Steinberg are very proud to announce the availability of Nuendo 5, the newest incarnation of Steinberg’s solution for demanding professionals working in audio, live and post production.

Nuendo 5 allows for an ADR-like workflow (including EDL support), comes with excellent surround features, and also provides a unique automatable bus-destination routing system that lets you create different mix versions in one go. A completely new video engine guarantees stable video playback in SD and HD, and the ability to work with multi-mono files means industry openness. An array of additional enhancements and 64-bit technologies boost performance and enables Nuendo 5 to handle even the largest projects.

Read more about Nuendo 5 for Post Production, Live Recording, and Studio Mixing.

What’s new in Nuendo 5

• Toolset for ADR work and new native video engine
• Extended project exchange, including support of EDL lists
• Superior editing features and smooth new scrubbing engine
• Unique Nuendo Surround Panner V5 and several new VST3 plug-ins
• Extended automation system with ?flexible passes? technology
• World-class mixing and routing features with automatable mix buses
• Completely reworked MediaBay with networking capabilities
• Network collaboration for multi-seat projects via LAN or WAN
• Nuendo 5 Expansion Kit available: Adds Cubase Music Tools to Nuendo 5
• Native 64-bit support under Windows 7 and Windows Vista
• Performance optimization for multi-core CPU’s
• Takes advantage of the latest Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.6 operating systems
• More new features
• System requirements

Update now to Nuendo 5

Or buy the Nuendo 5 full version

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But delve under the hood for a second and you’ll find a multitrack recordig system.

Doesn’t support midi but hey it’s free.

It looks a lot like a basic version of Cool Edit the pre-Audition mulltitracking software.

Does take a lot of setting up, ie the vst needs and extra component installing as does VST support and LADSPA plugins.

They’re all available from the Audacity site anyway.

Download for free Audacity

MU.LAB

MU.LAB comes in 2 flavors: MU.LAB Free and MU.LAB Unlimited.

MU.LAB Free (which is free to everyone!) has a 6 track limit, can only mixdown in 16 Bit and only supports 1 mono out for ReWired devices. But be sure: a creative soul can do A LOT with that!

MU.LAB Unlimited on the other hand can do unlimited tracks, can also mixdown in 32 Bit for more extensive musical productions, and supports all available audio outputs for ReWired devices!

Reaper

The daddy of shareware music creation software, no limits uncrippled and probably the bargain software that pretty much sells itself.

It’s in this list because of it’s rare state of treating it’s users and potential customers as adults.

You get to try it out in full for an unlimited period, it’s then down to your conscience wether or not to buy it.

Brilliant software which is constantly updated and has a very loyal and helpful following who frequent the forums.

Lot’s of musicians these days are making the transition over to reaper and for good reason.

Great sound card and midi support, VST and VSTi supported also.

It’s a breeze to set up and use. Honestly if you’ve used this kind of software before you’ll love it.

And as a bonus there is reamote an add on that allows you to connect to a nother laptop via lan to share processing power, your fx and reaper have to installed on the second machine though.

Add to that rewire and you can’t go wrong.

Try it out and then if you dig it, buy it. It’s only fair.

Download for free here

And it looks great…

‘Changes:  A HUGE upgrade!

- Range of free audio plugins – Compressor, Delay, Chorus and more…

Voxengo

- Host of great free plugins – needs a bit of a search – but worth it.

Kjaerhaus Audio: Classic Compressor, link
Classic Compressor is a classic analog style VST Compressor Plugin with a lot of warmth and punch. Special designed to use on individual Instruments and Vocal, but also useable on your final mixes.

Smooth Compression Ajustable ratio up to limiting Ajustable attack and release times Ajustable knee (hard to soft) Gain reduction LED Presets Ultra low CPU usage Supports all sampling rates Full VST automation

1. Split your vocal track into two sub-groups or tracks, depending on your software. Insert a Classic Compressor on both, loading one with the factory preset “Vocal” and the other with “Vocal Definition”. Boost 100Hz and 10kHz about 10dB shelving on the second group or track. Now mix the two together for a very fat and energetic vocal track.

