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Jul 05, 2009 - 04:17 AM
| Cakewalk® Now Shipping SONAR V-Studio 100 |
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| Second product in the V-Studio line of integrated hardware and software from Cakewalk and Roland is now available worldwide. SONAR V-Studio 100 provides a compact music production studio that enables musicians to create, record, produce, and perform music with or without a computer. SONAR V-Studio 100 integrates a USB 2.0 Audio Interface, DAW Controller, Digital Mixer, SD Recorder, and VS Production Pack for Mac & Windows
 Cakewalk, the world's leading developer of powerful and easy to use products for music creation and recording, today announces the SONAR V-Studio 100 portable music production studio is now shipping worldwide.
The multi-function V-Studio 100 provides a compact and portable solution for the most critical functions needed by the musician, singer-songwriter, MC, producer, or engineer on-the-go, regardless of whether they use a Mac or PC.
Highlights of the SONAR V-Studio 100 include:
High speed USB 2.0 Audio Interface (Mac/Win)
Universal DAW Controller (Mac/Win)
Personal Digital Mixer
SD Wav Recording/Playback
VS Production Pack suite of Virtual Instruments and Effects (Mac/Win)
SONAR VS Digital Audio Workstation (Win)
Use SONAR V-Studio 100 with or without a computer
Musicians can take control of their music production by using the V-Studio 100 as a 24-bit/96 kHz high speed USB 2.0 audio/MIDI interface and universal DAW controller. The unit also includes the VS Production Pack, a powerful suite of high quality instruments and effects. The VS-100 hardware and VS Production Pack have been designed to enhance productions on both Mac and Windows in conjunction with popular DAW software including SONAR, Cubase, Logic, Ableton Live, and others. For PC customers getting started with digital recording, SONAR V-Studio 100 includes the SONAR VS digital audio workstation.
When inspiration strikes, the VS-100 is the ideal tool to get ideas down fast, without the need to boot up a computer. In standalone mode, the VS-100 hardware functions as a personal digital mixer and SD Wave recorder. Musicians can use the VS-100 to record and mix rehearsals and live gigs and can also use it to play backing tracks (even while recording). Customers can then simply transfer the stereo recordings to their favorite DAW software to use as the basis for new tracks, for further editing and sweetening, to upload to the Internet, and more.
Second product in the next generation V-Studio line
SONAR V-Studio 100 is the second product in the next generation V-Studio line of Cakewalk branded hardware and software solutions from Cakewalk and Roland. Following the release of the flagship SONAR V-Studio 700, two great music technology leaders have again combined the best in hardware and software engineering to address the varied needs of today's modern music producers and performing musicians.
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| Ableton Live 8 and Suite 8 Released |
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| Ableton Live 8 and Ableton Suite 8 are out now. Two new instruments, Collision and Latin Percussion are also available; both are included in Ableton Suite 8.
Live 8 and Suite 8 enhance the Ableton vision of creative, real-time digital music with a wealth of new techniques, effects and most-wanted workflow improvements. These include a new groove engine, revamped warping techniques, live looping, five new effects (including the Ableton Vocoder), crossfades in the Arrangement View, group tracks and a reworked MIDI editor. Ableton Suite 8 includes all that plus a massive, inspired sound library and all the instruments a musician could hope for, including a wide range of synths, a sampler, electric and acoustic drums (new: Latin percussion), mallets (new: Collision), numerous sampled instruments and a new, even mightier Operator.
New in Ableton Live 8:
New groove engine: new groove library, extract grooves from audio or MIDI, real-time groove quantize. Includes grooves from the legendary Akai MPC and E-mu SP-1200 machines
New warping engine: warp audio events by adjusting the events on the timeline, updated Beats Warp Mode, new Complex Warp Mode, slice audio files to MIDI tracks based on transients
Looper: classic sound-on-sound looping without the limitations of a hardware device. Record, overdub, undo and more without touching the computer. "First loop sync," simple loop management
New effects: Vocoder, Multiband Dynamics, Overdrive, Limiter and Frequency Shifter
Workflow enhancements: including real-time crossfades in the Arrangement View, enhanced MIDI editing, group tracks, multiple track selection, a screen magnifier and more
New in Ableton Suite 8:
World-class sound library: completely new sound library with real-world "Sound Objects," presets, grooves, templates and, above all, over 1,600 beautiful sounds
Collision and Corpus: a unique physical-modeling instrument for authentic mallet sounds and creative percussion. Includes Corpus, a separate effect that reproduces Collision's resonator section*
Latin Percussion: a collection of acoustic percussion instruments from the worlds of Brazilian, Afro-Cuban and African music, plus a wide selection of clips and grooves for authentic usage*
Operator, Ableton's renowned do-it-all synthesizer, has been given a major overhaul. New filter types, more modulation routing options and additive wavetable synthesis with drawable partials make Operator more powerful and flexible than ever.
