All about the new Pro Tools 10
The new Pro Tools 10 software adds major new features to the world’s leading digital audio workstation, delivering on top requests from both audio post and music professionals.
With it, Avid introduces several new tools and timesaving workflows, such as the top-requested Clip Gain, which separates pre-mix levels from Pro Tools software’s renowned mixing automation, greatly speeding up and improving the workflow between sound editors and mixers. Customers will also be able to achieve higher sound quality and better performance than ever, whether they’re recording, composing, editing, mixing, or playing back their sessions.
Work faster and easier with the most robust tools
- Speed up pre-mix and editing workflows with Clip Gain
- Experience better performance—even on network-attached or slow local drives—with disk handling improvements and real-time fades
- Get more flexibility—and 24-hour timeline capability—when conforming multiple projects into a single timeline
- Sound your best, faster than ever
- Use multiple file formats and mixed bit depths in the same project—including interleaved—without converting files
- Record, edit, and mix in higher resolution with 32-bit floating-point file format support
- Get the sound of the renowned System 5 console EQ and dynamics with the Avid Channel Strip plug-in, now included with Pro Tools 10
“Today’s audio post and music professionals are faced with evolving challenges and much more demanding productions that require more power, extended capabilities, and better sound quality than ever before,” says Chris Gahagan, Avid’s senior vice president of products and solutions.
“Pro Tools|HDX and Pro Tools 10 software mark an enormous leap forward in sound quality and efficiency, enabling our top professional customers to deliver their best sounding, most creative work in less time.”
Pro Tools 10 software is available worldwide now. Pricing is as follows:
- Pro Tools 10 software (full version) retails for $699 US MSRP (please note that Pro Tools HD 10 software is bundled with Pro Tools|HD family systems only, and is not available for separate purchase except as an upgrade)
- Pro Tools 9 owners can upgrade to Pro Tools 10 for $299
- Pro Tools HD software owners can upgrade to Pro Tools HD 10 starting at $999
More info can be found at www.avid.com
Image-Line updates FL Studio to v10.0.8
Download FL Studio here – http://flstudio.image-line.com/documents/download.html
Image-Line has updated FL Studio, the music production software for Windows.
FL Studio 10 is a complete software music production environment, representing more than 12 years of sustained & focused development. Everything you need in one package to compose, arrange, record, edit, mix and master professional quality music. FL Studio 10 is the fastest way from your brain to your speakers.
Changes in FL Studio v10.0.8
- Added Harmor (demo).
- Downloader / content manager 2.3.
- DirectWave to v1.4.22.
- Envelope editor updated (FPC, Envelope Controller, Edison, Convolver, Love Philter, Stereo Shaper, WaveShaper, Gross Beat, Maximus, Vocodex, Slicex).
- Updated Wave Candy, Fruity Dance, Harmless, Ogun, Sytrus.
- Updated Wrapper.
- FL Studio Mobile support, added .instr export from Direct Wave and FPC. Direct wave .instr import.
- FL Studio Mobile .flm files show up in browser.
- More about the FL Studio 10.0.8 update at Looptalk.
The FL Studio 10.0.8 installer now available to download. New Image-Line customers can purchase FL Studio with 10% discount here.
New Rhythm studio demo
“Messing around with the Rhythm Studio app for the iPad. Checking out some of the new devices from the recent update.” Rhythm Studio balances advanced features by using an easy to understand interface resembling real instruments. This means that one button does one thing just like it would with real hardware. Knobs turn, switches slide, and buttons press. You won’t get lost in abstract interfaces or design. Rhythm Studio is the next best thing to having the real hardware.
DAMAGE – breathtaking cinematic percussion for your DAW
All sounds and effects created exclusively with DAMAGE: http://www.native-instruments.com/damage
DAMAGE provides an arsenal of deeply sampled drums, crushing loops, and smashing one-shots, all recorded in brutal detail. From battered dumpsters and exploding cars to edgy electronics, the entire gamut of modern cinematic sound comes together in this uniquely playable and inspiring instrument. Deep, thrilling and intense — DAMAGE is epic redefined!
DAMAGE gives you 30 GB of drama, fusing industrial sounds and orchestral drums into a devastating electro-acoustic barrage. Percussive Kits provide more than 200 deeply sampled percussion sources, and over 500 single-shot elements, recorded in up to seven velocity layers and with up to nine round-robins per drum.
Over 700 beat-sliced loops come as menu-style loop suites or as single loops for detailed tweaking. Even the most complex sounds are instantly usable, and it’s all in hair-raising, big-screen quality.
Tabletop Demo: Sarah Nixey “The Homecoming (Microfilm Tabletop Remix)”
A re-creation of Microfilm’s tech house remix of Sarah Nixey’s single “The Homecoming” on Retronyms’ iPad app Tabletop. All music is played and sequenced by Microfilm using Tabletop on iPad 1. Ms. Nixey’s lead vocal has additional fx in the mp3 that’s playing on the SpinBack turntable. Also, there are 2 custom Gridlok samples (windchimes and backing vocal sample) which have external fx baked into them.
Retronyms has updated Tabletop, its virtual studio for the iPad.
New devices in Tabletop 1.1:
- Compressor
- Limiter
- Expander
- Bit Crusher
- Splitter
- High-pass Filter
Tabletop is a modular virtual studio that comes with a variety of devices, including a pad sampler, matrix synthesizer, mixer, turntable, low-pass filter and more. Additional devices are available as in-app purchases.
for more information on Tabletop visit: www.retronyms.com
Reason Tips: Pulveriser’s Envelope Follower and CV
“Propellerhead product specialist Mattias Häggström Gerdt shows us some advanced CV wiring between Pulveriser and the Matrix Pattern sequencer. By using the envelope follower in Pulveriser, we can smooth out Matrix CV curves and introduce “lag” to the signal. It’s portamento for your CV signals and it’s COOL!”
