Archive for 2007
Saturday, December 29th, 2007
The fresh new 7.4cs2 update comes with a huge pile of bug fixes and feature enhancements, so if you're a 7.4 owner, check it out! This will probably sort out some little instability issues I noticed with cs1. To everyone who complained about not having track color saturation control since ...
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
After some user complaints of pointless post censorship at the Digi User Conference (Digidesign's official user support forum) we registered to ask for troubleshooting info with 7.4, and engage in some online digi discussion. We almost believed the myth was busted after a quite healthy and normal interaction with other ...
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
To all readers (I know you're out there!...I hope), I know I haven't written anything in a while. I guess I was getting ready for a quite lonely christmas as a foreign student in the US of A, because I didn't buy a plane trip to Europe to be with ...
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
A new all-included Stylus RMX package that includes all 5 SAGE Xpanders (Backbeat, Retro Funk, Burning Grooves, Liquid Grooves, Metamorphosis) for a discount price was released by our almost-industry-standard VI sampling buddies. This is a very opportunistic repackaging of this already famous product. Despite the sucky logo and website design, ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
Gracenote makes a music popularity world map, where you can check top artists and album charts by geographical location, in most countries (at least definitely all countries that actually have an influence in international music sales, and then some).
All you need is to have the Flash plug-in in your browser, ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
Line 6 teamed up with all-tube amp maker Reinhold Bogner and released a pleasant surprise to all faithful lovers of the "authentic tone": tubes. 12AX7 in the preamp, 6L6 in the power amp, and even Celestion Vintage 30 speakers for the cabinets and combos. All tube Bogner-branded gear for ...
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
Finally! Elastic Audio, new beat detective features, re-written Audio Engine (according to Digidesign engineers at AES), and it runs... apparently... kinda faster in some computers. Well yeah, that part is complicated. Some people say it feels faster, while other users are outraged about how slow 7.4 is. Confused?
Digidesign takes pleasure ...
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Thursday, November 8th, 2007
Wow. The famous acoustic guitar maker announced three Taylor Solid body models with new proprietary pickups. It's a completely original design by Bob Taylor, as opposed to a Gibson/Fender/PRS copy, that most players started expecting lately. Prices range from $1,748 to $3,098 and they seem to be very blues-oriented, although ...
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Also known as New York compression for its use in the formerly-known-as "New yorker" or ultra-compressed mixing style (which actually leaked to the west coast even before the Lord-Alge brothers made it popular).
Very simple concept: bus the audio to a new auxiliar ("parallel"... you guessed it) and apply compression separately ...
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Monitor Speaker-maker KRK released rugged protection grills for VXT4/6 reference monitors. After a while, that's something new - recent studio fashion dictates that studio monitors should show their speaker cones bare naked. Right? But now, for around $60/pair, KRK sells these grills to retrofit your VXTs.
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