Babya Logic Pro 2

Babya Logic Pro 2 is now available to download.

Babya Logic Pro 2 Overview:
Babya Logic 2 is an powerful suite of pro-quality audio production software which includes Babya Logic Pro, a 8-track music creation application-that enables you create music that sounds like Abba or Michael Jackson's music style and also includes Babya Jam Pack: Studio Tools, Babya MicroKit and UltraSynth.

Version 2 adds over 20 new synthesizers, 100 new features, and Mac applications.

Babya Logic:
A 8-track MIDI sequencer
Draw Mode
This mode allows you to place and erase notes. To place a note, move the cursor

to where you’d like the note to start and press and hold the left mouse button.

Then drag the cursor to the right to the desired note length (each column represents

1/16 note). Once you release the mouse button the note will be placed. To erase

a note, move the cursor to the column where your note is and click the right

mouse button. To see what instrument a note is, move the cursor to the column

where the note is. The instrument number and name will be displayed above the

music area on the left side.

Start / Insert Position Mode

Clicking on the music area in this mode places the red column. This determines

what part the song will start playing from when you press the play button. Also

this is the position where notes will be added or erased when you use the Paste

and Insert Space functions. You can also place the red column by clicking on

the black bar above the music area while in any mode.

Select Area Mode

This mode allows you to isolate a specific area for editing. The selected area

will be highlighted in blue. Click with the left mouse button and drag to the

right to select an area. After an area is selected you can extend it by clicking

to the right of the selected area. If you click to the left of the selected
area, you will deselect the previously selected area and start a new selection.

Clicking anywhere in the music area with the right button while in this mode

will deselect everything.

Copy Selection

If there is an area currently selected (highlighted in blue), this function will

copy that area into memory.

Cut Selection

This will cut out the selected area and copy it into memory.

Paste (Overwrite)

This function will paste from memory to the music area starting at the red column’s

position and overwrite the notes that were there previously.

Paste (Insert)

This will insert a space the size of the area to be pasted before pasting it

and will not overwrite any notes.

Insert Space

You can insert one blank column at the red column’s position with this button.

Return to Start

This returns the red column and the screen’s position to the beginning of the

song.

Play

This plays the song starting from the red column. The song automatically stops

when it reaches the last note.

Stop

Click this button to stop the song while it is playing.

Tempo

This sets the tempo, or beats per minute, that the song is played at. For example,

the default of 120 plays 120 quarter notes per minute, or 2 quarter notes per

second. The range for Tempo is 20-300.

Instruments

Select from 128 melodic instruments (0-127) and 47 percussive instruments (128-174).

Selecting an instrument will change the current instrument for the currently

selected track. Next time a note is placed it will be in the newly chosen instrument.

If there is a selected area (blue highlight), all notes in that area on the
current track will be changed to the new instrument. Percussive instruments
(128 – 174) do not change tone so it doesn’t matter what row you place them
on.

Edit Track

Use these buttons to select which track you want to edit. You can only place

notes on one track at a time. The notes of the currently selected track will

be in front of all other notes and appear darker. All other tracks will be dimmed.

You cannot edit a track that is hidden.

Hide Tracks

Use these buttons to hide up to seven tracks. When a track is hidden it will

not be visible on the screen and cannot be altered in any way. This is useful

if you, for example, want to copy the baseline of a song but not the melody.

You can temporarily hide all tracks but the baseline, copy and paste it, then

unhide all tracks. You cannot hide the track that is currently selected for
editing.

Transpose

If you’d like your song to be in a higher or lower key, use the Transpose function.

Clicking once will raise or lower every note one semitone. If you have an area

selected in blue only those notes will be affected.

Use Alpha Blending

When this option is selected the red, blue and green highlighting bars will be

semi-transparent rather than a crisscrossing pattern. This takes more processing

time and also may not work on some computers.

Reverse Notes

This reverses the song so that it is backwards compared to the original. If an

area is selected in blue, only that part will be reversed.

