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Robert McNeel & Associates Announces the Release of Rhino 4.0

mary | 06 March, 2007 10:20

The Robert McNeel & Associates latest Rhino upgrade, Rhino 4.0, is the most significant in the history of the software, with hundreds of new features and enhancements.

New enhancements and features include:  

  • Modeling enhancement include robust variable blend tools, improved Booleans, and G-infinity™ blending.    
  • Editing new features include UDT for free-form deformation of all geometry types, feature recognition for solids editing and history for editing surfaces by changing their input curves.
  • Interface enhancements including SmartTrack™ technology, heads up prompts, advanced tooltips, and live help with video clips.    
  • Display enhancements take advantage of the latest graphic card technology to provide a major speed improvement, custom advanced display modes, new analysis tools, dual-screen support, and stereo.
  • Rendering and animation enhancements including faster basic rendering, advanced texture mapping tools, updated Flamingo and Penguin, Brazil r/s, and new third-party renderers from V-Ray and Maxwell.
  • 2-D drawing/drafting tools including line styles, line weights, hidden lines, dimensions, hatching, page layout and printing/plotting.
  • Mesh modeling, editing, analysis, repair, and rapid prototyping. Major enhancements in mesh creation and editing. Also many new tools for STL repair and 3-D printing.    
  • Analysis with new tools for both measurement and display. Also enhanced tools detecting problems and evaluating model quality so the problems downstream can be avoided. 
  • Large projects support with hierarchical layer management, file locking, and enhanced support for worksessions, blocks, and reference files.
  • Compatibility enhancements including improved PDF, AI 8 , STEP, DWG/DXF, PLY, DGN, FBX, SolidWorks, Google Earth, SketchUP, and WAMIT support.
  • Software developer tools for users and third-party developers include an update C SDK, a new .NET SDK, and a new rendering SDK (RDP), and a update openNURBS Toolkit.
Rhinoceros 4.0, AccuRender 4, Bongo and Flamingo 1.1 academic pricing is available from CCV Software.

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Avid Technology, Inc. Releases SOFTIMAGE XSI 6

mary | 06 March, 2007 09:06

Avid Technology, Inc. has released SOFTIMAGE XSI 6, the latest version of its flagship 3D animation and character creation software.  XSI 6 software offers new features and solutions that result in a fast and highly integrated way to work with complex 3D characters and motion capture data in a mixed-studio pipeline. Whether used for visual effects in film and broadcast programs or for designing next-generation PC and console games, XSI 6 software delivers many powerful capabilities to 3D artists.

Along with major advances in animation and data management for complex 3D scenes, the rendering core within XSI 6 software has been enhanced for increased performance, scalability and extensibility. The software offers integration with the mental ray 3.5 rendering application, and now includes expanded support for the integration of third-party renderers via a new open rendering API (Application Programming Interface).

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Image Line Introduces FL Studio Fruityloops 7!

mary | 05 March, 2007 09:16

Image Line Software has released the much anticipated release of its complete music production environment, FL Studio 7.  Representing the culmination of more than 9 years of sustained development, FL Studio 7 is set to become the most flexible virtual music studio tool in the industry.

What is FL7?

FL Studio is a fully featured, open-architecture music creation and production environment for PC. No extra software is required* to produce any style of music, as the complete set of instrument and studio tools is included in the cost of the package.  With the included plugins, sounds and tools the user can create complete songs, as well as backing tracks, loops and sizzling beats. Completed songs can be saved to WAV, MP3 or MIDI or .ZIP or native project formats (.FLP).

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Cakewalk Ships SONAR Home Studio 6 and SONAR Home Studio 6 XL

mary | 05 March, 2007 08:32

Cakewalk, the world's leading developer of powerful and easy to use products for music creation and recording, today announces new versions of its popular SONAR Home Studio and SONAR Home Studio XL titles are shipping Worldwide.

At their core, SONAR Home Studio 6 and SONAR Home Studio 6 XL feature the power of Cakewalk's flagship SONAR 6 paired with a feature set, price, and ease-of-use geared towards home studio owners and budget-conscious musicians.

New Features:

  • Designed for compatibility with Microsoft® Windows® Vista™
  • Core feature set based on SONAR 6.2
  • Quick Start guide, Track Presets, Project Templates, and Video Tutorials make getting started easy
  • Sleek new interface enhances ease of use and allows customization of views, colors, and toolbars
  • New mixing console with per-track Sonitus:fx parametric EQ
  • 10 new professional audio effects
  • Active Controller Technology (ACT) lets users easily control and automate effects, instruments, and their mix from MIDI controllers by automatically remapping controls to whatever has the focus
  • Rip from and burn to CD directly from SONAR Home Studio
  • Automate tracks, effects, and instruments easily with enhanced automation tools
  • MIDI Input Quantize corrects the timing of MIDI performances in real-time
  • Freeze tracks, effects, and virtual instruments to conserve CPU power
  • Native and fully integrated support for VST plug-ins, no wrapper required
  • DropZone sampler with extended library of instrument sounds including a Drum Pack and Bass Pack
  • Cakewalk Publisher lets users present and stream their music on the Internet 

Cakewalk software academic discount pricing and Cakewalk non profit pricing are available for a full range of titles!
 

