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.
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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 now as well.
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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

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 compressor into a multiband compressor, to split up reverb sounds, apply different effects to different frequencies of a signal.
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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 (unlimited, 256, 64), or even the various outputs options. But limited MIDI learn? Limited number of Structure instances in a session? Ah well, I think both LE and Free will be very useful, but if you want a fullblown workstation that you could easily make an entire song with (if you can stand the interface), then you might want to look at the full version.

As you might know, the full version is listed at $499
The LE version only at $149
The Free version costs $599

Of course the free version is free… They are all good priced IMO.

Digidesign

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 import session from them either.

“Could not complete the Open Session… command because bad data encountered while translating MIDI Chunk List”

Anyone had this and lived to tell the story?

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 as a DVD and as a digital download.

Digital Music Doctor

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 LT and LX configurations can be viewed and easily customized on the Terra Digital web site.
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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

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 human ear to get a feeling about the dimension and character of a room. Most algorithmic reverbs offer a number of different algorithms to simulate different natural rooms like chamber, halls or artificial ones like plates. REFLECT uses impulse responses from real acoustic spaces and classical reverb algorithms to emulate their acoustical properties.
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