PC and Music News

Evol Audio unveils the Fulcifer, a distortion synthesizer & sound shaper designed to give you many colors with which to create and shape your palette of sounds.

Softube is shipping the Trident A-Range for native (VST/AU/RTAS) and TDM. Trident A-Range is available today at the Softube web shop and at authorized Softube dealers at an introductory price of $229 (Native) or $329 (TDM/Native), excl. VAT. The introductory offer will last through out February, thereafter the price will be $279 and $449, respectively.

Univers Sons/Ultimate Sound Bank has released a new sound library called Acoustic Toy Museum. Here's what they say about it :

"For the first time, hundreds of musical toys were used to create a magical and unique sound library that will add innocence and freshness into your productions. Deeply multi-sampled in 24 bits / 96 kHz and meticulously recorded in the very best conditions using world-class microphones and Class-A equiment, each instrument sounds authentic and soulful.

Rycote has announced a new product at the 2010 NAMM show in Anaheim, California — the InVision USM, a universal mic suspension for large-diaphragm recording microphones. According to Rycote, this mic mount offers substantially more isolation (up to 12dB) from unwanted vibrations than that afforded by traditional elasticated 'cat's cradle' mic suspensions.

The InVision Universal Studio Mount (or USM) has been designed to provide an alternative to elasticated suspensions, the basic form of which has remained essentially unchanged for several decades. Based around the 'u'-shaped Lyre suspension mount used in Rycote's existing InVision suspension range for smaller-barrelled microphones, the InVision USM will fit any microphone from 18 to 55mm in diameter, including large-diaphragm models and those with flat-sided and tapered barrels.

In addition to the InVision USM, Rycote has also announced the InVision TLM mount, a version of the new mount designed specifically for Neumann TLM-series mics.

In the "Toontrack TV" section of Toontrack's website you can find a very interesting video called "A Couple of Days in the Life of Toontrack"...

Shot in November 2009, this video provides several hints which suggest that Toontrack might be working on a virtual bass instrument, and maybe a virtual piano !

2010 promises to be exciting at Toontrack !!

Blue Cat Audio has released a new version of Blue Cat's Freeware Pack, its free audio plug-ins bundle. This new release makes these free plug-ins available for virtually any digital audioworkstation: it includes official RTAS plug-in format support for Pro Tools users. It also brings 64-bit support for DirectX and VST versions under Windows x64, and 64-bit Audio Units support under Snow Leopard (for Logic 9.1 users running in 64-bit mode).

The plug-ins are available for download for free as a single bundle or separately on the editor's website.

What's new :

• RTAS plug-in format support for Pro Tools (Mac and Windows)
• 64-bit applications support for Windows DX and VST under Windows x64
• Mac AU 64-bit format support (compatible with 64-bit Logic 9.1 on Snow Leopard)
• Mac: fixed user interface crashes in some hosts under Snow Leopard
• Fixed MIDI learn issues