Cycling '74 Ports Pluggo to MAS
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| Waveshaper |
September 24, 1999
Cycling '74 today announced that it is porting Pluggo™,
its popular native audio processing Plug-in software, to the MOTU Audio System™
(MAS), Mark of the Unicorn's (MOTU) native digital audio recording and Plug-in
processing environment for Mac OS. As a result, users of Digital Performer, MOTU's
flagship audio sequencer software, and users of AudioDesk™, the Macintosh
audio workstation software bundled with MOTU's popular 2408 and 1224 hard disk
recording systems, will be able to run Pluggo's 74 different audio effects directly
within their MOTU software's virtual mixing environment in real time. In addition,
MOTU users will be able to create their own custom MAS plug-ins using Cycling
'74's MSP™ (MAX Signal Processing) DSP extensions to Opcode's Max software.
"Porting Pluggo to MAS not only lowers the price of plug-ins for MOTU
users - it also raises their expectations," said Cycling '74 President David
Zicarelli. "In addition to features like audio routing, synchronized effects
changes and modulators that automate parameter changes while you work, Pluggo
is a run-time extension of Cycling '74's MSP program. MSP owners no longer have
to wait for someone else to come up with that perfect MAS plug-in - they can create
their own."
"Since the moment it shipped, everyone's been absolutely raving about
Pluggo," said Jim Cooper, MOTU's Director of Marketing. "With its affordable
price, 74 effects, and even more free plug-ins through their Pluggo-the-Month
Club, Pluggo is destined to wind up on every Mark of the Unicorn user's hard drive."
Pluggo offers 74 separate audio processing effects for only $74 - effects that
include filtering, delay effects, distortion, granular synthesis and spectral
modification, audio routing, sampling and synthesis, reverb, and sound localization.
In addition, Pluggo offers modulation, synchronization, and audio and control
routing capabilities between plug-ins. MOTU users who want to build their own
plug-ins entirely from scratch can create them using Cycling '74's MSP™ (MAX
Signal Processing) MAX extensions and then run them inside Digital Performer or
AudioDesk. No additional hardware is required to run Pluggo or MSP. A Power PC
MacOS computer with Apple's Sound Manager provides 16-bit stereo audio input and
output at 44.1kHz. MSP directly supports MOTU's 2408 PCI-based audio hardware.
MAX 3.5 is required to create and edit MSP applications and is available from
Opcode Systems (www.opcode.com).
Pluggo for MAS will ship Q4 1999. List price is $74.
Pluggo and MSP can be downloaded at the Cycling '74 web site at www.cycling74.com.
Cycling '74 products are also distributed by Digital Edge. Users of the downloaded
trial version may purchase an authorization code online (US$74 for Pluggo and
US$295 for MSP) to transform the trial version into a fully-functional copy.
For more information, visit Cycling '74 at www.cycling74.com. |
