• Advanced chord and tempo detection algorithms
• Flexible looping options
• Automatic song structure detection – Part A, B C, A2, B2 etc.
• Instantly transpose to a chosen key
• Change tempo whilst maintaining the pitch
• Focus EQ for isolating parts of the track
• Melody information displayed on a piano roll
• Exportable MIDI

https://decoda.app

https://AudioTestKitchen.com

Now it is for ProTools only.

Dialogue Match is intended for three main use cases:

• Matching lavalier mics to booms
• Matching ADR to production audio
• Matching localized audio to production audio for screening and streaming in multiple languages.

Features:

• EQ Module leverages the EQ matching mechanics of iZotope’s Ozone 9 to quickly learn and match the tonal and spectral characteristics of dialogue.
• Reverb Module Reverb Module uses brand-new reverb matching technology, powered by machine learning, to capture spatial reflections from one recording and accurately apply them to another via Exponential Audio’s clean, realistic reverb engine.
• Ambience Module analyzes the spectral noise profile of a recording, and identifies and re-creates room tone for dramatic acceleration of the ADR workflow.

https://www.izotope.com/en/products/dialogue-match.html

http://downloads.izotope.com/guides/iZotopeMasteringGuide_MasteringWithOzone.pdf

• Massive “tutti” orchestr
• Super-quick large orchestrations
• Multiple microphone positions for stereo and surround output
• 1.5 GB FREE sample content (Download size: 0.5 GB)
• NKS coming soon

Capturing the sheer power of a massive orchestra with the signature acoustics of Synchron Stage Vienna’s Stage A was one of the most riveting sampling experiences we’ve ever had. We’re so happy with the results that we want to share them with you – as a “thank you” to our worldwide community of music creators, and as a “welcome” to new users.

The instrument offers super-quick large orchestrations with multiple microphone positions for stereo and surround output.

Create large orchestrations in no time. Beef up your existing tracks by adding some massive tutti layers. Inject some inspiration into your composing process just by pressing a few notes and letting the huge sound work its magic. Articulations include staccatos, sustains, marcatos, swells and runs – just what you need to create earth-shattering accents, awe-inspiring “braaahhms” and nerve-wracking tension cues.

Using the Synchron Player’s full-blown mixer, you can adjust the level of the various mic signals or change the sound and ambience of the entire ensemble in the room. With the included Mixer Presets with settings from “close” to “distant” it’s easy to achieve perfect results. Use the “Processed” presets to summon a modern, fat orchestral sound with a simple mouse click. Now go ahead and kick some serious butt!

Not fully free, as need universal licensing key anyway

https://www.vsl.co.at/en/BBO

Will be available in September

• 88-key FANTOM 8 – $3,999.99
• 76-key semi-weighted action FANTOM 7 – $3,599.99
• 61-key semi-weighted action FANTOM 6 – $3,299.99

Key New Features:

• Logic Pro X includes Drummer, a virtual session player that automatically plays along with your song in a wide variety of drumming styles and techniques
• Flex Pitch provides integrated pitch editing for audio recordings. This is way beyond AutoTune – Flex Pitch analyzes your audio and then lets do Melodyne-style audio editing. You can move the pitch of individual notes up or down, for pitch correction, or use it as a creative tool.
• Logic Remote lets you play and control Logic Pro X from an iPad, letting you create and mix music from anywhere in the room. (Screen shots below).
• Retro Synth is a new virtual instrument that emulates some of the most popular classic synthesizers from the 70s and 80s.
• Vintage Keyboards offer realistic models of electric pianos, B3 organs and clavs.
• Track Stacks lets you organize and collapse multiple tracks into one. It can also be used to create complex layered instruments.
• Smart Controls allow you to manipulate multiple plug-ins and parameters with a single move for quick and powerful sound design.
• An improved Mixer helps manage mix sessions more efficiently, with increased visibility into signal flow and dynamics and faster ways to manipulate channel inserts.

New tools for songwriting and music production:

• Drummer delivers professionally produced, realistic drum tracks that can perform millions of unique grooves in rock, alternative, songwriter and R&B genres. Drummer is powered by the performances and sounds of some of the industry’s top session players and recording engineers, including mixer/producer Bob Clearmountain.
• The new Drum Kit Designer plug-in lets you build your own custom kit using a diverse collection of professionally recorded snare drums, toms, hi-hats and cymbals that you can mix, match and fine tune to get the right drum sound for your song.

Logic Remote is a new way to extend the creative power of Logic by using your iPad. Designed to take full advantage of the iPad Multi-Touch display, Logic Remote gives users new ways to record, mix and even perform instruments in Logic Pro X from anywhere in the room.

