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Thunderbolt™ solution for Prism Sound Orpheus and ADA-8XR interfaces Cambridge, UK: The recent addition of the new Thunderbolt I/O connection to Apple Mac computers means data can be transferred faster than ever - 10Gbps of bidirectional throughput plus a separate display bus. Lightning fast speed and huge bandwidth has meant Thunderbolt can accommodate nearly any existing connection to a variety of external devices with the necessary adapter, including Prism Sound FireWire audio interfaces Orpheus and ADA-8XR. After extensive testing on the latest Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 operating system the Sonnet Thunderbolt Adapter passed with flying colours and will allow Prism Sound FireWire interface users to maintain the same software control and functionality they are currently benefiting from through the FireWire 800 and 400 connection.

More than simply a measurement tool, ViTune is designed to help both audio professionals and hi-fi enthusiasts tune their rooms without requiring specialist training. (Regies, Recording Rooms, Hi Fi, home theaters, home cinemas, etc) Based on a simple “traffic light” indication system, room measurement is carried out in four easy steps via the software’s intuitive interface. As well as measuring the room, ViTune also indicates how much acoustic treatment should be used to improve the overall room acoustic. Two choices of product are offered for fixing reverberation time problems and controlling first reflections. It also shows the exact frequency to which Vari Bass should be tuned! ViTune is programmed to classify early reflections and reverberation time based on the IEC Acoustic Norm. The red light means bad behavior, yellow means some reflection failure, and green means the room is up to IEC standard. For customers with more experience of acoustic analysis, the software also

Ardour3 Beta 1a Released After a furious 3 months (more than 500 code commits), the Ardour team has announced the release of Ardour 3.0 Beta 1. This is the first version of Ardour 3 that has support for OS X (Intel only for now, sorry PPC users), where you will find fully functional AudioUnit instrument support among all the other goodies that Ardour 3 brings. The list below documents the other many changes, including support for Linux native VSTs, an initial new version of Freesound browsing, some shinier new buttons, and a metric ton of bug fixes and improvements. New Features: Linux "native" VST support. Give route groups their own colors. Allow route groups to color their tracks. Add option to insert time on all a track's playlists. Option to glue new markers to bars and beats. Implement invert selection for MIDI notes. Add Selection-by-note-range for MIDI notes. Add session option "MIDI-region-copy-is-fork". If set, all MIDI region copies wil

Saturday, 26 November, 2011 SmithsonMartin Emulator Kontrol Surface Introduced The Kontrol Surface 1974 (KS-1974) is an innovative multi-touch MIDI control surface from the developers of the Emulator DJ Software, Smithson-Martin. Connect the KS-1974 to your laptop, desktop or any computer to transform them into a powerful and comfortable 22 inch surface with 4 simultaneous touch points. This is perfect for your studio or live performances. KS-1974 is a state-of-the-art DJ, VJ, and Studio Production tool. KS-1974 is the perfect size for any DJ booth or studio desk. KS-1974 is the newest product from SmithsonMartin, winners of the 2011 DJ Mag Tech Awards: “Most Innovative Product”. Emulator for Traktor and Emulator Modular come bundled with the KS-1974. Emulator Modular includes a complete set of objects so you can completely custom design your own multi-touch interface with buttons, sliders, circular knobs, jog wheels and even your own custom graphics. With Emulator Modul

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Native Instruments Thanksgiving Special November 24-28 50% OFF Get 50% off over 50 KOMPLETE Instruments and Effects, including KONTAKT 5, REAKTOR 5, RAZOR, and SESSION STRINGS PRO. Get more out of TRAKTOR for less. Add scratch capability, or step up to the latest TRAKTOR PRO generation for half price! Build your beats anywhere you want with this intuitive production sketchpad for iPhone® and iPod® touch. Available now at the App Store for only $1.99 / 1.59 €.

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REAPER is digital audio workstation software: a complete multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing, and mastering environment. Record audio and MIDI from multiple inputs simultaneously Layer recorded tracks and takes over previous recordings Edit recordings in almost any imaginable way Hundreds of audio and MIDI processing effects included, or choose from thousands of third-party effects All editing and effects are completely non-destructive REAPER works with almost any hardware and can be used in combination with a vast universe of other software and plug-ins. Take advantage of REAPER's full functionality using only your current computer and a microphone, or use REAPER to drive an entire professional recording studio.

Holiday Special: 25% Off All Ableton Products! Create and Customize Your Sound Whether you’re new to Ableton Live, want to customize your sound with Max for Live, or are looking to expand your Ableton studio with Suite 8 or Partner Instruments, Ableton has something for you this holiday. From November 15, 2011 to January 15, 2012, all Ableton software is 25% off.

