PC and Music News

Toontrack Music is very pleased to present the most significant update for Superior Drummer 2 to date. Version 2.2 includes features that radically take users workflow to the next level.

New features:

• Integrated Groove player

Superior Drummer now includes an integrated MIDI player, complete with
drag and drop capabilities. Combine kit pieces patterns from different
grooves to create totally new material that are nonetheless completely
consistent with how a drummer would approach it.

• Full control over the instruments response

Use the comprehensive (and greatly expanded) Velocity Controls to
access the sound libraries most intimate technical and musical aspects.
Change the response curve of any instrument, or change the response for
one of the available ar ...

Digidesign unveils Eleven Rack, a new guitar recording system designed to solve the challenges guitarists face in the studio.

Eleven Rack combines studio-standard Pro Tools software with a high-resolution, dual DSP-powered audio interface so you'll never have to worry about latency when recording with its built-in amp/effects tones -- nor will your computer have to carry the processing burden. Eleven Rack also takes re-amping to the next level by recording both dry and processed guitar signals simultaneously, allowing you to re-amplify later without patching a single cable. Digidesign even found a way to embed the Eleven Rack amp and effects settings into the audio tracks you record, enabling you to automatically recall those settings from your audio files on any Pro Tools system with E ...

Celemony is proud to announce two new products: Melodyne assistant, which offers the well-known Melodyne technology for the editing of vocals and monophonic instruments in a more affordable yet nonetheless improved format, and Version 2 of the bundle edition Melodyne essential, which now runs directly as a plug-in in the Pro Tools environment and brings with it numerous improvements over Version 1.

Melodyne assistant is the most affordable entry into the world of Melodyne and ideal for the correction and optimization of monophonic and rhythmic audio material. The user can with Melodyne assistant correct intonation or timing problems by hand, transposing notes, moving them forwards or backwards in time, deleting them, adjusting their amplitude and their formants, as well as copying them ...

XILS-lab has announced the availability of a dongle-free, limited-features demo version of its XILS 3 synthesizer plug-in. This version outputs silence periodically (every 3-4 seconds) and limits the following features :

• No preset or project saving
• No bank import or export
• No automation
• Features the 1.0.2 version of the XILS 3 and won't be updated
• No time limit
• No dongle or serial number required

The Custom and Vintage SDX is a re-release of the Toontrack Music sample packs Superior Custom and Vintage and Superior Vintage Add-on (both released for the original Superior Drummer software) and they have now been combined to form the The Custom and Vintage SDX for Superior Drummer 2.0.

Apart from extensive stick and brush recordings of a unique collection of drums and cymbals it also features mixer presets by producer Peter Henderson and custom MIDI by drummer Chris Whitten.

The Custom and Vintage SDX will be available as an upgrade with a special price from the legacy products and one regular SDX version for newer customers. Both with the same content.

The Custom and Vintage SDX will be available in stores around the world at the end of October 2009.

After a long journey Flux proudly presents, Syrah - The Creative Adaptive-Dynamics Processor. A new generation dynamics processor, always adapting to the music and to the beat of the material.

Utilizing a range of delicate proprietary processing algorithms, Syrah is described as a "truly musical dynamics processor", and will be well suited as a creative versatile processor for recording and mixing, as well as for delicate and demanding mastering tasks.

Syrah is available in all major native formats for both Windows XP, XP 64, Vista 64 (VST/RTAS) and OS X 10.4, 10.5 (VST/AU/RTAS). It costs €149.