The Big Wait ends now: after weeks of leaking information Pro Tools 8 has arrived. What is new is the advanced score editor, powered by Sibelius, twenty new virtual effects, five new virtual instruments, an amp simulator, eight gigabytes of loop material, ten inserts per channel, better controller...

Digidesign now strengthen the 003 family: soon to be shipped is 003 Rack+ Factory , for 1700 USD. It has 18 inputs - 8 has great mic preamplifiers, plus 8 analogue line ins plus 8 ADAT connection, and an S/PDIF. MIDI runs in and out, and outputs are fewer: studio master, control room and...

Stay tuned, the entire Pro Tools family will renew in the near future, an official info page is already set up. It will have numerous new plugins, five new virtual instruments, a new graphical user interface, enhanced scoring and MIDi editing, and better controller integration. It will run well on...

Digidesign has assembled two new plugin packages to save your money significantly. MassivePack 7 and MassivePack Pro 7 are for the Pro Tools people of course - the latter contains a DSP card to speed up your workflow. Until 20th Spetember, you can spare a huge 9.000 USD with the basic package and...

After the long preview period, Digidesign has released the final version of Transfuser , their loop manipulating instrument for Pro Tools. It is priced at 300 USD, and has all the features as the competitors - in some stages it goes slightly further; for example it has an on-board effect processor...

Digidesign has released a preview on their next groove instrument, Transfuser . It works for free in the next three month, and runs under Pro Tools. The final price is still not known yet. Click here to download.

Digidesign announced a new version from their supersynth: Hybrid 1.5 . The Pro Tools-only instrument got a new, vintage-modeling filter, plus 336 brand-new patches. All the old patches are adjusted to the new filter's advanced features, too. All the registered Hybrid users can dowload it free...

Digidesign is out with a new version of Pro Tools software, 7.4 . It supports Vista, iintegrates better into Avid, and has a new time manipulation tool set called Elastic Time. For a deeper knowledge click here .

This is not the next digital mixer monster but Digidesign 's new top controller for Pro Tools. Its name is C24 because of the 24-channel architecture, has motorised faders of course, and could be told a lot of things about - rather if you need more info check the product's webpage .

Not a pendrive: Pro Tools. Digidesign has announced to ship the smallest member of the Mbox 2 family ever, the Mbox 2 Micro . It has no input at all and has a 1/8 inch analog audio output with volume control for headphones or monitor speakers. Soundwise you get a 24/48 engine for the 280 USD you...

Digidesign presents two lighter versions of their Pro Tools-only flagship sampler, Structure. First, Structure LE has limited editing functions plus limited sample mapping capabilities if you compare it with the original but costs only 150 USD. It comes with a 3 gigabyte sound library. There is an...

Digidesign has announced their latest update, 7.3.1cs3 for Pro Tools HD which supports the latest 8-core Mac Pro workstations. (The update has numerous bug fixes also, here is a comprehensive list of that.)

Digidesign will soon release a new RTAS supersynth called Structure . Its name is probably originated from the heart of the instrument: it seems to be a cleverly patchable, not-so-simple, sample based beast, with a 128-part multitimbrality, and lots of sophisticated features lik nested programs...