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Micrograms Introduces the New Reading Program Letters Home from Camp Tadpole

mary | 02 March, 2007 11:20

In late February 2007, Micrograms announced the release of Letters Home from Camp Tadpole.  Beginning readers enjoy reading short letters written at Camp Tadpole. The program offers five levels of difficulty in providing letters of one sentence in length to letters containing five or more sentences. Students and teachers can set options to provide one of three levels of audio support, or have students read on their own. Audio support options include full narration, click to hear any word, or click to hear challenge words only.

The letters are followed by comprehension questions, and after each set of 3 letters students earn a camp patch and may work to collect the entire set. Miss Lizzy provides feedback and guidance. Detailed performance records are available.

Micrograms academic discounts are available from CCV Software.

 

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MakeMusic, Inc. Announces Release of Finale Allegro 2007

mary | 02 March, 2007 11:18

MakeMusic, Inc. (Nasdaq: MMUS) announces the release of Finale Allegro 2007. From the makers of Finale, the world's leading music notation software, this latest version of Allegro includes a host of new features plus native support for both Intel - and PowerPC - based Macintosh as well as Windows computers. Allegro is the easy, fast and powerful solution for educators, performing musicians, composers, arrangers, worship directors and students.

Finale Allegro 2007 users can enter notes with the mouse, computer keyboard and/or a MIDI keyboard as well as by playing a brass or woodwind instrument using the exclusive MicNotator feature. Additionally, Allegro offers the same high-quality music scanning capabilities as Finale 2007 and can import and export MIDI and MusicXML files. Orchestrations can be created with up to 32 staves, and these staves can be transposed to any key and for any instrument. Allegro offers an unlimited numbers of lyric verses, automatic guitar chords and the ability to customize items like percussion notation and string instrument tablature.

Allegro aids the compositional process with Band-in-a-Box Auto-Harmonizing - which can turn any melody into two or three-part harmony, and automatic Drum Grooves - which can instantly add drums to any song or score. Playback sounds great thanks to Human Playback, automated swing playback and an integrated software synthesizer featuring more than 128 sounds plus dozens of high-quality marching percussion sounds from Row-Loff.

Allegro's Exercise Wizard helps educators save time by instantly creating warm-ups for the whole band, orchestra or choir. Thanks to compatibility with Finale NotePad freeware, Allegro users can share their music with anyone on the Internet and create .MP3 files to burn CDs of their music.

And of course, Allegro prints out scores and parts with the same precision as Finale 2007.

Academic pricing for Finale Songwriter 2007 is available from CCV Software.

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I.R.I.S. and Arguz Servicios Receive the Kodak Breakaway Application 2007 Excellence Award

mary | 01 March, 2007 10:32

I.R.I.S. and Arguz Servicios have been awarded on January 25th, 2007, the Kodak Breakaway Application 2007 Excellence Award along with its end user partner, Pemex. The award recognizes the partnership for its significant business achievements and organizational results through the implementation of innovative Kodak Document Imaging products and services.

I.R.I.S. and Arguz Servicios teamed up to bring life to the Project Paperless Office which goal was to develop a paperless workflow within Pemex, Mexico’s leading oil provider and the largest company in Latin America, utilizing OCR software and hardware technology to develop PDF files, replacing all paper documents for the company’s nearly 25,000 corporate employees. Since the project’s inception, Pemex has purchased more than 1,800 Kodak scanners powered by I.R.I.S’ flagship software, Readiris Pro Corporate Edition, to continue driving the success of the project.

“This award supports our commitment to the development and implementation of superior document imaging tools for enterprise environments. I.R.I.S. will continue on the path of innovation and this award provides additional credibility to our channel penetration.” stated Jean-Marc Fontaine, director of sales and operations, I.R.I.S.

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StudyDog Announces The PreK Essentials Reading Program

mary | 01 March, 2007 09:15

StudyDog, a leading supplier of early childhood reading programs, announced the introduction of its PreK Essentials reading program that targets 3 and 4 year-old children.  In development for eighteen months, PreK Essentials features a complete and comprehensive reading program of twenty-four lessons that builds critical reading skills for young children.  It is the first academic pre-K reading curriculum that is complete, is fully compliant with the findings of the National Reading Panel and targets 3 and 4 year-old children. 

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