Flip Notes

This basically flips your song upside down. The notes are still the same distance

apart from each other vertically so they harmonize with each other, but the
high notes are now low and the low notes are high. If an area is selected in

blue, only those notes will be flipped.

Includes 174 software instruments and several sample files

Saves in a custom .mia or you can export to the common .mid file formats-easily

enabling you to use your created music in Apple(R) Logic and Logic Express.

Babya Jam Pack 1:

- Babya Riff Editor (create and play custom guitar riffs)

- Babya Visual Music (record your own music using a on-screen keyboard and a

scripting language)

- Babya bMix Notater (make and print sheet music)

- Babya Keyboard (a on-screen keyboard ideal for working out a song you'll make

in bMix)

- Babya Sound Canvas (edit Roland® SC55 files or MIDI files)

- Babya Easy Guitar Tuner (a useful way to tune your own guitar)

Babya Logic and Logic Pro also includes:

* Babya MicroKit-percussion sequencer software

* Babya UltraSynth-a standalone virtual synth application

Logic Scorer:

Compose and print music scores & sheet music

* Babya SampleStudio:

Mix and record sound samples

Instruments & Synths:

* Babya CS80
Casio style MIDI keyboard instrument

* Babya UltraSynth
Generate quirky and intriguing sounds with this DirectX based synth

* Guitar Amp Pro:

Create & tune sweet custom guitar chords from arena to funk, live or in studio

and control MIDI instruments.

* Babya EXM :

Generate the wildest sounds imaginable using 2 oscilloscope with support for

custom defined envelopes

* Babya EFM :

Play cool and classy FM sounds using this keyboard based synth.

* Babya ESE :

Funk and techno sounds of the 1980's can be recreated with Babya ESE-a beep based

synthesizer with a custom music generator application included.

* Babya EVB1:

Easily create binaural music tones with this interesting synth.

Effect Plugins:

* Babya Audio Effects Studio:

Quickly audition sound files with gargle or echo effects

* SoundGen:

Quickly produce PCM audio files with ADSR support

* Bass Maker:

Create electrifying & thunderous bass based music

New features in Babya Logic Express 2:
The standard version is now called Babya Logic Express
Version 2 adds over 20 new synthesizers, 100 new features, and some exclusive
Mac applications-like Babya AU Host.
*Paax 2-Babya Edition:

Up to 128 presets per bank.

Up to 84 splits per preset and 8 dual velocity-layers (16 samples) per split.

256 simultaneous voices*.

Plays 8/16/24/32 bit**, mono/stereo wav files @ any sample rate.

Low CPU consumption.

Low aliasing resampling technology, 32 bit audio engine.

3 envelope controls (DAHDSR) per preset: amplitude, pitch and filter cutoff.

3 configurable LFOs per preset: tremolo, vibrato and filter cutoff with optional
delay.

All envelopes and oscillators can be synchronized to MIDI tempo.

New bank format offers choice for embedded or referenced samples.

Capable of importing SoundFonts (.sf2) and AKAI S5000/6000 programs (.akp)

Fully automatable.

VST 2.3 compatible.

* Freeware version is limited to 64 voice polyphony.
** Freeware version can only load 8/16 bit wavs.

Download a manual here:
http://kotkasuniverse.com/files/p2_manual.zip

Screenshots:
http://babyasoftwaregr.livejournal.com/49661.html

Babya Wavettes:

Babya Logic-Macs:
Babya Logic 2 can now be used on Macs with Intel Core processors:

New Babya Logic music applications-Babya AU Host & Logic Converter:

Babya AU Host-download:
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?27500000037230

What is Babya AU Host:

With Babya AU Host, users can access all of their Mac's Audio Unit plugins, whether

from a 3rd-party or by Apple. Drag and dropping from the Finder and iTunes
is both possible.

Babya Logic Converter-download:
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?27500000037257
BASS powered effects and applications

New effects provide a new vista in audio:
Using BASS, Babya Logic becomes even more powerful.

