Audio Macintosh

Native Instruments has released Kontakt v2.1. This free update includes several improvements to compatibility, stability, performance, sound quality and usability as well as new functions.

Source: KVR

Apple has submitted a patent application for an LCD screen that can display images as well as capture a shot of what’s in front of it. According to an article at NewScientist, the device would contain “thousands of microscopic image sensors in-between the liquid crystal display cells in the screen. Each sensor captures its own small image, but software stitches these together to create a single, larger picture.”

In addition to the obvious use in videoconferencing, the Web site speculates that the invention could be used in a cell phone or PDA as a way to both snap photos and display information.

Source: TMO

This track was written back in 2004, with the original plan being that the original mix would come out on Lot49 last year as the second 12″ in a double pack (the first 12 ” was released in 2005, featuring Pure & Free and the PMT remix of Reclaim the Airwaves).
The original was never released, but if you want to hear it for reference purposes, then it’s online at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/shackforce

So, this is your chance to remix the track yourselves. The parts are now up & available for one month from the tech funk forum, within the member-only area. You need to be a member, and to be logged in for this to appear.

http://www.strongarmsessions.co.uk/techfunk

There is a good article about Logic Pro on Intel over at Macworld.com by Peter Kirn of CDM.

Macworld: First Look: Testing Logic’s Universal appeal

WIDI Audio To MIDI VST automatically transcribes an arbitrary polyphonic audio track into MIDI output (i.e. Audio & MIDI).

With this plugin you can:

• Turn an original audio record into corresponding MIDI stream.
• Get instant Wave-to-MIDI transcription while playing a musical instrument.
• Play back MIDI output “as is” or use it to control MIDI-driven effects.
• Synchronize your MIDI device output with specific audio events.

The resulting MIDI events can be sent to the VST host, System MIDI Out Device or to a MIDI file. A spectrum window displays streaming spectrogram in real-time, as well as recognized notes. Adjustable recognition parameters allow to improve recognition quality.

Source: KVR

I-dance launches a new producers contest on Monday April 24. This time you’re challenged to create the I-dance anthem: the I-dance sound that will be used to promote our international community!

Rules are simple

Create the sound that you think fits I-dance best.
you are free to pick any dance music style you like.
the maximum length of your track is 3 minutes.
submit your track before 31 May (web space will be provided).
tip: you might get inspired by these words.

The winning anthem receives:

• Fabfilter’s fat plugin pack with Fabfilter Twin and Volcano
• Sound.org’s cool book with dvd ‘The Trance Experience‘
• the limited I-dance long sleeve t-shirt

The 5 best anthems receive:

• Sound.org’s cool book ‘The Trance Experience‘
• the limited I-dance long sleeve t-shirt

Ubergate is a multi-fx plugin comprising of a pattern based gate and two effect chains. Each effect chain features delay, filter with LFO, modulation (chorus/flanger/phaser) and 3-band EQ with Drive.

The current members will just be exposed to more, much more, learning and growing with other musicians, engineers and producers. Eventually the community will be renamed and finally moved to DIGITALBUSS.COM

DIGITALBUSS.COM will encompass the entire digital audio community and more. The transition will happen over the next week or so starting today.

With Mac OS X Tiger Apple introduced a convenient way to create your own graphical effects: The Quartz Composer. Sadly by default these could only be used as screen saver or run in Quicktime.

With iVisualize it is finally possible to run these in iTunes, have them react to sour music and display a lot of song information.
iVisualize comes with 4 visualizations and you can download more or create your own it’s up to you.

Want to share audio between applications easily on an Intel Mac? Now you can. JACK OS X, the superb open-source solution for routing audio between applications and computers on Mac OS X, is now a Universal binary for Intel/PowerPC Macs with today’s release of version 0.73.

Source: CDM (Check out the hot new Create Digtial Music website)