Seems like everyone is fascinated with Antares Auto-Tune lately, including The New Yorker. Author Sasha Frere-Jones quickly breaks down the history of Auto-Tune from the inventor Andy Hildebrand’s ventures in the oil indusry, to Cher’s vocal tweaking on "Believe", and finally T-Pain’s complete adoption of the technique. There’s also a little bit of sound theory … Read more
Mac users hungry for an updated version of Motu’s Digital Performer can finally rejoice with the latest release of version 6. Updated features include a redesigned user interface, track comping, ProVerb™ convolution reverb plug-in, MasterWorks Leveler, XML file interchange with Final Cut Pro, Additional video/film enhancements, virtual instrument performance gains, enhanced Audio Unit plug-in and … Read more
Great news for Mac users wishing to run Pro Tools. Today Digidesign announced the release of Pro Tools 7.4.2 for HD, LE, and M-Powered users who have updated their systems to run Mac OS X 10.5.3 Leopard. Registered Pro Tools 7.4 owners may download the update for free while others can head over to the … Read more
Hopefully I’m not the only one who’s been drooling at the thought of today’s kickoff of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). Beside announcing the next Mac OS entitled Snow Leopard, Steve Jobs unveiled new features for the 3G iPhone including GPS, push abilities, and of course new software applications. With the recently proliferation of music … Read more
Anyone else have a old NES (or clone) sitting in the closet? If so, ElectroKraft has created the Super Synth Sounds cartridge which turns your 8 bit NES video game console into a drum machine with some crazy synth sounds. The cartridge can be added to your production arsenal for only $49 over at the … Read more
What a day for home based producers! Almost immediately after today’s announcement by Apple of the Mac OS X 10.5.3 update, Digidesign announced that a pre-release of Pro Tools LE 7.4.2 will be available for Mac Leopard users in a few days. I know that many of you will be relieved to hear this. Unfortunately, … Read more
I’m sure a number of audio folks will be happy to hear that the latest Leopard release is supposed to fix issues involving stuttering USB video & audio playback and external harddrive recognition. Now all we need is Pro Tools support for Leopard (a rant that’ll be saved for a later date). Also addressed are … Read more
I almost fell out of my chair after seeing this one, but it looks like technology and audio sampling could take a huge leap. Melodyne has come up with Direct Note Access, which will allow you to be able to edit individual polyphonic audio material and will allow for simple correction of errors to … Read more
The volume of portable music software making the rounds lately is almost baffling. This time we’re handed a preview of the ProteinDS scratching application for the Nindendo DS. [via Boing Boing]
Logic Pro 8 users have to be excited about this one and for Mac users (myself included) still waiting for Digidesign to update Pro Tools for Leopard, here’s another reason to consider making the switch. Some of the issues addressed in the release are: Improved speed for OS X 10.5 Leopard users, Undo History increased … Read more