Spectro Audio – CV Toolkit – Volta, Silent Way and … CV-Control Helper

This is the 3rd „commercial“ software to control your analog CV and gates with – after Stretta showed off his solution to control his modulars by using the DC offset of his audio interface instead of a dedicated MIDI-CV interface to get higher resolutions. later Motu (the only interfaces that have DC offset without hardware modification) released Volta. And after that, Silent Way by Expert Sleepers put out not only plug ins but also hardware helpers for non-DC-offset-interfaces like RME etc. So there you get the ES Module Series – that…

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Midi Quest 11 – Edit your Hardware Synth – Win/64bit/OS X 10.9 – no more Sounddiver on OS9/OS X

TIME TO ABANDON SOUNDDIVER? YES . it’s long long dead within Apples Emagic (Logic) buyout. so there was no more chance for very very new OS’es – but one guy is keeping it up … so time to sell your old iBook if you keep it for Sounddiving.. right? Midi Quest. is the only left universal editor for MIDI Synths that support SysEx. So MIDI Quest is going next generation. Till now it was a Java tool to get all platforms working since it’s not performance you need – just…

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Madrona Labs Kaivo Granular Synth

you do know it – I am a fan of Aalto, and they or Randy makes an new Aalto influenced plugin which is not the same but a new concept which will base on grains and granular synthesis and it has physical modeling in it.. aaaand – it can access and play samples – well it’s playing it granularly.  here’s a little preview since it’s not yet out – but you can get Aalto for $49 these days for a limited time period. very interested in checking it out ..

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App(le) Cheaperism (Schwarzer Freitag)

Some Music Apps are cheaper atm. (because of „black friday“ some random US-something) maybe 10 or 20€ cheaper at Apple as well.. Einige Musik-Apps teilweise etwa 50% und wohl bei Apple auch geringfügig günstigere Hardwareangebote wegen des „Schwarzen Freitags“, der in den USA wohl eine Art Schlussverkauf ist und traditionell ist.  DAWs, Synths, etc.  via Forum: Aktionen im iOS – AppStore – Sammelthread Animoog, Beatmaker 2, Arturia Moog & SEM, Sunrizer, Impaktor… APPS: Eine Liste – a list:Music App News, Reviews & Tutorials – Even More App Sales!

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PPG WaveGenerator coming to the Mac & Windows

the Wavegenerator App by PPG will be available as a plugin. this images says it all. Wavegenerator is the 2013-version of the PPG Wave 2.X Serie and all of it’s predecessors when speaking of the way to handle the waves and wavetables. it has lots of more of it all.. finally the only one offering real wave table building and editing right in the same software – on the hardware especially the Waldorf ones the edits where only available to extra editors – most of them do no longer work since that was the…

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Apple Special Event October 2013 – OS X 10.9 free, new MacPro, MacbookPro Retina, iPad Air & Mini Retina

Ok, it’s 2 hrs left till the beginning of the Apple Event. UPDATE:   OS X 10.9 Mavericks for free from now & available now. All OS X’es will be free from now! Musicians – check under APPLE -> more (deutsch: weitere Informationen) -> Software/Apps (deutsch: Programme) what is listed under Power PC, if you are running Snow Leopard you will loose these, but there’s replacement for quite a lot of those. you can sort your App List (the software you are using) by just klicking on „type“ (deutsch: „art“) –…

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Capo 3 – Reverse Engineering Music

this is made for analyzing audio – playiing the song slowly enough to get all notes and chords and let you show it as well as play the song as slow as needed to… Mit diesem Analysewerzeug kann man Songs extrem verlangsamt anhören und die Akkorde und Töne heraushören (lassen), es ist quasi dazu da einen Song zu verstehen und vielleicht sogar auszunotieren. Capo 3 – Reverse Engineering Rock and Roll.

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Logic Pro X -> 32bit by/mit Soundradix 32Lives

Soundradix 32 Lives.did a wrapper that allows the (as always) restrictive Logic Pro X  that allows 64bit plugins only to work with 32bit Plugins – don’t know how good it works in the real world.. Dieses Tool hilft den Nachteil des neuen Logic Pro X nut 64bittige Plugins zu akzeptieren auszugleichen, wie gut es in der Praxis funktioniert muss man aber noch sehen…

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