PC and Music News

To celebrate Christmas, Ableton has announced a 25% discount for anyone purchasing Live 7, Live 7 LE or Suite before the 31st December 2008.

The 25% off deal also applies to users who wish to upgrade to the full version from Lite or LE versions of the software.

WOK has just released MoogoFilter, a stereo filter in the style of the Moog-filter. In addition to the common manual controls it has a MIDI-controllable envelope.

Features :

- Moog-style resonant low-pass filter.
- Drive, Level and Keytrk controls.
- MIDI-controllable ADSR envelope.

MoogoFilter is a freeware / donationware and is available as a VST effect plug-in for Windows.

Here's what audioMIDI.com sent us today :

"Just a quick note to let you know about a great deal on the new ProTools 8 upgrade (expected early to mid December). We're offering the MBox 2 Micro audio interface (regular price $249), a downloadable ProTools 8 upgrade, and a FREE Secrets Of The Pros/Pro Tools Vol I tutorial DVD (a $35 value) at a great price- so low they won't let us advertise it. The ProTools 8 upgrade is $149, but for just a little more bread, you can get the MBox 2 Micro audio interface- great for working on tracks on-the-go with a laptop.

And you'll be the first to get the ProTools 8 upgrade!

Give me a call at (866) 283-4601, ext 112 for all the details
(if you purchased Pro Tools after 10/3/08, the Pro Tools 8 upgrade is free)."

So if you wanna learn more you know what to do now, just give them a call !

British hardware manufacturers DAV Electronics have just released the Broadhurst Gardens No. 7 (or BG7 for short), a 1U rackmountable channel strip that features a mic and instrument preamplifier, plus a compressor/limiter section.

Derived from the designs of the Decca Record Company, the BG7 compressor/limiter section is a replication of the Decca 1977 circuit, "brought up to date" by DAV. The features of the microphone amplifier consist of low noise and low distortion. It offers switched gain controls for high accuracy level setting (4 dB steps), D.I. Input (high impedance), level indication, high pass filter (switchable), 26dB pads (switchable), phase reversal and 48v phantom supply (switchable).

The BG7 is available now at a suggested retail price of £599 ($880/€700).

CME has announced latest version 2.0 firmware for their UF series MIDI keyboards. The major changes of the firmware are :

- Adds Pro Tools modes in U-CTRL function,
- Adjusts the MIDI Route.
- Optimises the keyboard's velocity sensitivity.
- Optimises the keyboard's operating and display manner
- Rectifies the bank number errorwhen sending the tone data
- Stabilises the pitch bend transferring data.
- Fixes known bugs and errors

The full update is free. Users can download it from CME website and select the relevant model to upgrade.

Audjoo has released Helix, a Wave-Table-Shaping, Phase modulation, Virtual Analog, Physical Modelling Hybrid Synthesizer with high sound quality, massive modulation, creative audio-routing and many built-in effects.

Features :

- CPU-friendly.
- 800+ Presets from BigTone and others.
- up to 64x Unison per voice.
- Wave-table-shaping oscillators.
- 17 filter types.
- 10 distortion types.
- All stereo signal path.
- Deep Modulation.
- Arpeggiator.
- Built in effects.

Priced at $149, Helix is now available as a VST instrument for Windows and Mac OS X Universal Binary.