, today released Soundflower v. 1.2 which adds Universal Binary support for Intel-based Macs. Soundflower is a free system extension that allows users to route audio between OS X Core Audio applications. It also lets you monitor any connection with the free Soundflowerbed application. Cycling ’74 originally developed… Read More Cycling ’74 Announces Update for Soundflower
At this years WWDC, Apple previewed Mac OS X version 10.5 Leopard, the sixth major version of Mac OS X, to its third party developers. Leopard, scheduled to ship in spring 2007, extends Apple’s leadership in software innovation with groundbreaking new features, including Time Machine, a revolutionary new way to automatically back up and restore… Read More Apple Previews Mac OS X Leopard
NAMM Update: Livid Instruments, a video performance software and hardware company, introduced Octav-4, software that lets you control up to eight of the popular Edirol v-4 video mixers for synchronized and centralized control. Octav-4 opens the door for multi-screen control by linking multiple v-4 video mixers, with up to thirty-two video inputs and eight unique… Read More Livid Intros Octav-4 Video Mixer
Here’s a video that captures video doing a live remix of Earth Wind and Fire’s September: Looks like this is from a NAMM session with M-Audio. Not a great set, but it gives you an idea of how he remixes in Live.
Electronica wunderkind BT has released a preview of is upcoming release, This Binary Universe. It’s available as a download for iPods with video capability and also for web viewing: The release will be a 2-Disc Set CD + DVD, with a standard stereo CD and the DVD playable in 5.1 or stereo. The DVD will… Read More BT Releases Preview of This Binary Universe
VirtuosoWorks, makers of NOTION music composition and performance software, has released the Saxophone Sound Expansion Kit. This new sound kit expands the company’s library to six titles, adding new sounds and techniques to the standard orchestra that ships with NOTION software. The Saxophone sound kit features new sounds and techniques recorded for seamless playback by… Read More Notion Adds Saxophones
Public radio producer Stephen Hill, host of the popular electronic/space music show Hearts of Space, thinks that High Definition Radio is dead on arrival, and that podcasting and other Internet audio options dug its grave. HD Radio is a standard for delivering near CD-quality audio over radio waves. “HD reminds me of DCC (Digital Compact… Read More Stephen Hill: HD Radio is DOA
LvB’s X has introduced LvB’s X 2.0 – Virtual Music Composer, “music motive/phrase maker” software, an application that promises to compose music so you don’t have to. The software works as a composer instead of a tool for composing. Users can create the basic part of a song by developing the motive which allows a… Read More Virtual Music Composer Writes Music So You Don’t Have To
Sonica has introduced the HUSH-965 audio workstation, a computer specifically designed for computer audio work. The workstation is powered by the Intel Core 2 Duo Processor running at 2.4GHz per core, with 4MB of cache memory and with a 1066MHz Front Side Bus (FSB). In addition, the HUSH-965 workstation incorporates Extreme XMS II DDR2-800MHz memory,… Read More Sonica Audio Labs Debuts HUSH-965 Audio Workstation
