Latest Music Software News
- Rob Papen Updates Predator 14 Mar 2010, 11:24 pm
Rob Papen has updated the Windows version of Predator to v1.5.8. - Togu Audio Line Windows 64-bit Versions 14 Mar 2010, 11:09 pm
Togu Audio Line has released Windows 64-bit versions of many of its free plug-ins. - Freak Show Enterprises JambaLaya 14 Mar 2010, 11:07 pm
Freak Show Enterprises has updated JambaLaya to v1.3.1. - Iliadis Updates Efthimia 14 Mar 2010, 11:06 pm
Iliadis has updated Efthimia Electronic Organ to v1.4. - Universal Audio Precision Enhancer Hz 14 Mar 2010, 10:48 pm
The Precision Enhancer Hz is designed to allow the user to selectively add upper harmonics to bass fundamentals, sometimes referred to as “phantom bass”. - Universal Audio Manley Massive Passive EQs 14 Mar 2010, 10:35 pm
Universal Audios UAD Powered Plug-In versions of the Manley Massive Passive EQs represent UAs most ambitious and detailed EQ model to date, the company says. - SONiVOX Eighty Eight – Grand Piano 13 Mar 2010, 12:51 pm
SONiVOX announced the release of their Grand Piano Virtual Instrument, Eighty Eight, conceived and designed as a virtual embodiment of a Steinway CD 327 grand. - Music Notation on Word 13 Mar 2010, 12:40 pm
musicnotationformsword.com announced the release of Music Notation for MS Word, a music notation editing product that allows musicians to embed, edit and publish music notation in Microsoft Word envir. […] - LePou Plugins LeGion 13 Mar 2010, 12:32 pm
LePou Plugins has released LeGion, a free high gain preamp simulator VST effect plug-in for Windows. - zplane Elastique Pitch Plugin 13 Mar 2010, 12:17 pm
zplane has announced that a new version of the Elastique Pitch Plugin is available for download.
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Ardour is a digital audio workstation. You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. You can produce your own CDs, mix video soundtracks, or just experiment with new ideas about music and sound.
Ardour capabilities include: multichannel recording, non-destructive editing with unlimited undo/redo, full automation support, a powerful mixer, unlimited tracks/busses/plugins, timecode synchronization, and hardware control from surfaces like the Mackie Control Universal. If you’ve been looking for a tool similar to ProTools, Nuendo, Pyramix, or Sequoia, you might have found it.
Above all, Ardour strives to meet the needs of professional users. This means implementing all the “hard stuff” that other DAWs ( even some leading commercial apps ) handle incorrectly or not at all. Ardour has a completely flexible “anything to anywhere” routing system, and will allow as many physical I/O ports as your system allows. Ardour supports a wide range of audio-for-video features such as video-synced playback and pullup/pulldown sample rates. You will also find powerful features such as “persistent undo”, multi-language support, and destructive track punching modes that aren’t available on other platforms.
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Ecasound is a software package designed for multitrack audio processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback, recording and format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect processing, mixing, recording and signal recycling. Ecasound supports a wide range of audio inputs, outputs and effect algorithms. Effects and audio objects can be combined in various ways, and their parameters can be controlled by operator objects like oscillators and MIDI-CCs. A versatile console mode user-interface is included in the package.
Key Features:
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Novel user-interface concept
- What makes Ecasound unique is its non-graphical user-interface. The basic working principle of ecasound is similar to the widely used gdb (software debugging) and mysql (database admin) tools. Ecasound allows the user to perform most common tasks directly from the terminal console. Repeating or otherwise complicated tasks can be easily turned into shell scripts or ECI apps. Ecasound tries to follow the time-tested UNIX design practises - see for example The Art of UNIX Programming by Eric S. Raymond.
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Highly optimized real-time engine
- Ecasound’s engine has been developed with real-time reliability as the top priority. The engine clearly separates real-time safe subsystems from non-RT subsystems such as storage access, user-interface code and memory management. This allows Ecasound to deliver reliable playback and recording in all circumstances - even under significant system load.
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Ability to adapt to runtime environment
- Ecasound will automatically adjust buffering parameters and other performance related options based on analysis of runtime environment and the requested task. Ecasound does not require you to run it with special privileges, but if available (for example the permission to utilize real-time scheduling), Ecasound will take full advantage and choose more aggressive parameters allowing to further minimize processing latencies while at the same time not risking reliability.
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Support for new Linux audio technology
- Ecasound has mature support for JACK audio server (including full transport support), LADSPA effect plugins and ALSA kernel sound subsystem. Ecasound developers are active members of the Linux audio development community.
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Portability and minimal external dependencies
- Ecasound runs on various operating systems (GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Solaris, Cygwin/win32) and architectures (IA32, PowerPC, ARM, SPARC). Ecasound implements most of its core functionality without relying on external packages. Although Ecasound can utilize numerous external packages, they are all optional. As a mimimum, Ecasound needs POSIX (with 1003.1c thread support) and ANSI C++ runtimes.
