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Friday, May 10, 2013
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05/10/13 10:59 AM,
Music software company XILS-lab is proud to announce availability of Oxium 1.5, an Avid Pro Tools 11 AAX format-ready major update to its popular performance soft synth plug-in. Oxium has gained a solid foothold in the competitive computer-centric music marketplace since successfully launching last year to critical acclaim. Its intuitive GUI and realtime modulation capabilities conspire to deliver sought-after analogue sounds of yesteryear alongside today’s more modernistic adventurous tones. Thanks to the Grid, Oxium’s onboard advanced sequencer modulator—adapted from the…
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Wednesday, May 08, 2013
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05/08/13 02:32 PM,
Avid is currently running a promotion for audio professionals to save up to 20 percent on any new VENUE D-Show, Profile, Mix Rack, SC48 or SC48 Remote System. Trade in old analog or digital consoles to save on new, more advanced systems with enhanced sound quality, more streamlined Pro Tools integration and support for industry-standard plug-ins. This promotion is for audio professionals within the U.S. and APAC looking to upgrade to the latest versions of any VENUE System. Avid VENUE…
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Monday, April 08, 2013
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04/08/13 09:31 AM,
Avid has introduced Pro Tools 11, a major upgrade of its digital audio workstation that provides users with new, high-powered audio and video engines, 64-bit architecture, expanded metering, and direct HD video workflows. “Pro Tools 11 represents a quantum leap in creative power,” states Chris Gahagan, senior vice president of products and services at Avid. “The newly designed architecture turbo-charges production with more plug-in processing, the ability to run more virtual instruments—and a host of new features—letting users create ambitiously,…
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Monday, March 25, 2013
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03/25/13 09:27 AM,
If you missed Avid’s live webinar earlier this month—“The Commercial Edge At Abbey Road Studios”—it’s now available for free viewing in HD video on the Avid website. Go here to register and view the video. In the webinar, host Tony Cariddi of Avid and Simon Campbell, Chris Bolster, and Paul Pritchard of Abbey Road Studios explain how Pro Tools|HDX and a new approach helped reposition the studio for success. More specifically, the webinar addresses: —The technical and business challenges the…
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Monday, February 11, 2013
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02/11/13 12:15 PM,
Avid has announced that its board of directors has appointed Louis Hernandez as president and chief executive officer. Hernandez succeeds former president and chief executive officer Gary Greenfield, who will remain on Avid’s board of directors. Hernandez has been a member of the Avid board since 2008. Most recently, he was also chairman of the board and CEO of Open Solutions, Inc., a technology provider to financial institutions worldwide, which was acquired in January 2013 by Fiserv, Inc. “Louis is…
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Thursday, December 13, 2012
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12/13/12 06:58 PM,
Avid has announced VENUE Mix Rack compatibility with VENUE Stage 48 and VENUE Ethernet Snake Card. Current VENUE Mix Rack owners can easily add I/O flexibility to their systems through Avid’s Stage 48 Ethernet AVB remote box via the Avid Ethernet Snake Card option. These new integration capabilities will give current VENUE Mix Rack system customers the option to significantly reduce cable clutter and expense as they distribute their system I/O more effectively throughout the performance venue. Highlights: —Stage 48…
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Tuesday, December 04, 2012
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12/04/12 04:51 PM,
Morehouse College graduates include filmmaker Spike Lee, actor Samuel L. Jackson, and rapper Lil Jon. So not surprisingly, the college has tried to keep its performance venues, including the King Chapel and the Ray Charles Performing Arts Center and Music Academic Building, at the cutting edge of live-sound technology. Helping them do just that is Guitar Center Professional (GC Pro), the outside sales division of Guitar Center that focuses on the needs of professional users, which has become the first-call…
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Monday, November 05, 2012
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11/05/12 12:06 PM,
Avid and Gobbler, the purpose-built cloud for digital media creators, have announced an upcoming integration with Avid Pro Tools, creating an easy and reliable way to exchange and back up Pro Tools sessions. The Gobbler integration will enable the sending of files, mixes or entire sessions directly from the Pro Tools interface, reducing steps and eliminating errors. Other unique capabilities include: ● Automatically locate and back up all of your local Pro Tools sessions to the cloud. You…
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Monday, September 24, 2012
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09/24/12 02:18 PM,
Studio at the Palms, a Las Vegas-based, high-end recording studio with a client roster including Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Maroon 5, has completed a wall-to-wall installation of three Avid HDX systems and 176 channels of HD I/O to give artists the unprecedented ability to create bigger, better sounding projects faster than ever. With the upgrade, artists at Studio at the Palms will get more tracks, more headroom, and up to five times more dedicated DSP power to undertake even…
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Friday, September 07, 2012
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09/07/12 10:44 AM,
Avid has announced the new Pro Tools|HD Native Thunderbolt interface, delivering low latency and high sound quality to any host-based audio workstation for Thunderbolt technology equipped CPUs. The Pro Tools|HD Native Thunderbolt interface brings the Pro Tools HD toolset and premium conversion of Pro Tools HD Series interfaces to a broader group of users who use a laptop or other computer with Thunderbolt technology. The Pro Tools|HD Native Thunderbolt interface gives producers, engineers, and mixers the advantages of the Pro…
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