The new Mac Pro has arrived in the studio at Protootr headquarters, and we’ll be giving it some proper testing for pro audio purposes. After waiting for 42 days, the new Mac Pro finally arrived. We have unpacked it and it’s ready to be installed. We’re going to find out what this machine can do […]

AAX is gaining ground as it’s raining AAX plug-ins lately. XILS Lab announced that their PolyKB II synthesizer is now fully compatible with AAX 32 and 64-bit hosts. Good news for Pro Tools 11 users. The PolyKB II captures the sound and spirit of the legendary RSF PolyKobol Analog synthesizer. It has continuously morphing oscillators, […]

Xfer Records have their eye on Pro Tools users. Last week we reported on the release of an AAX version of CThulhu. Today they released LFOTool with support for Pro Tools 10 and 11 users. LFOTool is an FX utility plug-in for VST, AudioUnit and now also AAX 32 and 64-bit DAWs on both Mac […]

Slate Digital sent their customers an e-mail with a status update on the development of the 64-bit AAX version of Virtual Tape Machine. The goal was to have the upgrade available on the 20th of January but unfortunately Slate Digital didn’t make that deadline. In a move to be fully transparent to their customers, Steven […]

Wavemachine Labs has updated Drumagog to version 5.2. The new version brings 64-bit AAX support to both OS X and Windows. Drumagog 5.2 is a software plug-in which replaces acoustic recorded drum tracks with drum samples of your choice. Replacement of the samples can be further refined with Drumagog’s deep control of samples and triggering. […]

Thunderbolt is slowly picking up as a standard. Especially in the audio industry, more and more interfaces are seeing the light of day. At NAMM 2014 Zoom announced their TAC-2, a Thunderbolt Audio interface for the Mac. I/O and controls The TAC-2 is a 2-in and 2-out Thunderbolt bus powered audio interface. What first struck […]

After weeks of teasing us with snippets of images, IK MultiMedia has finally revealed SampleTank 3 at the NAMM 2014 Show. We have the first details on this stunning looking instrument plug-in. The new virtual instrument is a native 64-bit sample library / workstation plug-in with over 30 GB of samples divided over more than […]

Korg released a new iPad app called Gadget. It has 15 virtual synthesizers and drum machines that you can combine in many creative ways. KORG Gadget gives you 15 compact synthesizers and drum machines. Each Gadget can function as the core of your electronic music productions. Korg says that with an iPad 4 or iPad […]

More Avid news comes from NAMM 2014. They announced version 7.5 of their flagship scoring software Sibelius. Here’s what Avid is saying on the new Sibelius 7.5: “With Sibelius 7.5, you can express, accelerate, and promote your creativity in more ways than ever before, enabling you to deliver beautiful, professional scores faster and share audio […]

Manley Labs today introduced the all analog CORE channel strip. The Manley CORE is a mic preamplifier, equalizer, compressor, and limiter into one 19″ two unit high rack. The CORE incorporates the high quality characteristic Manley circuitry design. It has an intuitive layout and is handmade in Southern California. I’ll dive straight into the details […]