Camel Audio has announced the release of Alchemy Player, an affordable software instrument plug-in for those who want the sounds of Alchemy but don’t want to create new presets. Camel Audio has also just released two new sound banks, Cinematic and Dance & Trance. The Player is included free when you purchase any Alchemy soundbank, turning each of these banks into a standalone instrument in its own right.

Alchemy Player includes 150 presets and 360 MB of samples taken from the full factory library, including evolving soundscapes, lush pads, and pulsing arpeggios.  With your first soundbank from Camel Audio you get 300 expressive presets for the modest price of $59.

Alchemy Player features the same advanced sample manipulation engine as its big brother, with additive, spectral, granular, sampling and VA synthesis for totally unique sounds, and is easily controlled via a simple and compact interface. This provides sixteen performance controls for real-time tweaking and automation, which have unique functions for each preset carefully chosen by the sound designer; so each preset is like a small synth in its own right. The remix pad also makes it possible to quickly try different variations – simply click and drag to morph between the eight variations.  All presets are arranged by productand category for rapid access to the sound you require, to keep your inspiration flowing.

On the Mac, Alchemy Player requires OS X 10.4.9, a 2 GHz Intel or G5 processor, 1 GB of RAM, 3 GB available disk space, and an Audio Units or VST host.

Alchemy Player is available now for $59 / €49 / £39 as a 224 MB download. If at any point you decide you want to access the full power of Alchemy, you can upgrade to the full version for just $199 / €159 / £143, and let your imagination run riot creating your own sounds, explore the 600 presets and 3GB sample library, and gain access to the user library and third party soundbanks. As a further incentive, this month Camel Audio are offering a free soundbank.

Until March 31st you can get 20% off all additional soundbanks, once you have one bank in your basket, so there’s never been a better time to dip your toes in the Alchemical waters.  For sound examples and further information on Alchemy Player, please visit the Camel Audio website.

www.camelaudio.com/AlchemyPlayer.php

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Symbolic Sound Corporation has added support for Open Sound Control (OSC) to its Paca(rana) sound engine. Using Open Sound Control, you can interact with Symbolic Sound’s award-winning Kyma sound design system using a variety of software and real-time controllers, including the Apple iPad and the JazzMutant Lemur, that offer higher resolution and faster update rates than can be achieved using traditional, standard MIDI controllers.

Symbolic Sound’s innovative Kyma X environment features a unique set of sound synthesis and processing algorithms and a powerful way to easily re-combine these algorithms to create sounds that have never been heard before. Open Sound Control is an open communications protocol that delivers higher speeds, greater resolution, and more flexibility than is afforded by the standard MIDI protocol. By connecting a Paca or Pacarana via Ethernet, sound designers, musicians, and researchers using Kyma can establish bi-directional communication with OSC-enabled devices and software on the network to control parameters of Kyma algorithms.

Back Panel of the Paca(rana), showing the Ethernet Port

Doug Kraul, CEO of Harmony Systems, Inc. is enthusiastic about Kyma’s new OSC technology. “OSC is a brilliant addition to the already stellar Kyma sound design workstation”, said Kraul. “It immediately enables exciting new ways to use Kyma on stage or in the studio. But the true impact of this forward looking technology is the new, innovative controllers and applications that OSC makes possible for the Kyma platform”.

Don’t have any OSC-enabled devices or software yet? Not to worry! You, too, can benefit from the faster speeds, higher resolution, and reduced cable-count of OSC by using Symbolic Sound’s protocol for sending bi-directional MIDI streams over OSC. Symbolic Sound is happy to announce that several third-party development partners are concurrently announcing new software that supports bi-directional communication with Kyma over OSC:

Known as the Rosetta Stone of music controllers, Camille Troillard’s Mac OS X application OSCulator (pictured at top) is already familiar to Kyma users who utilize it for sending individual MIDI controls, OSC, and HID control data over FireWire to Kyma. Now, in OSCulator 2.9.2, you can also send OSC messages directly to the Paca(rana) over the network.  OSCulator 2.9.2 also implements Symbolic Sound’s Bi-Directional-MIDI-streams-over-OSC protocol, enabling you to send streams of MIDI events from your software directly to Kyma without need for a MIDI interface on your computer and without having to map each controller individually in OSCulator.

