Software News

Brief History of Auto-Tune And T-Pain’s Technological Predecessors

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

MOTU Digital Performer 6 Update

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

“Band” iPhone Music Software by Moo Cow

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

ElectroKraft NES Super Synth Sounds Drum Machine

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

Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update Release Announced!

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

Direct Note Access To Change The Face of Sampling?

  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

ProteinDS Nintendo DS DJ Scratching Software

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 8.0.2 Update Released By Apple

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