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Price £841 (upgrade and crossgrade pricing available) Contact Steinberg In the years leading up to the Millennium, DSP-accelerated Pro Tools systems dominated the DAW market for high-end music studios and TV/film post-production studios. There were good reasons for this: rock-solid stability, high I/O channel counts, very low-latency monitoring with effects on monitored […]
Akai Professional has debuted the Force Beta Testing Program, a phase that lets the brand trial the integration of its Force controller with Ableton Live. The program invites Beta testers to communicate with each other and the Akai Professional development team in a private forum. With this much-anticipated integration, Force users will be able to […]
PreSonus aims to bring the power of a large production console to small-format digital mixing with their new flagship StudioLive 64S. Sporting 76 mixing channels, 32 preamps and 43 buses, the console is made for mixing high channel count live sound, installation, mobile recording and the studio. What’s interesting about the StudioLive 64S is that […]
Back at Superbooth 2019, Ableton unveiled the beta version of CV Tools, a pack of 10 modules that afford you control of modular gear from Live 10. The German brand has now announced a fully fledged version of CV Tools, which is available as a free download for users of Ableton’s Live 10 Suite. CV […]
Just over a year ago, Image-Line celebrated the 20th anniversary of its flagship DAW with FL Studio 20. There have been a few updates since but the latest, v20.5, seems to be the biggest yet. Along with interface tweaks and plug-in updates, v20.5 brings with it the FLEX synth plug-in that was previously available only […]
Soundtrap, the maker of the cloud-based DAW of the same name, has announced that the free version of its service, Soundtrap Basic, now lets users save an unlimited number of multi-track projects. The company had previously limited that number to five unless you were a paid subscriber. The Basic version now offers access to over […]
Ableton has added a new feature to the latest beta version of Live and it could make working in the software much easier. The ability to add emojis into track names may not seem like a big deal, but for navigating large projects and annotating takes it could be a game-changer. For example, the function […]
Apple has announced a v10.4.5 software update for Logic Pro X, bringing the brand’s flagship DAW up to speed with the new Mac Pro’s tremendous processing power. Standout upgrades are a new mixer – capable of hosting audio 1,000 tracks – selective plug-in-loading as well as a refreshed version of the De-Esser plug-in. Here are […]
Price £256/$325 Contact Bitwig Bitwig’s increasing stature in the DAW world has enabled the now well-established company to push the envelope further into new frontiers of experimentation. With The Grid, it has developed a new feature in its DAW software that’s making knob twiddlers and cable junkies go weak at the knees. So let’s explore […]
When he first started developing FruityLoops, Belgian-French coder Didier ‘Gol’ Dambin could not have imagined the impact this video game-like DAW would have on the music production industry. The reclusive developer recently gave his first on-camera interview to Genius, sharing interesting facts about FruityLoops’ origins. In the interview, Dambin explained that the DAW now known […]