Waves Audio is now shipping the Waves Torque Drum Tone Shifter plug-in, designed to enhance and re-pitch the tone of snares, toms, kicks or an entire kit, all with natural-sounding results that no traditional pitch shifter will allow. The Waves Torque plug-in is a precision drum tone shifter that will help users salvage mistuned drums, pitch them to a specific key and adjust their tone -- without retriggering or replacing, without the sonic artifacts introduced by traditional pitch shifters, and without losing body, timbre, resonance or attack. Driven by Waves' Organic ReSynthesis technology, Torque detects and analyzes the drums' formant, amplitude and carrier information, reassembles it, and allows users to manipulate the tonal and pitch characteristics, all while preserving the natural attack, resonance and duration of the original sound. Regular price will be 69 USD, intro pricing is 29 USD. [source]

Starting Tuesday, September 19, iPhone and iPad customers around the world will be able to update their devices to iOS 11, a major update to Apple's advanced mobile operating system, and the biggest software release ever for iPad. iOS 11 brings augmented reality and new professional capabilities to improve images in Photos and Camera. Siri is more natural and useful and a redesigned App Store makes it easier to discover apps and games. For details on how to update iOS devices, visit Apple Support. [source]

The new 9.0.1 point update for Blackmagic Design's visual effects software Fusion includes over 50 performance and stability improvements including better OpenCL performance, enhanced camera tracker and QuickTime metadata support, and more. [source]

Chaos Group released V-Ray 3.6 for Maya, a major update to its Academy Award-winning production renderer. Used on television and film projects like Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Spider-Man: Homecoming, and Stranger Things, this update introduces a new hybrid rendering system that maximizes GPUs and CPUs on high-end VFX productions. V-Ray's new hybrid rendering technology adds CPU support to its NVIDIA CUDA-powered GPU renderer. Now, with V-Ray Hybrid artists will have greater flexibility to render a scene using GPUs, CPUs or a combination of both. The rendered images will be identical, regardless of hardware. This allows artists to use any and all computing power, from high-performance GPU workstations to CPU render nodes. The new version also adds Maya 2018 compatibility; the ability to render individual lights or groups of lights as separate render elements, with full support for global illumination, reflections and refractions; automatic generation of ID mattes with support for transparency, depth of field and motion blur; support for shared GPU memory across NVIDIA NVLink-compatible graphics cards; and more! V-Ray 3.6 for Maya is a free update for all V-Ray 3.x customers. [source]

Adobe revealed advancements to its Adobe Creative Cloud video tools and services, at IBC 2017. The new capabilities coming later this year to Adobe Creative Cloud for video include the access of Motion Graphics Templates in Premiere Pro, through Adobe Stock and Creative Cloud Libraries; Character Animator 1.0 with changes to core and custom animation functions, such as pose-to-pose blending, new physics behaviors and visual puppet controls; virtual reality video creation with a dedicated viewing environment in Premiere Pro; flexible session organization to multi-take workflows and continuous playback while editing in Adobe Audition; and more. [source]

Blackmagic Design today announced Ultimatte 12, a new real-time hardware compositing processor for broadcast-quality keying, adding augmented reality elements into shots, working with virtual sets and more. Ultimatte 12 is available immediately from Blackmagic Design resellers worldwide for $9,995 US and features entirely new algorithms and color science, better edge handling, greater color separation, amazing color fidelity and better spill suppression than ever before. The advanced 12G-SDI design also gives Ultimatte 12 customers the flexibility to work in HD today and switch to Ultra HD when they are ready. [source]

This September, Foundry is offering up to 30% discounts off some of their best-selling toolsets. Due to start on 18th September 2017, this promotion will run for two weeks only: 30% off new perpetual licenses of the 3D modeling, texturing and rendering toolset Modo and digital 3D painting and texturing software Mari; or 20% off your first seat of Nuke, Foundry's powerful visual effects platform (the 20% discount is offered for Nuke, Nuke X, or Nuke Studio as well as for the virtual reality plug-in Cara VR). [source]

Alien Skin announced the upcoming release of Exposure X3, its award-winning non-destructive RAW photo editor and organizer. The new version will be available later this fall, priced 149 USD or 99 USD in case of upgrading a license bought before September 1st. Exposure X3 will feature a new side-by-side enabling users to view multiple images; virtual copies designed to create multiple variations of a single photo without taking up additional disk space; new linear and radial brush shapes for achieving a natural, seamless fade between two or more effects; as well as new adjustable borders including grunge and wet plate looks, new blend modes for all overlays, and new color and B&W toning enhancements. [source]

Apple unveiled new iPhones! Models iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus feature new glass and aluminum design, Retina HD displays, A11 Bionic chip, new single and dual cameras with support for portrait lighting, wireless charging and optimizations for augmented reality. The brand new iPhone X features an all-glass design with a 5.8-inch Super Retina display, A11 Bionic chip, wireless charging and an improved rear camera with dual optical image stabilization. iPhone X delivers an innovative and secure new way for customers to unlock, authenticate and pay using Face ID, enabled by the new TrueDepth camera. iPhone X will be available for pre-order beginning Friday, October 27 in more than 55 countries and territories, and in stores beginning Friday, November 3. [source]

Antelope Audio announced the addition of four new vintage compressors (BA-6A, FET-A78, SMT-100A, and Grove Hill LIVERPOOL) to its expanding library of FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) vintage hardware-based effects, enabling owners of its Thunderbolt and HDX audio interfaces -- including Orion Studio HD, Goliath HD, Orion Studio Rev. 2017, Orion32 HD, Zen Studio+, Orion Studio, Goliath, Orion32+, and Zen Tour -- to access unique hardware models of some of the most desirable vintage effects with real-time performance without relying on DSP for native processing. [source]