10th February 2010: G-Sonique has updated Renegade to v1.3. Changes: Fixed problem with exported MIDI automation in almost all hosts. Better compatibility with Windows 7 and Vista UAC. Fixed several memory issues that …
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G-Sonique updates Renegade to v1.3
14th January 2010: Applied Acoustics Systems has announced the upcoming release of native 64-bit VST plug-ins for its Professional and Session Series instruments on Windows 7 and Vista. These releases will make AAS inst…
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Applied Acoustics Systems announces Native 64-Bit VST Plug-ins on Windows
16th December 2009: AuraPlug has updated Whamdrive to v2.1. Changes: Both 32 and 64 bit versions are available for Windows XP, Vista and 7. 64 bit internal processing resolution. Works on both mono and stereo tracks. 4…
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AuraPlug updates Whamdrive to v2.1 (incl. x64)
Outsim has released version 1.1.5 of SynthMaker, an audio programming tool for Windows.
This new release massively improves compatibility with Windows 7 & Vista User Account Control (UAC). In addition, we have a number of other fixes and enhancements that continue to improve reliability.
Changes include a fix to prevent sound glitches and crashes with exported exes on some P4 systems, much quicker copy and paste in large schematics and case sensitive syntax colouring in the code component.
Changes in SynthMaker v1.1.5
SynthMaker is available for Windows PC, priced at
Cakewalk is nothing if not dependable. Every year, around Autumn, it releases a major upgrade to its flagship DAW, Sonar.
In case you’re unfamiliar, Sonar is a complete music production package, offering audio and MIDI recording, mixing, 15 virtual instruments (synths, drum machines, pianos, etc), tens of effects, editing features such as audio quantise and pitch correction, and loads more.
It comes as a surprise, however, that the latest Sonar offering is not a full upgrade, but rather a pay-for point release. This has caused some consternation amongst Sonar users, but such concerns are, in fact, unnecessary.
Not only is Sonar 8.5 packed with interesting new features (and some pumped-up old ones), but it sports a lower-than-usual upgrade price. It runs on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7, though we were unable to test with the latter as it wasn’t released until near the end of our review period.
We’re looking at the full Producer Edition and some of the most significant improvements in 8.5 are updates, such as Step Sequencer 2.0. The first model of this was inextricably tied to drum maps, but this new one can be routed to any MIDI output or software instrument.
“Not only is Sonar 8.5 packed with interesting new features (and some pumped-up old ones), but it sports a lower-than-usual upgrade price.”
The individual rows are now expandable, revealing controls over timing, flam, portamento and, most importantly, velocity, which is shown in the familiar vertical bar-per-step fashion. Not as obvious is that converted MIDI clips retain their timing, if you want them to – very nice!
Beat merchants will be pleased to learn that the third incarnation of Session Drummer is vastly improved. This version presents a slightly gimmicky animated interface and a selection of sampled electronic and acoustic drum kits, and MIDI patterns suitable for a variety of styles.
Amongst the acoustic and mixed drums are some astonishingly realistic combos that certainly had our toes a-tapping. You can bring your own samples and patterns in, too.
In our Sonar 8 review, we complained that it wasn’t possible to use Cakewalk’s Arpeggiator MIDI FX plug-in on Sonar’s instrument tracks. Now, though, there’s a powerful arpeggiator built into each and every MIDI and instrument track, featuring hundreds of preset patterns, designed for drums, guitars, electric pianos and more. You still can’t use Sonar’s MIDI effects on Instrument channels, though.
Some of the most fun to be had with Sonar 8.5 comes courtesy of the Matrix View, which is a performance environment for audio and MIDI loops
Many people experience a very slow Vista Start menu when the open folders. There is an easy fix – watch this video to find out if you have this problem. Also learn how to fix it.
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PC Tip – How To Fix A Slow Vista Start Menu
Pro Tools got an update at the end of August. A number of readers have pointed out that this is a milestone for what it includes, what it doesn’t include, and what it represents.
What’s in 8.0.1
If you’re an existing Pro Tools 8 owner, you’ll want 8.0.1:
Those of you who grabbed the update in the last week or two, I’ll be curious to hear what you’ve found in some of those subtler improvements. Avid, to their credit, does do a lot of work on these point releases, not only in bugfixes but in other improvements, as well.
Software update for 8.0.1 (LE + HD + M-Powered)
End of the Line
Pro Tools 8.0.1 is the end of the road for quite a range of “legacy” hardware. 8.0.1 (in one or several of its LE, HD, and M-Powered flavors) will be the last version to support:
See last week’s End of Software Support announcement. Now, I suppose you can look at this as glass-half-empty or glass-half-full; it means if you have a studio with that gear in it and a PowerPC-based Mac at its center, you have a stable, modern, brisk version of Pro Tools that could last you a while.
PowerPC support is generally waning; Apple also dumped PowerPC for its own Logic. But there’s still a surprising amount of life in the processor. MOTU’s Digital Performer 7, released this week (news story on that coming) will actually run on a 1 GHz G4; see their System Requirements. I wouldn’t recommend that system, necessarily, but if you’ve got a fast Mac tower with a PowerPC, it could still make a fine studio machine. And DP7 is also compatible with Pro Tools HD, including Pro Tools 8. Ableton Live, also popular around these parts, also still runs on a PowerPC.
New OSes? Not Yet.
Absent from the 8.0.1 update is support for either Snow Leopard (Leopard only is supported) on the Mac side or Windows 7. Now, in fairness, Windows 7 isn’t even shipping yet, though in stark contrast to Vista’s RTM version, developers I’ve talked to have found their software runs without modification – and can run better without intervention than under the previous Vista release, which is something that almost never happens.
Ordinarily this wouldn’t be a problem, but it does mean that studios with “legacy” gear could wind up with a version that doesn’t support Mac OS X 10.6 or Windows 7, if 8.0.1 is in fact the last version of that gear. It obviously won’t matter for the PowerPC Macs, since they run neither Windows nor Snow Leopard, but I can imagine some folks with the HD chassis or MIX peripherals who won’t be thrilled. It’s a small handful of people, but – well, before you complain in comments, yep, I’ve figured it out, too.
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DAW Day – Pro Tools 8.0.1: No Windows 7 or 10.6 Support, End of the Road for Legacy
Watch RJ Rice Sr., founder of Barak Records, and Todd from Studio A transfer the J-Dilla’s 2 inch tape reels to Pro-Tools as they explain that much of the material was originally recorded in Dilla’s basement studio using an ADAT machine.
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J-Dilla’s Original Tape Reels Transferred To Pro-Tools