PC and Music News

Snapper is the on-screen waveform that appears as soon as you select a sound file in the Mac Finder. You can extract audio from video, normalize, fade, or shoot the selection up to the cursor of your Pro Tools, Nuendo, Cubase or Logic.
All without ever leaving the Mac Finder.

Some features:
- Much improved integration with Snow Leopard.
- Spot-to-cursor supports Nuendo, Cubase, Logic and ProTools
- Drag selections anywhere, into tracks of any DAW, video editor or even iChat or mail.
- Even smaller cpu footprint
- Better looking waveforms that build up quicker, and zoom smoother
- Loop playback
- 64 bit file support
- New edit features such as a trim tool, fades and normalizing
- Varispeed playback without pitch shift
- Recent files tab
- Level meters
- and dozens of other features.

Snapper 2 costs 59 EUR or 79 USD, and upgrades cost 39 EUR or 49 USD.

Camel Audio announces a new Alchemy Sound Library : Electronic Bass.
This new Sound Library works as standalone instrument when used with the included Alchemy Player
Alchemy Sound Libraries offer all the benefits of sample libraries plus you can tweak sounds to fit your music using the perform controls and remix pad. Suitable for a wide range of genres from dubstep to techno, Electronic Bass also introduces over fifty new sampled bass sounds, and has been carefully sorted in to folder categories so you can quickly find the most suitable candidate for your project.

Costs just 59USD / 39GBP / 49EUR.

Aura Flux is a totally unique and interactive ambient music maker that will have you creating complex, evolving melodies with just a few taps of the touchscreen.
Chains of notes are created quickly and easily by visually connecting nodes using the multi-touch interface. These nodes can be customised by setting the pitch, trigger rate, volume, decay and adding additional 'chord' notes. By layering these chain reactions together the user can easily produce lush sounding ambient melodies and with the option to randomise many of the settings can introduce elements of generative music into their creations.

StepPolyArp is a MIDI step polyphonic arpeggiator. The arpeggiator does not play any sound itself, it transmits midi notes to a Mac or a PC to be used in combination with any sequencer, virtual instrument (VSTi, Audio Unit) or midi synthesizer.

Some features:

- 32 steps programmable matrix
- 11 configurable transposition lines
- Features copy and paste
- 8 octaves virtual keyboard
- Velocity, modulation, pan, volume, aftertouch and pitch - bend step controller
- The apeggiator and keyboard fit the selected scale
- 6 arpeggiator modes
- 1 chord mode
- Unlimited number of saves...

Voxengo is pleased to announce the release of Soniformer version 3, a
spectral mastering dynamics processor plug-in for professional music
production applications, available in AudioUnit and VST plugin
formats, for Mac OS X (v.10.4.11 and later) and Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) computers. Every parameter in Soniformer is defined by means of a graphic
envelope which is freely-modifiable and which may contain unlimited number of control points. Beside usual threshold, attack, release and compression/expander ratio parameters Soniformer offers you control over "stereo width" and "panning" parameters making Soniformer
an effective tool for stereo field adjustments.

Get the same trusted toolset, powerful workflows, and unrivaled audio quality of Pro Tools|HD now in a completely native PCIe-based solution, running off the power of your host CPU. With the new Pro Tools|HD Native, you can create, record, edit, and mix music or sound for picture with better performance, reliability, and lower latency than any other native DAW.

Tackle bigger projects with up to 192 tracks and 64 channels of I/O
Record, edit, and mix with ease using Pro Tools® HD software
Achieve the ultimate in audio quality with a Pro Tools HD Series interface
Get exceptionally low latency (1,66ms without plug in), Automatic Delay Compensation, surround mixing, and more
Use Pro Tools or third-party DAW software with your hardware for more flexibility
but...
how is it worth? (between some good native DAW and a big PTHD...)