Archive for May, 2009
Avid Releases Sibelius 6
May 19th
Sibelius 6, the latest version of the world’s best-selling music notation software, is now available from Avid. Designed for educators, students, composers, arrangers, copyists and musicians of all kinds, Sibelius 6 is as simple and intuitive to use as a pen, yet so powerful that it does most things in the blink of an eye. The new version includes hundreds of improvements, including many innovative new features never before seen in notation software.
Scale Wizard Released for iPhone and iPod Touch
May 16th
D’Addario and Planet Waves have released Scale Wizard, a complete guitar scale and arpeggio library for iPhone and iPod touch. Our friends at Audiofile Engineering have developed the application. The scale library comes courtesy of our own by Marc Schonbrun.
Waldorf Largo This Way Comes
May 14th
The first pure software synthesizer with Waldorf DNA is nearly ready to be loosed on the music making public. According to synthesizer maker Waldorf Music, “The Largo Synthesizer will see the light of day within the merry month of May.”
Propellerheads Reveal Record
May 11th
Propellerhead Software today unveiled Record, the recording software that puts the musician in focus. Record combines effortless recording and a stunning software mixer console with a limitless rack of audio processing gear that builds itself or can be infinitely customized.
Applied Acoustic Systems Releases Strum Electric GS-1
May 10th
Applied Acoustics Systems announces the release of Strum Electric GS-1, a new guitar track production plug-in for music producers and composers.
Based on the latest AAS physical modeling technology, Strum Electric includes a collection of classic single coil- and humbucker-fitted guitars, a two-channel amplifier with spring reverb, a speaker cabinet, and effects all featured in a ready-made preset library. It also includes an elaborate voicing module which automatically voices chords played on the keyboard as a guitar player would on the fretboard. Techniques such as down- and up-strokes, slides and bends, hammer-ons and pull-offs, palm muting, muffled strings, and arpeggios are triggered by special strumming keys. Strum Electric also ships with an inspiring MIDI loops library which provides rhythmic figures, strumming patterns, and chord progressions in various musical styles.
Metric Halo Unveils ULN-8 Audio Interface
May 7th
Metric Halo has launched their new ULN-8, an audio processing converter and interface that features archival-grade converters, enhanced digitally controlled ULN (ultra low-noise, high-headroom) pre-amps, dedicated analog-domain sends and returns, analog domain 7.1 monitor controller, AES interfacing, and extensive front panel control with metering.