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Mastering Essentials is a new tool designed specifically for Acoustic Mixcraft Pro Studio 6. By licensing elements from Ozone, iZotope‚s flagship mastering suite, Acoustica is delivering a basic mastering solution approachable for musicians of any level.

Mastering Essentials Key Features:
- Valve EQ module: high-quality 4-band EQ
- Room Simulation (Reverb) module: controls for reverb and stereo widening, including a vectorscope for visualizing the stereo spread of the audio
- Tube amplifier module: Bass Compression, a Tube Limiter, and Tube Saturation components
- Over 80 presets, including presets for general use, special FX, audio enhancement, restoration, and over 40 different genre presets.

Mastering Essentials is available from iZotope for third-party and OEM licensing for Mac or Windows applications.

Following in the footsteps of the Kaoss Pad KP3 and Kaoss Pad Quad, the Mini Kaoss Pad 2 (Kaossilator 2) is played by sliding or tapping a finger on the X-Y touchpad. These finger motions allow multiple effect parameters to be easily controlled at the same time.

The Mini Kaoss Pad 2 contains 100 diverse, ready-to-use effects. These include standard effects such as Flanger, Filter, Delay, and Reverb; multiple effect programs; cutting edge effects; as well as three new DJ-style effects borrowed from the Kaoss Pad Quad: the powerful Looper, Vinyl Break, and Ducking Compressor. For live performance, the Mini Kaoss Pad 2 provides three Program Memories for instant recall of any favorite effects.

MOTU Digital Performer 8 goes 64bit and windows! That's the big news on MOTU booth.

"Magic" Dave has shown news effects (with a Vox AC-30ans some Electro Harmonix emulations), new skins, and 64bit mode on Mac OSX.
Finally, Motu also announces Windows Compatibility for Digital Performer 8! More informations very soon.

Universal Audio (UA) welcomes Sonnox as Direct Developers for the UAD-2 Powered Plug-Ins platform.

This partnership will bring Sonnox's award-winning mixing and mastering plug-ins to UAD-2 DSP Accelerator hardware — widely regarded as the best audio production platform in the professional recording industry.

Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH today released the CI2+ Production Kit. The hardware and software bundle comprises the acclaimed CI2+ audio interface/controller alongside the Cubase AI 6 music production software and WaveLab LE 7 audio editing suite.

The featured Advanced Integration technology facilitates every phase of the music creation process, from the initial idea through to the final mixdown.

Universal Audio announce Apollo®, a high-resolution audio interface that combines UA's analog design heritage with esteemed UAD Powered Plug-Ins in a sleek, elegant recording system for Mac and PC (Summer 2012).

With Apollo, music producers and performers can finally track through UAD Powered Plug-Ins in real time, via a professional 18 x 24 FireWire/Thunderbolt -ready audio interface that delivers class-leading 24-bit/192 kHz sound quality.