Roland is proud to announce R-MIX, a new audio processing application that gives recording professionals and those just starting out the tools to manipulate a stereo mix audio easily, visually and intuitively in real time. Featuring the newly developed proprietary V-Remastering technology and the highly-acclaimed VariPhrase technology, R-MIX allows you to see the individual components of a stereo mix as color-coded clouds of harmonic matter and to apply effects or center cancel exactly where and as you wish within the mix.

By graphically breaking down the stereo mix data into three elements (frequency, panning, and level), R-MIX makes it possible to actually see the instruments inside a mix using Harmonic Placement. Change the panning and level, erase, extract, and add effects, and independently adjust the pitch and speed of the playback as desired. Lower the level of the vocal or any other instrument within the mix to create minus-one karaoke files or create remixes using two pairs of stereo tracks. Mastering live recording sources is also possible by adjusting the instrument levels and applying noise reduction and effects, and with R-MIX, you can create the highest quality sound and then export your project as an audio file for music player playback.

Since there is only one R-MIX screen to operate, workflow increases, and there is no need to switch screens. Menus are aligned according to the workflow, easing navigation, and a simple help window for each task allows for hands-free operation. Windows/Mac compatibility and the intuitive design also make it accessible to everyone from serious DAW magicians to novice users and integrates easily into education and video production settings.

Roland’s innovative V-Remastering digital signal-processing technology gives you total control over the elements within a stereo audio file. Built into R-MIX, V-Remastering makes it possible for you to see each stereo mix as color-coded clouds of energy and harmonic matter, and easily isolate the individual instruments or elements within the mix and change their panning positions and levels. V-Remastering also gives you the ability to erase, extract, or add effects to each element within a mix. V-Remastering enables music-editing capabilities never possible before.

In conjunction with V-Remastering, R-MIX employs Roland’s acclaimed VariPhrase technology, which can make your audio “elastic.” The secret to elastic audio is the independent control of pitch, time, and formant. Smoothly adjust pitch without changing tempo, for example, or adjust tempo without changing pitch. Audio is elastic, and freely under your control in real time. All of this can be done without changing the sound quality of the original recording.

R-MIX Tab, a simplified version of R-MIX, will be available for the Apple iPad later this year. This iPad application also uses the V-Remastering technology to extract audio elements and easily creates minus-one data from an audio file.

On the Mac, R-MIX requires OS X 10.5.8 or later, an Intel Core2 Duo processor and a minimum display size of 1024 x 768 pixels.

R-MIX for Mac OS X is expected to ship in December with a street price of £85.

http://www.RolandConnect.com/product.php?p=r-mix

3R Audio is happy to announce the release of Space Designer Manager 2, a management tool for the popular Logic Pro impulse reverb Space Designer. Version 2 adds batch editing, a new Info Drawer, workflow enhancements and Mac OS X 10.7 Lion optimization.

The ever growing number of 3rd party and user impulse responses shows Space Designer’s drawback: Before you can use a impulse response file you must load it into a setting and save it. If you have hundreds or thousands of files, this will be an exhausting and almost impossible task. Space Designer Manager does the job automatically for you in seconds. Furthermore it can find and re-link impulse responses back to their respective setting files and batch modify important parameters of existing settings like dry and wet level, volume and latency compensation.

Space Designer Manager consists of two parts. On the left side you can switch between Generator and Modifier mode. Generator batch-generates setting files for Space Designer compatible impulse responses while Modifier batch-modifies basic parameters of already existing settings. Single files, folders and also folders inside of folders are processed. Generator will process all AIF, WAV, SD2 and SDIR files in mono, stereo, truestereo, quadrophonic, B-Format and mono-omni surround. On the right side resides Relinker. Relinker relinks setting files with the impulse responses they were originally pointing to by selecting a setting folder and the according impulse response folder.

The new features in Space Designer Manager 2:

• New Modifier added to batch modify the most important Space Designer parameters
• An all new Info Drawer featuring a complete audio file player, plus an additional
• info view for convenient pre-listening of impulse responses
• New option to add the duration of the impulse response as a prefix to the setting name
• New option added to let the Preferences and Info Drawer open on startup
• Numerous internal enhancements
• Optimized for OS X Lion

On the Mac, Space Designer Manager 2 requires OS X 10.6 or later, an Intel processor, 1 GB of available RAM, and Apple Logic Pro.

