M-Audio Announces Songwriter Suite Recording and Software Bundles

M-Audio, part of inMusic Brands, has announced a new range of affordable bundles for composers, combining award-winning software from Waves, Steinberg and Ableton, together with a powerful collection of virtual Instruments for drums, piano and more, from AIR Music Technology. The bundles are centered around M-Audio’s M-Track II, M-Track Plus II, and M-Track Eight interfaces or the Vocal Studio Pro II package.

Precisely a year since the last major update, Steinberg Media Technologies announced availability of its new Cubase Pro 8.5 and Cubase Artist 8.5 music production systems. The updates to these popular software packages introduce new creative tools, workflow enhancements while taking online collaboration within Cubase to the next level with VST Transit.

Cakewalk announced its latest SONAR “Gloucester” release introduces support for Microsoft’s new Windows 10 operating system plus numerous enhancements and fixes. The company is also offering a free demo or Rapture Pro, Cakewalk’s latest virtual instrument for Mac and Windows.

Music software and hardware developer Arturia surprised the market with the announcement that it will be stepping into a new product sector, unveiling a next-generation audio interface in 2015. Widely recognized in the world of software and in particular analog emulation, Arturia successfully entered the musical instruments market a few years ago, but this will be its first audio specific hardware product.