Completion of Pro Tools 8.04 for all versions
Avid have today announced the completion of Pro Tools 8.04 for all versions. The latest update offers Windows 7 support for Pro Tools LE and Pro Tools M-Powered, plus lots of improvements.
Enjoy tons of performance enhancements and fixes with Pro Tools® 8.0.4 software, a new free update for all registered Pro Tools HD 8, Pro Tools LE®, and Pro Tools M-Powered™ users.
This latest version delivers official Windows 7 support for Pro Tools LE and Pro Tools M-Powered—plus we’ve added new PC drivers for Pro Tools LE 8.0.4, greatly expanding the number of compatible laptop and desktop computers.
SCI Pro One bass line
Found this nice video with the sound of an SCI Pro One bass line being controlled by an Oberkorn analog sequencer (separate cv and filter). The Roland System 100m is also being controlled via the sequencer.
New track with electro glitcher Troubleshooter
Troubleshooter is back with a hard beating electro track Yellowcore on an EP together with artist Noiz. It’s unavoidable to compare Yellowcore with the works of Bitstream at their best. This is one of my favorite releases this year!
Read full review of Slashback / Yellowcore – Noiz / Troubleshooter on Boomkat.com ©
Free electric guitar sound module
DSK Music ElectriK GuitarZ is a free electric guitar sound module for Windows.
http://www.vimeo.com/13040322
Features:
- 2 oscillators with 134 waveforms and wave-draw option.
- 10 electric guitar models.
- Amp. envelope, fine-tune & portamento control.
- 5 band equalizer.
- 4 effects: Flanger, Delay, Distortion & Chorus.
- MIDI automation.
- Velocity response.
Pethu Music are giving away SpecDrum for Kontakt 4
Pethu Music are giving away SpecDrum, a Kontakt 4 instrument/sample set of all 32 sounds available for the relatively rare Cheetah Specdrum. Pethu describes it thusly:
“The Cheetah SpecDrum was a poor man’s Linn alternative – an 8-bit, 3-channel sample player that bolted onto the back of a Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer. Both sequencer program and drum samples had to fit in 48KB’s of RAM, so no wonder long cymbal crashes are in short supply! Despite that, the sounds are surprisingly good.”
i3 has released version 3.5 of DSP-Quattro, a digital audio editor for Mac.
i3 has released version 3.5 of DSP-Quattro, a digital audio editor for Mac.
The most important new feature is that version 3.5 introduces the full DDP 2 files export for professional error-free audio CD mastering, even including MD5 checksums.
Not only this, of course: there are dozens and dozens of major and minor new features, changes and improvements, including the possibility to load an un-limited number of AU/VST plug-ins effects on each Effx send module, improved plug-in compatibility, new look for several GUIs, and very very much more…. All DSP-Quattro 3 users are highly recommended to update their version to 3.5, this major update is a free upgrade!
DSP-Quattro 3.5 for Mac is available to purchase for 149 EUR / $199 USD. A Cross-upgrade is available for 75 EUR / $99 USD.
More information: i3 DSP-Quattro
A demo of Forrest Mims, III’s Audible Light Meter
This is a demo of Forrest Mims, III’s Audible Light Meter. This photo-theremin design was originally published in Optoelectronic Projects Vol 1, published by Radio Shack in 1976.
The schematic is included within the video.
a super minimal photo-theremin from back in the day… lets build it and see what it sounds like.
it only has 7 parts including the speaker and battery!
Getting the grips on Reaper
Reaper is fast becoming a truly powerful and efficient DAW, are you up to speed on it?
The amazing Kenny Gioia breaks it all down for you in this awesome, in-depth series of video tutorials focusing on Cockos Reaper. You’ll learn about project creation, templates, routing, editing, using plug-ins, automation, rendering and exporting, MIDI, markers and regions and so much more. After viewing this collection, you’ll be able to work and navigate Reaper like a seasoned pro. More and more people are switching to Reaper everyday, don’t get left behind, and don’t fear the Reaper! Product Hightlights • 26 Tutorials / Over 4 Hours Total Runtime
• For all beginner to intermediate Cockos Reaper users
• Tutorials written by multi-platinum selling producer Kenny Gioia
• Simple to use video control interface for Mac & PC
New free VST synth from UGO
UGO Audio’s Texture 1.2 is a free virtual analog synth for Windows that offers “gritty smooth nasty weird” sound.
Description:
Texture offers an amazingly wide range of…well…textures. Smooth, odd digital ambiences, metallic rings, synthetic percussion, brutally distorted sounds, classic virtual analog sounds, and even some physical modeling type tones are all possible with this unique synth.
The heart of Texture is its special band pass filter that offers great variety and depth of tone.
After that, you can continue to sculpt your sonic textures with three types of distortion, high rez low pass filtering, metallic effects, reverb, gate sequencing and dual delays.
Specifications:
- Virtual Analog.
- Mono/Poly operation.
- Detune.
- Harmony.
- Pulse Width + modulation.
- FM.
- Downsampler.
- Monstrous Band Pass Filter.
- Highly Resonant Low Pass Filter.
- Distortion.
- 2 Envelopes.
- 3 LFOs.
- Reverb.
- Metal Module with modulation.
- Dual Delay with MIDI sync and pan.
- 16 Step Gate Sequencer.
- Gate length control.
- 128 Patches By: Ugo. Mark Stolk (Mystahr) and Tim Conrardy.
Download at the UGO Audio site.
Duran Duran releasing new material soon
In a video post Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran has given some more news on when we can exactly expect a new Duran Duran album (their 13th) and also why it is taking them that long to release it. Nick Rhodes: “It’s been tougher than we thought. You always hope that things will go quickly with the record… but sometimes it doesn’t work like that. And this album was an uphill climb, the reason it was, was that the tracks were so strong. We really set the bar very high and we are slowly making our way up to that bar. We have 9 out of 12 songs which are pretty much done.”
Rhodes hopes to be finished by mid-July and then mix the material in September. The album will – still according to Rhodes – be out in the first quarter of next year.
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