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Freeware : TAL-Reverb

Simon666 — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:47:47 +0000

Hi everyone,

I’ve maintained the freeware FX and instruments lists in the forums for a few years – I started them as a reference list for my students. but it seems they’ve been useful to 90,000 other people as well : )

Glenn has now asked me to post new additions here as well. I’m a blogger boy by nature, so hoping I get my head around Wordpress!

Generally I’ll just be re-posting PR, but might add comments occasionally. Here we go :

TAL-Reverb (AU, VST) is a free open source stereo plate reverb based on juce. It’s very diffuse and has its own sound because of its special signal routing. Slight modulated delay times avoid artefacts in the reverb tail and give this reverb its smooth sound.

* 12 dB High- and Low-Pass filter.
* Pre delay, up to one second.
* Midi Learn (vst only)
* 10 presets.
* open source.

Soundlab Releases G-Player

admin — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:59:44 +0000

Here’s something cool: Soundlab has released G-Player, a standalone and plug-in Giga player for OS X. Mac users have been longing for a proper solution to playing back Giga samples and Soundlab has delivered.

G-Player is the first native Giga player for OS X. G-Player was designed to play large orchestral sound libraries and supports disk streaming, dimensions, keyswitches and layered instruments. It’s the first player to do this all without the need to import samples.

G-Player supports VST and AudioUnit plug-ins formats. It’s available for $129 through their online store.

You can discuss G-Player here in our forums.

Thanks to Rand for submitting this through our Submit News feature. You’re the first member to do this at our new site! Keep it coming.

Apogee Drops Windows Development

Orren — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:57:47 +0000

Given that this is Mac OS X Audio, this may not seem like the biggest deal. However for those who were looking for cross platform audio interfaces and considering getting an Apogee interface and FW card, or a USB Mini device, think again:

Apogee has officially announced that they are dropping all Windows platform development to focus solely on the Macintosh. Of course, you can still plug Apogee standalone converters into any Windows audio interface you own. And for those who do use their Apogee interfaces with Windows, they will still support previously purchased cards for a while.

The writing was clearly on the wall for a while, considering how much business Apogee has been doing with Apple-related products such as Ensemble and Duet, popular among Logic and GarageBand users. Still, considering how much of a potential market Windows audio users are, this decision could not have been easy, or made lightly.

Come on in to the Mac OS X Audio forums to read and discuss this further.