Pulveriser brings together crunchy compression, dirty distortion, a multimode filter and flexible modulation in a single sound-crunching effect. Crush, mangle, and destroy your sounds. Apply careful parallel compression to bring out the details of a sample or recording. Use the envelope follower when recording live instruments for responsive, expressive filter effects.
MachFive | 3 – the third generation of MOTU’s flagship sampler
MachFive | 3 is available now for Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later and PC for Windows Vista or 7. MF3 comes in AU, RTAS and VST Plug-In formats and can be purchased for £395/$565 MSRP. As an interesting offer from MOTU, MF3 can also be upgraded from a competing product for a discount price of $295 MSRP and as a cross-grade for $179 MSRP.
“Within minutes after you begin using MachFive 3, you’ll appreciate the years of user interface design and engineering that have gone into this 3rd-generation release. From the configurable part list to the full-screen envelope editor, MachFive 3 has been designed to spur your creative muse while delivering state-of-the-art virtual instrument technology in a streamlined, efficient environment. After all, music, sound design, and audio production are creative endeavors that deserve a worthy partner in creativity.”
• Scripting engine – Instead of guitar presets, you get a guitar player…
• A universe of sounds – 45 GB of included instruments, loops and phrases
• Powerful new synth engine – Twelve forms of synthesis that span music history
• IRCAM Technology.
• Automation and modulation – Twist, morph, and pulsate.
• New flexible effects architecture.
• New filters and effects.
• Convolution reverb.
• Enhanced sample library support – Load anything. Directly, with no conversion.
• Event processors.
• Preset browsing and searching.
• LoopLab beat slice editor.
• Full-screen operation.
• Unlimited everything – Oscillators, layers, parts, effects — add all you want
• Oscillator Editor – It’s way more than just a sample editor
• Mapping Editor – Keygroup mapping so intuitive, you’ll never have to stop and ask for directions
• Tree Editor
• List Editor – If you are a list person, this editor is for you
• Effects Rack – Comprehensive effects processing throughout
• Performance View – Transform MachFive into the ultimate live performance instrument
• Mixer – A complete, self-contained mixing environment
• 3rd-generation UVI Engine XT. – Acclaimed worldwide for its sound quality.
• Multiple outputs. – Submix to 17 stereo output pairs.
• Disk streaming. – Conserve RAM and quicken load times.
• Unlimited polyphony. – With ultra-low software latency.
Pro Tools Preview – upcoming features
Recording of an on stage technology preview at IBC Amsterdam 2011
Logic Pro X moves to the the App Store
So far no apparent plans to turn Logic into Garage Band, as many have feared
Apple is reportedly finishing an update to Logic Pro 9, its professional digital audio and music sequencing program, taking care not to rile existing users with significant changes.
The new update is reportedly called Logic Pro X to maintain the same branding as Apple’s recent Final Cut X. However, according to a report by Japanese blog Macotakara, Apple’s Logic team is making great efforts to stress that it will not shift toward a GarageBand interface, heading off fears that Logic Pro might lose its professional edge.
Like Aperture and Final Cut Pro X, the new Logic Pro X package will be released via the App Store. In the move, the Logic Pro accessory app MainStage (used to manage virtual instruments during live performances) will reportedly spin off into a separate app, while WaveBurner (a standalone app used to master audio CDs) will have its functionality incorporated into Logic Pro X itself.
SoundTrack Pro 3, formerly included in both Final Cut Studio and Logic Studio as a tool for synching background audio to video, is reported to have a replacement but the report has not filled in any details regarding that program. The new app will likely be added to the Mac App Store alongside Final Cut Pro X, Logic Pro X, MainStage and the existing Aperture.
Via Apple Insider
The virtual studio for iPad – Rhythm Studio – is being updated
Pulse Code has announced plans for the next version of Rhythm Studio – a virtual studio for the iPad.
New Features in R3:
- Optimized Mixer that fits on one screen. The mixer has been optimized to fit on one screen which allows for better control but also gives us more workspace.
- 4 Audio Devices! That is right, with the smaller mixer the XYP Control Pad mkii has been moved which gives us one more slot to add a device!
- User selectable devices. In SETTINGS view you can change out the devices for your song. Do you want 4 x TB3 synthesizers just because? Well you can!
- Paste your song to the Intua Audio Paste clipboard to share between other apps! I exported the demo songs and sucessfully imported it into Garage Band of the iPad. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4622
- Linear Control. In SETTINGS view you can change from Rotation control to Linear control. Thanks everyone for your feedback!
- Email Support. A button within the app will email us directly to give us feedback or ask for help.
- Email Song Session File. Share your masterpiece with your friends! (Audio in a future update)
- Song File Lock. This will prevent your song from being deleted or modified. Great for songs you want to share or just jam over.
New Devices in R3:
- Improved 4 Channel Mixer with controls that fit on one screen. The Effect Units have also been combined to make it more streamlined and simple to use.
- Improved XYP Control Pad. The new Control Pad mkii has a wider control surface that makes it easier to use.
- DR-9 Drum Machine. Perfect Four on the Floor drum machine to make those banging beats! Also includes flam to hit those 32nd notes.
- Gate Audio Insert Effect. The Gate Effect slices up the audio and takes it to another dimension.
“The only thing we need to do is build our new virtual analog subtractive synthesizer called: “The Hornet”. The Hornet will be a ribbon style synth. We’ll post the specs as soon as they are set.”
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