CME is releasing version 2.0 firmware for their popular UF series MIDI keyboards. The major changes you can expect after installing the firmware includes:
- Adds Pro Tools modes in U-CTRL function
- Adjusts the MIDI route
- Optimizes the keyboard’s velocity sensitivity
- Optimizes the keyboard’s operating and display manner
- Rectifies the bank number error when sending tone data
- Stabilizes the pitch bend transferring data
- Fixes a number of known bugs and errors
The full update is free. Registered users can download it from the CME website by selecting the relevant keyboard model to upgrade.
Sony has released version 7.0a of ACID Pro, the professional digital audio workstation for Windows PC. There are several changes and enhancements:
- The elastique plug-in has been updated for improved performance.
- When the “close audio and MIDI ports when ACID is not the active application” check box in Preferences > General is selected, external control is also suspended.
- When you edit a clip in an external editor, the audio, MIDI, and external control hardware is released, regardless of the “close audio and MIDI ports command when ACID is not the active application” check box setting. The ports are re-enabled when focus is restored to ACID.
- The “save each track as a separate file” check box is now available when rendering projects that contain video. When this check box is selected, each rendered track will contain the video stream, but only as long as the rendering template is configured to render video.
- A bug has been fixed that previously caused ACID to crash when switching between audio devices.