Harmony Systems, Inc. is offering two new Mac OS X applications in its Delora product line, vM2 and PacaMidi, that incorporate Kyma’s new “MIDI-over-OSC” technology to further enhance and facilitate real-time interaction with Kyma. vM2, a “virtual MotorMix”, enables JazzMutant Lemur owners to enjoy automatic, fully integrated tactile control over Kyma’s Virtual Control Surface. Recently updated to include several exciting new features, vM2 2.0 employs “MIDI-over-OSC” to eliminate the complication of physical MIDI cables and interfaces. PacaMidi, Harmony’s newest product, uses “MIDI-over-OSC” to create a “virtual MIDI interface and patchbay” that adds three merged MIDI inputs and one MIDI output to a Paca(rana). This expands Kyma’s connectivity options, while saving you the expense and complexity of using physical MIDI interfaces, hardware mergers, and numerous cables.

If you are one of the many artists using Kyma in conjunction with Ableton’s Live and/or Cycling74’s Max, you’ll be happy to hear that Andrew Capon has written a Max external for bidirectional MIDI communication over OSC that works with both Max and Max For Live.

Sound artists will find this new feature of interest primarily due to the new opportunities it affords for controlling Kyma using OSC-enabled software running on devices such as the newly announced Apple iPad (and compatible iPhone and iPod Touch), the award-winning JazzMutant Lemur multi-touch surface, and numerous other OSC controllers and software.

This new feature may also be of particular interest to research labs and researchers developing data-driven virtual environments. Using the Open Sound Control protocol, researchers can write their own software for updating sound parameters while running experiments or for streaming data from networked computers to the Paca(rana) to update sound synthesis parameters in real time in response to external controllers, experimentally generated data, streams of data from remote sensors, or synthetically generated data based on computer models.

OSC-enabled Kyma X.74 is a free software update for registered Kyma X owners. OSC communication requires the Paca or Pacarana sound engine. Kyma X.74 also comes with additional features, including an 11-times speedup in the Virtual Control Surface, support for the MOTU UltraLite Hybrid mk3, TC Electronic Impact Twin, and Prism Audio Orpheus converters, track-pad compatible menus, refinements to the Tau resynthesis, and more.

www.symbolicsound.com

At the core of DrumSpillage lies a high resolution multi model synthesis architecture. Rather than create a complex “one size fits all” generic drum synth algorithm AudioSpillage created a rich variety of highly flexible algorithms (see full list below). Each model can be tweaked well beyond its standard settings allowing you to create unique, highly personalized kits that no one else has. DrumSpillage features 2 precision ADSR envelopes per pad with ultra fast attack times and smooth release tails. Full control over envelope attack and release shape is provided as well an exponential mapping mode for tighter, punchier and more natural sounding drums. An independent pitch envelope gives you fine control over pitch shape and contour – crucial for designing bass drums to meet your exact needs.

With so many editing parameters, you’ll need good modulation possibilities to add extra interest to your sounds. Each pad has two multi-waveform LFOs capable of being driven well into the audio frequency range. Two global LFOs are available to all pads simultaneously and can even modulate the standard LFOs creating complex non-repetitive modulation sources for unique effects. Each pad has its own independent distortion unit with a choice of 6 algorithms ranging from warm analog style clipping to full digital overload and decimation effects. Add subtle character to your sounds or reshape them completely. Each pad also has a multi-mode filter capable of low pass, high pass, band pass or band reject filtering modes with switchable 12 or 24db/octave cutoff slopes. The filter can be modulated via envelopes and LFOs, and the resonance can be set to self-oscillation.

No need to worry about DrumSpillage becoming old, dated and stale. The model-driven architecture allows AudioSpillage to upgrade DrumSpillage with additional models without affecting the existing GUI and plug-in performance.

Key Features

• 13 exclusive drum synthesis algorithms (below)
• 16 part multitimbral, 64 note polyphony
• Pad based real-time control surface
• Fast slider based GUI
• Future proof model driven architecture
• Flexible modulation options
• Full MIDI key mapping and pad layering
• Dynamic velocity accent control
• Extensive editing capabilities
• 9 mono/stereo outputs
• High resolution 64-bit DSP engine

Full Model List

• Bass Drum
• Cymbal
• Noise HiHat
• Synth Clap
• Membrane
• FM Percussion
• Wood Drum
• Hand Bell
• Claves
• Electro Bass Drum
• Electro Snare
• Electro HiHat
• Electro Cymbal

DrumSpillage requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher and an AudioUnit host.

