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  Genelec and AES launch Martikainen Audio Visionary Scholarship

  Coinciding with its 40th anniversary year, Genelec announced the founding of the Genelec Dr. Ilpo Martikainen Audio Visionary Scholarship, at the AES (Audio Engineering Society) expo in New York City this week. The scholarship – to the value of $5,000 – will be offered annually to US graduate students (and also members of AES) in […]
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  Waves Audio introduces Abbey Road TG Mastering Chain

  Developed together with Abbey Road Studios, the TG Mastering Chain plugin is a modular mastering chain plug-in modeled after the EMI TG12410 Transfer Console used in Abbey Road’s mastering suites. The TG12410 has been used on albums like Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, Nirvana’s In Utero, Radiohead’s OK Computer and Ed Sheeran’s + . […]
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  Universal Audio impresses at AIR Studios

  Universal Audio launched its new series of flagship Thunderbolt 3 audio interfaces, Apollo X, at an audacious presentation at London’s AIR Studios last month. UA staffers were flown over from their California HQ to welcome producers, engineers and press to the hallowed chambers of AIR to make it very  clear indeed that the technology developer […]
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  SoundPro’18: so appealing in Ealing!

  The weather was abysmal – it rained all day – but that didn’t stop nearly 200 eager audio aficionados attending SoundPro’18, the one-day event for the sound recording industry. With around 30 exhibitors, and three cracking afternoon presentations, the storms couldn’t keep sound engineers, sound designers, sound supervisors (…lots of ‘sound’ professionals, basically) away from […]
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  Spitfire Studio Strings – first of an all-new Spitfire Orchestra range

  Spitfire Studio Strings is Spitfire Audio’s first release of a new Spitfire orchestral range of Kontakt libraries. The Professional edition is $499 and the ‘core’ is $249 during its initial sale period. Studio Strings is a hefty download with 210GB of samples, (232 articulations for Professional) across Violins, Violas, Celli, and Basses of a 30 […]
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  US music revenue grows 10% to $4.6bn in first half of 2018

  Half year figures from the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) show US recorded music revenue grew 10% to $4.6bn at retail. Streaming is driving growth, with revenue increasing to $3.35bn, up 28.4% from the first half of 2017. Paid subscriptions grew to $2.55bn, up from $1.91bn, or a 33.3% increase, with ad-supported revenue nearly […]
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  iZotope RX7 introduces many new features – including 7.1.2

  The new software has landed at Resolution studios, and we’re enjoying reviewing the many new tools: Repair Assistant – in the style of Ozone 8’s assistant – this is an intelligent helper that can detect noise, clipping, clicks, hum and so on, fixing common audio issues faster. Music Rebalance – is a source separation tool that allows you […]
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  Facebook launches hardware portals, partners music services

  In March, Resolution V17.2, we highlighted publishing deals Facebook was signing, and we suggested rumours from Taiwan indicated the social media titan would launch a hardware product. Here it is! Facebook’s new ‘video communication’ devices are called the Portal and Portal+, and feature widescreen displays, hands-free voice control and AI-powered cameras and sound. The $199 Portal and $399 Portal+ […]