Plus these existing Ableton instruments: Sampler, Electric, Tension, Analog, Drum Machines, Session Drums** and the Essential Instrument Collection 2**.
*Collision and Latin Percussion are also available separately. **Boxed version only.
Pricing and Availability
Ableton Live 8 and Suite 8 are available today at your local retailer and at: http://www.ableton.com
Ableton Suite 8
Boxed version: EUR 699/USD 849
(includes Ableton Live 8, sound library, 10 Ableton instruments including Session Drums and Essential Instrument Collection 2, printed manual)
Download version: EUR 549/USD 699
(includes Ableton Live 8, sound library, 8 Ableton instruments)
Ableton Live 8
Boxed version: EUR 449/USD 549
(includes the Essential Instrument Collection 2, printed manual)
Download version: EUR 349/USD 449
Upgrades to Suite 8/Live 8 vary in price, depending on the Ableton products you already own. More details at: http://www.ableton.com/live-8-upgrades
Collision: EUR 129/USD 159
Latin Percussion: EUR 79/USD 99
About Ableton
Ableton develops modern software technology to inspire creative people. Since the company started in 1999, Ableton has attracted an extensive and highly committed community of musicians, composers, and DJs worldwide. Currently, Ableton counts about ninety employees in its Berlin and New York offices. The company has received outstanding press, awards and customer feedback since the unveiling of Live in October 2001.
About Live
Ableton Live accompanies every stage of the musical process, from creation to production to performance. In the creative stage, Live is transparent, intuitive and responsive, capturing inspiration and encouraging the flow of musical ideas. During production, Live provides all of the professional tools and studio compatibility required to complete and perfect projects. On stage, Live delivers the expressive control and stability that innumerable performing artists have come to rely on.
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| Pro Audio Poker Tournament in LA |
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| No Limit Texas Hold ‘Em Charity Poker Tournament set for July 19 -- One of a Kind Event Hosted by Engineer/Mixer Dave Reitzas to be Held at the Village Recorders
On July 19 more than 120 of the industry's top producers, engineers, and musicians will come together for an afternoon of fun, luck, and skill to compete for top prizes at the LA Recording Industry No Limit Texas Hold ‘Em Charity Poker Tournament at The Village in LA. Karen Margroff Dunn of KMD Productions and engineer/mixer Dave Reitzas are organizing the event to benefit Sound Art LA. “This is an extraordinary opportunity for manufacturers to donate gear and services for the players to win as prizes in the tournament,” said the seasoned event coordinator (TEC Awards, Mix Open Golf Tournament). “We are not seeking cash donations but product donations that will surely benefit the manufacturer with the exposure we will provide both on the web and at the event.” West L.A. Poker will provide all the tournament essentials for this professional event that requires a $100 buy-in per player. Jeff Greenberg, CEO of the Village Recorders has donated his upstairs ballroom for the tournament, where NARAS’ traditionally houses the NARAS pre-Grammy Party.
Sponsors include West L.A. Music, Telefunken, Bricasti, Summit Audio, Audio-Technica, Brainworx, Propellerhead, Antares, Genelec, Solid State Logic, Shure, EAST/WEST, Gearslutz, Platinim Samples, Sound Performance Labs, Steven Slate Drums, Royer Labs, Aphex and Blue Microphones, Lurssen Mastering, Design FX, RealTraps, fxpansion and studioexpresso, among many others.
All proceeds raised in this tournament will benefit Sound Art L.A. (www.soundartla.org). Sound Art provides a musical outlet for children desperate for self-expression. Reitzas explains further, “We feel strongly that children are the future of our industry. It was important for us to find a charity that involves kids and music.” For more information about the tournament, to register as a player or to donate products visit them online at www.ri-pt.net or call Karen Dunn at 925-708-0307.
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| iZotope Brings Studio Quality Audio Effects to iPhone & iPod Touch Developers |
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| New Mobile Audio software improves audio quality in any iPhone or iPod touch App
iZotope, Inc., a leading innovator in audio signal processing technology, has expanded their extensive licensing program with a suite of audio enhancement tools and effects available for integration into 3rd party software applications for the iPhone and iPod touch handheld devices.
"We are seeing a significant demand for our audio effect libraries on the iPhone as thousands of developers are flocking to this revolutionary platform. These developers are redefining the way consumers interact with their music and audio," explained Mark Ethier, CEO of iZotope. "With our offerings for the iPhone, we are excited to enable their innovation as the first to offer high quality audio algorithms for developers to integrate into their applications."
Over the years, many companies have come to rely on iZotope's research and development, product design, and long-term support to help improve and differentiate their products. The new iZotope Mobile Audio software development library is based on award-winning and innovative audio DSP code base derived from iZotope's best in class professional and consumer product lines. Now phone applications can benefit from the same audio processing technology used by millions of people in over 50 countries, from independent musicians to major broadcast and recording studios and GRAMMY Award winners.