Release date is set for 15th March 2010 but AudioSpillage is taking a very LIMITED number of advance orders now for a special discounted price of £75 / €89 / $119 which represents at least a 25% saving on the full retail price. You will receive your plug-in on or before the official release date.

www.audiospillage.com/drumspillage.php

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BigTick has released the long-awaited version 2.05 of Rhino, which is now also available for Mac OS X in VST and AU instrument formats. In addition, all other previously commercial BigTick products including Angelina, EP-station, EP-Phazer and Rainbow are now freeware.

Rhino is a 6-oscillator hybrid FM Synthesizer with customizable waveforms and modulable, variable waveshapers. The plug-in comes with more than 1000 presets, neatly classified in a searchable database, and many more are available on the BigTick web site.

Major enhancements in Rhino v2.05 are:

• Now supports Mac OS X Audio Units and VST.
• Improved UI with new envelope editing options.
• SFZ support.
• Flexible routing between the filters (parallel, serial, cross-feedback).
• Built-in library now contains all the available presets, neatly classified.

Rhino is now available for Windows and Mac OS X (Intel-only) in VST and AU instrument plug-in formats.

Purchase Rhino via direct download for €70 (around $97 at publishing time). A free demo version is also available for download. Registration is required to access the downloads of Angelina, EP-station, EP-Phazer and Rainbow.

www.bigtick-audio.com

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After many months of creative sound design and sonic manipulation Wave Alchemy is extremely proud to announce the release of their first Drum Tools library. Drum Tools 01 “Minimal Techno & Tech House” by Wave Alchemy offers over 1900 exquisitely produced electronic drum samples. And for a limited time, MacOSXAudio.com visitors can download a free 150-sample “taster” pack (see below).

All sounds in the collection have been built from the ground up using a jaw­dropping array of analogue circuitry and exclusive high­end outboard gear. Great care has been taken to capture the tone & vibe and warmth of the equipment used and all sample editing and file naming has been done by hand for maximum precision. The drum samples in Drum Tools 01 have been created by the creative layering and processing of drum machines, exotic synthesizers and modulars, field recordings and the recording of live drums and percussive instruments.

Drum Tools 01 is an essential purchase for any electronic music producer looking for high quality, 100% original drum samples. Although designed with Minimal Techno & Tech House music in mind, Drum Tools 01 also makes an essential toolkit for producers of House, Trance, Electro or even down­tempo and Hip-Hop styles.

What’s included in the Drum Tools 01 sample pack?

• 1950 24-bit 100% royalty free electronic drum hits!
• A professionally dithered 16-bit version of the full library for hardware sampler enthusiasts
• 472 premium kick drum samples arranged by tone (deep, punchy, solid, processed, 808 & fx)
• 251 snare drum samples arranged by type (classic, layered, punchy, processed & noise)
• 594 exotic percussion samples created with a wealth of highly sought-after studio gear and divided into folders such as ‘blips & pops’ ‘toms & tones’ ‘world’ ‘analogue synth’ ‘driven digital’ & ‘miscellaneous’
• 125 luxurious claps and snaps
• 141 hi hat & creative noise samples
• 75 glitch shots devised from creative layering and analogue circuits
• 62 minimal stabs and chord hits
• 88 sound effects samples
• 26 uniquely layered crash cymbal sounds
• 58 drum creation tools including transient snaps, clicks and sub enhancers
• Ableton Live 8 pack (requires latest version of live)
• 13 drum kits including sampler patches for Battery, Kontakt, Reason NNXT, Halion, EXS24 and SFZ
• 42 bonus tb-303 licks + much more

Why choose Drum Tools?

• Exquisitely recorded, 100% original drum hit samples
• Built from the ground up – Never ripped from vinyl or similar
• Carefully selected signal chain making use of an extensive selection of boutique studio gear and sought-after outboard
• Edited by hand for maximum precision
• Carefully layered & Processed with meticulous attention to detail
• Recorded in 24-bit using top-flight AD converters

Wave Alchemy Drum Tools 01 Sound Sources:

• Future Retro XS
• Korg MS-20
• Jomox XBase 999
• Jomox Airbase 99
• Jomox Mbase 11
• Vermona DRM MK11
• Elektron Machinedrum UW
• Roland TR-808
• Roland TR-606
• ARP Odyssey
• Minimoog Voyager
• Nord Lead 3
• Waldorf Pulse
• Roland TB-303
• Korg ER-1
• Various Live Recordings & Percussive Instruments

Wave Alchemy Drum Tools 01 Sound Shaping:

• Thermionic Culture Vulture Mastering Version
• Sherman Filterbank 2
• Moog Filters & Envelopes
• Korg MS-20
• Empirical Labs Distressor
• SSL E Series EQ
• SSL E Series Compressor
• SPL Transient Designer
• API 512c Pre-amp
• SPL Gainstation Pre-amp

Limited time offer: Download the free 150-sample Drum Tools 01 “taster” pack (24-bit WAV).

