PC and Music News

Ohm Force is announcing the first real collaborative music workstation in the history of music production: the Ohm Studio — a project with which they aspire to redefine the meaning of online music collaboration.

We're talking about real time collaborative MIDI/audio editing, envelopes, a piano roll, audio effects, and virtual instruments: the very same tools we computer based musicians already enjoy, but that you'll now be able to use with your friends, online.

How is this possible? Using an audio core made from scratch, of course, an adaptive audio transfer protocol, a transactional document management engine, some Ohm-style interface innovation, an integrated web Cohmunity, server based projects and much more…

Maizesoft has released Maize Sampler v2.0. For the record, Maize Sampler is a cross-platform tool for sound developers to create sample-based virtual instruments, it's a stand-alone application for Windows and Mac OS X that enables you to create VST and Audio Unit instrument plug-ins.

Feature highlights:

* Group selections by key / controller / MIDI channel.
* Disk-streaming / Memory reading mode.
* Poly / Mono / Legato voice mode with glide time.
* LFO, ADSR envelope and reverb effect.
* Round-robin / Random overlapped sample trigger.
* Load EXS24 sampler format.
* Sample loop, Choke cluster, Release trigger.
* Big sample mapping area and sample table view.
* Export .mse compact instrument file.
* Generate VST and Audio Unit plug-ins.
* User defined UI backgrou ...

SoniqWare VST plug-ins are now available for both Windows XP/Vista/7 and Mac OS X 10.5/1.6 Intel:

MT-1 Multiband Transient Processor:

* Increase or decrease the impact of percussive sounds.
* Lengthen or shorten the decay or reverberation.
* Multiband design means tremendous versatility.
* Quickly set the overall effect with Link button on.
* Apply finer adjustments of each individual band.
* Linear phase adjustable crossover filters.
* Fast detectors.
* Controls for both attack and release.
* Graphical display: crossover filters and make-up gains.
* Load and save programs and banks.
* Two channels (stereo and M/S encoding).
* Wide range of supported sample rates.

SG-1 Spectral Noise Reduction / Noise Gate:

* Capture noise profile from audio data.
* Adjust using noise profile parametric EQ.

IZotope has updated its virtual Drum Machine iDrum to version 1.73.

Changes :

• VST 3 support.
• 64-bit iLok support on Windows.
• 64-bit Audio Unit support.
• Software update notification.
• Minor bug fixes.
• OS X 10.4 no longer supported.

This update is free for all registered users.

DMG Audio has updated EQuality to v1.06. This is the first version which includes the RTAS plug-in format.

Changes :

• RTAS version.
• Tweak to make high-pass filters nicer.
• Fixed handling of filter slopes for automation.
• Fixed automation issue with VST3.
• Fixed fine-control for knobs (shift-drag).
• Fixed Autolisten to be immediate (without needing adjustment of knob).
• Fixed handling of denormals.
• Fixed issues with Reaper/Samplitude on window resizing.
• Supports VST 64bit processing.
• Display correct positions for control-handle of bypassed bands.
• Soft-switching band bypass.
• Configurable autolisten gain.
• Autolisten ignores Q adjustments pref.
• Improvements for K-metering.

THis update is free for all registered users.

Saitara Software has released AC-7 Pro for iPad. This new app turns your iPad into a wireless remote control of your recording and mixing software. It uses Mackie Control Universal protocol so it can handle pretty much every DAW on both Mac and PC.


Available now at an introductory price of $9.99.