Tech News Roundup: January 9, 2009

Tech News Roundup: January 9, 2009

9 January, 2009 | 5.12PM

• Written by: francispreve
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Now that 2009 is off the ground – and the annual Winter NAMM Show is just around the corner – the tech news tidbits are getting a lot more interesting.

This week, we’ve got some info about Celemony’s long-awaited Direct Note Access technology, an actual pre-announcement of a 2009 Grammy winner, and a video about a new Microsoft technology that must be seen to be believed.

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The Gadget Orchestra

In our 2008 Technology Top 10, we included some truly innovative and very gadgety tools.

Well, apparently serendipity is our friend, since Synthtopia.com just blogged a remarkable video that shows several of those tools in action – simultaneously.

Check it out here.

Universal Audio wins a Grammy

Isn’t it amazing that we now live in an age when gear wins Grammies?

Universal Audio will receive the Technical Grammy award at a special invitation-only ceremony on Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009.

A formal acknowledgment will be made during the 51st Annual GRAMMY Awards telecast at Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009, broadcast live at 8 p.m. ET/PT on the CBS Television Network.

Technical Grammy award recipients are determined by vote of The Recording Academy’s Producers & Engineers Wing Advisory Council and Chapter Committees, and ratification by the Academy Trustees.

We’re big fans of Universal Audio’s UAD products, so this is quite cool.

Next year, we can only hope the Recording Academy checks out some of the amazing software technology emanating from Berlin, Germany.

Celemony to unveil Direct Note Access at NAMM 2009

Almost a year after it was first announced, Celemony is finally ready to pull the wraps off of their Direct Note Access technology, or DNA for short.

For those who haven’t yet encountered the buzz around DNA, here’s a summary, courtesy Create Digital Music.

The product, dubbed Melodyne editor can run as a plug-in or stand-alone and will be available from spring 2009 for 349 US$/€.

The Celemony team had this to say about their extraordinary new product.

“Melodyne editor is designed for the editing of individual instrumental recordings such as vocals, guitar, saxophone or piano, but good results can also be obtained with more complex material such as string quartets.”

“If two instruments sound the same note at the same time, Melodyne editor offers one note for editing. The user can alter the pitch, position and duration of the note detected, make it louder or quieter, copy or cut it and paste it in some other position, and so on. Adjustments can also be made to the formant register, vibrato and drift of the notes as well as any pitch, volume or formant transitions. Special copying functions also allow the transfer of selected attributes from one note to another.”

This sounds like a total game-changer to us and we’re dying to get our hands on it, so we can deliver a full report in the coming weeks.

iZotope Powers Sony ACID Pro 7 Effect Rack

iZotope, Inc. - makers of everything from the amazing Ozone mastering plug-in to the award-winning iDrum for iPhone - has licensed several audio technologies to Sony for their recent release of ACID Pro 7 Digital Audio Workstation.

The ACID Pro Effects Rack bundle includes Flanger, Phaser, Analog Delay, and Dynamics effects powered by iZotope DSP technology.

This Effects Rack adds over $100 of value to this release, helping differentiate ACID in an increasingly competitive market.

More info on ACID can be found here.

Speechless

Thanks to Createdigitalmusic.com, we’re now aware of the below video.

It’s not a hoax.

It’s real.

We dare you to play it.

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