Monthly archives: August 2009
Black Lion 96 I/O mod now available
I don’t know how old this is, I just recently found out about it on Gearslutz, but Black Lion is now offering a mod for the 96 I/O interface. Black Lion has modded LE products – among others! – for quite some time now, but this is the first mod available for HD systems. It [...]
Loopmasters competition – in association with ProToolerBlog
Loopmasters, a website providing samples and loops from some of the best producers in the world, in association with this lovely website you know as ProToolerBlog is running a ‘Production Surgery Competition’. What you do is head over to the Loopmasters blog, download some loops from the widget and make a track. The widget makes [...]
Flux presents EDU purchase program
Flux is clever enough to introduce a 50% discount to students school staff, institution, training center or any other EDU entity. I have preached for student discounts before and obviously think it’s a good move by the company. More about the Flux EDU purchase program at their website.
Loomer releases Shift
Loomer has released Shift, a real-time diatonic granular pitch shifter and delay effect, featuring three independent, true stereo, delay lines, each with their own transposition and delay controls. A typical use according to Loomer would be “complex delay structures such as ping-pong delays or harmonized chord echoes“. Features: From the Loomer press release: * Three [...]
IK Multimedia ARC System now available for Pro Tools HD
IK Multimedia has announced that their ARC System is now available as a TDM plug-in for HD Accel users. ARC is basically a room correction EQ, shipping with a microphone to measure the issues of your room. Typically you would measure the room and then apply the plug-in on the Master fader.
Mac OS X 10.5.8 is qualified for use with Pro Tools
In case you have been afraid of updating to 10.5.8 because of fear it would ruin your Pro Tools setup Avid has now said it’s in the clear. There’s apparently no difference between it and 10.5.5, 10.5.6, 10.5.7. I’ve been using 10.5.8 since the day it was released and have had no issues out of [...]
Waves release Eddie Kramer Collection
Waves has released a new plug-in bundle called the Eddie Kramer Collection. I guess it was only a matter of time and it wouldn’t have been too hard to spot – Eddie have been a Waves poster boy for quite some time now. The included plug-ins are ‘Vocal channel’, ‘Bass channel’, ‘Guitar channel’, ‘Drum channel’ [...]
Share your Pro Tools software feature requests
Avid (or Digidesign? – I see they’re still using the logo) has launched a service to monitor what features we users want to add to Pro Tools. A good initiative for sure, in fact, someone already thought about it some time ago: Dear Digi As many of you know, I’ve been complaining a fair bit [...]
Toontrack and Platinum Samples collaborate
I think this announcement will please some Superior Drummer 2.0 users looking to add some additional flavor. For the first time since the start of the company Toontrack have agreed to allow a 3rd party producer to independently produce and sell an audio expansion for a Toontrack software platform. The producer is Platinum Samples and [...]
Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro now available
Studio Devil has announced that Amp Modeler Pro is now available (previous post). It is exactly what the name says, an amp modeler. RTAS version is not yet available (only VST and AU at the moment) but will be available soon. Price is $149.
