PC and Music News

Sonalksis today announces a strategic and operative collaboration with Toontrack Music during the ongoing development of their next professional sample engine for drums, Superior Drummer 2.0.

Toontrack Music has chosen Sonalksis as the responsible development partner for the development of the built in FX section provided in Superior Drummer 2.0.

The FX section will consist of a 5-band EQ, High and Low pass filter, Gate, Compression and a Transient Designer, based on technology from the renowned Sonalksis award-winning plug-ins.

IK Multimedia will unveil the ARC, SampleMoog and StompIO at coming AES. The 123rd AES convention in New York will be held from october 5th - 8th.

ARC

ARC System (Advanced Room Correction System) is a combination of a professional calibrated measurement microphone, a measuring software and a multi-platform plug-in that can be integrated with any DAW-based studio, capable of correcting the distortion caused by room acoustics and able to improve how a studio will sound forever.

SampleMoog

SampleMoog is the first release of the new Sonik Instruments range, and is a cooperation between IK Multimedia, Moog Music® and Sonic Reality. It includes the sounds of all the most sought-after Moog synthesizers spanning the entire Moog history, in an easy to use, sample-based vi ...

CharterOak Acoustic Devices, manufacturers of high quality, hand assembled audio equipment is pleased to announce the selection of Gotham Audio and Redco Audio as the new manufacturer of audio cables supplied with all CharterOak microphone products.

Beginning in October of 2007, all 7-pin XLR cables supplied with CharterOak SA538, SA538B and S600 microphones types, will be manufactured by Redco Audio of Stratford, CT. Redco has a long history of assembling extremely high quality cables for the pro audio industry. Redco has manufactured miles of cable for CharterOak's in house recording studio and other studios Michael Deming, Producer and Founder of CharterOak has worked in. "We are very excited to make this change as it adds to the overall quality and durability of our products", commented Michael Deming, producer and president of CharterOak.

Going forward, all 7-pin XLR cables that are delivered with the CharterOak SA538, SA538B and S600 models will be made by Redco, using Gotham Audio GAC-7 cable, and hardware by Swiss manufacturer Neutrik.

At the Paris Apple expo, Audio-technica introduced a new monitoring studio earphone : ATH-M5 with frequency : 15-28 000hz , sensibility : 99 dB and impendance : 18 ohms. Sold with a protection bag and a stereo adaptator. It seems to be very comfortable and provides a great sound insulation.

Ueberschall has released Analog FX sample library, a sophisticated sample collection which contain over 1.7GB of atmospheres, noises, basslines, leads, sweeps, LFO as well as hundreds synth loops. The library is produced for: advertising and gameaudio, trailer creation, cinema and tv post production, animation, sound design, multimedia presentations and for all the different musical styles and producers looking for analog production fx elements. All sounds are simplistically organized into folders. Loops are enhanced with B.P.M. information and tonal effects are accurately described and assigned to their root keys. The complete content provides a wide range of styles. The sound library comes along with the loop player "Elastik" includes features like :

* highspeed timestretching and pi ...

Toontrack Music proudly announces Toontrack Solo, a host application for Toontrack Music samplers providing stand alone operation, multi-instance operation and support for specialist MIDI controllers.

Features :

• Stand alone operation of Toontrack samplers
• Optimized for real-time, low latency operation
• Full ASIO/Core Audio/Core MIDI support
• Routable mixer with support for up to 16 physical OUT
• Each instance can be assigned a discrete MIDI channel
• Support for specialist MIDI controllers

Toontrack Solo will be released as a free download before the end of october 2007 to all registered users of EZ and Superior Drummer samplers.