Novation has added two keyboard versions of Nocturn to their list of MIDI controllers. Aside from the keyboard (a Fatar, 25 or 49 keys) Novation has also added eight drum pads and transport controls to the already available encoders, speed dial and other buttons.

I wouldn’t expect it to perform well with Pro Tools. No product from Novation that I’ve tried has behaved as advertised with Pro Tools.

For more info about the new Nocturn keyboards, head over to Novation.

Novation will supposedly launch another product as well on October 1st… And I happen to now another company that also announce something new that particular day.

As some have seen we have experienced a lot of downtime the past 24 hours and for a short period of time massive data loss as well. Fortunately most of the site has been recovered (for a while there I thought we had lost everything since August 1st!) but some of it is gone. I apologize for the inconvenience. Believe me, if most of it hadn’t been restored heads would have rolled. I guarantee you that I will make everything I can to have the new ProTooler more stable then the mess we’ve seen lately.

At the moment I’m living ITB, or perhaps in a box, but as soon as I’m halfway out the new site will be coming to a www near you soon, ready to kick some serious ass.

Toontrack has announced a most significant update to Superior Drummer 2, version 2.2.0.
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Avid/Digidesign is getting better at providing support for the latest platforms. To get people running Snow Leopard up and running they’ve released a prerelease version for Pro Tools 8. So what’s a prerelease version? Basically it’s a version that’s not fully supported. Pro Tools 8.0.3pr is available for all users of 8.

The following items have not been fully qualified with Pro Tools 8.0.3pr:

• Certain AIR instrument plug-ins
• Avid video peripherals

The following items are no longer supported with Pro Tools 8.0.3pr:

• PowerPC-based Macs
• Mbox (original version)
• Expansion|HD Chassis
• The following legacy audio interfaces: 888|24 I/O, 882|20 I/O, 1622 I/O, 24-bit ADAT Bridge I/O

More information at Digidesigns website.

Avid or Digidesign has introduced Eleven Rack (it’s hard to tell who, there isn’t a logo on the unit). The word was out fairly quick after Avid/Digidesign announced they were going to make an announcement, and yes, it was as expected somewhat of an Eleven integrated with an LE interface. Let me give you a quick rundown of what it is, followed by my opinion of it.

EDIT: The very observant Mike noticed the logo on the back. It appears it’s a Digidesign product.
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Toontrack has re-released their Superior Custom and Vintage and the Superior Vintage add-on in one pack for use with Superior 2.0, simply called Custom and Vintage SDX.

From the Toontrack press release:

Apart from extensive stick and brush recordings of a unique collection of drums and cymbals it also features mixer presets by producer Peter Henderson and custom MIDI by drummer Chris Whitten.

The SDX gives everyone from top producers down, access to the cream of custom and vintage drums, built by craftsmen from the 1920’s right up to the exceptional instrument makers of today, like Johnny Craviotto.

The Custom and Vintage SDX is played by Chris Whitten. The drummer on classic hits like ‘What I Am’ by Edie Brickelland The New Bohemians and ‘The Whole Of The Moon’ by The Waterboys, Paul McCartney’s ‘Flowers In The Dirt’ album.

The Custom and Vintage SDX is produced by Peter Henderson a key figure in producing Supertramp´s 20 million selling album ‘Breakfast In America’, for which he won a Grammy. He has also worked with Paul McCartney, Rush, Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, Tina Turner and Ringo Starr.

A video of the people involved in the making is available at Toontracks website.

The Custom and Vintage SDX will be available October 2009, with a special price for owners of the legacy products.

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Finally, after weeks of teasing from Flux, their latest dynamic tool is here – Syrah. Well, teasing for you, I’ve been using it for some time now.
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TC Electronic has announced that all their TDM plug-ins are qualified for use with Pro Tools 8.

Grab the latest versions at TC’s website.

I bet you didn’t see this one coming: Elysia will release a plug-in version of their Mpressor. The code for it is supplied by Brainworx, which also happens to be the same guys doing the SPL Analog Code plug-ins so I expect a good emulation. Native version will be released this year with TDM to follow soon after.

You can read more about the Mpressor at the Elysia website. So far nothing on the plug-in specifically.

Via: Gearslutz

And here’s the source, the Surround SFX website and forum.

Toontrack has stepped out of their comfort zone of acoustic samples to record their first set of electronic drums. Naturally named Electronic EZX, this EZX add-on is a collection of classic, circuit bent and resampled electronic drum sounds.
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