Synthesizers and keyboards with more new instruments:

• The Arpeggiator is one of nine new MIDI plug-ins. It can transform a simple keyboard chord into an elaborate sequence.
• The new Retro Synth emulates some of the most popular classic synthesizer tones from the 70s and 80s.
• Vintage Keyboards offer realistic models of electric pianos, B3 organs and clavs, with sophisticated tone-shaping controls.
• Bass Amp Designer allows bass players to play and record using vintage and modern bass amps, with cabinets and microphones that can be configured to build a custom bass rig.
• Logic Pro X also features a new Sound Library with an updated loop collection and over 1,500 instruments. It also includes effect Patches that make creative use of Track Stacks, Smart Controls, the Arpeggiator and other new plug-ins.

Availabilite at:

• Logic Pro X is available today from the Mac App Store for $199.99 (US) https://itunes.apple.com/app/logic-remote/id638394624?mt=8
• MainStage 3 is available from the Mac App Store for $29.99 - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mainstage-3/id634159523?mt=12
• Logic Remote - free download from the App Store.

Total Composure is the first to offer such a library exclusively for the Kontakt format; making use of Kontakt’s scripting capabilities to greatly enhance the playability, realism, and functionality of these public domain samples.

The scripting aims to provide similar functionality across the different instrument groups, whatever the instrument; while more specific settings play to the strength of each instrument.

Most of the instruments only contain one set of samples per articulation, and some only have one recorded dynamic layer – this is one of the many limitations we have found with using public domain samples. We have overcome these issues using a variety of physical modeling techniques that enhance the audio material. Using dynamic filters and intelligent repetition scripting we have removed the limitation of single dynamic recordings and solitary sample sets.

Although we have put a lot of work into this product it is important to remember that at its core are the samples provided free of charge by a small number of people. Total Composure has gathered these samples from various locations and brought them all to one place where they can be used together. There are over 1500 samples in this library totaling more than 1.5 GB but we have used Kontakt’s lossless compression to crunch the size to less than 500MB.

https://www.samplescience.ca/2019/02/the-total-composure-orchestra.html

• Max eight tracks
• Support VST plugin supports
• Good set of high quality native effects.
• Two busses per project

1. Download from http://www.miditech.de/userfiles/magix/samplitude_pro_x_silver_miditech_us.exe
2. After installation completed, start Magix Samplitude Pro X Silver . A “Welcome” splash dialog will open. Click on the 'Register now for unlimited use' program button to open personal trial extension code registration web page.
3. You will be forwarded to registration page, after logging in or registering, activation code to unlock Magix Samplitude Pro X Silver will be sent to the registered email address.
4. Enter the activation code into the text box that appear on the welcome box after clicking "Continue to use program" button. Then click on Continue.

• 61 key
• Velocity sensitive is supported, after touch is not supported
• 9.48 lbs. / 4.3 kg
• 61-key: $699
• http://www.music123.com/keyboards-midi/korg-kross-61-keyboard-workstation , http://www.zzounds.com/item--KORKROSS61

KROSS-88

• 88-key: NH (Natural Weighted Hammer Action) keyboard
• Velocity sensitive is supported, after touch is not supported
• The NH keyboard reproduces the touch of an acoustic piano, with a heavier feel in the low register and a lighter feel in the upper register.
• 12.4 kg
• 88-key: $999
• http://www.music123.com/keyboards-midi/korg-kross-88-keyboard-workstation , http://www.zzounds.com/item--KORKROSS88

Combined specs:

• 80 voices (80 Oscillators) / Single Mode
• 40 voices (40 Oscillators) / Double Mode
• Approximately 112 MB (In case of 48 kHz, 16-bit Linear PCM converted)
• 421 multi-samples (including 6 Stereo multi-samples)
• 890 drum samples (including 49 Stereo drum samples)
• User: 640 Program (512 Preload)
• User: 384 Combination (256 Preload)

Product page - http://www.korg.com/Kross

Changes introduced in 3.00 include:

New

For all models:

• USB control from the Korg NanoKontrol Studio, Korg NanoKontrol2, Akai MidiMix, and Novation Launch Control XL USB control surfaces. Other USB control surfaces are not supported. Includes support for fader, trim, pan, low cut, reverb, solo, mute, track arm, monitor, transport control, LR output level, and user-programmable shortcut buttons.
  Note: available features depend on the control surface being used and whether Audio or Music projects are enabled. For more information, see the USB Controller chapter in your MixPre User Guide.*

For MixPre-3, -6, and -10T only:

• Pre-roll: saves up to 10 seconds of audio before the "record" button is pressed. Select up to 10 seconds of pre-roll on the MixPre-10T and 5 seconds of pre-roll on the MixPre-3 & -6. Pre-roll time is reduced at 96 kHz and higher sampling rates.

For MixPre-3 and 3M only:

• Phase invert option now available for the MixPre-3. Phase invert is already available for all other MixPre models.