Mixbus Mixbus™ is a full-featured Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) with "True Analog Mixing"™: a combination of Harrison's world-renowned sound and features in a knob-per-function interface. Mixbus™ provides a solution for engineers and mixers who need a recorder, editor and mixing system with world-class sound and features. Traditional DAW mixers were designed by companies with no pedigree in music mixing. Harrison consoles are known for their great-sounding EQ, filters, dynamics, and bus summing on every track. Now Mixbus offers every engineer a real Harrison music console "in the box". With Mixbus's logical knob-per-function interface, the user works with the fluidity of a traditional analog recording studio while retaining the convenience of a DAW. Mixbus enables the user to record, edit, and mix a musical performance "in the box" but get a sound that rivals the golden age of album recordings. Mixbus Features: Straightforward “knob pe

Recording and Production Offers Amazing year-end offers! Orpheus deals For a limited time there are some unusually good Orpheus offers available! Find out more by filling out the contact form below and you will be contacted by your nearest distributor or dealer for the latest deals and offers. The Orpheus FireWire interface offers Prism Sound's acclaimed conversion quality in a 1U solution complete with mic pres, comprehensive monitoring and routing configurations, low latency DSP mixers, MIDI connectivity and with ADAT and S/PDIF digital I/O and much more to provide you with the most complete professional FireWire interface available. Do not wait to test and love this product any longer! There is also currently a little competition to win an Orpheus that you may be interested in. ADA-8XR offer 15% off all ADA-8XR configurations for a limited time only! If the Orpheus deals were not enough you can now also save further with this very limited ADA-8XR offer. The ADA

Steinberg has just released the previously announced and officially supported 6.0.5 maintenance update for Cubase 6, Cubase Artist 6, Cubase Elements 6, Cubase AI 6 and Cubase LE 6. Including refined automation handles, full support for two WK-Audio remotes and improved decoding performance under Windows, the 6.0.5 update integrates several enhancements and fixes that make the Cubase experience even more exceptional. The 6.0.5 version contains the following improvements and corrections as well as all improvements of previous maintenance updates. The 6.0.5 maintenance update introduces the following improvements:  Automation handle visibility Automation handles are now displayed independently from any zoom level as soon as the mouse cursor is placed over an automation lane. If automation handles are selected, handles on all other automation lanes are displayed as well.  Support for WK-Audio ID-Console / ID-Mix-VU Cubase 6 now fully supports the WK Audio ID-Console / ID-Mix-

Modeled faithfully after Vertigo's 6,000 $ flagship compressor. Vintage King calls it the 'Mercedes of VCA Compressors' on their website. Hear it to believe it. 'We are amazed how accurate the plugin simulates the real deal. We have compared it to the hardware several times now in a professional studio and cannot hear any difference at all. Is that good or bad?!?', says Andreas Eschenwecker, CEO of VERTIGO SOUND. 64 Bits and AAX. January 2nd, 2012. Promised. We are now officially launching 64 Bit and AAX plugins in January 2012. Due to internal beta testing delays we have to shift this major new release for the whole line of our Brainworx plugins, as well as for the SPL and Elysia (and Vertigo, of course) to January 2nd, 2012. Thank you for your patience. We want this to be really good.

" Dubfire is a true Dance music veteran. As part of Deep Dish, Ali Shirazinia conquered dance floors and radio waves across the world, remixing everyone from BT and Michael Jackson to The Rolling Stones and Justin Timberlake and claiming their fair share of Grammy nominations. As a solo artist, his success has been no less remarkable, playing in some of the world's biggest clubs, remixing Plastikman, Axwell and Booka Shade, starting and releasing on his own label, SCI + TEC, and winning multiple awards including Beatport's Best Minimal and Best Techno artist. On top of his success as an artist, Dubfire also pushes technology in his DJ sets, testing Native Instruments' X1 and S4 controllers long before they hit the market and incorporating Maschine and even TouchOSC into his shows. We grabbed him backstage at one of his shows for a chat about all things technology. First thing's first, tell us about your live setup. "I use Native Instruments' Traktor

