PC and Music News

Anytune, the music learning App that allows you to slow down your music, is now integrated with Twitter, Facebook, email and SMS. Tweet your favorite pitch/tempo setting to your followers.

Mark up any song and email your notes to a band member or student. Import tempo and pitch Settings, Audiomarks and Loopmarks from an email with one click. Anytune continues to improve the music learning experience and now lets you share online. Change tempo and pitch to have some fun and create a funky new sound for a favorite track. Tweet the settings to your friends with simple touch: 'Check out The Who's "Bargain" on #Anytune at 1.50X, -4 semi. Create a loop to repeat any part of a track. Set a loop start delay to allow time to return to your instrument. Include a loop it in your practice routine slowly increasing the tempo until you can nail it at 1.5 times the original tempo!

Udio Pluggers, creators of K-Meter are pleased to announce the release of a K-Meter demo. The demo is fully featured and runs for 10 minutes at a time. The aim is to give customers a chance to become comfortable with the software, and Audio Pluggers, so that they can make the most informed purchase decision. Audio Pluggers also offers a 2x money back guarantee on all purchases.

Features
- Built from the ground up around the K-System.
- Upsampled (up to 4 times) "True Peak" detection that discovers inter-sample peaks.
- RMS and LKFS (ITU-R BS.1770-1) meters. LKFS meters model perceived loudness, taking into account the ear's sensitivity to different frequencies.
- High quality pink noise generator for monitor calibration
- Numeric peak and average levels.
- Collapsible interface that occupies less screen space.

Compatibility

K-Meter is available as a VST on Mac OS X, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. An Audio Unit version is available on Mac OS X. The Mac versions are 32/64-bit universal binaries while the Windows version is currently 32-bit only.

An update so big, we decided to call it 2.0. World renowned sound designer Francesco Silvestri's, (aka fr4ncesco) programming and samples are the featured highlight for this pack. (Muz3uM for z3ta+, z3ta+ Virus Mod, Muz3uM for Rapture)

We ate our own dog food on this project. Using the Envelope Generator, Step Generator Presets, and sfz Templates from Universal 120 v1.0 as a creative content pool to jump start this collection. All of the content from Universal 120 v1.0 is included with this edition.

Some features:
Sounds: 340 New Rapture Programs, (584 total Programs)

Samples: 1620 Samples/Oscillators in .wav and .sfz format.

Envelope Mod Presets: 550 Envelope Presets

Step Generator Presets: 700 Step Generator Presets

LFO Waveforms: 80 LFO Waveforms

Microtuning Scala: 32 Micro Tuning Files in Scala format

Sampled Instruments:
Categories: Basses, Keys, Leads, Pads, Percussions, Sequences, Short-decay, Textures&Atmospheres.

For over 60 years, the AES has been the largest gathering of audio professionals and enthusiasts on the globe, attracting delegates from over 100 countries worldwide.

Workshops, tutorials, technical papers and the exhibition floor provide attendees with a wealth of learning, networking and business opportunities.

May 14-16, 2011
Novotel London West
London, UK

Drum Werks announces the release of a new bass drum samples library for a wide range of rock, hard rock, alt rock, and metal styles. The Studio B Kick Drum Sample Library offers a versatile and powerful mix-ready kick drum sample collection of DW, Pearl, Premier, and Tama kick drums.

Studio B Kick Drum Sample Library Features:

- 9 unique kick sample sets featuring DW, Pearl, Premier, and Tama kick drums
- 691 multi-velocity samples, 580 MB total in the entire Studio B Kick Drum Library
- 24-bit, 44.1khz stereo kick drum samples
- Wide variety of tunings, from dry and aggressive, thick and punchy, to open and resonant
- Mix-ready sounds
- Use in any DAW (ProTools, Cubase, Sonar, ACID), software sampler (Battery, Kontakt), sequencing program (FL Studio, iDrum) or drum replacement software (Drumagog, Slate Trigger).

Celemony Software is presenting a new music restoration program at the AES in London. Capstan removes wow and flutter from musical material of all kinds and commends itself therefore to professional restoration and mastering studios.

Capstan runs as a stand-alone application under Windows and Mac OS, supports all common two-track formats and will commence shipping in mid June 2011.