Steinberg has announced that Cubase 6.5 and Cubase Elements 6 are now available as free trial versions. The trials come with the same range of functionality as the full versions, including all instruments, effects and sounds and also may be used without limitations for 30 days.
Waves Audio announces the availability of V9, the new version of Waves Plugins. Featuring 64-bit support, faster scanning, faster loading, and faster processing, Waves Version 9 opens up new dimensions of high performance plugin power.
The Duende Native Plug-in suite is a collection of audio processing tools which bring professional audio quality, sophistication and benchmark performance within reach of all DAW users. Duende plug-ins provide the superior precision, advanced feature set and legendary tonal characteristics of SSL console products in affordable VST/AU/RTAS* plug-in form. They are quite simply the easiest way to get your hands on professional tools that will help you make professional mixes that sound like a record.
FabFilter has announced the update of Pro-G Gate / Expander Plug-In to version 1.0.1. It is a free update for Pro-G users. It has been adding the requested “ducking” style and small improvements and also various bugs were fixed.
Arturia announces the update for Minimoog V to Version 2.5. Arturia Minimoog V is now compatible with 64BitHosts but this is not the only one addition.
Arturia Minimoog V2.5 New Features
# Support for 64-bit VST and Audio Unit
# Support for Pro Tools 9
# MIDI Control Assignment Improvement
# Update of toolbar look and feel
# Added support for NRPN MIDI controls
# Added triangle LFO waveform
Celemony announces that there is available a free update for Melodyne Editor, Assistant and Essential. The version 1.3 contains several bug fixes and minor improvements. Continuous lines representing the selected time grid provide for greater clarity in the editing pane, thereby making modifying the timing of notes easier. A double click now quantizes notes to the time grid selected by the user, making it possible to shape the rhythm of the material more swiftly and accurately. In the stand-alone version of Melodyne, a new option is now available that saves a copy of the audio files involved when you are saving MPD files. This simplifies the handling of projects. Version 1.3 is also compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and the corresponding Lion versions of leading DAWs.
Image Line announces that Fl Studio reached version 10.0.8. You can find below the changelog for actual and previous versions of FL Studio 10.
Image Line announced the FL Studio Mobile 1.2 update.
Universal Audio (UA) announces enhanced Pro Tools compatibility and Mac OS X Lion compatibility with their newest software release, UAD Powered Plug-Ins v6.0. Now available as a free download on the UA website for Mac and PC users worldwide, UA’s new v6.0 software will ensure that customers running Mac OS X 10.7 will have full compatibility with their UAD Powered Plug-Ins.
For Pro Tools users, UAD software v6.0 adds many new features to streamline integration of their UAD plug-ins into their DAW experience, including:
UA-developed RTAS plug-ins, replacing current VST-to-RTAS Adapter
Full support of all Pro Tools control surfaces, including customized control layouts
Fully automatable plug-in parameters, with values and ranges displayed in automation lanes and on control surfaces
Plug-in names clearly displayed in the Pro Tools Mix and Edit windows
Plug-ins sorted by category in the Pro Tools plug-ins menu
Quick installation process
Many other workflow improvements
Steinberg released the 4.0.1 maintenance update to its VST sampler and sound creation system, HALion 4. The update resolves several issues and improves the overall stability of HALion 4
What’s new in version 4.0.1 of Steinberg Halion
Issues that occurred when individual MegaTrig modules of a program were disabled have been corrected.
An issue that appeared when undoing paste on a program that is already assigned to a slot has been corrected.
CoreAudio2ASIO has been updated to correct issues with some USB devices.
Missing presets of the REVerence reverb have been added.
Issues when loading programs into the program table after selecting something within the program tree have been corrected.
Issues within FL Studio 10 that cause the message “There was an error getting the state of the VST 3 pluggin HALion 4. The state wasn’t saved” have been corrected.
Issues that occurred when “Auto Visibility” was enabled have been corrected.
Changes on the program layer (level/pan/tune) won’t affect any programs in subsequent slots any more.