Interview: Skrillex on Ableton Live, plug-ins, production and more Interview: on Ableton Live, plug-ins, production and more "It's all about what makes you smile at the end of day" Computer Music Specials, Thu 3 Nov 2011, 4:22 pm UTC Dubstep producer Sonny Moore, AKA Skrillex, is riding the crest of a wave at the moment, and he recently spoke to Computer Music Specials magazine from his tour-bus-cum-studio and gave them some insight into how he creates those speaker-shattering basslines and incendiary beats. Check out the interview below; for more producer chat - including interviews with Noisia, Carl Craig, Steve Lawler and more - and tutorials, check out the 50th issue of Computer Music Specials - Beats & Bass: The Producer's Guide - which is on sale now. You're a big Ableton Live enthusiast. What's it got that other DAWs don't? "I think, for laptop producers especially, it's just so intuitive in the box. Everything is laid out

In Ozone 5, every module has been updated with refined signal processing algorithms to bring you a new level of mastering quality. The most complete mastering suite available has never sounded better. Guided by iZotope's expertise in DSP research, Ozone 5 combines the best nuances of both analog and digital worlds: Analog-modeled processing combined with linear phase precision Flexible sonic capabilities for adding realistic warmth, bite, punch, and space to your mix New IRC™ III Limiter for louder, fuller masters that preserve crisp transient detail Fully-revamped hybrid Reverb module Additional Reverb room models and circuit-modeled Exciter modes Stereoize feature for widening mono/narrow mixes True Envelope peak detection and Detection Circuit filters in the Dynamics module Unique Mixed-Phase EQ mode We've redesigned the Ozone user interface to make it even easier to dial in the professional sound you want. New users can get started right away and experie

The Rosegarden team is proud to announce the release of version 11.11 of Rosegarden, an audio and MIDI sequencer and musical notation editor for Linux. A long time in the making, this release combines a number of bug fixes with two major sub-projects that happened to come together right at the same time, and several completely new features as well. It is probably our most substantial offering since the landmark 10.02. Ian Gardner and Yves Guillemot have worked together for nearly a year to invent, implement, and refine the new concept of linked segments, which allow you to maintain a master performance in one segment while copying it to other places, or even other tracks. When manipulating segments in the main window, Ctrl+Alt+drag creates a linked segment from an existing one, and there is a new “Turn Links into Copies” entry on the Segment menu. Repeated segments may be displayed in the notation editor (in gray), and depending on the state of the configuration option, the origi

OZONE ADVANCES iZotope is proud to introduce two groundbreaking new products: Ozone 5, the biggest update ever to our critically-acclaimed software mastering suite, and Ozone 5 Advanced, a new enhanced version of Ozone specially tuned to the needs and requests of professional mixing and mastering engineers. Pristine sound Enhanced visual feedback Optimized workflow Updated interface “Whether you’re a musician, engineer, or mastering pro, Ozone 5 lets you master music and other audio simply and efficiently, Ozone 5 is the biggest update we’ve ever offered, with improvements that will appeal to Ozone experts and new users alike. Ozone 5 Advanced is designed to set a new industry standard for mastering tools. Advanced includes many exclusive features, and offers mixing and mastering engineers an even higher level of flexibility, precision and control.” Nick Dika, iZotope Senior Product Manager.

Alongside its Pro Tools 10 and HDX unveiling, Avid turned some heads by recently announcing it was replacing its RTAS and TDM formats to a new format called AAX, “Avid Audio eXtension.” Now, your first reaction may not be unbridled enthusiasm, exactly: it seems the last thing users are likely saying is, “yes, please, I’d like a new plug-in format to worry about.” But I wanted to give the engineers at Avid a chance to tell us what they were thinking and why they made the move. Avid’s product announcements have unfortunately coincided, presumably because of the financial calendar, with unpleasant restructuring and downsizing news, a topic NYC-based audio engineering site SonicScoop takes up. However, I prefer to focus here on the engineering side of what’s happening; we can look at Avid’s business and the changing business landscape another day. (For what it’s worth, I’m not as bleak as SonicScoop about the industry at large – least of all because I think the larger audio market remains

Avoid Common Recording Mistakes VERSION 2 Created on: May 10, 2011 5:04 PM by Phil O'Keefe - Last Modified: Nov 1, 2011 4:19 PM by Phil O'Keefe Identify and remove obstacles that get in the way of great recordings By Phil O'Keefe Why is it so hard to get tracks that kill? Mixes that scream with emotional impact--music that holds up to the work of the masters of our craft? Experienced pro or newbie neophyte, we all share a desire to improve the sound, relevance, and "vibe" of our recordings. But sometimes the way to do this isn't just by doing the right thing, but avoiding doing the wrong thing--and that in turn will indeed make things easier. BAD GEAR Everyone's favorite whipping boy, bad gear is often the first place many of us look to and point the finger at when something about our recordings doesn't knock us out. And let's face it: First-class gear sounds great, and that can't help but make things sound better--but only if y

