PC and Music News

Clavia, the manufacturers of the popular Nord Lead keyboard, will introduce the Nord Piano at the upcoming Winter NAMM Show.

The Nord Piano is a dedicated stage piano with 88 keys and a weighted hammer action. It is designed with the performing musician in mind and very lightweight at approx. 18 kg (39.6 lbs), without compromising build quality, sound quality or means of expression. The user panel offers quick access to sound settings and adjustable parameters, and a number of memory locations are provided in a bank / program configuration. The Nord Piano includes six selectable categories of pianos (Grand, Upright, EP Tines, EP Reeds, Clavinet, and Harpsichord); a full effects section controlled by the Effect 1 Rate knob and the Drive knob; and accessories (piano pedal and power cord) ...

Mathew Lane has announced the release of version 3.0 of the spatial processor plug-in DrMS.

Version 3 of the DrMS spatial processor plug-in was re-coded from the ground up in a partnership with Mu Technologies. DrMS is now a true native VST/AU/RTAS plug-in for OS X and Windows that no longer requires the Pluggo Runtime shell.

It also includes numerous improvements and new features over version 2, such as the newly implemented mastering grade filters, the addition of the Feedback circuit for reverb creation and special effects, the improved GUI with value displays and the inclusion of example preset settings.

Features:

• Native VST/AU/RTAS plug-in for OS X & Windows, supports all major DAWs
• MS encoding & decoding
• Spatial audio processing: Zoom in, add Depth ...

Here is a great news from Ohm Force :

"Two months ago we announced our pricing changes in our "it's still business, but let's keep it reasonable" disclaimer, and we listened to all kind of reactions.

Some guys from the audio/plug-in industry might have said that we're naïve or anti-corporate, while the music press has warmly reacted and dozens of individual music producers have written to us to comment on how much they share the same point of view about it all. No need to say that, among the industry, the press and music producers, we'll mostly listen to - and work for - the latter. We love music and music making, and will always do our part to support the scene.

The pricing changes were only the beginning: from today, we invite all music producers in the world to download and use for free the Performer Edition of our Symptohm:Melohman powersynth. That's it: Symptohm:Melohman is now freeware, joining our rock solid stinky Frohmage filter.

That's our Christmas gift for the music production scene. Exploring new sounds is priceless! And when we say priceless, we really mean it :-)"

This great virtual synth is available now for free in VST, AU and RTAS formats for both Mac and PC.

Blue Cat Audio has announced the release of a 64 bits version of Blue Cat's Freeware Pack, its free audio plugins bundle. This version is dedicated to 64 bits applications running under Windows x64. The existing 32 bits and new 64 bits versions of the plugins can be installed on the same machine and will share settings. 64 bits support is in final beta stage, so the company welcomes feedback about the usage of these free plugins.

With winter holiday season approaching, Blue Cat Audio also announces 15 to 25% discount on their entire catalog of professional audio plugins until December 31st. Existing customers are granted an even higher discount (40% off) on all plugins as well for the same period.

Two Notes Audio Engeneering will be attending the NAMM Show (National Association of Music Merchants). The event takes place in the Anaheim (Calif.) Convention Center, January 14-17, 2010.

"We will be presenting our new product, the VM-202. The VM-202 is a dual-processor guitar/bass cab simulator. It handles both analog (line balanced/unbalanced) and digital signals (S/PDIF, AES/EBU).

Plug in your bass/guitar pre amp (or other instrument with a line output) and benefit from our exclusive tube stage simulator, along with our acclaimed Torpedo algorithm. You can play 2 cab + microphone simulations simultaneously and reproduce a multi microphone miking process.

Please meet us at booth 1675, Hall E, and try out the products."

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