Version 2 of Intuem Delivers Full Audio Capabilities
October 8, 2003
Intuem 2, code-named Intuem Squared, delivers audio capabilities in addition to the MIDI features for OS X computer musicians. Intuemsupports Apple's AudioUnit standard with high-resolution 32-bit floating point audio pathways. It can also save compositions as audio files, and Intuem now has a with a full-featured, customisable audio & MIDI mixer.
What's in Intuem 2:
- Addition of audio capabilities and audio tracks with multiple-format audio clips from 8 bit mono to 32 bit, 96kHz, multi-channel audio. Can mix any format audio in a single track, no limit to the number of audio tracks in a composition.
- Compositions can be saved as audio files with many formats to choose from including: AIFF and AAC/MPEG-4.
- One-step conversion from MIDI to audio at single note, entire track and multi-track levels.
- Support for AudioUnit effects on audio tracks and access to audio unit interface panels with capability to change the order in which effects are applied to a track.
- Recording audio is kept as simple as recording MIDI: just record-enable a track while Intuem is playing and audio recording begins.
- Support for recording audio from any channel or set of channels from a device into a track. A track can send audio out to any channel or set of channels of any audio device.
- Tracks can be frozen as a new audio take or as a single audio clip.
- An integrated audio and MIDI Mixer with customisable controls and overwrite ability.
- Support for AudioUnit instruments as MIDI devices with interface in the mixer and via the AU's interface panels.
- Support for several types of audio for import and export, including: AIFF, CD Audio Tracks, MP3, AAC/MPEG-4, QuickTime, AVI and WAVE. No special setup or situation needed to open any of these audio files for use in Intuem as a track or to build an entire composition around.
- Enhanced metronome so you can now have it count-in before recording.
- Built-in audio editing capabilities at the sample level to: amplify/normalize at the sample, clip and multi-clip relative level, fade in/out, reverse, silence and splice, all fully undoable/redoable.
- Support for arranging audio loops together at exact start and end frames so there's no gap at all between them.
- Quick short-cuts to export audio for advanced processing and then re-integrating with Intuem.
- Audio clips can be used as instrument samples and quantised for start time and have an optional quantise offset.
- Added option to clean MIDI files of wild notes and midi instructions to help make MIDI editing more straight-forward.
- Multi-channel audio clips can be split out into multiple mono clips and multiple mono clips can be spliced together into multi-channel clips.
- Can now set a template for the default new document setting number and type of tracks, names, display style, device, channel and initial program.
- Using QuickTime musical instruments or SoundFont/DLS instruments with Intuem is much more reliable than in Intuem 1.5 with Jaguar, no more hanging notes, and the timing is sample accurate.
- Optimised the Insector so it's much faster and updated it to include audio settings.
- Scrubbing forward and backward can now be done via keyboard shortcuts so you can use them via Mac OS X controllers.
- Enhanced the Monitor to include audio input levels and in/out volume controls for audio devices.
- Enhanced controller data views to show value ranges at the right or left sides.
- Added preference to automatically hide all controllers when switching from one display style to another.
System Requirements
Minimum: G3 Macintosh (preferably 500MHz or faster) with 128Mb RAM running Mac OS X version 10.2.x (Jaguar). Recommended: G4 Macintosh with 128Mb RAM running Mac OS X version 10.2 (Jaguar). USB MIDI Interface MIDI Keyboard with on-board sounds.
Availability
Intuem 2 is available for $79USD and as an upgrade for existing Intuem owners for $49USD. Owners who purchased Intuem between March 28, 2002 through to May 27, 2002 are entitled to a free upgrade to Intuem 2 simply by emailing them at license@intuem.com. A demo version is available for download as well. For more information, visit their web site at www.intuem.com. |
