PC and Music News

An upgrade of the step sequencer "Lauflicht" for the Novation Launchpad to the version 2 has been released. The plugin for Renoise is a moving light, multitrack and multitimbral step sequencer with 8, 16 or 32 steps, turning your Launchpad into a Hardware Step Sequencer. It was especially designed for playing live and to be capable of editing beats and patterns without the mouse.
Besides the addition of a lot of smaller features and the implementation of user requests like grouped tracks support and better performance, the new version has two new core features.
Both, the powerful control matrix and the keyboard mode enhance the workflow to produce creative drum patterns, bass lines and melodies.

Stereo by name, stereo by nature, bx_stereomaker is an amazingly useful upmixing tool that allows users to easily add pseudo-spatiality and width to mono source-recorded tracks like guitars, vocals, and room mics, while balancing the centre of the stereo signal and paying particular attention to its frequency range.

Available in 64- and 32-bit versions, Brainworx's bx_stereomaker plug-in can be purchased and downloaded (in all Mac OS X and Windows formats — VST 2.4, VST 3, RTAS, AU, AAX) for an introductory price of $95.00 USD until September 15 (rising to $129.00 USD thereafter).

LinPlug hereby announces the release of the CrX4 Sample Synthesizer AU and VST plugin for Mac OS X and Windows PC.

CrX4 is the successor to the CronoX 3 and uses any kind of samples as raw material for synthesis. CrX4 includes a range of virtual analogue features such as a variety of oscillators, unison detuning, amplitude and frequency modulation, the unique free-type-filter, an arpeggiator, and a modulation matrix, wicked LFO's and a comprehensive effects section.

The Vienna Symphonic Library team has made free software product updates available for registered users. Vienna Instruments, Vienna Instruments PRO, Vienna Ensemble PRO, Vienna Suite and Vienna MIR PRO / MIR PRO 24 are now fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.

What's more, the new version of Vienna Suite now includes 11 high-precision 64-bit audio processing plug-ins – the brand-new Goniometer has been added as a monitoring tool to display phase differences and to check for mono-compatibility of audio signals in real-time.

Voxengo VariSaturator version 1.10 update is now
available for download. VariSaturator is an audio effect plug-in
designed to apply saturation and overdrive effects to audio
material. VariSaturator is available in AudioUnit and VST plug-in
formats (including native 64-bit support), for Mac OS X (v10.5 and
later), and Windows computers.

Note that on Mac, VariSaturator now supports Mac OS X v10.5 and
higher only, running on Intel processors. Mac PowerPC support is not
available.

Boston based Ninebuzz Software today introduces Guitar Jam Tracks - Scale Trainer & Practice Buddy 1.0 for Mac OS X.

Featuring five musical styles, an intuitive design and attractive, Retina-ready graphics, Guitar Jam Tracks for Mac OS X adds significant value to the growing Mac App Store. Guitar Jam Tracks for Mac OS X is the first desktop offering from Ninebuzz Software, and retains a simple, yet highly useful approach that has made Guitar Jam Tracks a staple tool for guitarists everywhere.