Affinity Designer has been updated a lot for the past half decade, but Affinity Designer 2 is more than a handful of new features. It’s a complete make-over and it tops the vector art app charts as it is now the most powerful illustration app available.… Read More Affinity Designer 2, an illustrator’s best friend
For a limited time, iZotope is offering its new AudioLens app for free. AudioLens is a very specific little app that does but one thing: it lets you create and manage audio references used by the Assistants in the latest versions of Neutron and Ozone. AudioLens is the surefire way to analyse them and populate the Assistants with references collected from any resource your Mac has access to, bar external audio.… Read More iZotope AudioLens captures and manages reference audio for Ozone 10 and Neutron 4
After well over half a decade of updating Affinity Photo without charging an update fee, Serif, the company that develops Affinity Photo, decided it was time to release a massive, paid upgrade. Affinity Photo 2 has a large number of new features that put a lot of power into your hands, and it still steers clear from using AI-assisted functionality.… Read More Affinity Photo 2 is about flexibility and less frustration when your client asks for a different mockup
SoftRAID 7.0 is the next major release of the software based RAID solution owned by OWC. It now supports macOS 13 (Ventura) and incorporates many architectural changes required for future versions of macOS.… Read More SoftRAID 7 has been released and it makes your Mac more secure
With the new FABRIK series, the Orchestral Tools designers have created a new set of virtual instruments by combining sounds from field recordings, electronic noise, and unusual acoustic instruments. There are two collections in FABRIK: Transit and Radome.… Read More Orchestral Tools FABRIK, a sound set perfect for filmmaking
If you visited the Affinity user forums over the past few months, you know that after eight years, something new was coming. Today, Serif, the company that develops and markets Affinity products, launches Version 2 of its award-winning Affinity creative suite and this time they’re asking for a — quite small — contribution. … Read More Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher version 2 launch
The sE Electronics DM3 is a phantom powered DI box with features that put it in the expensive range, but costs only €119 EUR. A “direct box” is a small connection box for instruments and line signal equipment. Cheap DI boxes have a 1/4in input to connect an instrument such as a guitar and an XLR output that send the signal to the mixer, console or audio input. Somewhat more expensive models have a ground lift switch to correct ground loop noise and/or a pad switch to accommodate different signal source levels. Expensive DI boxes have more features, such as a preamp and they’re powered.… Read More sE Electronics DM3 is a DI Box that’s actually cylindrical and performs brilliantly
Halo Vision is a real-time analysis tool for surround sound and immersive audio. It is a highly customizable plug-in with a set of seven modules intended to provide sound engineers with a better understanding of their immersive audio projects (up to 7.1.2 Dolby Atmos) and enable them to fix problems faster.… Read More NUGEN Audio Halo Vision Review
Moog recently introduced its digital version of seven analogue Moogerfoogers “effect pedals” that are direct descendants of the original Moog synthesizers ($149 intro offer; $249 regular — 7-day free trial available). They can be used individually or combined to deliver maximum flexibility with an unparalleled number of controllable parameters.… Read More Moogerfoogers, the Moog effects for anything from delay to soundscape
An aluminium body the size of one-and-a-half traditional USB stick with a 1TB SSD inside is the smallest SSD drive OWC recently came up with. It’s a high-speed device that you can put in your shirt pocket. The Envoy Pro Mini is a radically designed USB memory stick that doesn’t contain a flash memory chip,… Read More OWC Envoy Pro Mini, a highspeed SSD in USB memory stick format
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