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New Apple iMacs – Haswell (Processor) Speed Update

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Apple silently updated the iMacs – they are available as 21 and 27″ as before in 2 standard configurations – all i5 processors, so you need to click for 200€ i7 processor updates – here’s the i7 prices you might be interested in the most with Haswell processors: 21.5″ i7 Quad Core – 3.1GHz -> 3,9 turbo boosted 1.7k€  27   “ i7 Quad Core – 3.5GHz -> 3,9 turbo boosted 2.2k€ so the upgrade is 0.1 GHz (0.2 GHz more on the 21″ iMac) faster in frequency but about…

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Gimmick Synth by Ju-X draw waveforms graphically

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a new synth by Ju-X is structurally simple but it’s oscillators are specially designed. you can change the waveform by applying handles or just draw it  Gimmick | Ju-X Designs. the idea is simple but may be easier – just twist the waves: Gimmick’s oscillator draws waveform by setting how many times to twist it in a cycle, then divides it by scanning Up and Down direction, finally player can determine positions of each turning points.  made for Macs running Snow Leaopard or newer.

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Apple: MacPro and Macbook Air – OS X Mavericks @ WWDC Keynote

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New MacPro – a looot smaller.. – New OS X Maverick – incl under the hood features – most of them saving power (both battery and DSP power) – – dual GPU GFX cards allow 3x 4 TFT Displays, 6GB each. – a lot – especially for apple built in GFX – 6 Thunderbolt 2 – Xeon E5 Processors (as always) last gen. – coming in fall so the MP will come in autumn.. – hi speed ram – 1866mhz ddr3 ecc ram – 4x ram slots – according to…

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Polytron or moving away from CS/Photoshop without subscription? Abomodell macht Bildbearbeitung teuer?

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it just looks nice (MonoPoly/Polysix inspired) – maybe by these apps: Photoshop, Pixelmator, Acorn 4… . why do I tell you? well Adobe went another bad way, 50€/month for just using the Creative Suite, so – maybe it’s time to look around you, huh? Acorn 4 and Pixelmator are more on the PS Elements Level, but some of us may be ok with those for making covers, flyers etc.. I am using Elements 10 right now, but if they force us to be „in the cloud“ for „only XY dollars/month“…

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Neuron VS Project – free for Intel Macs

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The Neuron was a prestige design synth by Axel Hartmann. The tech and developer behind it is Stephan Bernsee (former: Sprenger) from Prosoniq – one of the most innovative software projects – one of those is the morphing of audio material and the even bigger thing is the transformation to more woodish or more glassy sounds. there are 13 very new parameters like alienation etc. – the VS was the software version – a bit „smaller“ of it and came with a controller. the hardware was a bit risky in…

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XILS V+ – Roland VP330 Vocoder emulated..

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XILS V+.is a vocoder by Xils – which is basically the ex-Arturia guy Xavier Oudin. He is well known for interesting emulations of synths and now more open to fx and vocoders.. (you may know the EMS, Synthex, Polykobol and more..) Vocoder – Synthesizer Wiki – info the VP330 as inspiration for the new V+ plugin

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Nick Crow Lab: TubeDriver Saturation PlugIn + Moog Filtertron – all free

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Free Tube Amp Windows and OS X – there are more plugins but for Windows only. Nick Crow Lab: TubeDriver v1.22 for Windows (VST) and Mac OS X (VST&AU). • Moogs Filtertron for iPad is free as well for very limited time. it’s a filter, not a whole synth. note the internal input is limited to 100Hz and above. Anyway a good sounding tool when connected via audio interface

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