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Adobe for Mac is coming

Adobe reveals “Audition for Mac” in Adobe Labs. They expect to release public beta in winter 2010. Stay tuned!

more info : http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/audition/

UAD plugin : Manley Massive Passive EQ

Manley Massive Passive EQ

Universal Audio (UA) released the new plugin for UAD platform. Manley Massive Passive EQ is modeled after the 2-channels 4-band passive tube EQ from Manley Labs.

more info : http://www.uaudio.com/products/software/manley/index.html

Mackie officially announced ONYXi, Pro Tools compatible

Mackie Onyx-i Series : FireWire Recording Mixers

As promised, Mackie officially announced the new line of mixer on 09/09/09. They are ONYXi series, the analog mixer with built-in firewire audio interface which support upto 24bit/96kHz. By the way, that was not what the world was waiting to here from Mackie. The point is “what about Pro Tools compatibility”. Mackie clearly stated about this in their website.

Onyx-i FireWire mixers can be used with all major DAWs, and is qualified by Mackie for use with Pro Tools^® M­-Powered^™ 8*, offering those users a host of new hardware options.

I know that Pro Tools M-Powered 8 compatibility might not be that interesting since you have to buy the software separately, unlike the Pro Tools LE which is bundled with every Digidesign interface. But Mackie revealed the option, this is a beginning of hardware alternative for Pro Tools.

Anyway, according to what is written on Mackie website, we’ve to keep on waiting for a few more week to see the driver and full detail of how to use Mackie ONYXi with Pro Tools M-Powered 8.

Onyx-i Series Mixers are qualified by Mackie for use with Pro Tools^® M-Powered^™ 8. Mackie will release a driver (via www.mackie.com) together with full details of how to use the Onyx-i Series with Pro Tools^® M-Powered^™ 8 in the coming weeks.

more detail :

• http://www.mackie.com/products/onyxiseries
• http://www.mackie.com/enews/2009/09/introducing_the_all-new_onyx-i.html

PS. seem like the word qualified by Mackie will be the crucial key for any legal issue coming afterward. There is no response from Avid/Digidesign so far about this announcement. Stay tuned 🙂

Cymatics : TED Talk by Evan Grant

Thanks to “The Music of Sound” for sharing this video. This is the first TED talk I’ve ever watched, I’ve knew what it is for a while but have never watched. In this video, Mr. Evan Grant talks Cymatics, the processes of visualizing sound. It helped me understand more in sound visualization and make me want to learn more about sound visualazation using Jitter or Processing. IMO, what Cymatics created is more beautiful that watching sound in waveform or spectrum analysis 😀

Since embedding flash-base video player is prohibited on WordPress.com, please click the image above or this link to watch this video directly from TED talk.

watch this video : http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/626
from : http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/ted-talk-on-cymatics-making-sound-visible