1353 Results for "MacOS"

ROLI Studio Player: All ROLI sound engines in one plug-in

ROLI has made its upcoming Studio Player available as a public beta, containing all three of the company’s sound engines, adding a new interface and some effects and composition tools.

Avid previews Pro Tools 2019, raises the number of voices by 50%

Avid is previewing Pro Tools 2019 at NAB. The highly anticipated release will feature big increases of the track counts for audio and MIDI, among other improvements.

Enter the laboratory of a 1950’s electronic studio with Berna 2.0

Berna 2.0 attempts to emulate the exciting 1950's world of laboratory oscillators, filters, modulators, tape recorders and mixers with a fabulous amount of realism and historical accuracy.

Eventide Instant Flanger MkII: A hardware classic returns as a plug-in

Eventide has released the Instant Flanger MkII plug-in, resurrecting its famed 1975 hardware unit in digital form to recreate the classic sound of tape flanging.

Apple iMac 2019 refresh: New desktop machines for musicians and producers

What can the new iMacs do for musicians and producers? Both the 21.5-inch and 27-inch iMacs now have 8th/9th-gen Coffee Lake Intel processors and Radeon Pro Vega graphics. Worth an upgrade?

K-Devices WOV and TTAP: creative modulation and dual-buffer delay plug-ins

K-Devices has two new plug-ins out that share the same development DNA: WOV is an amplitude modulator, TTAP is a creative delay. Plenty of creative potential here, we think...

Denise.io Bite and Space Invader: bit-crushing and flanging in full colour

Developer Denise.io offers a refreshing take on bit-crushing and flanging, two ways of of making your tracks stand out from the crowd by adding texture and movement.

NAMM 2019: Korg Gadget 2 brings plugins to Windows

Korg Gadget 2 brings in 6 new gadgets and a redesigned front end of their music production software for iOS and MacOS. Meanwhile, on Windows we get to play with the gadgets as plugins.

u-he Twangström spring reverb shakes things up with physically modelled springs

u-he's spring reverb is an upgraded standalone version of the reverb unit from Bazille, one of the developer's best-known synthesizers. It uses physical modelling instead of convolution.

Nektar BOLT Harmonics Synthesizer takes us by surprise

BOLT offers a different approach to synthesis. It builds overtones with the structure of the oscillator with full or odd harmonics, inverted or deeply embedded and then modulates the heck out of itself.

The new Mac mini is the ideal starter Mac for music production

Apple is touting a full-fledged professional computer with big boy hardware such as quad-core 8th Gen Intel processors, support for up to 64GB of RAM, and up to 2TB of space.

New MacBook Air delivers macOS & Thunderbolt to musicians for USD 1199

Apple's groundbreaking laptop receives a successor equipped with a high-resolution Retina display (no True Tone, though), USB-C/Thunderbolt ports, and Touch ID fingerprint-scanning protection.

Logic Pro X 10.4.2 update: Move the Sound Library to an external drive (finally!)

Version 10.4.2 adds the long-requested option of relocating LPX's Sound Library to an external storage device so you can move those Apple Loops out of your SSD's way.

Best free plug-ins this week: ModulAir, Vintage Electric Piano, Landscape

It's Sunday, which means it's time for some free plug-ins! We have three wonderful free instruments to introduce today: a full-fledged modular synth system, a film-like drone maker, and an electric piano.

Apple pondering a new pro-focused Mac Mini – and here’s a musicians’ wishlist

A new Mac Mini suitable for music production? In the works, apparently. Here's a a few things Apple should address to make this computer suitable for professionals, including music producers.

Upcoming Apple MacBook Air refresh to be more powerful than the 12-inch MacBook

The 13-inch laptop will be powered by Intel's Kaby Lake Refresh 14nm processors. This implies the upcoming laptop will be significantly faster than the 12-inch MacBooks, which work with ultra low-power M3 ...

Get flexible metering in your DAW with Aura for macOS

Aura is audio-analyzing software that's loaded as an AU effect in your DAW. By choosing different meter sets, you can adapt the plug-in to your needs. The meters include Spectral, Needle, Bar and History.

Apple’s top-range MacBook Pro 2018 now supports up to 32GB of RAM

Apple has announced upgrades to the top-tier MacBook Pros of interest to music professionals needing more power and storage. But it hasn't addressed the butterfly keyboard's fragility.

Korg Gadget gets into Rex Loops with Stockholm by Reason

Propellerhead has ported their Dr. Octo Rex loop player over to the Korg Gadget eco-system. It takes all its looping and slicing as well as the synthesis and sound crafting functionality. That's one cool ...

Is Apple readying five new iPads and five new Macbooks for Fall 2018?

It looks like Apple may have new MacBooks and iPads in store for the Fall 2018: Media reports say it's registered five new iPads and five new Mac laptops with the Eurasian Economic Commission.

Tokyo Tube EQ plug-in available for Acustica’s Nebula 4 Player

Developer London Acoustics has introduced a plug-in for Acoustica Audio's free Acqua N4 host; the Tokyo Tube EQ is based on a rare parametric tube equalizer by an Italian manufacturer.

Rumor: Apple’s upcoming USD 999 MacBook pushed to second half of 2018

Apple wants to include the chipmaker's latest Coffee Lake mobile processors in its machine, apparently, but Intel doesn't have enough of them to meet its orders.

ALK2 for Mac lets you go crazy with loops in a live environment

There's lots to ALK2 and it's certainly a viable alternative to Ableton Live for performances, although you will have to endure a learning curve and switch up your workflow a fair bit.

Cargo Cult’s Envy sound design plug-in for Pro Tools steals envelopes

Envy is designed for thorough envelope modulation, enabling interesting possibilities like transplanting the volume and pitch characteristics of a sound onto a completely different one.