The full download contains 1950 24-bit WAV samples, 1950 16-bit WAV samples, 13 ready to play drum kits optimized for Battery, Kontakt, Halion, EXS-24, NNXT, SFZ & Ableton Live 8. Drum Tools 01 is available via direct download from Wave Alchemy for £39.95 (approximately $64 at time of publishing).

www.wavealchemy.co.uk

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Softube has announced the official release of their Trident A-Range Equalizer plug-in. The original Trident A-Range console is a legendary piece of equipment. As only thirteen were ever made, it remains a holy grail for sound engineers and producers around the world that hope to create equal works of art to those that were originally recorded on the A-Range — David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust, Queen, Elton John, and more.

The A-Range was originally designed in the early 70’s for Trident Studios in London by Malcolm Toft and Barry Porter. Toft was employed as a sound engineer at Trident Studios and when the studio needed a 24 track recording console, he started Trident Audio Developments to design and build the Trident A-Range. Other products followed and found their way to studios around the world. Toft remains active to this day, developing products under the Trident name.

The A-Range plug-in from Softube is the first and only native plug-in that has been fully endorsed by Toft and Trident Audio.

The plug-in version of the A-Range is modeled after a channel on one of the original 13 Trident A-Range consoles. This particular channel strip is channel number 15 from Sweet Silence Studio ‘B’ in Denmark and was borrowed from Danish producer Flemming Rasmussen. The A-Range console has been in Rasmussen’s care for a long time and used by Flemming Rasmussen when recording albums such as Metallica’s Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets and …And Justice for All.

The A-Range channel features four bands of equalization and high and low pass filters, the sound of the filters are often referred to as “colorful” and “musical”. When running a hot enough signal through the original unit and boosting the bands it is possible to get it to distort, the sound is a hairy and effective saturation that is just right in some situation and just wrong in others! Even though the unit was never designed to distort, it has definitely been used this way by renowned producers and Softube thought it was only appropriate to stay true to the original unit and add the saturation to the plug-in as an option!

In Short

• Created together with original designer Malcolm Toft
• Each and every component carefully modeled
• Same sweet sounding EQ filters that made the original legendary
• Interaction between the different bands, making this equalizer one of its kind
• Saturation control
• Very CPU friendly

A VST, AudioUnits or RTAS (Pro Tools 7 or higher) compatible host application is required. The Mac version requires OS X 10.4 (or higher) on a G4 or Intel CPU (or higher), 512 MB RAM, a DVD drive and an iLok USB key. The TDM version requires a Pro Tools|HD Accel card.

A-Range is available via direct download from Softube, and at authorized dealers, for an introductory price of $229 (Native) or $329 (TDM/Native). After February, the price will increase to $279 and $449, respectively.

www.softube.com/trident_arange.php

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After months of preparation, Twisted Tools is proudly announcing the birth of their sound mangling devices for electronic music production and sound design. Instead of handing out cigars, they are serving up 6 free Reaktor ensembles along with their first commercial product, Vortex.

Vortex is a six track polyphonic sampler and sequencer for Native Instruments Reaktor 5. It comes pre-configured for Kore 2 and Maschine and features an original 200+ MB sample map with samples by artists such as c2, Richard Devine, Josh Hinden, Noklip, GlitchMachines.com, Mike Huckaby, Sonictwist, Tipper and Vinja.

Each sampler track has 4 modulation sequencer tracks labeled Gate, Roll, ModA and ModB. The modulation sequencers are color-coded and can be easily assigned to modulate any sampler parameter(s). There are also two cross-modulating LFOs which are also color-coded and assignable. Extensive cut/copy/paste/select/randomize functionality is available using an innovative Graphic Layer system.