Space Designer Manager 2 is available via the Mac App Store for $37.99 or direct download from 3R Audio for €29. The upgrade from version 1 is €9 and can be ordered in the 3R Audio Shop. It is free for users who have purchased Space Designer Manager after 1 May 2011. A demo version is available.

http://www.3raudio.com/spacedesignermanager.html

AMG today announced the release of their Beat Producer loop editing and percussion plug-in for musicians, producers, DJs and rappers. Beat Producer offers a range of powerful loop editing features to the computer musician, allows access to AMG’s huge, award-winning libraries and brings together industry standard formats, including REX files, Apple Loops and ACIDized WAV files, in one affordable package.

Key features of Beat Producer include:

• Imports Industry Standard Loop Formats — Access REX (.rex, .rx2), Apple Loops and ACIDized WAV files. Freely cross-fertilize groove DNA between loop formats. Switching sounds between grooves freely, extracting sounds or grooves and incorporating any samples within them or creating new beats using any of these resources from scratch. Complete flexibility.
• Instant control of tempo and pitch — Loops automatically tempo sync with your host and pitch can be controlled independently of tempo in real-time.
• Waveform Editor — Examine loop waveforms and edit slices individually within the loop’s groove using the additional groove- locked work track if desired. Reverse, mute, pan, mix and shuffle hits around freely within and between loops.
• Step Editor — 32-part TR-Style step sequencer is available on each rack. Create beats in step time using sounds selected from loops or your sample library.
• Real-time MIDI Control — Easily assignable MIDI control of most parameters for quick, easy real-time, interactive control.
• 8 Racks available — Each instance of Beat Producer offers two stereo groove tracks and 32 step sequencer tracks in each of it’s 8 racks, making 272 tracks per instance.
• Built-in Effects — Four 64-bit, fully editable audio effects processors, and three pages of synth processing per rack.
• Loop Browser — Fully customizable browser with multiple library locations and user definable filters.
• Huge High Quality Sample Libraries — Access AMG’s award-winning sample libraries and enjoy the featured offered by Beat Producer. Huge libraries at low prices and more scheduled for release.

Beat Producer uses AMG’s ONE engine previously described by MacUser as “the complete loop solution”, Sound On Sound said “for loop-heads everywhere, it is well worth checking out” and Future Music reported it “could be the creative and stable multi-timbral file player you’ve been looking for.”

AMG “have always been dedicated to producing inspiring sample libraries. Beat Producer not only provides an exciting range of tools in itself but also provides the perfect environment to host our sample libraries. Making more of our samples available to Beat Producer users and enhancing their use of them to previously unobtainable levels.”

On the Mac, Beat Producer requires OS X 10.4 or higher, a 1 GHz G4, G5 or Intel processor, and 1 GB of available RAM. It runs cross-platform as a stand-alone app, or as an Audio Units, VST or RTAS plug-in.

Beat Producer is available for instant download for just $49 with no library, or $99 with the 3500+ Loop Core Library. A downloadable demo version is also available.

BeatProducer.com

Apple today announced Final Cut Pro X, a new version of the world’s most popular Pro video editing software which completely reinvents video editing with a Magnetic Timeline that lets you edit on a flexible, trackless canvas; Content Auto-Analysis that categorizes your content upon import by shot type, media and people; and background rendering that allows you to work without interruption. Built on a modern 64-bit architecture, Final Cut Pro X is available from the Mac App Store for $299.99.

“Final Cut Pro X is the biggest advance in Pro video editing since the original Final Cut Pro,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “We have shown it to many of the world’s best Pro editors, and their jaws have dropped.”

“I’m blown away by what Apple has done with Final Cut Pro,” said Angus Wall, Academy Award-winning film editor. “Final Cut Pro X is incredibly modern and fast, but most importantly it lets you focus on telling your story in the most creative way, while it actively manages all of the technical details.”

At the heart of Final Cut Pro X is the Magnetic Timeline, a trackless approach to editing your footage that lets you add and arrange clips wherever you want them, while other clips instantly slide out of the way. You can use Clip Connections to link primary story clips to other elements like titles and sound effects, so they stay in perfect sync when you move them. You can even combine related story elements into a Compound Clip that can be edited as a single clip. The groundbreaking new Auditions feature lets you swap between a collection of clips to instantly compare alternate takes.

