Avid today released Pro Tools 11.0.3 with support for Apple’s latest operating system Mac OS X 10.9 also known as Mavericks. According to Avid’s website 11.0.3 will NOT work on systems prior to OS X 10.9 Mavericks. Customers that have OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion installed should stick to version 11.0.2. Version 11.0.3 of Pro […]

If you are after a sample-library, make sure to visit bestservice.de because Ueberschall is holding a 2 for 1 deal there. Ueberschall offers professional Loops, Licks and Sound FX covering more than 40 genres, for musicians, producers, film- and advert-composers. If you buy two Uebarschall sample-libraries, you get the cheapest one for free. Ueberschall has […]

According to Spitfire, they are about to release their most most definitive collection of cinematic style percussion Produced by Hans Zimmer. The recordings for this library were done in the prestigious hall of Air-studios by Geoff Foster. The percussion was performed by the same players that did films such as Inception, The Ring, Hannibal and […]

While we are on the subject of DIY synthesizers. Another good looking and great sounding synth building kit called Patchblocks came to the surface. Patchblocks is a crowdfunded Kickstarter project that more than doubled its goal of £10,000. Patchblocks actually consists of only 1 generic battery powered block that you can program to be anything […]

Littlebits has released information on their new product Synth Kit, which is produced in collaboration with Korg. Synth Kit can be pre-ordered now for the price of $159 US and should be available in limited quantity on December 6th. More information, videos and sound samples can be found on littlebits’ website. Here’s a direct link […]

Softube today released version 2.0 of all of their plugins. Among the new feautures is AAX 64-bit support. AAX 64-bit though is not the only new thing though. Softube has rewritten the plug-ins from the ground up to utilize the power of the latest CPU’s. This delivers a vast improved CPU performance for all plug-in […]

This one’s for film and video Score producers. Audiority released a new soundbank called Omnisphere Cinematic. It has a 100 presets for Spectrasonics Omnisphere. The presets are designed for Dark Ambient, Film, Soundtrack and Underscore. The soundbank contains 24 Arps with Rhythm, 4 drums, 15 Impacts and Hits, 20 one shot Risers and downers, 10 […]

Chicken Systems has updated Translator 6 with support for Mac OS X Mavericks including many new features and bug fixes. New features for Translator 6 include: Chicken Systems also upgraded many of their other products like Instrument Manager, Kontakt Assistent, Motif Creator and MV Kit Creator.

The Audio Engineering Society (AES) has named Dr. Sean Olive as its new president. He takes the baton from outgoing president Frank Wells. Olive is currently the director of Acoustic Research at Harman International. His resumé includes a Bachelor of Music from the University of Toronto, a Masters of Music in sound recording from McGill […]

Big Fish Audio delivers interesting new sample libraries in different styles. Maschinestrument is a new Maschine expansion pack featuring 256 multisample instruments of analog hardware synths, acoustic vintage electric pianos, hybrid digital synthesis and the leading modeling synthesis techniques. With intense Maschine optimisation, each patch takes advantage of Maschine’s specific effects and routing, tempo synced […]