All-new effects and plugins include a cool spectrum display-and a live version
too, ASIO effects players with DSP and new export and recording options like
saving MP3 music to WAV and easy audio recording.

EAX and 3D effects make previewing a whole lot more sonic in Babya Logic. Babya
bRadio is included-with preset internet radio options that will excite and entertain
all of the family.

Have a 5.1 speaker system-now with Babya Logic 2's speaker tester, you can test
your speaker system with ease.

Even VST support is possible, as all the source code will be included with the
new plugin pack.

You can save local copies of the streams (for personal use as long as you don't
share it with others), unlike with iTunes.

Other new and enhanced features in Logic 2 include:
Babya Logic 2 comes with a fast audio extracter called Babya CD Audio Studio
that is designed to work in conjuction with Babya WaveBurner.

Like with Babya Logic 1.4, Babya Logic 2 bundles Babya iGrab-the easy way to
grab iPod music, without having to manually do it. This utility will let you
rip either a single song, or the entire music collection of the iPod.

This utility will not hurt your iPod in anyway, nor modify its database files
or music.

Babya iGrab has some limits also: it can only read MP3 encoded music, all other
music will not be shown on the list ( eg. music purchased from the iTunes Music
Store. It can only grab either one song, or the entire collection, not inbetween.

Babya iGrab will work with most iPods-including the latest fifth generation iPod
and iPod nano.

Babya Software Group's product manager for digital media, Alvin Novick said about
iGrab,'Babya iGrab is a fast and fuss-free application for easily managing your
music on a iPod.'

Babya Software Group's A.A. Fussy noted about iGrab as well, 'Babya iGrab is
a innovative application, allowing Apple iPod users to effectively and efficiently
copy music stored from their iPod onto a computer for archival or playback purposes.'

Babya Logic 2's improved feature set lets you be more tuneful:
Babya Logic 2 also features improved MIDI composition options in Babya Logic
Audio and 2 new and impressive looking audio spectrum viewers, a realtime audio
recorder and for the first time, ASIO effects.

Now produce iPod movies with Babya Logic:
Completely new to Babya Logic, Babya QuickTime Studio is a powerful application
which demonstrates how to use QuickTime 7's COM Control to display and manipulate
movies, using a familiar Apple QuickTime movie controller.

To run Babya QuickTime Studio, your system must meet the minimum requirements
for QuickTime.
A Broadband Internet connection (DSL/Cable/LAN) is higly recommended as well.

If you don't have QuickTime already or you need to update it, download the
QuickTime+iTunes bundle from:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/standalone.html-for a standalone setup
file, ideal for network or for installing on a system with a slow web speed
(eg 56k).

This will install Apple's iTunes software which enables you to sync exported
videos from Babya QuickTime Studio to a fith-generation iPod.

Note for Mac users-you can run Babya QuickTime Studio on a Mac with a Intel Core
CPU with Boot Camp.

Babya QuickTime Studio has the following capabilities:
Standard QuickTime 7 features available in Babya QuickTime Studio are:
- Movie playback with a movie controller container
- Open, Open from URL, Close
- Cut/Copy/Paste/Undo
- Display movie info. such as duration, track types, track formats, etc.

QuickTime 7 Pro features you can use in Babya QuickTime Studio are:
-Full Screen mode
- Export, Export with dialog
- Quicktime Event handling
- Fullscreen playback

Once you have a movie opened you can perform any of the various operations on
the movie using the File and Export menus such as export to iPod , fullscreen
etc.

Some of the operations utilize features or technologies that are usually found
only in the QuickTime 7 Pro edition-like full-screen. Now with
Babya QuickTime Studio you can do this for free.

