Archive for 2008

Moozek The Revenge

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Good news to all the readers left! Moozek, the pro audio blog with a twist, is returning after 3 months of absence. Slowly at first, I'll try to have some articles everyday/week, with more rants, tips, tutorials, downloads, music industry celebrities and studio watch (everyone needs something and someone to look up ...

Digidesign Previews Upcoming Transfuser

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Digidesign today unveiled the Transfuser™ Preview , a free three-month prerelease version of Transfuser, a new upcoming RTAS® virtual instrument plug-in for Pro Tools. Transfuser is a real-time loop, phrase, and groove creation virtual instrument designed for quickly and easily creating, manipulating, and performing loop- and rhythm-based music on the ...

EastWest PLAY now RTAS® Compatible

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

In response to user feedback EASTWEST announces RTAS® support for Mac and PC versions of all PLAY products. Current PLAY-powered collections can be upgraded to include RTAS support through a free update posted on the company's website (http://www.soundsonline.com). The software updates (PLAY v1.0.056) are available for both Mac and PC ...

Garritan Announces Authorized Steinway Sampled Concert Grand

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Another attempt to compete with Ivory? After East West Quantum Leap Pianos were slightly mocked for being a 250 GB Library: Garritan announces that the Authorized Steinway Virtual Concert Grand Piano, Professional Edition, a software instrument developed incollaboration with Steinway & Sons, maker of the world's finest pianos, has started ...

The Most Underrated Amp Modeling Plug-In?

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Native Instruments Guitar Rig 3.  John 5, Munky, Trent Reznor, Stephen Carpenter and Kirk Hammett seem to agree... Following our previous showdown review of Waves GTR 3 vs Amplitube 2, in our eternal pursuit for easy guitar tones relying on the latest technologies of amp modeling, Native Instruments brought our attention ...

[Preview] Lok And Load - DAW Plug-in Manager

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

We're happy to (finally!) announce a new unique plug-in manager for Pro Tools (and also other DAWs that use RTAS, VST or DX) that will change the way we all work (and wait) for plug-ins to load. Directly from New Zealand, in exclusive announcement to Moozek.com, we spoke to Ian Rich, ...

Keyboard Covers for Pros

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

You don't have to buy the overpriced Pro Tools custom keyboards (or keyboards for any other application for that matter), or settle for the stickers. Now, KB Covers and zCover are selling keyboard covers in latex with application shortcut maps printed on them. They work on Apple keyboards (old and ...

“The Loudness War”: Oh Please…

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

Everyone in the audio industry by now should have seen the video going around to raise "awareness" for the infamous Loudness War and deterioration of the audio quality during the mastering process nowadays...  No? Well, click and watch... It would be so Google-friendly for us to just post the video, ...

Apple MacBook Air: Solid State Drives taking over computer audio?

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Today at Macworld 2008, Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, introduced what is the first introduction of a high-capacity Solid State Drive-capable Mac computer product, the MacBook Air. This may be the beginning of the end of a long wait for something better than the "slow" current hard drives with moving parts. Solid ...

Super Review (2nd Edition): Yamaha HS50M - The new NS-10M?

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Yamaha is attempting (again) to replace the legendary standard, and studio owners and engineers appear to be accepting it! Are the HS Series going to be the new nearfield monitors of the if-it-sounds-good-here-sounds-good-on-anything type? Read on. We placed them under the microscope and under our refined ears. Extended review!