PC and Music News

This month Sweetwater's Giveaway is dedicated to Pro Tools : they are giving away a powerful Pro Tools setup to one lucky winner!

The package starts with the 003 Rack Factory which comes with industry-standard Pro Tools LE software, heaps of free plug-ins, and the massive Pro Tools Ignition Pack. The package also includes the following plug-ins : Transfuser, Eleven LE, Strike, Structure, Hybrid, Velvet, and Xpand.

To participate, you just have to answer a bunch of questions at the following address :

Intua announces BeatMaker which introduces a new generation of mobile instruments and music creation software. Inspired by hardware beatboxes, loop samplers and software sequencers, it combines them to turn your iPod Touch / iPhone into a unique, inspirational software instrument.

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Seelake has just released the AudioStation, a Windows-based user-definable digital audio workstation (Hardware).

It features a mixer that embeds a VST/VSTi host with multiple slots per channel, independent MIDI routing engine per channel, independent Audio monitoring per channel, MIDI/WAV/MP3 player/recorder plus metronomic click. It can be controlled with the provided remote (and integral part of the device), and by any external MIDI controller. Plus it can control every parameter of VST and MIDI parameters of external MIDI devices. It also features a secondary partition with a dedicated OS, separated from the audio one, so it can be used as standard PC with no risk for the audio system.

Features :

- 20 channels with I/O Audio and MIDI.
- Microphone class A preamps with phantom ...

QuikQuak unveils Fusion Field, an easy to use diffusion reverb that QuikQuak has created in response to requests for a RaySpace 'light' and a version of Glass Viper's own diffusion reverb. Some audio demos are available.

Features :

- Smooth reverb for the whole diffusion tail.
- Fast editing, for that quick grab effect.
- Clear diffused sound, without early reflections.
- Great for adding sheen to vocals, strings and ambiences.
- Plain visual feedback of filters.
- Adjustable complexity, for lower CPU usage.
- Zero latency.
- Low cost.

Pricing and release date have not yet been announced.

TL Audio unveils their latest offering in the new Ebony Series during the highly anticipated first annual London International Music Show (LIMS).

The latest product is a Discrete Class A 16:2 Summing Mixer, housed in a 2U rack unit and with an additional switchable and variable tube stage on the master output. Combining Balanced I/O on XLR and D-Sub connectors with analogue VU metering and balanced insert points, the beautifully named Ebony Summer is sure to impress.

More information on this product coming soon.

Allen & Heath unveils the ZED-R16 which combines an analogue recording mixer with a FireWire soundcard, MIDI controls and 'home-studio' routing so you can build tracks in the studio, record live gigs, mix-down and remix.

The ZED-R16 can be employed as a standard analogue mixer while recording multi-track via FireWire or ADAT, a traditional inline mixer recording with send and return per channel via FireWire, or as a MIDI controller via switchable channel faders. It features 16 mono inputs, 2 stereo inputs, a high quality dual mic pre-amp, 4-band fully-parametric EQ, 4 auxes, a stereo bus, 2 stereo returns, and 18+18 FireWire I/O and 8+8 ADAT I/O.

The ZED-R16 can be employed as a standard analogue mixer while recording multi-track via FireWire or ADAT, a traditional inline mixer recor ...