The past few months have been pretty busy for Image-Line, makers of Ftuity Loops. They’ve got a few “presents” for Christmas. Well, not Christmas actually, but they’ve released a new version of their flagship software FL Studio, a new version of their DJ-software DeckaDance, plus some new products: Newtone (correction software), PitCHER (live pitch-control), and they’ve also launced a Sound Design Contest.
I should have posted this 2 days ago, but I didn’t had any time to finish the article… so here it is now..
FL Studio 9.7 – Notable Changes
The beta incorporates a number of enhancements and new features based on ongoing development and customer input.
- Newtone – Pitch correction editor beta
- Pitcher – Live pitch correction plugin. Beta 2
- Preview Playlist Clips – Alt + Right click Clip
- New Pattern Button – On Stepsequencer
- Ctrl + Middle Mouse – Resize Playlist tracks
- Playlist – Left+Shift swaps Pencil and Brush tools
- Piano roll – Sift + H or J cycles through used Channels
- Project files – Local paths now saved in project
Deckadance 1.8
Image-Line have added the new Song Manager – a tool designed to help organize your songs easily and quickly.
- Manage 50.000+ in your music collection without slow downs using a open format database (sqlite)
- SM categorizes music files in your computer making them accessible through numerous search/sort features
- Create playlist to organize effectively your tracks. Sort, re- order, reset original state, export to html/m3u and more
- Fully customizable layouts: hide/show, re-arrange, (auto) resize of the metadata view columns
- Edit track tags/metadata (title, artist, name… etc.) via inline editing
- New Recording engine with threaded streaming to disk
- Updated minihost look and added song manager start button
Deckadance has the widest support for MIDI controllers in the industry. DD 1.8 supports the following brands: Allen&Heath, American Audio, Bheringer, DJ-Tech, EKS, Hercules, iCon, Kontrol-DJ, M-Audio, Numark, Omnitronic, OpenLabs, Percussa, Reloop, Stanton, SYNQ, Vestax, Nintendo Wii & General MIDI. Full list of features & changes available here.
I couldn’t find much about PitCHER and Newtone, but you’ll get the idea behind them on Image-Line’s homepage.
PS: Fill me in on those two (PitCHER & Newtone) if you’ve had a chance to do a test-run. Ooh… I almost forgot.
The Sound Design Contest
You could win $300, $200 or $100 worth of Image-Line virtual cash to spend on whatever you want in their shop. More details here.
