Latest Music Software News
- Steinberg Padshop 10 Feb 2012, 2:04 pm
Steinberg today announced their latest VST instrument, Padshop. - Sound Magic Neo EQ 1.1 10 Feb 2012, 1:33 pm
Sound Magic has updated Neo EQ to v1.1 - The CoreStylerz updates Hardcore Kicks VSTi 2 to v2.0.1 10 Feb 2012, 6:48 am
Read the full story @ KVR Audio The CoreStylerz has updated Hardcore Kicks VSTi 2 to version 2.0.1. Changes: Fixed : Issue on expansions. Fixed : Does not show registered to in information. Fixed : S. […] - Klanghelm updates VUMT to v1.8.2 (incl. VST3) 10 Feb 2012, 4:06 am
Read the full story @ KVR Audio Klanghelm has updated VUMT, the VU meter and trim plug-in/standalone - to version 1.8.2. Changes: VST3 support has been added. Both Mac and Windows Versions now have a. […] - Sinevibes releases "Deep" AudioUnit Plug-in 10 Feb 2012, 3:17 am
Read the full story @ KVR Audio Sinevibes has released Deep, a new AudioUnit plugin for Mac OS X for creating rhythmic filter effects. Deep's flexible envelope sequencer runs precisely synchronized t. […] - Sonivox acquired by Jack O'Donnell 10 Feb 2012, 3:06 am
Read the full story @ KVR Audio Jack O'Donnell, owner of Numark Industries, Akai Professional, Alesis, Alto Professional and ION Audio, has announced the acquisition of Sonivox, a software company th. […] - Two Notes Audio Engineering updates Torpedo PI-FREE to v2.0.12 10 Feb 2012, 2:23 am
Read the full story @ KVR Audio Two Notes Audio Engineering has updated its freeware Torpedo PI-FREE to version 2.0.12. This update benefits from all the improvements and bug corrections made on the. […] - Two Notes Updates Torpedo PI-FREE 9 Feb 2012, 12:14 pm
Two Notes has updated Torpedo PI-FREE. The new version is available for download. - CREATED: Discover Music from Testtoon, Oubys, and Teal & Beastie Respond 9 Feb 2012, 10:46 am
Ready for some focused listening time? Photo (CC-BY-SA) Toshiyuki IMAI. [website - JP] Writing about the meeting place of technology and music, we cover potential: what’s possible, what might be in. […] - Celemony wins technical Grammy 8 Feb 2012, 7:34 pm
Read the full story @ KVR Audio Celemony has been awarded a Grammy for technical merit. The Munich-based company will be honored by the Recording Academy with its Technical Grammy, which is given in. […]
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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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VirtMus (virtual music) is a free application that allows the user to display sheet music and turn pages without removing the hands (or feet) from the instrument the music is performed on. This feature is very useful during concerts and practice sessions as it allows the musician to focus on performing the music without interruption. The software also allows the users to store and organize their entire sheet music collection on a laptop, making it fully portable and available at a click of a button. See the ScreenShots if you want to see how it looks, or have a look at the DesignPrinciples to see some of the distinguishing features.
Music stands are usually able to accomodate at most a single book or 2-3 pages of loose leaf music at once. When performing a longer piece of music, the musician must often move one of the hands away from the instrument to turn the pages. This interupts the performance and breaks the flow of music especially when the page turn occurs during a musically demanding passage.
This software allows the user to create “songs” out of sheet music images obtained from a scanner, digital camera, or pdf, and “PlayLists” out of the “songs”. During a performance, the user can simply press a mouse button to move to the next / previous page or press various keyboard keys to advance the music.
USB foot switches are available which emulate mouse button presses thus freeing the hands to play the instrument. Even without a FootSwitch, using a laptop display avoids the problem of books that don’t stay open, or loose leaf pages that fly off the music stand when the wind (or HVAC unit) blows.
