Our spider senses are tingling and that can only mean one thing — the latest issue of DigiZine is now available online and in print at your Authorized Digidesign Reseller. This issue features the famed web crawler as our cover-hero in time for Spider-Man 3. Find out how Pro Tools® and Avid® systems played major roles in the making of the film, handling music composition, foley, and sound-editing duties. You can also read about the new 003 family, Digidesign’s Structure professional sampler, and Pro Tools Ignition Pack 2. Plus, learn modern techniques for getting old-school guitar tones, build drum tracks from demo recordings, get some great Pro Tools 7.3 tips, and more!
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Seasoned hip hop producer Just Blaze has produced songs for some of the biggest hip hop artists, including Jay-Z, Kanye West, The Beastie Boys, The Game, T.I., and more. And he chooses Digidesign® Pro Tools as his all-in-one creative solution for composing, editing, and mixing music.

Sony Pictures Studios has recently installed two new Digidesign ICON integrated consoles into its Stage 7 Dubbing Room. Once the home of the legendary MGM Studios, Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, CA, boasts a rich history dating back to the 1920s — having played host to hundreds of legendary films, including The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Citizen Kane, and the original King Kong.

Blake Suib, a veteran monitor mix engineer with 25 years of experience, received a call last July to design a live sound system for new client, singer and guitarist John Mayer. Although Suib had been using digital consoles for the last few years, he had yet to find the right console that would perform reliably every night and sound like the analog consoles he had used and loved throughout his career — that is until he discovered the Digidesign VENUE live sound environment.

Automatic delay compensation, pristine 192 kHz audio resolution, VCA masters, more powerful DSP, and Digidesign ICON integrated console support are just some of the 200 reasons why Pro Tools|HD continues to be heartily embraced by the industry. Coupled with the power and speed of the latest Pro Tools HD software, Pro Tools|HD delivers everything you need to inspire and fuel your creativity while maximizing your efficiency. And now through June 20, 2007, there are even more compelling reasons to make the move to Pro Tools|HD—how does low pricing, a free Pro Tools LE system, and up to 36 free plug-ins sound?

Got Cubase, Nuendo, or SONAR and a hardware audio interface? For a limited time, you can move up to the power of industry-standard Pro Tools by exchanging your third-party digital audio workstation — or a Pro Tools LE system — up to a new 003™ Factory, 003™ Rack, or 003™ Rack Factory at discounted prices and save big on the Music Production Toolkit. If you’re already a Pro Tools LE owner, you can upgrade to any 003 system from a Digi 001®, Digi ToolBox™, Mbox®, Mbox® 2, or Mbox® 2 Mini.

With over 1,900 systems installed worldwide, the Digidesign ICON integrated console environment offers audio mixers the ultimate in functionality, usability, efficiency, and flexibility. And now Digidesign makes it more affordable than ever for you to build a complete ICON system (or expand an existing setup) while taking advantage of savings up to $29,859! Choose from 11 new ICON bundles to meet your music mixing or post-production needs.

See all other hardware exchanges, bundles, and special offers available for ICON, VENUE, Pro Tools|HD, and Pro Tools LE systems.

Get the warm, rich sound of analog tape recordings and effects with your own digital recordings or while mixing live sound. Digidesign’s new Reel Tape Suite™ offers a collection of three powerful plug-ins — Reel Tape™ Saturation, Reel Tape™ Delay, and Reel Tape™ Flanger — that are each uniquely designed to emulate the color characteristics as well as tape compression and saturation effects of analog tape recording. Reel Tape Saturation is also available as a standalone plug-in.

• IK Multimedia releases AmpliTube Jimi Hendrix with special offer
  for Digidesign users
• Eiosis releases the ELS Vocoder
• Toontrack releases EZplayer Free
• Waves introduces special offers and individual sale of select plug-ins
• Sonnox offers free Oxford Transient Modulator plug-in for bundle purchasers
• Antares ships updates to Auto-Tune 5 RTAS and TDM for Mac and PC
• Eventide offers Anthology II upgrade special
• Applied Acoustics Systems releases Tassman 4.1 update with Universal Binary and RTAS plug-in support
• Terra Digital Audio introduces new line of Windows-based desktop and workstation PCs for Pro Tools featuring Intel Core 2 Duo
  and Xeon Dual Core processors
• MusicXPC introduces Core 2 Duo media production computers
• CEDAR Audio announces DNS2000 V3
• Virtual Katy expands VK Product family offering advanced workflow integration for picture and audio post
• Contour Design adds Pro Tools 7.x support to ShuttlePRO V.2
  multimedia controller
• Drums On Demand offers instant loop downloads
• ATTO offers a networked storage solution supporting HD audio
  in Mac environments
• ProMedia Training and Digital Poets partner together in Denver, Colorado