Moozek The Revenge

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 to – specially in this industry, right?). After some suggestions, the possibility of hiring more writers/editors will not be left out in a near future.
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Digidesign Previews Upcoming Transfuser

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 fly within Pro Tools. It also offers users a quick and easy way to modify existing loop libraries to breathe new life into their creations.

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EastWest PLAY now RTAS® Compatible

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 platforms in both standalone and plug-in versions, with PC updates being offered for both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems.

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Garritan Announces Authorized Steinway Sampled Concert Grand

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 shipping and is available now.

Click for audio Demos
or Go to Garritan.com

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The Most Underrated Amp Modeling Plug-In?

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 to the version 3 of Guitar Rig, which we didn’t review at the time. And why are they so proud of it? Well, this is not like a mere v1 to 2 update. It’s more like a v2 turned into a V8.  Check it out.

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

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, the creator of Lok and Load, to allow us to preview the software. We will inform all readers when we have a complete review of the program, which is Windows XP only (for now).  Moozek.com thanks Ian for this amazing concept: we can speak for most professionals when we say we’ve really been wishing for this kind of product. More…

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Keyboard Covers for Pros

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 new) and Apple laptops too!

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“The Loudness War”: Oh Please…

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, give them an amen, and join the masses of industry professionals that think audio quality is (once again) being threatened by ignorance. Yes, people are ignorant in this world, and yes, we see what they’re trying to say. Hey, we’re audiophiles too.

But no, Moozek.com is not getting in the “Loudness War” choo choo train of coolness. Why, you might ask? Because there’s always two sides to every story. And this one is getting too one-sided for our taste. If you see the video, you’ll understand. We’re giving you the other side of the story – the reason why music is not dying just because people want it loud without touching the Volume knob. The Loudness War is a problem, but not a catastrophe:

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

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 State hard drives are made up of solid state components (just like RAM memory and USB thumb drives) to store information – giving manufacturers practically infinite possibilities to look up, read and write information at much faster speeds. They also are a lot less prone to crashes and, theoretically, data loss, since one of the main problems of current hard drives are the mechanical spinning platters. Sounds perfect for multi-track audio, right?

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

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!
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