Slate Digital is selling their most popular plug-ins Virtual Console Collection (VCC) and Virtual Tape Machine (VTM) for a measly $99 each until the end of May. Slate Digital has already released a beta of VTM in 64-bit AAX for Pro Tools, and anyone who purchases VCC will get a free update to VCC 2.0 […]

Avid today confirmed the new Pro Tools features that we discussed in an earlier post, in their Avid Everywhere Music Webinar. The new collaboration features that are part of Avid’s new Avid Everywhere program will be available this year in a new to be released version of Pro Tools. These include a Freeze Track function […]

CFX Concert Grand is a new virtual piano instrument by Garritan and Abbey Road Studios. The CFX Concert Grand was exclusively recorded in Abbey Road Studio One using some of the finest microphones and equipment in Abbey Road Studios. The nine foot Yamaha CFX Concert Grand is one of the latest additions to Abbey Road […]

Dave Grohl is to present and produce his own TV series for US cable channel HBO according to an article by Classic Rock. The new series will see Foo Fighters’ frontman Dave Grohl visiting, and recording music, at some of the world’s most iconic recording studios. In the series, Grohl will also conduct interviews with […]

The BlendHQ blog is having a competition in which you can win yourself a free Fabfilter plug-in of your choice. All you have to do is make an original track using FabFilter’s Twin 2 Synth. Here’s the original statement coming from the @BlendHQ blog. If you haven’t yet tried FabFilter’s award-winning Twin 2 virtual analogue […]

Apple today released a major update of Logic Pro X. The new version of Apple’s DAW software receives better 12-core Mac Pro support, lots of bug fixes and over 300 new features. One of the most notable updates since Apple released Logic Pro X delivers many bug fixes and lots of improvements. One of the […]

Boz Digital Labs released Panipulator 2, an update to the simple and powerful tool for checking how your mixes translate to different systems. Best of all, it’s available for free. Many people listen to music in less than ideal environments. Panipulator lets you hear what your mix will sound like in those environments. This allows […]

Today Avid released updates for Pro Tools 10 and 11 with version numbers 10.3.9 and 11.1.3. Pro Tools 11 has been known to have a couple of bugs with some important video functionality. The new 11.1.3 should fix many of them. But that’s not all. The number of fixes is long and as always very […]

You’ve undoubtedly missed our regular news updates lately. This is due to a much needed holiday. Our appologies for not being up-to-date as you are used from us. The Protootr blog will be back with the latest news, opinion and feature articles later next week.

Air Music Tech has announced the imminent release of their Instrument Expansion Pack with Hybrid 3 and support for VST, AU and AAX formats. As soon as next week we will see the release of the Instrument Expansion Pack for VST and AU hosts. The IEP will also contain Hybrid 3, an overhauled version of […]