PC and Music News

To commemorate 25 years of selling ribbon microphones, Audio Engineering Associates (AEA) will unveil the R84 SLE (Silver Limited Edition) at the London AES.

This mirror-chromed version of their top-selling R84 ribbon microphone is limited to a production run of only 125. Units are scheduled to begin shipping in late May.

Announcing a new range of exquisite instruments, custom-made for Live by Ableton's favorite sound partners. These new partner instruments are available now at the Ableton web shop.

The range of sounds is highly diverse, including painstakingly sampled grand pianos, Balinese gamelan, EBow guitar, boutique vintage synthesizers, found objects, acoustic and electronic percussion, atmospheres, and soundscapes. All partner instruments work with Suite 8, Live 8 or Live Intro, and many of them are exclusive to Ableton Live.

BIAS announces that SoundSoap 2.4 is now available.

SoundSoap is an audio cleaning solution which reduces noise from your digital video or digital audio files. This update offers new localized tool tips, compatibility with the latest Pro Tools 8 software from Avid, and additional enhancements.

Brainworx has announced that from now on all their plug-ins support the VST3 formats.

These are free updates for all registered users. No iLok updates needed, you just have to download the new installers of your Brainworx plug-ins at :

Nomad Factory has recently released the ALL-TECH 9063B Equalizer plug-in which emulates the legendary ALTEC 9063B Program Equalizer.

Today DontCrack announces that this brand new plug-in is available for only $59 instead of $129 as an exclusive DontCrack offer !

As promised, all of you that took part of DontCrack's "Integral Studio Pack II" offer in October/November 2009 are illegible for a free copy of the ALL-TECH 9063B.

To do so, simply download the latest version of the "Integral Studio Pack II". Install and your ready to go ! No further authorization is needed !

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The official Dave Smith Instruments website still says that the Mopho keyboard is coming soon, however word is on the street that Dave Smith Instruments has begun shipping this new pretty toy.

Features :

• Dual-oscillator mono synthesizer
• 32 semi-weighted keys with Velocity and Aftertouch
• 384 preset sounds
• 25 knobs
• 20 switches
• 2 sub-octave generators
• Curtis low-pass filter (2- or 4-pole)
• Three 5-stage envelope generators (ADSR plus delay)
• 4 LFOs
• Analog VCAs
• Arpeggiator
• Gated 16 x 4 step sequencer (1 sequence per program)
• Feedback
• External audio processing
• Modulation matrix
• Hands-on control of all aspects of the sound and performance
• Overall compact size ...