Content Auto-Analysis scans your media on import and tags your content with useful information. Final Cut Pro X then uses that information to dynamically organize your clips into Smart Collections, so you can easily find the clips you want by close up, medium and wide shots as well as media type and the number of people in the shot. You can also tag parts of clips with Range-based keywords to add custom search criteria to your media.

Completely rebuilt from the ground up, Final Cut Pro X is a 64-bit app that takes full advantage of the latest Mac hardware and software so you never have to wait for the next edit, even if you’re working with 4K video. Final Cut Pro X uses multi-threaded processing and the GPU on your graphics card for blazing fast background rendering and superb real-time playback performance. Additionally, a ColorSync-managed color pipeline ensures color consistency from import to output.

Final Cut Pro X also includes powerful tools for audio editing and color correction, and is complemented by two companion apps, Motion 5 for professional motion graphics and Compressor 4 for advanced media encoding, available separately from the Mac App Store.

Key audio features:

• Support for audio samples up to 192kHz
• Real-time Mac OS X Audio Units and Logic plug-in effects included
• Support for 64-bit third-party Audio Units plug-ins
• Match Audio for smoothing out EQ from different microphones
• 10- or 31-parameter EQ built into each audio clip
• VU meters that expand as needed
• Individual audio channel control for enable/disable and configuration
• Audio enhancements for volume normalization, background noise removal, and hum removal for both 50Hz and 60Hz
• Audio waveform display in viewer and timeline
• Adjust audio filters in real time during playback
• 5.1 surround monitoring and keyframe control for panning
• Preset animations for 5.1 surround panning such as Back to Front, Rotate, Create Space, and more

Final Cut Pro X requires OS X 10.6.7 and a 64-bit processor. It is available today for $299.99 from the Mac App Store. Motion 5 and Compressor 4 are available today for $49.99 each from the Mac App Store.

www.apple.com/finalcutpro

Discuss Final Cut Pro X on our Audio Video forum.

Redmatica has announced the release of GBSamplerManager (GBSM), a Mac application for managing, creating and editing instruments for the Sampler Instrument in GarageBand for iPad. Transfer your GarageBand songs from the iPad using iTunes, then drag the songs to GBSamplerManager to manage/edit their Sampler instruments or add new ones. Once you are satisfied, drag your song back to iTunes and transfer to the iPad.

Sampler instruments and samples can be copied between songs or to the desktop, where you can use them in Logic or GarageBand for Mac, or simply build a library. Similarly, you can copy your (EXS) sampler instruments from Logic and GarageBand for Mac to your GB iPad songs.

Creating new sounds and adding them to your GarageBand for iPad songs is very easy: Drag a sample to GBSamplerManager, and it will create a sampler instrument automatically for you. There are literally tens of thousands of commercial and freely available EXS24 sounds available on the internet; drum loops, vintage analog synths, everything. With GBSamplerManager you can easily use them in your GarageBand iPad projects.

If you want to migrate your hardware and software synth sounds to GarageBand iPad you can purchase the simple one-click AutoSampler application on your Mac to create your own sampled sound library (Autosampler application available separately from Redmatica).

Redmatica GBSamplerManager (click to zoom)

The Sampler instruments from GarageBand iPad are compatible with GarageBand for Mac and Logic. With GBSamplerManager you just have to select the instruments you want to take to the Mac and drag and drop them to your Mac. GBSamplerManager also includes a basic, intuitive editor for simple (one sample) instruments, so that you can edit them with the full comfort of your large Mac screen. Add loops, set crossfades, set crossfades shape, change the envelope, fine tune your sample in the simplest possible way.

For more complex instruments, GBSamplerManager integrates with Keymap Pro and Keymap One (both Redmatica products available separately) order to give you direct access to the most advanced sampled instruments editors available today anywhere. And if you just want to browse your sounds on your Mac, click a button, and GBSamplerManager will let you play your instruments from a MIDI controller attached to your Mac.

GBSamplerManager requires a Mac running OS X 10.6 or later with at least 2GB of RAM.

