ID Multimedia’s new iRig Pads Editor for Mac OS X and Windows is the companion application for iRig Pads that allows musicians to completely edit and customize IK’s portable, universal MIDI groove controller to suit all music production styles and live performance workflows.
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Yellow Field Technologies has announced iSMARTtrain 4.0, an update to their Mac training journal application for endurance athletes.
iSMARTtrain allows endurance athletes to download training data, such as heart rate, cadence, speed and power, from a variety of heart rate monitors and power meters and analyse it in graph, table and list formats. The latest release contains features such a revamped user interface and support for more devices.
Read MoreMore U.S. households now own a smartphone than a desktop, according to new research that Parks Associates (www.parkassociates.com) will discuss at the 19th-annual CONNECTIONS: The Premier Connected Home Conference. The conference runs May 19-21 in San Francisco.
In the last five years, desktop adoption declined from 90% to 69% among U.S. broadband households, while smartphone adoption increased from 36% to 78%, according to the research group. Tablet adoption increased from 7% to 63%.
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MCE Technologies (http://mcetech.com/) has begun shipping its USB 3.0 16X Blu-ray Authoring System for the Mac. It takes advantage of the powerful high-definition video editing capabilities of the Mac Pro, iMac 5K, and MacBook Pro with Retina Display and is compatible with Final Cut Pro X.
The Blu-ray Authoring System is available with optional Blu-ray authoring software and includes Mac Blu-ray Player for viewing authored titles. The retail price is US$149 — $229 with Toast 12 Titanium Blu-ray Disc authoring software.
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Apple has released Final Cut Pro X 10.2.1. It’s a minor update to the professional video editing software.
The upgrade restores support for Panasonic AVCCAM video at 25p and 30p. It also improves accuracy when dragging to select a range in the timeline.
Version 10.2.1 update is available through the Mac App Store. For new users Final Cut Pro X costs US$299.99. It requires Mac OS X 10.10.2 or higher.
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