You know Kenny Gioia by now right? I’ve been writing about anything new from him since the time when he made these small clips and gave them away for free. A while back he released a DVD on Groovebox Music (you can read the review of it here), and now it’s time for part 2.
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At this time, M-Audio is pleased to announce that all USB MIDI drivers are now cleared for class-compliant operation with Mac OS X Leopard. This update brings their entire USB MIDI product family up to date, delivering seamless integration with both Mac OS X 10.5.1 and 10.4.11.

They also announce the release of an updated Fast Track USB driver—providing full class-compliancy for systems running Mac OS X 10.5.1 and 10.4.11.

With this update, BREVERB fixes some problems with the RTAS version, adds Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard compatiblity as well as new additional factory presets. The update is free for all registered users.

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A new cs update for 7.3.1 is here. At a glance it looks to do for 7.3.1 what the latest cs did for 7.4.
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Soundsnap.com, a free online sound library and community, is now offering new sounds from notable film sound designers including Paul Virostek (Million Dollar Baby, Ali, Batman Begins) and Ric Viers (sfx libraries for Apple, Adobe, Sonic Foundry, Hollywood Edge).
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Are you familiar with the loudness war? Turn Me Up! wants to change what it has done to the industry.

Turn Me Up!â„¢ is a non-profit music industry organization campaigning to give artists back the choice to release more dynamic records. To be clear, it’s not our goal to discourage loud records; they are, of course, a valid choice for many artists. We simply want to make the choice for a more dynamic record an option for artists.

Here’s a short movie on the subject (from the Turn Me Up! website).

Turn Me Up!

Avid Technology, Inc. has announced the winners of its back-to-school video competition, a contest designed to connect aspiring talent to some of today’s most popular filmmakers, editors and news professionals. Judged by pros on the creative and technical edits of the submission, this year’s grand prize winning entries are: Aaron Hudson’s “Editing + VFX” and Carol Benwell’s “2007 Editing Reel.”

You can watch the winners videos here at Avid.

Loopmasters have announced Marshall Jefferson - House Generation and Harley&Muscle - Deep House Producer, two new sample packs in their Artist Series. The Artist Series feature exclusive collections of royalty free samples from some of the best known producers worldwide.
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Features:

SONART AUDIO ‘LOVE LIBERATION’ - NEW MASSIVE CONSTRUCTION KIT - Featuring over 120 24bit samples & loops (BASS loops, Synthesizer Loops, Drum Loops, FX!). More than 466 Mb of New Electro & Minimal House Material!

Construction Kits. Loop Library:

* NEW Massive 466 Mb 24-bit Electro & Minimal House Sample library
* 120 new Electro & Minimal House Loops & single hit sounds
* 3 different formats (REX2, APPLE LOOPS, WAV)
* All NEW Sounds developed by SONART sound designers.
* Hundreds of brand new Basses.
* Fully programmable
* 128 BPM Drum Loops, Bass Loops, Synthesizer Loops, FX samples!

Audio demos here at Sonart

Sonart

Waves has stuffed the API Collection, V-Series and SSL 4000 Collection together in one big box. Upgrades from SSL 4000 Collection, V-Series, The API Collection, and Mercury are available.

Prices are $4760 for TDM and $2380 for Native.

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