Understanding Studio Monitors: Working with Bass Frequencies and Diffusion Learn how to create and place bass traps, diffusers, and more Dealing with Bass Frequencies Uneven bass response can be a major problem for many project studio owners. Bass frequencies tend to build up in corners and boundary points, so the central listening position often suffers from a lack of bass clarity. Bass frequencies behave differently than mids and highs, so treating the room for low‑end response requires unique methods. Materials that absorb high frequencies often provide little resistance to the low‑frequency end of the spectrum (and vice versa). In order to properly handle low frequencies, most rooms need to be controlled with bass traps. Bass traps employ special absorptive materials that reduce the resonance of low frequencies. You can absorb a large portion of undesired bass frequencies by placing these devices in corners, room boundaries or free‑standing spots. Tip: You can make an inexp

There seems to be some confusion regarding what kind of Mac Pro you actually need to run the new HDX hardware. If you thought you were ready for blast off just because you own an Intel-based Mac tower you’ve got another thing coming. This confusion can only be blamed on Avid. They have changed their website and haven’t been clear about the requirements. Sure, the HDX is still a while away from being shipped, but if you’re planning to make a $10K investment, wouldn’t you want to know if you had to buy a brand new Mac on top of that? So here’s what the Avid website says today: * Apple Mac Pro (Nehalem/Westmere models only) * Mac OS X Lion (32- or 64-bit) * 2 GB of RAM (4 GB or more recommended) * Minimum 15 GB free hard disk space for Pro Tools installation * USB port for iLok authorization (plus, Internet connection for software download) That means Woodcrest and Harpertown are shit out of luck. Max Gutnik, Avid’s internet warrior, chimed in on the Harpertown: There is an

Digital Audio Workstation Ardour is a digital audio workstation. You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. Produce your own CD's. Mix video soundtracks. Experiment with new ideas about music and sound. Generate sound installations for 12 speaker gallery shows. Have Fun. Ardour capabilities include: multichannel recording, non-linear, non-destructive region based editing with unlimited undo/redo, full automation support, a mixer whose capabilities rival high end hardware consoles, lots of plugins to warp, shift and shape your music, and controllable from hardware control surfaces at the same time as it syncs to timecode. If you've been looking for a tool similar to ProTools, Nuendo, Cubase SX, Digital Performer, Samplitude or Sequoia, you might have found it.

da Punto-Informatico.it Canonical pensa di spingere in campo mobile la distro Linux più famosa. La versione 14.04, attesa per l'aprile del 2014, competerà anche oltre il desktop Roma - C'è ancora spazio per ulteriori sistemi operativi nell'affollato scenario mobile? Secondo Mark Shuttleworth, boss di Canonical, c'è sempre spazio quando si parla di software libero. La società dell'imprenditore sudafricano sta attualmente lavorando sulle versioni mobile di Ubuntu per smartphone, tablet e dispositivi embedded. A quanto pare il passaggio al mobile avverrà dalla versione 14.04 di Ubuntu, in arrivo tra un paio d'anni. Il sistema operativo potrà girare tranquillamente su processori Intel, AMD e chip ARM. Supporterà interfacce multi-touch e display di varie dimensioni, per finire anche dentro smart TV e gadget riservati al settore automobilistico. Sul proprio blog personale Shuttleworth ricorda che Unity, la discussa interfaccia desktop proposta da Ubuntu 11.10,

Electronic music studio and sound designer's dream tool for Mac OS X MetaSynth is an electronic music studio for Mac OS X where you create, compose, design and transform music and sound in a unique environment that invites exploration. Our users include Academy award-nominated sound designers and composers, popular electronica artists, avant-garde explorers, successful record producers, academics, students and amateurs all of whom share a desire to explore new sonic realms. Whether you want to create slamming grooves, haunting ambiences, or aural sculpture, MetaSynth has something to offer. MetaSynth is an award-winning electronic music and sound design studio for OS X. Its six "rooms" provide six unique environments for creating and manipulating sound. There is much more to MetaSynth than creating sound from pictures. Image Synth. The Image Synth is our paradigm-smashing composition environment where you paint sound. With a host of available synthesis methods and nearly

Sonic Visualiser is an application for viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files. 10th October 2011: Sonic Visualiser 1.9 has been released. Get it here! The aim of Sonic Visualiser is to be the first program you reach for when want to study a musical recording rather than simply listen to it. We hope Sonic Visualiser will be of particular interest to musicologists, archivists, signal-processing researchers and anyone else looking for a friendly way to take a look at what lies inside the audio file. Sonic Visualiser is Free Software, distributed under the GNU General Public License (v2 or later) and available for Linux, OS/X, and Windows. It was developed at the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary, University of London.

