Archive for the ‘Rumors’ Category

Pro Tools for Leopard: Ultimate Reason to Upgrade to 10.5?

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

As you might know by now Pro Tools 7.4.2 is out, supporting Mac OS X 10.5.3 and 10.5.4 . But if you don't know, and if you purchased 7.4 and Leopard, you can run and download it. It has been running pretty stable, but then again, it wasn't extensively tested. Even though ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Corporate Censorship at Digidesign?

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 ...