Native Instruments’ Updates Guitar Rig To Version 3

Native Instruments has updated Guitar Rig, the next generation of its digital guitar effects rack, to version 3. The third version expands on nearly every aspect of Guitar Rig and now offers more amps and effects, powerful new live features, a completely reworked tone library complete with improved preset handling, and a redesigned Rig Kontrol pedal board with optimized control and audio interface functionality. Both a “Kontrol...

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Microsoft Granted “Stealthy Audio Watermarking” Patent

Microsoft was just awarded a patent for stealthy audio watermarking, a digital-watermarking technology for use in non-DRM digital music files. The technology embeds a unique identifier into a digital music file, which can then be detected for identifying the copyright holder. According to a filing with the U.S. Patent and Trade Organization (USPTO), the watermark “cannot be removed,” although I’m sure some hackers...

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