Every sound you've ever heard can be represented as an image and all possible sounds can be made from an image. Only Photosounder truly allows you to transform any sound as an image and to create any possible sound from an image. It is the ultimate bridge between the graphical world and the audio world, bringing the full power of image editing to the service of creating and transforming sounds. Photosounder is the first audio editor/synthesizer to have an entirely image-based approach to sound creation and editing. Thanks to its powerful and omnipotent synthesis algorithms, it is capable of creating any sound possible. Powerful built-in image editing tools, some yet unknown to general image editing programs, are specifically tailored to enable you to create and edit sounds with ease in ways and with results simply impossible with other programs. The immense possibilities offered by Photosounder are only starting to be discovered. Every day spent using Photosounder brings new discov

Automap 4.1 24/10/2011 -Updated Impulse firmware to version 657 Supported systems: -Mac OSX (Snow Leopard) 10.6.8 -Mac OSX (Lion) 10.7.2 or later -Windows XP SP3 32-bit -Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit New features: -New notification system -New Setup Wizard -Automap icon now appears in menu bar (Mac) and System Tray (Windows) -Re-designed mappings browser list, mapping editor, and learn system -Added parameter "Search" function -Additional tool bar in mapping editor -"Launch Automap at login" feature -Included Windows Novation USB driver 2.3 -Updated default mappings for major DAWs -Updated setup guides for major DAWs -Various bug fixes Important Notes: - Mac only, any AU plugins wrapped using Automap 4.1b9 will lose their settings when unwrapped and re-wrapped with this version. If 4.1b9 was installed without re-wrapping AU plugins, settings will not be lost. - User running OSX Lion who wish to enable their VST2.x plug-ins will need to manually set the VST folde

ReCycle 2.2 update ReCycle 2.2 is a free update that brings is 64-bit compatibility, is Mac OS X Lion compatible, and has a new look and some workflow improvements. ReCycle 2.2 Fix List The program is now compatible with 64 bit operating systems. ReCyle 2.2 is also a true Cocoa program under Mac OS and fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. ReCycle 2.2 requires a Mac with an Intel processor. PowerPC is no longer supported. The main window has been graphically redesigned, including new zooming and scrolling. Scrolling is smoother and you can now zoom in further. Some redundant controls have been removed and others added. When exporting AIFF and Wave files, Record/Reason-style tempo information is now included in the file. Also, when importing audio files created in Record or Reason, the tempo information in those files is used for setting tempo and length in ReCycle. The Waveform now indicates graphically what sound will be played back, by dimming silent sections. You can now use the

Nuovo aggiornamento disponibile per gli utenti registrati della potente DAW della PreSonus. Here are a few highlights from the hundreds of new features and enhancements in Studio One 2. Celemony’s Melodyne is the most sought-after pitch-correction solution in the market, and it has been the model for proprietary solutions in several DAWs. Studio One 2 seamlessly integrates Melodyne so tightly that, for practical purposes, Melodyne is simply a part of Studio One.⇓ Learn more Sure, you can do transient detection and editing in other DAWs—but it’s slow, and you often have to make a lot of decisions along the way. In Studio One, you can quantize multitrack drums in two steps: group the tracks, then quantize. Studio One does the analysis and phase-coherent quantization for you—with great-sounding results! Want to quantize audio to other existing audio? Drag-and-drop audio into the Groove panel, then quantize. Groove extraction is as simple as drag-and-drop; extract a groove from any audio a

LITTLE-ENDIAN E BIG-ENDIAN I processori della Apple utilizzano un sistema di ordinare i Byte chiamato BIG-ENDIAN, mentre i processori IBM compatibili, Windows, utilizzano il sistema denominato LITTLE-ENDIAN. Entriamo un po' più sul tecnico. E' risaputo che 8 bit costituiscono un Byte, un file a 16 bit è quindi formato da 2 Byte, il primo Byte è detto Least Significant Byte (LSB) ed il secondo Most Significant Byte (MSB); i processori che lavorano seguendo questo ordine appartengono al sistema LITTLE-ENDIAN, quelli che antepongono l'MSB all'LSB appartengono invece al sistema BIG-ENDIAN. In termini pratici se io avessi digitalizzato il valore "16" col sistema LITTLE-ENDIAN avrei questa sequenza di bit: "00000000-00010000" mentre con il sistema BIG-ENDIAN avrei questa altra: "00010000-00000000". Se a questo punto scambiassimo i file sui sistemi senza un'opportuna conversione, avremmo un'interpretazione severamente errata perché il valo