Cakewalk (http://www.cakewalk.com) has announced new additions to the
growing line of hardware products, designed in conjunction with
Roland. Three new USB audio interfaces — the UA-4FX, UA-25EX, and
UA-101 — provide a solution for the mobile musician and/or recording
studio to connect and capture audio to a Mac or PC.
The UA-25EX is a professional-level, 2×2 24-bit/96 kHz USB audio
interface.
Native Instruments (http://www.native-instruments.com) has released
Kore 2.1. The upgrade adds a MIDI Control Mode that makes the KORE
controller double as a versatile and completely customizable MIDI
control surface.
With KORE 2 you can choose musical characteristics in a new and
expanded KoreSound Browser or use the text search function. Version 2
extends and refines the unified architecture. It sports a realtime
parameter control and sound access functionality.
Objective Software (http://www.obdev.com) has released the game
Pebbles for the Mac, the iPhone and the iPod touch. The Mac version
is totally free; the iPhone/iPod touch version — available at the
Apple App Store — is being offered free for one month.
Here’s how the game is described: “The basic principle of the game is
irresistibly easy: from the edge, you throw a pebble into a square
playing field. When one stone lands on another of the same color,
this stone as well as all bordering stones of the same color
disappear.
Apple users who purchased their computers before 2009 are running
into a wall when considering purchasing a 24-inch Apple Cinema or any
of the new Mini DisplayPort monitors. The problem: DVI isn’t capable
of putting out a DisplayPort signal, making it impossible to use any
of the new displays offered by manufacturers such as Apple, Dell,
CinemaView with DVI computers.
Going from Mini DisplayPort to DVI is simple, and many products are
already on the market that allow this conversion.
WoodWing Software is entering the web-to-print market with the
release of Brand Station (http://www.woodwing.com/en/brand-station).
Whereas most such solutions are separate systems, Brand Station
integrates transparently with the company’s Enterprise content
publishing platform, providing workflow, media asset management and
multi-channel publishing at the same time, WoodWing President Erik
Schut.
Brand Station is easy to install and to use, as users only need a Web
browser, he adds. The web-to-print process involves a brand owner,
designers and brand users.