For MixPre-6 and -10T only:

• Ambisonics and binaural recording/monitoring (-6 and -10T Audio projects only). Requires installation of the free Ambisonics Plugin available at the Sound Devices Plugin Store.

For all M models and Music projects on models with Musician Plugin:

• Bluetooth LE wireless remote control using the Android or iOS Wingman app. Includes 12-track monitoring, mix metering, transport control, time counter, track naming and arming.
• Support for the new Windows ASIO driver, v2.9.92.1. This enables a MixPre running a Music project to be used as a multichannel USB audio interface with Windows computers. This ASIO driver is required when using the MixPre-3M, -6M, or -10M or when running Music projects in the MixPre-3, -6, or -10T.

Changed

For all models:

• Meter scale now included on Channel screen meter.

Fixed

For all models:

• Noise that occurred when playing back MixPre-recorded 96 kHz or 192 kHz files at a fraction of their normal speed has been eliminated.
• The UI no longer occasionally switches to a Channel screen's first page after selecting a linking option.
• Fader or gain levels now only display at the top of the Home screen when being adjusted.
• Improved handling of projects without an SD card connected.
• Rare event where USB audio inputs 3 and 4 were routed directly to the LR tracks has been resolved.
• Files with both Mix and ISO tracks now consistently import correctly.
• Imported files now consistently playback at correct speed.
• Ticking noises that occasionally occurred when playing back imported files containing cue markers have been removed.
• Sample rate stays consistent between the MixPre and a computer when changing projects without an SD card inserted.
• LR gain now remains correct after loading a preset with L and R unlinked and set to different gain values.
• When transitioning between playback and stop, solo'd track remains consistent.
• All channels of a linked group can be solo'd in the headphone output.
• Improved USB-A port connectivity.

For MixPre-3, -6, and -10T only:

• Playback meters now display in Audio projects when meters are set to Off.
• Custom Mode with Gain set to Basic and Headphones set to Advanced now allows deselecting of all sources in the Headphone Preset matrix.
• Live audio now returns consistently after playback when device is connected via USB to a computer.

For all M models and Music projects on models with Musician Plugin:

• The maximum number of cue markers in Music projects has been increased to 99.
• All tracks are now present after importing non-native files into Music projects.
• Imported non-native content does not disappear after overdubbing.
• A lockup no longer occurs if the HP encoder is pressed when viewing an empty History list.

For MixPre-3 and -6 models only:

• A lockup that occasionally occurred when switching from a battery source to a low USB power source has been resolved.

For MixPre-6 and -10T models only:

• Linking settings remain correct when switching between Music and Audio projects.
• Live audio for channels 9 & 10 (on MixPre-10T) and channels 5 & 6 (on MixPre-6) return after playback.

For MixPre-10T only:

• Timecode generator reset warning no longer appears when booting up in Music projects.
• Record Trigger setting is now stored across power cycles.

For MixPre-10T and -10M only:

• In Stop mode, navigation no longer skips between cue marks (on MixPre-10M or in Music projects on the MixPre-10T).

https://www.sounddevices.com/support/downloads/mixpres-firmware/

http://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/free-ambient-background-tracks/

Footsteps

http://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/40-free-footstep-foley-sound-effects/

http://anaglyph.dalembert.upmc.fr/

news here:

https://www.soundonsound.com/news/sonar-now-free-renamed-cakewalk-bandlab

link here: https://cakewalk.bandlab.com/

Seems to require registration of a bandlab account

Here's the background. While shooting, we obviously got camera mike sound for all takes. But we'd rented and used a couple of shotgun mikes with a Tascam recorder for many scenes, and the sound we got from those is marvelous. Obviously, my question is about making the camera mike tracks sound a bit more like the fuller, shotgun-mike tracks. Or vice versa, if that's what's needed.

I'm not much of a sound person, so I'd have to understand the principles involved, and then learn to use the Premiere Pro or Audition tools to accomplish the job. Can anyone point me to some good tutorials that might help?

Wavetool is a professional audio monitoring application for audio engineers. With Wavetool you can quickly find microphones with problems, low battery or no signal. Walk freely around the stage while streaming to your iOS device with the Wavetool Remote app.

New In RX 7 Advanced

• Dialogue Contour - Ever wanted to change the intonation of a re-edited sequence? With RX 7 you can now reshape the intonation of dialogue to rescue or improve a performance, powered by pitch correction tailored to speech and designed to adjust the inflection of words within a phrase.

• Dialogue De-reverb - iZotope has taken the excellent De-reverb module and produced a version designed to reduce or remove unwanted reverb from dialogue clips using a machine learning based algorithm trained to separate spoken dialogue from reverberant signal content.

