August 2, 2009 – 12:37 pm
Tech-Heavy Feature Upgrades
Among the highlights from NI:
- full Vista 64 compatibility, including "64-bit memory addressing to utilize practically unlimited amounts of RAM,”
- 32GB RAM max limit on Mac OS 10.4 and up,
- a new disk-streaming algorithm that apparently doesn’t use any RAM,
- multithreading,
- MIDI learn,
- and improved Pro Tools integration.
No Wicked Fun Sound Design Doodads?
Yeah, the PR is all efficiency, compatibility, and power…nothing to get musicians off, probably why it’s a point-5 upgrade.
Free upgrade for KONTAKT 3 owners. (Like me! Good, I’m broke.)
August 2, 2009 – 11:51 am
U&I Software today announced the release of MetaSynth 5, the newest version of the very cool software sound design studio that allows the user to paint with sound.
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You May Speak
Propellerhead's Record entered "open beta" yesterday, and the P-heads released beta testers from the NDA clause that barred us from speaking publicly about using Record.
Probably, you've heard the hyperbole (exempli gratia, Propellerhead's Mojave-Experiment-style viral video campaign) and the admittedly mild controversies regarding the the decision to use a dongle-based copy protection scheme and the lack of third-party plugin support (sorry, no VSTs, dude).
Well, finally, you can hear the experience of users, and I suspect you'll discover that the consensus opinion is as follows: Record brilliantly extends the Reason paradigm (dead-simple interface design; diamond-solid stability, and peerless CPU efficiency) to computer audio recording, editing, and mixing.
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Disclaimer: Mac only. I don't even know if this is an issue in Windows. And I doubt very much it's plaguing the *NIX set–with whom I strain to rub shoulders on occasion, anxiously typing a sad few commands on my netbook's terminal to feign street cred for the uninitiated–as Record doesn't run natively on their OSs, and if you managed to get Record compiled and running like a champ on Gentoo, you're too brainy to need my help for anything that doesn't pay minimum wage. Incidentally, that's why the following tidbit is gratis…to everyone but me 'cause I pay hosting.
OK, quick tip if, like me, you struggled with this for a minute. In Record, the F5, F6, and F7 keys activate views for the mixer, rack, and sequencer respectively. Simultaneous presses of two or more F5-7 keys summons split views. Useful. All this is demonstrated in one of the videos included in the Record download. Read More »
