| I have been at Musikmesse Frankfurt this year to see what's new in music software and also had the chance to talk to developers to find out what's planned in the near future. April 2006 - Frankfurt International Music Fair part 1 - Steinberg, Apple, Image Line part 2 - Vienna Instruments, Sienzo DMM part 3 - Celemony, Arturia part 4 - PG Music, Native Instruments part 5 - Matrox, Make Music, Sibelius Steinberg Steinberg staffs were very patient and answered a lot of my questions. they told me that the release of SX4 and VST3.0 is planned at the end of 2006. It will include the support of side-chaining effect plug-ins and drag and drop of effects settings across tracks. That means you can just take an inserted effect with the mouse and drag it to another channel. It will be inserted there as well with all the same settings as the source effect. Very convenient. The VST 3.0 standard is not yet published to other developers, therefore we can expect that it will take some time until all plug-in programmers have their products VST 3.0 ready. Steinberg itself works hard to get their own plug-ins and those of licensed developers ready for the new standard. Side chaining effects is a feature that all the engineers coming from analog mixing studios were badly missing on DAWs. It's good to hear that it finally finds it's way into native computer recording. The newly
released Virtual Guitarist 2 sounded awfully good as well as the new Halion
symphonic orchestra. I had no time of course to really test it, but the first
impression was good. Apple
What I wanted to know was if Garage Band's internal resolution for my extraordinary comparison chart of music recording software and if Garage band is a derivate from Logic or an separate development. While none of the Apple staff was allowed to answer my questions, I found out later from another source. Yes, GarageBand is developed by the Logic (eMagic) team and the audio engines of GarageBand and Logic are the same. Therefore the internal resolution is also 32bit like in Logic. Apple did not bring something special to Frankfurt as their main goal at the moment is the portation of their audio software to the new Intel based Macs. Seems like they did a good job because the mix below played with not much CPU load while using a lot of plug-ins and virtual instruments. Here you see the new Intel based MacBook Pro with the 30" Apple Cinema HD display running this mix.
Image Line Since I have already written a
full blown review I don't go too much into detail
here. They just presented FL studio 6 and the new instruments and plug-ins. On the image line stand for the first time I
could grab me a boxed version of FL Studio 6. They are much nicer than just a
downloaded file ;-).
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