BASS enables the next-generation of previewing and generation of high-quality
audio in Babya Logic-some of the features of BASS include:

Powerful and efficient (yet easy to use)-you can sample & stream (MP3, MP2, MP1,
OGG, WAV, AIFF, custom generated, and more via add-ons), MOD music (XM, IT,
S3M, MOD, MTM, UMX), MO3 music (MP3/OGG compressed MODs) music, & recording
functions. All in a tiny DLL, under 100KB* in size.

On Windows, BASS requires DirectX 3 or above for output, and takes advantage
of DirectSound and DirectSound3D hardware accelerated drivers, when available.
On OSX, BASS uses CoreAudio for output, and OSX 10.3 or above is recommended.
Both PowerPC and Intel Macs are supported.

Main features of the BASS engine are:
Samples
Support for WAV/AIFF/MP3/MP2/MP1/OGG and custom generated samples
*Sample streams
-Stream any sample data in 8/16/32 bit
File streams
MP3/MP2/MP1/OGG/WAV/AIFF file streaming
Internet file streaming
-Stream MP3/MP2/MP1/OGG/WAV/AIFF files (inc. Shoutcast, Icecast & Icecast2) from
the internet (HTTP and FTP servers), with adjustable buffering-like in bRadio
Custom file streaming
-Stream MP3/MP2/MP1/OGG/WAV/AIFF data from anywhere using any delivery method
Multi-channel streaming
-Support for more than plain stereo, including multi-channel OGG/WAV/AIFF files
MOD music
-Uses the same engine as XMPlay (very accurate, fast, high quality reproduction),
with full support for all effects, filters, stereo samples, DMO effects, etc...
MO3 music
MODs with MP3 or OGG compressed samples (vastly reduced file size with virtually
identical sound quality), MO3s are created using the MO3 encoder
Multiple outputs
-Simultaneously use multiple soundcards
Recording
- Flexible recording system, with multiple device support and input selection,
(WMA encoding & broadcasting via the add-on, and other formats via BASSenc)
Decode without playback
-Streams and musics can be outputted in any way you want (recoded, written to
disk, streamed across a network, etc...)
Speaker assignment
-Assign streams and musics to specific speakers to take advantage of hardware
capable of more than plain stereo (up to 4 separate stereo outputs with a 7.1
soundcard)
*High precision synchronization
*Synchronize events in your software to the MOD music and streams, synchronize
playback of multiple channels together
*Custom DSP
*Apply any effects that you want, in any order you want
*DirectX 8 effects Windows only
*Chorus / compressor / distortion / echo / flanger / gargle / parametric eq /
reverb, 2 implementation options each with its benefits (including mixing with
DSP functions).
-Some of these effects you might be familar with-if you used Babya Audio Effects
Studio
*32 bit floating-point decoding and processing
*Floating-point stream/music decoding, DSP, FX, and recording
*3D sound Windows only
*Play samples/streams/musics in any 3D position, with EAX support
*Flexible
*Small buffers for realtime performance, large buffers for stability, automatic
and manual buffer updating
*Expandable-Underlying DirectSound object interfaces are accessible, add-on system
for additional format support-like VST, dynamic plugin loading system
*Small
*BASS is less than 100KB*, so won't bloat your distribution

New Mac synth-EVS1:
Babya EVS1 is a new synth from Emagic (part of Babya). EVS1 will be available
next month for both PPC & Intel Macs only.

EVS1 is the first Emagic branded synth from Babya's Emagic division.

Babya EVS1 i is intended to combine speech with music to produce the classic
Vocoder sound used by many artists including Kraftwerk and ELO.

The On-screen Parameters

Modulator File
The path to a sound file that contains the modulator waveform. This would usually
contain
a voice. Selectable with the Browse button.

Carrier File
The path to a sound file that contains the carrirer waveform. This would usually
contain music.
Selectable with the Browse button.

Output File
The path to a sound file that contains the output waveform. This file will be
created if it does not
already exist.

Window Length
The number of samples which will be analysed at a time.

Window Overlap
The number of samples that the windows will be overlapped as a percentage of
the window
length.

