PC and Music News

Digidesign, a part of Avid Technology, today announced the immediate availability of Pro Tools 8 software, the company's highly-anticipated, next-generation music creation and audio production software

Pro Tools 8 is the latest version of the industry-leading digital audio workstation. A dramatically enhanced feature set is highlighted by a completely updated user interface, more than 70 bundled plug-ins and virtual instruments, fully-integrated MIDI and score editors and an expanded array of editing features for both music and post production applications.

For composers and musicians, Pro Tools 8 provides powerful functionality for streamlining the creative process, and delivers the most versatile sonic palette ever available out-of-the-box for Pro Tools. New music creation feature ...

Propellerhead has launched the Propellerhead Artists Patch Charts. Have you ever wondered what the bass sound in that track was ? How they made the harp glissandos in that movie, the shimmering strings in that commercial, or why the snare in that track sounds so familiar ?

Propellerhead did and asked artists the question: "What's in your Reason Rack?"

Their top picks and insights are collected into Artist Patch Charts. Discover what Flaming Lips, 3OH!3 and Ru, amongst others, use in their productions :

ReKon audio has just announced that Moog Music has chosen them to develop a VST editor for the Little Phatty analog synthesizer. The new addition to the Moog product line will bring complete control inside a VST host to the Moog Little Phatty user-base. The new editor will be able to both save and recall preset sound patches and banks in both the VST (.fxb/.fxp) and native System Exclusive (.syx) formats.

VST Little Phatty Editor features :

- View and edit every available parameter in one view
- Automate and shape patches along with the music... in the DAW
- Intuitive user interface that emulates the real gear's appearance
- Save and recall patches in .FXB/.FXP and .SYX formats
- Available as a VST 2.4 plug-in for Mac OSX and Windows PC

Moog Music plans to release the VST Little Phatty Editor in Early Spring 2009.

Waves TLC Theft & Lost Coverage is an exclusive program which safeguards your Waves licenses in case your iLok gets lost or stolen.

How does it work ?

- Your permanent Waves license will be removed from your iLok. It will be replaced by a time-limited TLC license.
- Every 3 months, Waves will deposit a time-limited (90-day) license in your iLok.com account. To eliminate any possible downtime, there will be an overlapping period of 7 days between licenses.
- You will need to download this license to your iLok every 3 months.
- In case your iLok is lost or stolen, log into your Waves account and choose the "Claim TLC" option.
- Waves will deposit a new time-limited license into your iLok.com account.
- This license will be valid until the date of your next scheduled 90-day ...

Till 7 of January, delaydots.com offers grand XMAS sale offer : all plug-ins, Spectral Suite and SpectrumWorx, for price $55 !

The Spectral Suite is composed of five unique DSP plug-ins line that bring innovative sound FX processing to you.

Spectral Morpher allows you to completely alter the source stream according to another, loaded sample or side chan stream with different transformation modes. There 11 processing modes available: Convolution (cross synth), Magnitude only convolution, spectral Vocoder effect, Blend and 7 mutation modes: uniform, linear, non-linear and combined mutations.

Phat is a bass exciter (based on subharmonic synth), used to excite and mix low frequency harmonic content.

PitchShift is a spectral pitch shifter that preserves the incoming signal's ...

Image Line has just released Gross Beat, a time manipulation effect designed for repetition and scratching effects. Gross beat is perfect for real-time or rendered gating, glitch, repeat, scratching and stutter performances. Gross Beat stores audio in a 2-bar rolling buffer under the control of 36 user definable time and volume envelopes, giving you unlimited creative control.

Key features :

- Powerful MIDI controlled envelopes
- 2 bar audio buffer
- Real time effect, perfect for live performance
- 36 volume/gating envelopes with user-controlled smoothing
- Linked or independent volume & gating slot operation
- A large number of creative presets ready to go

Gross Beat is available now as a VST plug-in for Windows and is priced at $99. Until the end of December 2008 every order of Image Line Software products $99 or more, comes with a free copy of Gross Beat.