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[iOS] Steinberg Cubasis for iPad Released

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Steinberg just released an iOS App of Cubasis. The iOS version allows exporting projects to Cubase for Windows and Cubase for MacOSX. The GUI looks quite familiar to the desktop version of Cubase and we suppose, for Cubase users this is a real fun tool when being on the road. Via background midi/audio other iOS-Apps can be used as virtual instruments.

According to Steinborg’s website, Cubasis got these features:

  • Unlimited audio and MIDI tracks (depending on the device used)
  • Over 70 virtual instrument sounds based on HALion Sonic
  • Mixer with over 10 effect processors (insert and send effects)
  • Over 300 MIDI and audio loops
  • Virtual keyboard and virtual drum pads
  • Sample Editor and Key Editor
  • Export to Cubase, Dropbox, SoundCloud, AudioCopy & email
  • Core Audio and Core MIDI compatible hardware supported
  • Sequence other Core MIDI apps (MIDI recording only) and run Cubasis simultaneously via background audio
  • Import audio from your iTunes music library or using iTunes filesharing, use AudioPaste or set up a Wi-Fi server in Cubasis

All this sounds very appealing and the AppStore price of about 45€ seems fair aswell. The only real downside is Cubasis requires iOS 6.01. And many iPad music-app-users are still having nightmares when thinking about operating system updates. iOS 5 update from iOS 4 for instance broke compatibility to many muzaq apps and hardware devices.

[Muzaq] Universal Audio Teams Up With Bob Katz

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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…

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[Muzaq] Audacity 2.0 Released

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The platform independent and Open Source driven audio editing software Audacity has been released in version 2.0. Audacity is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Many people say, Audacity is simply one of the best software audio editors with a huge amount of well designed built-in functions (fading, normalizing, vocal remover etc.).

It is compatible to LADSPA-Plugins, Nyquist-Plugins and VST-Effects.

Although the GUI should imho still be enhanced in comparison to its commercial competitors (Steinberg Wavelab, Sony Soundforge, Adobe Audition etc.), Audacity is a must-have, as it is free and from a technical point of view it is impressively powerful.

Don’t waste your time and grab your copy now.

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