Cakewalk® Releases Free Trial Version of SONAR™ 8

Boston, MA (December 22, 2008)—Cakewalk, the world’s leading developer of powerful and easy to use products for music creation and recording, today announces availability of a free demonstration version of its industry-leading SONAR 8 DAW.

Softube’s Santa Claus Alter Ego Goes Solid-State with FET Compressor

Linköping, Sweden. Dec 18th 2008 – Swedish Software Developer Softube is shipping the FET Compressor plug-in for both native VST, AU, RTAS as well as the DSP-based TDM and VENUE formats. FET Compressor is available today at the Softube web shop

When creating FET Compressor, Softube set out to make the most accurate emulation of the most famous solid state compressor, and very much effort has been spent modeling the real hardware to make sure that the emulation sounds exactly the same.

Nothing must stand in the way of the sound. Every single part of the simulation contributes to making this piece unique. The extremely fast attack, all the subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) distortion that comes from the different parts of the compressor and the extremely careful way the signal is handled and conditioned throughout the signal chain.

On top of that they have added some useful features that still have that analog sound – but features that would’ve been hard or even impossible to implement with analog electronics, such as the continuous ratio, parallel compression, detector filtering and lookahead. That way you will be able to get the best of two worlds.

A fully functional 10 day demo can be downloaded from http://www.softube.com.

Turn your iPhone into a FourTrack recorder

Los Altos, CA – November 6, 2008 – Sonoma Wire Works announces the launch of FourTrack, a multitrack audio recorder for the iPhone and iPod touch (2nd Generation). FourTrack is a songwriting and practice tool for singers, guitar players, piano players, and other musicians who want to capture musical ideas and record songs on their iPhone. Plug in a microphone, arm a track, record, and repeat. FourTrack works with the iPhone built-in microphone, a headset mic, or an iPod touch with a third-party mic and headphones. WiFi sync allows FourTrack recordings to be downloaded to any desktop computer with a browser. Tracks can then be loaded into any recording software (DAW) to continue working on songs. FourTrack is developed by Sonoma Wire Works, makers of RiffWorks guitar recording software, and by The Retronyms, makers of ,the top selling (single track) recording application for the iPhone. Introductory price: $9.99.