2. Use our Classic Limiter right after the Classic Compressor to catch the peaks during mix down.

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Endorphin – dual-band stereo compressor – link

Two independent frequency bands (low and high frequency processing)

Switchable stereo or M/S mode operation.

Two basic compressor designs:

1. modern vca mode with soft-knee characteristics and manual time constants. This mode provides an instant response behaviour and deep compression, using a feed-forward circuit.

2. Vintage-style opto (photo resistor) mode, modelled after ancient opto-electrical compressors. The time constants stay manually set, but they are also affected by the signal’s energy. This mode has the typical opto-style ‘overshoot’ on quick transients, this is one of the most gentle compressors you may find. Classical feed-back detector circuit.

Adjustable high-level output stage with analog-style saturation.

While you at digitalfishphones.com check out their fish fillets package

This great package contains – (Blockfish)  Compressor, (Spitfish) De Esser and (Floorfish) a Gate/Expander Device.

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Budget:

Voxengo’s range of VST fx are really worth a look at an affordable price,

Prices range from $49.95 for The Crunchessor

- $69.95 for Elephant

- $89.95 for Marquis

Voxengo – Mix Compressors

Voxengo Compressors

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PSPaudioware:

is a collection of five high-resolution, high quality audio processors designed to improve the quality of your digital audio tracks and mixes (VST and RTAS for Windows; AudioUnit, VST and RTAS for MacOSX UniversalBinary). These processors were not modeled on specific hardware analog processors, but rather on the sound and features of many analog circuits, with the goal of designing processors that can assist you in taming the sterility and harshness that often plagues digitally recorded audio. Don’t let the name of this bundle fool you – while we worked hard to develop a plug-in pack that would help your mixes shine, these plug-ins are high enough quality to be at home in mastering or live tracking situations as well. All plug-ins utilize 64-bit double precision floating point algorithms throughout their entire signal path and support sample rates of up to 192kHz. The kit consists of: PSP MixBass2, PSP MixTreble2. PSP MixSaturator2, PSP MixPressor2 and PSP MixGate2

Check Out Mixpack2 – Priced at $199 it’s well worth a looksy

KRISTAL Audio Engine is a powerful multi-track recorder, audio sequencer and mixer – ideal for anyone wanting to get started with recording, mixing and mastering digital audio.

It is designed as a modular system. The main application provides a mixing console, while the audio sequencer, live audio input and so on are loaded as separate Plug-Ins.

KRISTAL Audio Engine is free for personal, educational and non-commercial use.

For commercial use we offer the following licensing options: Click to collapse

• We grant a trial period of 30 days. Please try before you buy!
• Simply download the KRISTAL installer and legitimate it for commercial use by paying the license fee.
• You will receive a personalized License Key via E-mail.

Audacity is free software, developed by a group of volunteers and distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:

• Record live audio.
• Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
• Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files.
• Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.
• Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
• And more! See the complete list of features.

Download it here

Developer Ultimate Sound Bank has just released a free ROMpler.

By all accounts it can play back sampled content and comes supplied with four instrument patches.

A Drum Kit and five REX2 loops.

Of real interest is the 415mb Soundpack Demo, which features dozens of sounds from Ultimate Sound Bank range of UVI soundcards.

You can of course load your own samples, which are automatically mapped across the keyboard.

There are a few catches(when it’s free, its sort of a given)

One is that it installs Pace iLok drivers.

Second it’s still in the beta phase of developement so there could well be some stability issues.

It’s too much to learn, too much fiddling and too much wasted time trying to fix.

Now don’t get me wrong it’s free, and as such it’s a fantastic oppurtunity for those with the time.

I’ve decided to call it quits due to problems with drivers.

Mainly my Motu XT Express – it’s the older parallel type.

And for all the reading I’ve done and all the walkthroughs I’m stuck as how to go further.

So for now it’ll stay installed.

Maybe I’ll go back to it.

I’m not gonna start insulting it because it doesn’t work for me.

I use a lot of older equipment.

They work in XP and as much as I wish I could use ubuntu, I’ll just have to leave it for now.