Pro Audio

High End Systems announced that the thousandth Hog 4 console had been shipped to European production supplier Arcus.

Extron Electronics is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the new FOX RS 104.

Good Sound Studios finds that StageScape M20d digital mixing sytem from Line 6 provides all of the features a band needs.

The five-student team of Trevor Fedele, Patrick Linehan, Joshua Pleeter, Brendan Williams, and Joseph Yonkers, with faculty advisor, Professor Silas Brown, won this year’s contest with an original composition by Sean McVerry and Coyote Campus entitled “Soviet Union.”

The pride of instruments you would normally find stowed away in some creaky attic has been restored. Goldbaby is the man behind this cultural achievement. He has dusted off his impressive inventory of forgotten and elusive gear and recorded them ...

Waves are to turn TDM v9 licenses into Soundgrid licenses, this is what they have said…. Very soon, the TDM licenses in your Waves account will be replaced by a new SoundGrid license. Your TDM compatibility will remain unchanged; but now, you’ll be able to take advantage of the awesome new possibilities offered by the SoundGrid platform. SoundGrid will breathe new life into your system, and extend its functionality for years to come. If you use Waves TDM V8 or below, and are covered by Waves Update Plan, move up to V9 and receive the SoundGrid licenses at no additional charge. Also they have reitterated their support of AAX NAtive… Waves is currently working closely with Avid on AAX Native support in time for the Pro Tools 11 release. This means you can breathe easy, knowing that the plugins you purchase now will be fully supported today, tomorrow and into the future. In fact, whether you bought your plug-ins 5 years, 10 years, even 20 years ago – as long as your Waves Update Plan coverage is current, you’ll receive the AAX Native update at no additional charge. And with SoundGrid in the mix, you’ll get more from your AAX plugins, for less than you’ve ever imagined. This confirms their plans to compete with AAX DSP using their DigiGrid platform, so another hardware platform to run dsp type plug-ins.

Blue Cat Audio have updated five of their plugins with some important news for ProToolers. The updated plugins are: Blue Cat’s DP Meter Pro (audio levels meter), FreqAnalyst Multi (multiple tracks spectrum analyzer), Oscilloscope Multi (multiple tracks waveform visualizer), StereoScope Multi (multiple tracks stereo field analyzer) and Blue Cat’s Protector (zero latency brickwall limiter). What’s new for most plug-ins: - Fixed AAX version not showing up in Pro Tools 10.3.5 on Windows. - Fixed user interface issues in Final Cut Pro X. - Fixed compare light issues in Pro Tools. - Fixed MIDI and automation settings that were reset when using undo. - RTAS: Fixed parameters control with EUCON control surfaces in Pro Tools. - AAX: Fixed initialization issues on some Pro Tools HD configurations. - Mac-VST: Fixed window resize issues on Cubase and Nuendo (Mac). - Mac: Fixed user interface display issues when first opened in Ableton Live 9. - Mac: Control MIDI settings dialog is now brought back to front when already opened in the background. - Mac: fixed copy/paste keyboard shortcuts for plug-in registration that did not work in some hosts. Additional change for Blue Cat’s FreqAnalyst Multi: - Pushing all parameters to other instances does not push the stereo configuration anymore. Blue Cat Audio

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In this video Mike shows how to use Save Session Copy to preapre a session so that it is saved with all its media and the correct version ready for your collaborator. Members watch it here Or watch it here on demand for $1

There seems to be a lot of interest and discussion around a the whole issue of Pro Tools users getting the same software features as Pro Tools HD users. Perhaps Avid have made a rod for their own back, this was in fact what CPTK gave users before it was dropped from Pro Tools 11. However, there are two sides to this argument - on the one side there are those who want the features but don’t want to have to buy what they see as a hardware dongle. On the other side we have those who have invested a great deal in a full HD/HDX system who feel somewhat p*ssed off when they see none-HD users getting the same software. It’s a fallacy to think that HDX users simply benefit from better software, DSP hardware offers lower latency at higher track counts, so there’s more to this debate than simply a software one. Some suggest that no other company offers tiered systems, not true. Steinberg have several versions of Cubase, as well as Nuendo. Cakewalk Sonar and Studio One have several versions, Reason comes in two versions. Whereas DP and Logic do not, although one could argue that Garageband is Logic Lite. Furthermore, Apple are a unique case, as the software is part of the complete OS package when buying Apple hardware and is often used as a loss-leader to get people to buy Apple computers. Comparing a FREE copy of Garageband with something like Pro Tools Express or Reason Essentials is not comparing Apples with Apples (forgive the pun). One could also argue, as many PC Emagic users did at the time, that Logic does come with a hardware dongle… a Mac! Given these fact, is it reasonable to expect Avid to give the same features to every user when many competitors don’t? Is it reasonable to expect the same software without making the same investment? We would be interested in hearing from both sides on this discussion.