Softube launches Passive-Active EQ Pack
Softube is shipping the Passive-Active Pack, an EQ plug-in collection for native VST, AU, and RTAS. Passive-Active Pack is available today at the Softube web shop ($199, excl. VAT).
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Scratching with your coffee table … kinda!
Ok, it is not really a coffee table, it just looks like one! No, it is the Microsoft Surface controller/display/thingy. VectorForm, a Microsoft Surface Partner have developed a fun DJ tool for the novice on Microsoft Surface. Vectorforms DJ application started simple, and grew from there. There’s even an iPhone app. Now they have added some features like scratching into the 2.0. version. Via Skratchworx.
de la Mancha Ballistic released
Ballistic is a 15 slot drum sample player designed to get you making beats quickly without a million parameters to adjust. All controls are on one screen and the essentials are built in, but with one stereo output per slot, you can add more effects per slot in your hosts mixer. This keeps CPU low and workflow efficient.
Voxengo LF Max Punch 1.1 released
Voxengo is pleased to release an updated Voxengo LF Max Punch version 1.1 which is available for download immediately. Voxengo LF Max Punch is a professional audio effect plug-in for music and sounds where low-frequency thump and punch are most welcome, and where distortion is applied specifically to bring the bass sound to life. Plug-in is available in AudioUnit and VST plug-in formats, for Mac OS X, Windows XP and Windows Vista computers.
The Rob Papen Power Tools Collection
Rob Papen is one of the world´s leading sound designers. He started off with a number one hit in Benelux aged just 18 and has subsequently created patches for the Access Virus and EMU.
Smart AV Tango Controller videos
4 new videos of the Smart AV Tango console with Logic Pro, reviewed at Mercenary Audio have been posted on Youtube. Tango has a combination of Features, Technology, Ergonomics, and Quality that will blow your mind, but not your budget. At an introductory price of US$7,990 Tango is real value for the audio professional and home user alike.
Focusrite launch Saffire PRO 24 DSP
Just when it looked like Focusrite’s Saffire PRO 24 was the most elegantly tailored interfacing solution on the market, along comes the Saffire PRO 24 DSP. The best FireWire audio interface in its class just got a whole lot better.
200 synths in One – Best Service announces Titan
The biggest and most extensive Synthesizer Sound Collection of all time! The development and the sampling of this library was 10 Years in the making. TITAN offers 5500 multisamples of the best sounds from 200 (!!) classic Analog Synthesizers and Modular Systems including the biggest & most famous Digital Synths & Workstations of the 80s and 90s but also the newest virtual instruments and current synths all in one massive plugin.
Rob Papen officially announces RP-Verb
Reverb is a very critical effect when mixing. A bad sounding reverb can ruin the mix of your music! Today’s powerful computers makes it possible to run far more complex algorithms then in the past. But still… it is down to the algorithms if a reverb sounds great or terrible.
Propellerhead Record and the future of Reason
By request Propllerhead felt the need to clarify their product road map and how Record and Reason relate to eachother. They gave a statement on their development blog.
Propellerhead Record seventh video tutorial posted
In Record micro tutorial number 7 we take a look at MIDI clips and some of the MIDI recording and editing capabilities in Record’s sequence.
Audio Damage re-release Ronin
Via their blog (AnalogIndustries) Audio Damage let us know they will re-release Ronin, a modular multi effect plugin. For existing users it will be a free upgrade. New users will pay $49 instead of the old price which was $69.
VirSyn Reflect 2.0 – The Algorithmic Reverb available
Version 2.0 of REFLECT comes with a new RealIR Engine using direct convolution of the critical early reflections without compromising the flexibility of the algorithmic reverb tail generation. The resulting density and smoothness rivals those of the most expensive hardware reverbs.
Ableton Free audio package: Samplification
Ablteon is giving away a free audio package with new sounds, lessons, presets, Instrument Racks and Construction Kits. This is more than just a few audio files. Samplification will kick-start your sampling skills and demonstrate what Sampler is really capable of.
Antares Auto Tune dead? not so much!
Antares Audio Technologies today thanked the fans of their professional world-standard Auto-Tune pitch correction plug-in for their outpouring of concern and good wishes in the face of reports of the plug-ins untimely death.