PC and Music News

Mix and mastering engineers may now audition up to five codecs in real time within a DAW environment.

The Sonnox Fraunhofer Pro-Codec plug-in enables the production of optimized mixes, and provides the option to simultaneously batch encode to multiple formats. All major codecs, including: mp3, mp3 Surround, AAC-LC and HE-AAC are supported, as are such lossless codecs as mp3 HD and HD-AAC.

The Sonnox Fraunhofer Pro-Codec is available now for a price of £295 GBP ($495 USD), and is compatible with most popular DAWs - Pro Tools, Logic, Cubase, Nuendo, Sequoia and Wavelab. Both Mac and Windows are supported.

Voxengo Tube Amp version 2.3 update is now available
for download. Tube Amp is a free audio effect plugin that applies asymmetric tube triode overdrive usually found in single-tube microphone pre-amp boxes.

The sound this plug-in produces varies from a mild "warm" overdrive to a fuzzy distortion. Tube Amp conforms to AudioUnit and VST plugin specifications, and is available for Mac OS X (v.10.4.11 and later) and Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) computers.

Automap is a piece of software that comes with all Novation controllers. It has been designed to make the job of assigning your hardware controls to various software parameters quick and easy.

Some new features and fixed bugs:

- Fixed crash with Plug-In Manager under certain conditions.
- Fixed drumpad calibration issue with Nocturn Keyboard.
- Updated firmware for Remote SL Compact to version 4.2.03.
- Added partial native support for Waves 8 plug-ins (not fully implemented).
- Added notification when trying to wrap Waves 8 plug-ins in Plug-In Manager.
- Fixed some Waves VST3 mono plug-ins not able to be automapped.
- Added and improved some default mappings.
- Added 64 bit plug-in display in Plug-In Manager for Windows 7 64 systems.
- Updated VST3 search paths on Windows 7 64 system in Plug-In Manager.
- Updated Windows Novation USB Driver to 2.1 release version.
- Fixed Digital Performer 7 crash on some systems.
- Improved VST3 wrapper using the latest VST3 SDK.
- Remote SL Compact 4.2.03 release notes: Fixed keyboard sensing on some units.

Fingerlab is proud to announce the release in early July of "DM1 | The Drum Machine", the next generation of drum machines for iPad and iPad2.

Drop your email and we'll let you know when DM1 is out. Watch out for the release promotion.

- 24 vintage and produced drum kits, mastered at in-house Fingerlab Sound Studios
- Mixer page with pitch, length and level rotary controls and individual sound loading per channel
- Super fast drum kit loading
- Playable pattern selection for extra creativity
- Big Drum pads, quantized recording and MPC-like Repeat touch-stripe
- Step Sequencer with multi-touch matrix for unexpected beat creation
- Duo FX Trackpads for real-time sonic destruction and cool multi-FX
- Mode song with intuitive editing
- High-quality export to email or iTunes shared folder.

PSP present new version of our flagship mastering equalizer plug-in – PSP Neon! To overcome the most significant limitations of PSP Neon HR version 1 we decided to develop additional versions of the plug-in, creating the Neon Suite which covers both mastering and mixing applications.

- PSP Neon HR – compatible with PSP Neon HR version 1, so your sessions will open and your presets will load. Just like its predecessor, It offers linear phase processing as well as three spectral resolution levels.
- PSP Neon STD – like HR, but with standard (std) spectral resolution. This is sufficient for all but the most demanding mastering purposes (for which you can always grab HR). STD offers greatly reduced latency (by factor of ~3) and much gentler memory requirements.
- PSP Neon MIX – with its minimum-phase filters (no linear-phase processing) it is very well-suited for mixing, as it introduces almost no latency (just 31 samples), while still providing all other important features such as oversampling, middle-side processing, a spectrum analyzer and the advanced Neon user interface.

FiRe was the first iPhone recorder to display an accurate audio waveform in real time, the first to support markers, Broadcast WAVE metadata, and the downloading of files in multiple file formats. for immediate release FiRe was the first application on any platform to offer native SoundCloud integration.

Now, FiRe 2 incorporates into its original elegant design a stunning list of powerful new features including:
Advanced editing suite with SmartEdits, Bezier fades, change gain, normalize, looping playback, regions and more
Improved Transport screen with faster and smoother drawing and larger waveform view
EQ and Dynamics effects developed by Audiofile Engineering
iTunes file transfer
Enhanced input processing powered by iZotope
Record in background
Dropbox integration