PC and Music News

In a special pre-Easter holiday promotion, Sonnox is offering a rare 35% price reduction on all plug-ins and bundles throughout the month of March.

Available from authorized resellers as well as the Sonnox website, the Spring Sale encompasses individual Sonnox plug-ins as well as bundles such as the popular Sonnox Elite Collection which includes: Oxford EQ, Dynamics, Inflator, Transient Modulator, Reverb, Limiter and SuprEsser.

Ok, This news does not concern directly our musical target, but... For Soundtrack, demos on youtube, to name a few, it should be a elegant solution.

Big-screen moviemaking comes to the touchscreen with Avid Studio for iPad.

Swiftly arrange your clips in the Storyboard, make precision edits using the Timeline, and add high-quality transitions, effects, and a soundtrack. Then share your movie directly to YouTube, Facebook, and more—or export your project to Avid Studio for the PC and continue editing with even more advanced tools.

Audio Mind Project has just released Pure Energy - a soundset for Strobe and Fusor (included in FXPansion's DCAM: Synth Squad). The Pure Energy soundset contains 177 expressive, high quality presets - 88 for Strobe and respective 89 for Fusor.

This big and versatile set covers a wide variety of sounds, including fat, dirty basses, lively leads, deep, dreamy pads and a various lot more. The instruments utilize extensive Synth Squad's modulation capabilities, including a vital use of mod wheel and aftertouch.

The soundset is available at an introductory 48% off for $12.99 USD ($24.99 standard price) until March 20, 2012.

Epic Horizons - 5.3Gb of 24bit cinematic audio excellence from the producer of the award winning Dark Skies!

This colossal library contains over 850 instruments in EXS24, Kontakt and NN-XT format as well as standard Acidized Wav files and Apple Loops all recorded in stunning 24bit using state of the art sound design by one of the world's leading soundtrack and fx producers.

There are also 30 construction kits. Price: 99,95€.

Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH today released Cubase 6.5, a significant update to its award-winning music production system.

With new VST synthesizers, effects and enhancements that boost productivity and extend the already formidable feature set of Cubase 6, version 6.5 incorporates everything and more to assist musicians, composers and producers in realizing their creative visions within a professional setting.

LinPlug Announces more updates for Mac customers: Alpha, Albino and CronoX updates fix a couple of issues some of you experienced.

Alpha Update
- Fixed detune problem when loading on PowerPC systems
- Stability improvements
- Fixed transport sync in RTAS
- Ended support for PowerPC G3 processors

Albino Update
- Fixed crash problem related to browsing presets
- Fixed transport sync in RTAS
- Fixed compatibility problems with PowerPC G4 and G5
- Stability improvements
- Ended support for PowerPC G3 processors

CronoX Update
- Fixed detune problem when loading on PowerPC systems
- Stability improvements
- Ended support for PowerPC G3 processors