Sibelius Software today announced the release of G7, the company’s new guitar tab and songwriting software. G7 provides a tool for guitarists to create, playback and post guitar tab, which enables musicians of any level to create tab faster and easier, add lyrics and chord symbols and instantly create lead sheets or Piano-Vocal-Guitar scores, according to the press release. G7 carries a suggested retail price of US$149.
Read MoreCrescendo Software has announced the release of Picture Play 1.8, a major update to the company’s shareware image composition tool. Picture Play allows users to combine digital photos, scanned images, or any other graphics to create diverse compositions with editable text content, backgrounds, and stylish effects including translucency, transparency, rotation and more. Version 1.8 offers a whole host of new feature enhancements and fixes, all of which are documented on the site.
Read MoreMacSpeech today announced the release of iListen 1.6, a major upgrade to the company’s speech recognition software. The new version adapts to your voice faster and more accurately, learns new words faster, and improves Transcription abilities for Medical and Legal professions. The update also includes a special adaptation feature for poor pronunciation, new “Hands Free” correction, new voice commands for Mac OS X, improved recognition and performance, and more.
Read MoreApple, in conjunction with some of its key retail partners in Scotland, will host a series of in-store demo days this month designed to showcase its latest hardware and software. The events will take place in Glasgow and Edinburgh on the weekends of June 14 and 15, and 21 and 22.
Read MoreStupendous Software has released new versions of two plug-in packs for Apple’s iMovie video editing software. The “SplitScreen & PiP” plug-in pack has been updated with a new effect called “Side By Side,” which places images from two clips next to each other, shrinking them so that the entire frame is on screen. The “Labels & Overlays” pack, which contains effect for placing text and markers on an image, now includes two new effects for placing time counters (in seconds and frames) on clips.
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