Band Count
The number of frequency bands that the carrier will be modulated with.

Output Volume
The volume that the output will be scaled by.

Normalise
Whether to normalise the output with respect to the carrier.

Explanation.

This channel vocoder works by analyzing the frequencies in the
modulator, splitting them into bands, finding the magnitude of each
band, and then amplifying the corresponding bands of the carrier by
that magnitude.

The modulator should simply be speech. It works best of you speak
very clearly and more slowly than usual.

The carrier should be some kind of frequency rich waveform. White
noise works well. Periodic white noise (i.e. a very short sample of
white noise) gives a 'robot-like' sound. Another one that sounds good
is a synthesized string chord. This waveform will automatically be
looped. You can get interesting results by having the waveform change
over time.

Since what you pronounce changes over time, it would be pointless to
analyze the entire modulator waveform and excite those frequencies in
the carrier at once. Instead, the program splits the modulator into
'windows', which it processes one-at-a-time. The window-length
specifies how many samples are in each window. You will want at least
a few windows for every syllable. If this number is too large, the
output will be not be very understandable. If it is too small, you
will have other problems. Around 1/15th of a second (or the sampling
rate of the sound file divided by 15) tends to sound good, but
experiment to find the right value. To give you an example, anywhere
from 512 to 2048 is okay for a modulator with a sampling rate of 44.1
khz. If you half the sampling rate, you should half the
window-length, etc. The window-length must be a power of two due to
the technique that us used to analyze the frequencies.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term 'power of two,' it
means a number that can be created by multiplying some number of two's
together. For example, the following numbers are the powers of two up
to 4096:

2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096

You get the next power of two by doubling the previous one.

Since the sound is processed in discrete windows, the output can
change very abruptly where it goes from one chunk to the next. This
is audible as a click. To remedy this, the program can have the
windows overlap and cross-fade between them. The window-overlap
specifies how many samples of overlap there are between windows.
1/8th of the window-length tends to be a good starting point, but
in many cases, one half of the window-length gives the best results.
This may not exceed half of the window-length.

In order to excite the frequencies in the carrier, the frequencies of
the modulator are split into bands. The larger your band-count, the
more the output will sound like the modulator. This number should
evenly divide the chunk-length for the best results. Somewhere
between 8 and 64 usually sounds best. The band-count may not exceed
half of the window-length.

If you find that the output is clipped (distorted) or is too quiet,
you can specify a value for the volume. Anything less than one will
reduce the volume, and anything greater than one will increase it.

While the defaults for the parameters generally produce decent
results, the best results will be achieved by changing their values.
The best way figure out all the numbers and what the best waveforms
are is to experiment. Have fun!
:
Babya Guitar Ampo Pro 2:
Guitar Amp Pro 2 is a amproved version of Babya's guitar control and tuning software
with the following new Features in Guitar Amp Pro 2
-Babya's new AutoChord technology:
Babya AutoChord uses a metronome to precisely match your chords with a easy to
use note table, editor & tuner included as well.
Download:
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?27500000037397

New synthesizers:
Babya bSine
Babya BPM Maestro
Babya Phasor
Babya PhazePitch
Babya Tempo Maestro

New Effects:
Babya 3D & EAX FX
Babya ASIO Multi Output
Babya Audio Effects Studio-ASIO
Babya Audio Effects Studio
Babya BASS Studio
Babya Custom Looper
Babya DSP Studio
Babya WinAMP Visualization Player
Babya WinAMP Visualization Studio

Audio Players:
Babya AAC & MP4 Player
Babya APE Player
Babya MOD Player
Babya Memory Player
Babya MusePack Player
Babya OptimFROG Player
Babya WavePack Player

New Applications:
Babya bAudio Express
Babya bRadio
Babya Full-Duplex Recorder
Babya Logic Spectrum Viewer
Babya Wave Converter
Babya Multi Output
Babya Multi-Speaker Tester

Download:
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?27500000037580