Ardour 2.6, the latest version of the free audio workstation for OS X and Linux, has been released.
This version is notable mostly for many dramatic improvements to GUI performance on OS X (native) and a few very important crashing fixes. But it also contains several interesting and useful new features.
New Features
make libsndfile work with newer [...]
Rain Recording has introduced a new Windows digital audio workstation, Solstice Spider Edition.
Rain’s new audio + gaming workstation includes an AMD Phenom 9000 Series quad-core processor, the ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series GPU, and the AMD 7-Series chipset.
“Rain has seen the convergence of our audio workstations for the purpose of not only music production, but [...]
Guitar Center has announced a deal with Dell to offer desktop and notebook computers specifically designed for use for digital audio recording. The company already sells Apple Macs, which are very popular for use as digital audio workstations.
Initial offerings will include workstations built around dual-core AMD processors.
PCAudioLabs has introduced two new digital audio PCs, Solar and Lunar, to their Create product line.
Both systems come equipped with dual hard drives, dual video outputs, 8 USB ports, 2 Texas Instruments FireWire ports and 2 Gigabytes of RAM. The systems are “optimized and tweaked” for demanding audio production.
Features:
Intel Core2 Duo 1.8GHz
2GB DDR2-667 RAM
80GB SATAII [...]
Rain Recording has announced their first AMD processor-based audio workstation line, called Solstice. Solstice workstations are a new addition to Rain’s line of computers, which are built specifically for the needs of professional audio and video production.
Powered by AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processors, the Solstice 01 and 02 workstations can support demanding audiovisual applications, [...]
JazzMutant has released Dexter, a new multi-touch computer controller that’s sort of like an iPhone for mixing audio.
The laptop-sized control surface features a multi-touch display and is designed to be used as a flexible Digital Audio Workstation control surface. JazzMutant has partnered with leading audio workstation software developers to offer visual feedback and two-way communication [...]
Rain Recording have released the Nimbus Pro audio workstation line. The two versions, Q1 and Q2, utilize quad-core processor technology and new acoustical engineering to give the user power with near silent performance.
Description:
Nimbus Pro is built around Intel’s powerful Core2 Quad processor. Add to that up to 8GB of RAM, a Terabyte of recording space [...]
MusicXPC’s Professional S3 studio production computer is a Windows-based system specially tweaked for media production, configured from the BIOS up to handle audio tracks, effects and virtual instruments with ease.
The system features an Intel Core 2 Duo processor running at 2.4GHz with a 4MB L2 Cache on a 1066 MHz FSB. The machine comes with [...]
The “news” that iTunes sales are plummeting seems to have been picked up by every blogger and analyst that has an axe to grind about iTunes or digital music in general.
A common theme in the coverage is that people were finally rebelling against copy-protected digital music.
This would make sense….if digital music sales were really plummeting [...]
Behringer has announced Podcastudio FireWire, described as a complete podcast studio with FireWire interface.
The podcasting kit comes with a studio-grade FireWire audio interface which includes the Behringer Edition of Ableton Live Lite 4 music production software for PC and Mac computers. The package also includes an 8-input mixer, high-quality headphones and a studio microphone plus [...]