PC and Music News

Voxengo SPAN version 2.5 update is now available for download.
SPAN is a free real-time "fast Fourier transform" audio spectrum analyzer
plugin for professional music and audio production applications.

List of changes in version 2.5:
- Crash issue reported in Apple Logic Pro fixed.
- If secondary spectrum is active, the delta between primary and
secondary spectrums at cursor position is now displayed.
- A crash related to UI resizing function fixed.

Repetito is a multichannel looper software - with which you can record and add loops on internal channels - resulting in unequaled mixing potential.

Repetito is a real time software which was developed for live music; Repetito can also be used in a studio. Its operation and its user interface are simple and intuitive.
Repetito is operated with MIDI commands. The graphic user interface takes up the whole screen so musicians can control Repetito while playing music.

MusicDevelopments has announced the biggest major update of RapidComposer, the rapid music prototyping software designed for composers, song-writers and musicians of all musical styles.

Improvements:
- rewritten user interface: better usability on small resolutions, still having everything at your fingertips
- chords and progressions can be based on scale degrees, several chord notations offered
- cut/copy/paste works for phrases
- simpler structure editor
- MIDI drag and drop tracks or composition to DAWs
- improved Idea Tool: generate a new composition for pressing a key
- better reliability - the new recovery feature will recover your composition if the program or a plug-in crashes

During the promotion RapidComposer and RapidComposer LE are available at a discounted price (USD 224/USD 89) until the end of March.

Loopseque - music app for iPad - has been updated few day ago with many great features on board.

MIDI (iPad 2 or higher):
- MIDI-out: Clock, Events, CC, Latency.
- MIDI-in: Clock.

New layout for MIDI events:
- MIDI note for each circle: channel, velocity, volume, root key.
- Attack, Release, Start and Length for each note.
- Chord maker presets.
- New layout for MIDI assignable CCs: 4 pads controllers for X/Y parameters, sliders and buttons.

Mixer Feedback model B K by 10 Soundware is a sound set for Native Instruments Kontakt 5.

Designed by Taichi Furudate, these patches are based on audio captured from a no-input mixer. The second in a series of four titles, each centered on a different mixer, this release features a contemporary, mass market model by a German manufacturer.
The 53.7 MB download includes 50 .nki files and 100 WAV files (24-bit/44.1 kHz).
Mixer Feedback model B K is available now for $29.99.

It features an analog multimode VCF with lowpass, bandpass, and highpass, resonance up to self oscillation and beyond, a powerful monophonic oscillator section with Ultra High Density Sawtooth and unison for chord play.

Some features:
- Analog multimode-filter (VCF) with Low Pass / Band Pass / High Pass
- VCF-input
- Highly flexible oscillator-section with pulse width modulation and hard sync
- Up to 8 oscillators in unison for chords or Ultra High Density Sawtooth
- Low Frequency Oscillator (LFO) for modulation
- Envelopes for VCA, VCF and Sync
- Booster circuit to generate aggressive sounds
- Arpeggiator with different rhythmic patterns.