Avid Downsizes, Sells M-Audio To inMusic

Avid announced today that it is downsizing and getting out of the consumer audio and video business. The company’s consumer audio products are being sold to inMusic, the parent company of Akai Professional, Alesis and Numark, among others. The products involved in this transaction include M-Audio brand keyboards, controllers, interfaces, speakers and digital DJ equipment and… Read More Avid Downsizes, Sells M-Audio To inMusic

48 Free Patches For The M-Audio Venom Synthesizer

G-Storm has released a collection of free patches for the M-Audio Venom synthesizer. This video demonstrates these patches: 73 Tines. A smoother EP like Rhodes, Wurlitzer with a digital character. SuperJuVee. Thick Roland JV-1080 Soundtrack strings with soft Venom grit. Tank!: A loosely Atari-2600 sound effect inspired by the tank game in ‘combat’ and ‘Pole… Read More 48 Free Patches For The M-Audio Venom Synthesizer

Moog, Spectrasonics, Avid Among TEC Award Winners

The TEC Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to ‘recognizing and furthering excellence in audio, video, music and other communications media arts’ announced the winners of its annual TEC Awards at the 2012 NAMM Show. The TEC Awards celebrate Technical Excellence & Creativity in audio, video, music and other communications media arts Winners include Genelec, Eventide, Avid Pro… Read More Moog, Spectrasonics, Avid Among TEC Award Winners

Avid Intros AAX Plugin Format, TDM & RTAS Are Dinosaurs

Avid, along with introducing Pro Tools 10, has introduced a new plugin format, AAX. Here’s what they have to say about the AAX plugin format: Expand your mixing palette with a wide variety of AAX (Avid Audio eXtension) sound processing and effects plug-ins, from lush convolution reverbs and vintage compressor emulations to powerful noise reduction… Read More Avid Intros AAX Plugin Format, TDM & RTAS Are Dinosaurs

Introducing Pro Tools 10 & Pro Tools 10 HDX

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxRHIimzkRY Avid has announced Pro Tools 10 & Pro Tools 10 HDX, the next generation of the industry-standard studio DAW. Here’s what’s new in Pro Tools 10: Speed up editing and mixing with Clip Gain, and easily adjust and match gain levels, pre-mixer (watch the video) Use multiple audio formats in a session—including interleave—without file… Read More Introducing Pro Tools 10 & Pro Tools 10 HDX