Latest Music Software News
- rs-met CrossOver 12 Mar 2010, 2:25 pm
rs-met has released CrossOver, a new free VST effect plug-in for Windows that replaces rs-met's older Crossover 3-Way plug-in - CrossOver now allows for splitting into up to 4 bands. - Voxengo SPAN 2.0 12 Mar 2010, 2:21 pm
Voxengo SPAN 2.0 is now available for download - SPAN is a freeware real-time "fast Fourier transform" audio spectrum analyzer plug-in for professional music and audio production applications. - VSL Collections Updates 12 Mar 2010, 2:09 pm
VSL has released updates for the Vienna Instruments, Vienna Imperial and Vienna Suite plug-ins. - MeldaProduction Updates All Effects Plugins 12 Mar 2010, 2:07 pm
MeldaProduction has released updates for all its effect plug-ins. - MUTOOLS Announces MU.LAB 3; Pre-release Version Available for Download 12 Mar 2010, 5:05 am
12th March 2010: MUTOOLS has announced MU.LAB 3. A pre-release version of MU.LAB 3 is already available for download for Windows and Mac OS X. New in MU.LAB 3: Function shortcuts: Map a key or MIDI ev. […] - MeldaProduction Updates All Effect Plug-ins 12 Mar 2010, 4:33 am
12th March 2010: MeldaProduction has released updates for all its effect plug-ins. Changes: Improved sinc interpolation quality. Improved upsampling algorithm performance. Improved linear-phase and hy. […] - Monkey Tools updates Library Monkey Pro and Sound Grinder Pro to v1.1.10 12 Mar 2010, 4:30 am
12th March 2010: Monkey Tools has updated Library Monkey Pro and Sound Grinder Pro to v1.1.10. Changes: Added functionality to allow for the pruning of missing files as well as removal of any asset fr. […] - Rob Papen updates Predator for Windows to v1.5.8 12 Mar 2010, 4:02 am
12th March 2010: Rob Papen has updated the Windows version of Predator to v1.5.8. Changes: Preset banks update (bugs). Banks of subject 05 Trance and PsyTrance 03 , 08 Ambient 02 and 04 HipHop DirtySo. […] - Intermorphic updates Noatikl (v1.6.0.3) and Mixtikl (v2.1.0.6) (incl. x64 versions) 12 Mar 2010, 3:52 am
12th March 2010: Intermorphic has updated Noatikl to v1.6.0.3 and Mixtikl to v2.1.0.6. Both products now include native 64-bit standalone and plug-in versions for Windows and native 64-bit standalone. […] - One Man Band Watch: Gestures, TouchOSC, Pure Data, Breath Control, Oh, My 11 Mar 2010, 7:53 pm
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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.
