Monthly archives: December 2009
McDSP news: new plug-ins and AU at NAMM
McDSP has announced that finally non-Pro Tools users will have access to McDSP plug-ins in the form of AU. I’ve said more than one time in the past that McDSP is actually one of the reasons to use Pro Tools so I consider this a blow against Avid. But I’m happy! Finally I can use [...]
Eleven Rack update for all Pro Tools 8.0.3 systems
Avid has released an update for Eleven Rack but it’s in fact recommended for all systems regardless if you use Eleven Rack or not. The reason is to provide session compatibility with other users that may have an Eleven Rack. From Avid/Digidesign: What’s Fixed in This Update? Runtime error, access violation, crash, and possible session [...]
Waldorf Largo 1.5.0 – still no RTAS, but wrapper support
Waldorf released version 1.5.0 of Largo. It’s a free update with a completely new Browse page, a new 6-stage Chorus effect, new parameters in the Oscillator section and in the Arpeggiator. Several bugs has also been addressed. Still no RTAS support in sight, but Waldorf has tested it with the FXpansion VST2RTAS Wrapper and claim [...]
Utility Muffin Research Kitchen in your DAW
Audio Ease is giving away perhaps the coolest IR’s so far, namely of the tracking room and echo chamber at Frank Zappa’s studio the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen.
Quick tip: Combo update
If you’re on Mac OS X, whenever it’s time to update your system make sure you use the combo update on Apples website instead of the software updater in OS X. The combo update file will mount in Finder like a regular disk image. There have been occasions in the past where people have had [...]
Pro Tools applications and help tools
In this post I’ve listed all the standalone applications I could think of that in some way aids Pro Tools or Pro Tools users. Some of them do very simple and specific things, tools that are just handy to keep around, others are large multi-purpose applications intended for the big production studios.
SoundToys Decapitator now available in public beta
If you’re bored this christmas and the packages you get are not up to the standard the shiny toys of yesteryear was, you might want to play around with the unreleased SoundToys Decapitator a bit instead (previous post). The public beta is now available at the SoundToys website. The final release is scheduled for January. [...]
The feature I request today is…
The possibility to show or hide tracks in the MIDI editor on my control surface. Would have speeded up things quite a bit for me the last few days!
More deals: PSP, Sonalksis and MetaSynth
Three more holiday deals hit my inbox today, from PSP, Sonalksis and a deal on MetaSynth. PSP has updated their sQuad bundle and added the PSP ClassicQex which is an extended version of the PSP ClassicQ. Until 7th of January 2010 you can buy PSP sQuad bundle at the special price of $99, which is [...]
Technical alerts from Avid – issues with Eleven Rack and Bluetooth on iMac quad models
If you’re running a quad iMac (i5) the following technical alert from Avid/Digidesign might be of interest to you: These machines have not been qualified by Avid yet, but we wanted to let you know of this issue as it came up. Disabling Bluetooth should resolve SWODs, hangs, crashes and other odd behavior when using [...]