You can purchase GBSamplerManager now via the Redmatica Online Store for $4.99 / €3.99.

http://www.redmatica.com/Redmatica/GBSamplerManager.html

Discuss GBSamplerManager on our official Redmatica forum.

Steinberg is proud to announce the release of WaveLab’s latest incarnation, WaveLab 7. Adding new facilities to its previous versions for Windows, the seventh version now also sets a benchmark for audio editing and mastering under Mac OS X. Its feature list includes the revamped graphical user interface which provides eminently convenient handling of audio material across multiple windows, montages and podcasts with an intelligent docking and scaling system. Brand-new VST3 plug-ins and restoration tools, the new, future-proof burning engine and its flexible multiprocessing capabilities are further highlights.

“By releasing WaveLab 7, Steinberg’s range of products now encompasses an A-to-Z solution on PC and Mac computers that offers industry-standard tools all the way from music creation, production and mixing right straight down to the final master,” comments Timo Wildenhain, Steinberg’s product marketing manager for WaveLab. “This milestone release reflects Steinberg’s commitment to cross-platform support, closing the circle to offer its current product range to both the Windows and Mac OS X platforms,” Wildenhain continues.

Re-engineered from top to bottom, WaveLab 7 introduces several novelties to its user interface which makes working with audio much more intuitive as well as expediting workflows in audio editing and mastering with a convenient, completely customizable window and toolbar management system. WaveLab 7 also includes a restoration tool package encompassing specialized DeNoiser, DeBuzzer and DeClicker plug-ins by leading plug-in manufacturer Sonnox plus 30 new VST3 plug-ins for further processing, expanding the depth of WaveLab’s vast range of functionality. DDP support and the entirely new CD and DVD-A burning engine are features that round out the functional additions to WaveLab 7.

Steinberg WaveLab 7 (Click to zoom)

WaveLab is available in two editions: WaveLab 7, which is the first choice for professional mastering, editing and restoration, and WaveLab Elements 7, which is tailored to hobby musicians and podcasters.

Mac OS requirements:

• Supported operating system: Mac OS X 10.6
• Intel Core processor (Intel Core Duo recommended)
• 1024 MB RAM
• CoreAudio compatible audio hardware
• Display resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels
• 200 MB of free hard disk space
• USB-eLicenser and USB component connector. (The USB-eLicenser is included in all retail versions of WaveLab 7. It is not required to run WaveLab Elements 7.)
• CD/DVD-ROM drive required for installation
• Internet connection required for license activation

WaveLab 7 is available as boxed version in the Steinberg Online Shop and from authorized Steinberg resellers for $499 / €599 / £497. The simpler WaveLab Elements 7 is available as boxed or download versions for $99 / €99 / £82. Shipping of WaveLab 7 and WaveLab Elements 7 boxed versions will begin shortly. Both can be pre-ordered now in the Steinberg Online Shop. WaveLab Elements 7 and updates from all WaveLab 6 derivates are also available as a download version.

www.steinberg.net/en/products/wavelab/start.html

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Steinberg is proud to announce WaveLab 7, bringing a new benchmark for audio editing and mastering to the Mac, while adding new capabilities to its previous Windows incarnation. Among the new features is a unique GUI concept that allows fast and fluid handling of audio material across multiple windows, montages and podcasts with an intelligent docking and scaling system as well as new VST3 plug-ins and restoration tools, a new CD and DVD-A burning engine and much more.

“This is a landmark release for WaveLab and for the Mac audio community,” comments Timo Wildenhain, Steinberg’s Product Marketing Manager for WaveLab. “WaveLab 7 means that Steinberg now offers an end-to-end production solution on Mac OS X that offers industry-standard tools all the way from music creation, production and mixing right through to the final master.”

“WaveLab 7 has been completely reengineered from the ground up to offer complete compatibility for Windows and OS X, extending Steinberg’s commitment to cross-platform support to the audio editing and mastering arenas in which WaveLab has become an industry standard on the PC,” Wildenhain continues.

The new WaveLab 7 user interface handles audio material faster and more intuitively, speeding up workflows in audio editing and mastering with an ultra-fluid, intelligent and completely customizable window and toolbar management system.

