PC and Music News

Maul: last chance for introductory offer!
This Halloween, do some terrifying things to your audio with Maul, FXpansion's new plugin for slaughtering your sounds.

Until 31 October 2012, Maul is available for the very un-scary price of $70, €55, £48 inc. VAT for all registered owners of Geist, DCAM: Synth Squad, Tremor, Etch, DCAM Dynamics, BFD2 and BFD Eco (and customers purchasing Maul at the same time as any of these products).

Guitar Ballads consists of ten extensive construction kits containing a total of 562 loops of instrument licks, riffs and drums.

Each construction kit is a complete arranged song with a main theme and some added variations.

Virsyn updates KLON to V3.0 Native 64bit Version for Mac OS X.

New Features in version 3.0:

- VST3 / AudioUnit 64-bit version for Mac OS X.
- Total number of choir voices doubled to 32 ( 4 groups with 8 voices each ).
- Monophonic MIDI playing mode added.
- New MIDI mode using 4 different MIDI channels.
- Further reduced latency to about 10 ms.
- CPU load reduction.

Avid and Gobbler, the purpose-built cloud for digital media creators, announced today an upcoming integration with Avid Pro Tools, creating an easy and reliable way to exchange and back up Pro Tools sessions.
The Gobbler integration will enable you to send files, mixes or entire sessions directly from the Pro Tools interface, reducing steps and eliminating errors. Other unique capabilities, include:

- Automatically locate and back up all of your local Pro Tools sessions to the cloud. You can sleep easier knowing you'll never lose a session again.
- Locate, back up and send all the media files your session requires, regardless of where they're stored. You can be confident you're sending complete sessions.
- Continuous backup of sessions as you work. Your sessions will be ready to go when you're ready to go home.
- Gobbler knows when your Pro Tools system is working, so it never interrupts your creative flow.
- Gobbler knows which files have already been uploaded and downloaded, avoiding wasted storage and minimizing transfer times.
- With no file size limits, you can send any size session to anyone, as easily as sending an email.

IZ Technology Corporation, manufacturer of innovative music and audio products, has launched the ADA II Converters at the 133rd AES Convention in San Francisco. Featuring pristine iZ conversion, and innovative modular I/O structure, intuitive touch screen controls, and direct interfacing to native DAWS and Pro Tools, ADA is a powerful tool designed to meet the creative and technical needs of true audio professionals.

ADA II supports the 24-channel transformer balanced AES card, and features a new ProTools sample rate error indicator. ADA II is fully compatible with iZ's new Classic 96 and Ultra Nyquist analogue I/O option cards. Each ADA is made-to-order in 8, 16, or 24 channel configurations with customizable I/O ratios.
Starting at under $6,700 USD.

The 500 Series now includes six models: J PRE 500 Mic Pre; EQF 500 Parametric Equalizer; DUAL RPA 500 Mic Pre; A PRE 500 Mic Pre; the COMP 500 Optical Compressor; and the acclaimed, previously unveiled EX•BB 500 Aural Exciter/Big Bottom module.
All benefit from the portable and convenient 500 Series format and legendary Aphex sound.