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[Muzaq] Native Instruments’ November Special Offer

Special November Offer

Native Instruments just announced to give a rebate of 50% on their Vintave Compressors (VC 76, VC 2A, and VC 160) and Transient Master plugins.

The rebate is available via the Native Instruments Online Shop ONLY. The offer ends November 26th – so seven days to decide!

 

Demo Versions

For you, who wanna try-before-buy, check this link for the demo versions. Sadly some really annoying and thus workflow hindering limitation have been applied to the demos:

  • 30mins only total runtime
  • saving presets is possible but loading is not
  • total recall is disabled

We really can’t imagine a scenario where a plugin or an instrument can be tested sufficiently within 30mins, but hmmm… still better than dongles for trial licenses…

[Muzaq] Universal Audio Teams Up With Bob Katz

Universal Audio just announced they teamed up with world famous mastering engineer Bob Katz (“Mastering Audio – The Art and the Science“) to release the Precision K-Stereo Ambience Recovery Plug-in for the UAD-Platforms.  K-Stereo allows to enhance the stereo depth and the imaging of mixes.

The patented K-Stereo uses

“elements of the Haas effect and other psychoacoustic principles, the plug-in transparently enhances existing ambience and early reflections without adding artificial reverb or changing the ratio of center elements to side elements.”

Features

  • ambience recovery and stereo processing tool, (created and patented by Bob Katz)
  • extracts ambient cues from source material, adding natural depth and width to the stereo field
  • intended for fixing busy or “narrow” mixes at the mastering stage
  • 3-band Ambience Filter EQ for shaping the effect
  • Mid/Side gain controls to adjust the center-to-side balance
  • Left/Right Gain controls for final stereo image balancing and leveling
  • lots of custom user presets created by Bob himself

Price and Availability

K-Stereo is part of the just released UAD-Software v6.3.2. K-Stereo’s pricetag is US$199.

Ooo Dooh

More information to be found at UAD’s lair, check it regularly for special offers. They come more often than you would expect ;-)

» Link: Download UAD Powered Plugins
» Link: Check for UAD’s latest offer of K-Stereo

[Muzaq] Workaround for Audacity Crashing

Abstract

At least on a Mac Audacity seems to have issues when it comes to using third party plugins (i.e. AU or VSTs). To pinpoint which type of plugin is responsible for poor Audacity to crash, you can do the following.

I. Locate Audacity Config File

On a Crapple Mac the audacity.cfg file should be located here:
/Users/<your-username>/Library/Application Support/audacity

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[Muzaq] Win A UAD-2 Quad DSP Card Every Day

UAudio at the Frankfurt Musikmesse 2012

One of the leading suppliers of digital signal processing devices Universal Audio will be at the Musikmesse in Frankfurt 
between March 21th and 24th and they will raffle off a UAD-2 Quad DSP Card each and every day.

They will also be publicly demoing their latest flagship Apollo. So don’t hesitate to stop by at the S.E.A./Universal Audio booth in Hall 5.1, #C68.

Links

» Frankfurt Musikmesse
» Universal Audio
» Universal Audio’s Apollo

[Muzaq] Waves V9 Abandons iLok-Dongle Finally

Waves Audio Ltd. just announced the release of version 9 of their Waves plugins. Finally Waves V9 will support 64bit architectures and in contrast to their predecessors Waves V9 will not require the controversial Pace iLok-Dongle anymore.

They rather introduce the “Waves License Center“. However, customers used to iLoks can keep using them. It is expected the software based license system will bring a major improvement of the plugins’ processing speed.

Company

Waves Audio Ltd. is a leading developer of audio processing technologies with development facilities in Tennessee (USA), Tel Aviv (Israel) and Shenzen (China). Waves Audio was among the first to offer filter solutions to the vuvuzela noises at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Links

» Waves Audio
» Waves Audio Announces Waves V9
» Waves License Center
» Waves Audio Introduces Vuvuzela Noise Reduction
» Pace iLok
» Developer to Users: Boycott iLok and PACE