WaveLab 7 also includes a restoration tool package provided by leading plug-in manufacturer Sonnox and encompassing specialized DeNoiser, DeBuzzer and DeClicker plug-ins, while a range of additional VST3 plug-ins includes a range of tools previously available in Steinberg’s music and audio production applications including the Nuendo Post Filter plug-in, further expanding the functional depth of the onboard audio toolset. A completely new CD and DVD-A burning engine rounds off the functional additions to WaveLab 7.

WaveLab 7 will be available in the second half of 2010 from authorized Steinberg resellers, with a suggested retail price of €599/£510. US pricing has not yet been announced.

http://www.steinberg.net/en/products/audioediting_product.html

Discuss Steinberg WaveLab 7 in our Applications forum.

Redmatica presents the 64-bit version of its next generation creative sampling suite, Compendium Pro Bundle 2.1 at the Winter NAMM show, booth 6328 Hall A. The new set of applications includes Keymap Pro 2.1, AutoSampler 2.1 and ProManager 3.1.

Keymap Pro 2.1 is the direct 64-bit evolution of the acclaimed Keymap 1.5 sampled instruments editor, and extends its file support to all the major instrument formats on the market, including Apple EXS24, Native Instrument Kontakt, Digidesign Structure and Propellerheads Reason NNXT. Keymap Pro 2.1 incorporates a massive amount of innovative and never seen before features, including multiple playback personalities to match each corresponding instrument format, integrated direct multichannel recording (sampling) also from networked computers with autostart/stop/cut/map/loop, new DSP tools for looping the unloopable, new resynthesis algorithms for non-harmonic samples and loops, integrated AutoSampling features with AutoSampling Live mode for effortless interactive recording from sound sources, SoundDesign layers for using AudioUnit plugins as synthesis blocks in the playback chain, massively multimode envelopes, dimensional panning, continuous background rendering, and a stunning Core Animation based visual interface. Version 2.1 adds virtually unlimited 64-bit memory space support, support for 64-bit AudioUnit plugins, faster overall performance, and new remapping features, including the ability to build conversion maps and perform drum remapping from one layout to another with a single click.

AutoSampler 2.1 takes the original tool for automatically sampling hardware and software synths to 64-bit by presenting a new user interface and extending instrument creation format support to Redmatica Keymap, Apple EXS24, Native Instrument Kontakt, Digidesign Structure and Propellerheads Reason NNXT. It also offers a built-in mapping editor to build custom templates, a simplified view mode, autolooping algorithms taken directly from Keymap Pro 2.1, multichannel autosampling of up to 8 channels from local audio devices or networked computers, Key Switch autosampling, Round Robin autosampling, and much faster operations.

ProManager 3.1 is the completely redesigned next generation 64-bit version of the popular ExsManager 2 sampled library manager application. It now handles Redmatica Keymap, Apple EXS24, Native Instrument Kontakt, Digidesign Structure and Propellerheads Reason NNXT instrument formats simultaneously. The intuitive goal-based interface makes it easy to relink instruments to samples for quick loading, manage duplicate and unused files, or to completely reorganize the sample libraries. ProManager also offers browsing capabilities for both instruments and samples, an integrated streaming sample viewer, metadata tagging, and search and synchronization over the network. The new 64-bit support allows management of sample libraries of virtually unlimited size.

“Revolutionary Evolution was the concept behind the entire development of the Compendium Pro Bundle 2.1,” said Andrea Gozzi, Founder and Technical Director of Redmatica. “We didn’t just want to introduce a killer set of new features, but also offer new ways to use already existing technologies and make full use of the hardware available in modern computers. We are tremendously excited about going to 64-bit, as it allows our applications to make full use of modern computer hardware, and brings what was already a world class set of creative sampling applications to another level.”

The Compendium Pro Bundle 2.1 will be available in February 2010 with price set to $489.95 / €379.95, and as a free update for current Compendium Pro Bundle 2.0 users.

www.redmatica.com

Discuss Redmatica software in our Redmatica forum.

Celemony Software has announced that Melodyne editor is now available in their online shop. Melodyne editor is the first Celemony product to feature the company’s pioneering DNA Direct Note Access technology allowing access to individual notes in polyphonic audio material. Celemony are also presenting their new product line today: Melodyne studio bundle, Melodyne editor, Melodyne assistant and Melodyne essential RTAS.