• Pro Tools AudioSuite plug-ins - iZotope has taken some of the processes that could only be used as modules in the standalone version of RX 6 and made them into Pro Tools AudioSuite plug-ins saving you time when fixing production audio by staying within Pro Tools to access features like De-Rustle and Dialogue Isolate.

Multi-channel support - It can now process audio issues that come up in any or every surround channel up to Dolby Atmos 7.1.2.

New In RX 7 Standard

• Repair Assistant - iZotope has taken the ‘Assistant’ technology, which they have already introduced into Ozone and Neutron to produce what they claim to be an industry-first intelligent repair tool analyses audio to detect defects like noise, clipping and clicks, then offer three processing suggestions, each with three different intensities to help make fixes faster than ever.

• Music Rebalance - Using a machine learning based algorithm, Music Rebalance performs source separation by identifying vocals, bass, percussion, and other instruments. You can then individually enhance or reduce elements of a stereo audio track, making it possible to adjust a mix when you don’t have access to the multitracks or stems.

• Remove/Isolate Vocals - iZotope has designed it so you can take push the Music Rebalance module even further to create instrumental versions of songs by removing the vocal elements, or isolate the vocal to prepare a remix when you don’t have access to individual tracks or stems.

Three models - MODX6, MODX7 & MODX8.

Features:

• AWM2 (Advanced Wave Memory 2) sample and synthesis engine
• FM-X Synth Engine
• Integrated performance controls include faders and encoders for in-depth control over parameters
• LCD-Touchscreen 7-Color-Wide-VGA-TFT
• Waveform-ROM expanded from 741 MB to 5.67 GB
• 2,370 new Waveforms, 6,347 total in ROM
• 1 GB Flash-ROM built-in
• 640 user performances
• Seamless Sound Switching "SSS" for Performances with up to four Parts
• 13 dual insert effects (12 Parts + A/D Input)
• Over 256 preset live set slots, 2,048 User & 2,048 library live set slots
• 10,239 arpeggios
• Eight arpeggio Parts simultaneously
• Eight Scenes per Performance
• Master keyboard functions for each Performance
• Multichannel USB Audio Interface, 2-in/10-out

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/soundforgepromac

Built on a clean slate for OS X, Sound Forge™ Pro Mac provides a contemporary application environment that’s perfect for recording, editing, processing, and rendering broadcast-quality audio master files. A fresh statement on audio editing software, Sound Forge Pro Mac includes a comprehensive suite of mastering, restoration, and repair tools for immediate results.

With the loss of Bias Peak, the competition was getting thinner on the ground with only Adobe and Steinberg Wavelab to master audio to. Now with this release we have a decent tried and tested editor via the PC. Excellent!

This is no ‘Lite’ version, we do not impose track limits, plugin limitations or other such constraints commonly found in other low cost offerings.

Why? – we think you will enjoy using the app so much, you will discover the value in investing in our latest versions and the expanded features we are voraciously adding. Innovation and creativity is what drives us – join the ride today and download T7 for Mac, Windows, or Linux operating systems.

https://www.tracktion.com/products/t7-daw

Specs

• Over 2,000 preset phrases & audio to drag-and-drop into your song creation.
• 11 audio effects to use within a single application.
• Style function for an instant conversion to your favorite singing styles & voices.
• Attack & Release effects and emotion tools to express your vocal phrases more realistically.
• 3 new parameters to control vocal tension and breath amount.
• 4 voicebanks (male & female, Japanese & English)
• VST, AU, external MIDI input improved for external functionality.
• https://www.vocaloid.com/en/

When we looked at this topic about eight years ago, we thought the Magnatune system was the way to go (disclaimer: we release our recordings on Magnatune). On Magnatune, you keep all the rights to your "CD" as we used to call an album, but they distribute it. You get half, they get half. Half is way more than I got from the big labels, and Magnatune is a great label. We still OWN all of our tracks. AS a filmmaker, you could (and still can) license the tracks for really dirt cheap, and, again, the creator got a dollar or so, depending. We figured, no one is going to balk at a few dollars for a sound track that would cost thousands to produce. We figured wrong. People did use the license feature, but not in the waves that we expected.

Well, as it turns out, people have this "must be free" attitude, which in a way is a driving force of the internet--no one wanted to pay the artists, even though they themselves are artists. So rather than rant about how ridiculous this is, we are starting a different model, and we can see that others are doing the same thing.

The new model is to just give it all away, free, and raise the money to produce it through Kickstarter or something similar. You can see our Kickstarter project here. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/301451197/bach-brandenburg-concertos-the-great-works-project

Once it is done, ppl can use the soundtrack. It may not be what you are looking for, but it will be free :) You'll notice that the music is old, like really old. That way, it is solidly in the public domain. Composers of course can create new scores and using for example Creative Commons we can record newer music as well. We have some new music projects in the works right now.