Year: 2010

Nemetschek North America has announced that A&A Co., Ltd., its
distribution partner in Japan, has released its localized version of
Vectorworks 2010 line of software including: Designer, Architect,
Fundamentals, and Renderworks. For more information about Vectorworks
in Japan, visit http://www.AandA.co.jp

The English-language versions of the Vectorworks 2010 product line
were released in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, New Zealand, and
other international markets on Sept. 15.

Plustek Technology (http://www.plustek.com/usa) — a manufacturer of
consumer, prosumer, professional and office imaging devices
(including portable scanners, sheet fed/flat bed scanners, wide
format scanners and IP cameras) — has announced an extension to
their OpticFilm line of scanners with the launch of the OpticFilm
7600i SE and the OpticFilm 7600i Ai.

These scanners are designed to take 35mm film and slides and convert
them (at up to 7200 dpi resolution) into digital images.

SONiVOX, on behalf of Fable Sound, has announced the release of the
latest version of the Broadway Big Band virtual Instrument for Mac
and PC systems.

Upon its original release, Fable Sounds’ Broadway Big Band Virtual
Instrument was a virtual instrument that portrayed contemporary jazz,
blues, pop, and rhythm and blues woodwind, brass, and rhythm
instrument’s playing techniques in a playable virtual instrument
plug-in.

Noteflight (http://www.noteflight.com) has
announced the launch of Noteflight Crescendo, an
online music notation service.

It’s the next generation of their Noteflight
platform that enables individuals to write music
online. Following the successful grassroots
launch of their online music composition and
score-writing platform in 2008, which resulted in
tens of thousands of users in 130 different
countries, Noteflight Crescendo delivers users a
richer sonic experience and more advanced
capabilities, according to Joe Berkovitz,
president and founder of Noteflight.

Holophone (http://www.holophone.com) is now making its PortaMic 5.1
and PortaMic Pro
camera-mountable surround microphones, both currently shipping,
available to the M.I. market.

Using the company’s patented design, both PortaMic models allow users
to capture, from a single point source, a discrete surround recording
during live performances, events and even in-studio surround sound
tracks, providing a 3D immersive play-back experience.