This video is awesome. How I wish I miss Cubase when I see it! (via thread on Gearslutz)

Here’s another video of Pro Tools 8. I got it from Mix Online and it shows Phil Jackson demonstrating Pro Tools 8. Besides the things we’ve seen in previous videos (1, 2, and the ones at Digidesign), Phil also talks about the universe, which have been in HD in a different form before. We also see close up of most views, including the new score editor and the MIDI editor which I think bears a lot of resemblance to Live’s dito.

Here’s a video from SOS with everyone’s favorite Phil Jackson. Phil shows the new instruments. He actually confirms here what I’ve been suspecting, that the new AIR plug-ins (the FX, not the instruments) are from their previous plug-ins. Forward 30 seconds in to skip the commercial.

While I personally would think a reactor animated circus would be more fun, Native Instruments has released Reaktor Animated Circuits, a new Kore Soundpack that “explores the world of complex self-generating soundscapes, textures and rhythms”.
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Blue Microphones has announced their latest microphones - the BottleRocket Stage One Solid-State Microphone System and the Bottle Rocket Stage Two Tube Microphone System.
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Bluezone, a french company new to me at least, has announced the release of three sound libraries.
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iZotope has announced version 4 of Ozone, their mastering suite. iZotope has updated and expanded Ozone’s processing algorithms and “optimized them for today’s low-latency DAW environments”.

New features includes a new Intelligent Loudness Maximizer, Perfect Reconstruction crossovers, mid/side processing for superior control over the sound stage, and a new True Envelope dynamics processing mode.
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IK Multimedia has come to include quite a few plug-ins and sound libraries in their catalog. With the Total Workstation 2 and Total Studio 2 bundles they hope to find them in your studio as well.
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Arturia has announced that their first hardware synthesizer Origin is finally shipping. Origin was revealed early last year and I know quite a few people (including myself) who got interested in seeing what it’s all about.

Origin looks like a highly flexible and modular bastard. There are plenty of knobs and buttons (including a joystick - me likes!) which I think is a huge plus. It seems like too many manufacturers let users rely on endless menu scrolling instead of knobs to save money and space. I find this trend incredibly counter-productive and un-intuitive. In this regard Origin looks very nice. Unfortunately it also looks like the knobs are a little plastic. Call me a snob, but I find such things annoying.

A keyboard version will follow the desktop version pictured above.

You can see Origin in action and listen to it here on Arturia’s website.

For some reason the original post disappeared so I’ll post this again. This time with a history lesson. Gather around children!

As stated in hundreds - if not thousands of billions - threads on the DUC, Sweetwater has now published the pricings for most of the new Digidesign products.
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