Monthly archives: August 2007
Native Instruments releases TRAKTOR SCRATCH 1.1 software update
Native Instruments has just released TRAKTOR SCRATCH 1.1, a free update for its new high-performance digital DJ system. The update includes additional functionality and a wide range of further refinements to various areas of the software, resulting in increased creative potential and optimized handling of the system.
Flux updates their plug-ins to 1.2
Here they are! After long anticipation, Flux have updated and released their product line to version 1.2 which brings a lot of new features. The new Pure Limiter is now also available. It is included for free for anyone who updates their Flux packs to 1.2. They are all available in all the standard formats [...]
Reason 4 release date set
Propellerheads has set a release date for Reason 4. There is a countdown at their website – currently at 27 days. In case your bad with math, that means they will start shipping it September 26th. Propellerheads
Roger Nichols Digital releases Spl-Izer
This looks like an interesting product. “The Spl-izer is an adjustable 3 band 24db per octave FIR (Finite Impulse Response) frequency splitter that allows the three bands to be isolated and routed to aux or instrument tracks forn separate processing.” So according to RND, this product will make it possible to turn a single band [...]
New versions of Structure – LE and Free
Yep, ’tis true, you can now have Structure for free, or as a light version if that’s your cup of tea. There are of course limitations to these, and some rather odd ones as well. I can understand that the sample libraries are different, that the multitimbral support is limited (128, 8, 4), the polyphony [...]
MIDI Chunk List Error
Anyone experienced this? It seems to be a very rare error and I’ve been told Digidesign doesn’t even consider it a bug. I had one of these errors last night and the session was totally corrupted and couldn’t be opened today. Most of the backup sessions were corrupted as well and it wasn’t possible to [...]
Digital Music Doctor releases Ableton Live 6 – Know It All! training video
Digital Music Doctor has announced the release of a new video training course, Ableton Live 6 – Know It All! This course contains over 2 hours of interactive videos which cover all major aspects of audio and MIDI recording, editing, mixing, and mastering using the Ableton Live 6 Digital Audio Workstation. It is available both [...]
Terra Digital Audio introduces MBOOK line of PCs for Digidesign Pro Tools LE
Designed specifically to support Digidesign Pro Tools LE products. The MBOOK is available in two models: LT (3.0GHz Dual Core) and LX (2.0GHz Core2 Duo). The LX also features a 320GB Western Digital hard drive, 1GB of DDR2 memory (upgradable), a 16X DVDRW drive, dual monitor support, plus two IEEE1394 and six USB ports. Both [...]
Co-founder of Elektron passes away
Sad news today. I just heard that one of the founders of Elektron – a swedish company known for their innovative drum machines and synths – has passed away. Daniel Hansson died in a car accident August 19th. Elektron
VirSyn announces REFLECT – the algorithmic reverb
REFLECT is an algorithmic reverberation plugin which combines the flexibility of vintage algorithmic reverbs with the sonic quality of convolution based reverbs. The creation of high quality reverb needs a realistic simulation of the important early reflections together with a smooth and colorless reverberation tail. The early reflections are the most important clue for the [...]