Two key iPhone application developers will be among the first to incorporate iZotope technology into their products. "FiRe" from Audiofile Engineering and "SmackTalk!" from Marcus Satellite will both feature licensed audio tools from iZotope.
Audiofile Engineering, a leading Mac-based developer of professional audio products, plans to incorporate iZotope audio effects for audio normalization, cleanup, and enhancement in an upcoming release of their highly-regarded "FiRe" Field Recorder App for the iPhone. "We already rely on iZotope's expertise and audio DSP for our Mac OS X line of products, so it was natural for us to work with iZotope to bring high quality audio processing to the iPhone," explains Matthew Foust, Co-founder of Audiofile Engineering. Audiofile Engineering is actively developing new iPhone applications as well as providing development services to produce third party iPhone applications.
Marcus Satellite, an animation and electronic music veteran turned App producer, is looking forward to using the iZotope audio effects SDK in his top-100 best selling iPhone App "SmackTalk!" to enhance his users' experience by adding a wide array of interactive voice effects. "I've been using iZotope's audio DSP technology as VST plug-ins on the desktop, and I'm excited about having that level of quality and interactivity available on the iPhone platform".
For information on iZotope Technology Licensing, visit http://www.izotope.com/tech/.
About iZotope, Inc.
iZotope is a research-driven audio signal processing company based in Boston, Massachusetts. Its hardware products, software products, and audio technology are used by millions of people in over 50 countries, from hobbyist musicians to GRAMMY Award winners. iZotope focuses on developing innovative audio technology for professional and consumer applications. This core technology is presented to customers in its award-winning product line and through its extensive licensing program.
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| Universal Audio’s UAD Powered Plug-Ins Platform Now 30,000 Users Strong |
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| Platform Expands to Laptop Market with New UAD-2 SOLO/Laptop DSP Accelerator Card, Now Shipping Worldwide
 Universal Audio, a leading manufacturer of classic analog recording hardware and audio processing plug-ins for Mac and PC, today announced that its UAD Powered Plug-Ins Platform has surpassed 30,000 users worldwide. This makes UAD the second-largest audio plug-in processing platform in the world (second only to Digidesign’s TDM). Universal Audio is also expanding its award-winning UAD platform to laptop users with the release of the UAD-2 SOLO/Laptop, a compact ExpressCard-based DSP Accelerator, now shipping worldwide.
Since the launch of the original UAD-1 card in 2001, the UAD Powered Plug-Ins collection has steadily grown to include the most sonically revered processors from the past 50 years of audio — including authentic, licensed emulations from Neve, Roland, Moog, Fairchild, Pultec, SPL, Teletronix, and Universal Audio’s own 1176.
As a result, UAD Powered Plug-Ins have become the choice of numerous “A-list” record producers and Grammy®-winning engineers, including Frank Filipetti (James Taylor, Paul Simon); Justin Niebank (Keith Urban, Taylor Swift, Rascal Flatts); Ryan West (Kanye West, T.I., T Pain); Chris Dugan (Green Day); Stuart Price (Madonna, The Killers, Seal); Matt Knobel (Lenny Kravitz, Ricky Martin); Vance Powell (White Stripes, Raconteurs); and Rik Simpson (Coldplay).
The newest member of the UAD family, the UAD-2 SOLO/Laptop, brings Universal Audio’s award-winning analog emulations to laptop users, whether in Cubase, Logic, Digital Performer, or Pro Tools. The UAD-2 SOLO/Laptop allows access to the full UAD Powered Plug-Ins library, without the need for external cabling or power. Like all UAD-2 hardware, the SOLO/Laptop supports VST, AU and RTAS plug-in formats on both Mac and PC. The UAD-2 SOLO/Laptop carries a MAP price of $499US.
“Bringing UAD-2 Powered Plug-ins to laptop users is really part of our ongoing vision for expanding the UAD platform, which we’re proud to say is now 30,000 users strong,” commented Universal Audio President Matt Ward. “Bill Putnam Jr. set out to take the best of classic analog equipment and bring it to the digital world — with all of the analog subtleties, intricacies and nuances intact. This level of authenticity simply requires more horsepower than today’s laptops can deliver. But with the SOLO/Laptop, users can plug in a simple ExpressCard and access our musically superior UAD plug-ins.”
Watch a video of the UAD-2 Solo in action by clicking here now!
About Universal Audio Inc.
Founded in 1999 by Bill Putnam Jr. and based in Scotts Valley, California, Universal Audio is best known for its vintage analog reproductions and advanced Digital Signal Processing technology, including the award-winning UAD Powered Plug-Ins Platform. The company is focused on merging the best of classic analog and modern digital technology. UA is devoted to this endeavor, following its rich recording heritage and motto, “Analog Ears. Digital Minds.” http://www.uaudio.com
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