Melodyne editor caused tremendous excitement all over the world when it was first presented, as its DNA technology made possible something that had always been considered impossible: The editing of individual notes in polyphonic audio material. Now that all registered Melodyne users have had a chance to put the eagerly awaited product through its paces in the course of a public beta test phase, Melodyne editor is ready for its worldwide sales launch.

As with the already-familiar editions of Melodyne, Melodyne editor offers a variety of different tools that make it possible to edit audio material in a highly intuitive and musical way — now, thanks to DNA, even if the source is a polyphonic instrument. With their totally new technical infrastructure, both the plug-in and stand-alone implementations of Melodyne editor boast numerous improvements over previous editions of Melodyne, including a very short loading time, a resizable plug-in window, still further improvements in the note detection process and sound quality, and much more.

“The feedback from the public beta testing was exceptionally positive. Many thanks to all who participated! Having subjected Melodyne editor now to an exhaustive series of quality controls, we are greatly looking forward to being able to release the application worldwide. At the same time, we are eager to see how users will take to the totally novel possibilities for audio editing the new technology affords,” says Anselm Rößler, Celemony’s Managing Director.

Melodyne editor runs stand-alone or as a VST, AU or RTAS plug-in with compatible DAWs under Mac OS X 10.4 or later and requires a dual PowerPC G5 or Intel dual core processor with 2 GB RAM.

The list price of Melodyne editor is $349 / €349. With the launch of Melodyne editor, Celemony are also restructuring their entire product line. This now includes Melodyne assistant (equivalent to Melodyne editor but without DNA: $249 / €199), Melodyne studio bundle (contains Melodyne studio 3 as well as Melodyne editor: $699/ €699) and Melodyne essential RTAS (the new version of Melodyne essential, which is only available in the Digidesign bundle).

www.celemony.com/cms/index.php?id=products_editor

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Prosoniq has unveiled sonicWORX • Pro, a new version of their venerable audio editor hailed as “a totally new approach to audio editing.” The original sonicWORX was extremely advanced in the days when Mac OS 7 was better known as System 7, but was discontinued in 2003. Even so, many users kept a Mac capable of running OS 9 around just for sonicWORX. For these users, the future arrives in Germany next week.

sonicWORX • Pro uses the “latest advances in DSP to split audio signals into their components allowing you to view and edit audio based on the actual sounds present within the mix. Working in tandem with intelligent pattern detection used for signal separation and realtime mouse-over preview, their high-resolution time-frequency transform technology helps to quickly identify, select and isolate interesting features in a mix, such as individual notes, instruments and voice.” Prosoniq expects this will be an incredibly versatile tool for micro-editing as well as easy suppressing, extracting or processing instruments within a mix for remixing, mastering or restoration.

Pricing and availability will be announced at Musikmesse in April. Visit Prosoniq in Hall 5.1 D54 for a hands-on demo. sonicWORX • Pro will require an Intel Mac with 2.66 GHz Core 2 duo or 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon CPU or better, 4+ GB RAM (8+ recommended), 125+ GB free disk space (250+ recommended for working with large files), MacOS X 10.5.6 or higher (required).

You can discuss sonicWORX • Pro here in our forums.

Prosoniq also announced that it will discontinue development of its Windows products starting June 1st, 2009. Existing Windows products will continued to be sold until that date, and updates will be available until the end of 2009. Users who wish to crossgrade from the latest version of their Windows product to the Mac counterpart are encouraged to do so for free by contacting Prosoniq.

The new demo preview of DSP-Quattro 3.0 Universal Binary for MacOS X is now available for the download!

DSP Quattro is a complete solution for Audio Editing, Audio CD-Mastering and Plug-in Hosting for Mac OS X. It runs on both PowerPC and Intel based Apple Macs. It offers outstanding performance with a new PlayList feature and a re-designed advanced graphic waveform editor.

DSP-Quattro version 3.0 will be available in its final version on April, 1st 2009.

To celebrate the occasion, i3 Srl is proud to offer the following special two-week promotion: the upgrade to version 3 will be for free to all new users purchasing a license of version 2.x during the month of March!

Read all about it here in our forums.