Features:

• Six Track Sequencer, 4 Sequencers Per Track
• Six-Voice Polyphonic Granular Sampler
• Color-Coded Modulation System
• Two Cross Modulating LFOs
• Extensive Randomization Features
• MIDI Learn System with Controller Feedback
• Alternate View Option
• Multi-Out Support
• Extensive Cut/Copy/Paste/Select/Randomize Functionality
• Advanced ‘Graphic Layer’ Editing
• Scene Sequencing (create arrangements within each preset)
• Templates for Kore 2 and Maschine
• Comes with all of the Twisted Tools ‘freebie’ plugins as part of the download

Vortex requires Native Instruments Reaktor 5.15 for Mac or PC. Native Instruments Kore 2 or Maschine are also required if using their respective included templates.

You can purchase Vortex via direct download from Twisted Tools for $29. The 6 free Reaktor ensembles can be downloaded separately from Vortex after registering on their web site.

Twisted Tools is the brainchild of Igor Shilov (Reaktor designer SonicTwist) and Josh Hinden (Director of MIDI, Expression.edu). They aim to bring electronic musicians innovative and user friendly tools, with an emphasis on unique design and high quality sound. While their current emphasis is on developing instruments for the Native Instruments Reaktor platform, future development of Audio Unit and VST devices is planned.

twistedtools.com/shop/samplers/vortex

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Apple today introduced iPad, a revolutionary device for browsing the web, reading and sending email, enjoying photos, watching videos, listening to music, playing games, reading e-books and much more. iPad’s responsive high-resolution Multi-Touch display lets users physically interact with applications and content. iPad is just 0.5 inches thick and weighs just 1.5 pounds– thinner and lighter than any laptop or netbook. iPad includes 12 new innovative apps designed especially for the iPad, and will run almost all of the over 140,000 apps in the App Store. iPad will be available in late March starting at the breakthrough price of just $499.

“iPad is our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “iPad creates and defines an entirely new category of devices that will connect users with their apps and content in a much more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before.”

iPad features 12 next-generation Multi-Touch applications. Every app works in both portrait and landscape, automatically animating between views as the user rotates iPad in any direction. The precise Multi-Touch interface makes surfing the web on iPad an entirely new experience, dramatically more interactive and intimate than on a computer. Reading and sending email is fun and easy on iPad’s large screen and almost full-size “soft” keyboard. Import photos from a Mac, PC or digital camera, see them organized as albums, and enjoy and share them using iPad’s elegant slideshows. Watch movies, TV shows and YouTube, all in HD or flip through pages of an e-book you downloaded from Apple’s new iBookstore while listening to your music collection.

iPad runs almost all of the over 140,000 apps on the App Store, including apps already purchased for your iPhone or iPod touch. The iTunes Store gives you access to the world’s most popular online music, TV and movie store with a catalog of over 11 million songs, over 50,000 TV episodes and over 8,000 films including over 2,000 in stunning high definition video. Apple also announced the new iBooks app for iPad, which includes Apple’s new iBookstore, the best way to browse, buy and read books on a mobile device. The iBookstore will feature books from major and independent publishers.

Apple also introduced a new version of iWork for iPad, the first desktop-class productivity suite designed specifically for Multi-Touch. With Pages, Keynote and Numbers you can create beautifully formatted documents, stunning presentations with animations and transitions, and spreadsheets with charts, functions and formulas. The three apps will be available separately through the App Store for $9.99 each.

iPad syncs with iTunes just like the iPhone and iPod touch, using the standard Apple 30-pin to USB cable, so you can sync all of your contacts, photos, music, movies, TV shows, applications and more from your Mac or PC. All the apps and content you download on iPad from the App Store, iTunes Store and iBookstore will be automatically synced to your iTunes library the next time you connect with your computer.

iPad’s brilliant 9.7-inch, LED-backlit display features IPS technology to deliver crisp, clear images and consistent color with an ultra-wide 178 degree viewing angle. The highly precise, capacitive Multi-Touch display is amazingly accurate and responsive whether scrolling web pages or playing games. The intelligent soft keyboard pioneered on iPhone takes advantage of iPad’s larger display to offer an almost full-size soft keyboard. iPad also connects to the new iPad Keyboard Dock with a full-size traditional keyboard.

iPad is powered by A4, Apple’s next-generation system-on-a-chip. Designed by Apple, the new A4 chip provides exceptional processor and graphics performance along with long battery life of up to 10 hours. Apple’s advanced chemistry and Adaptive Charging technology deliver up to 1,000 charge cycles without a significant decrease in battery capacity over a typical five year lifespan.

iPad comes in two versions–one with Wi-Fi and the other with both Wi-Fi and 3G. iPad includes the latest 802.11n Wi-Fi, and the 3G versions support speeds up to 7.2 Mbps on HSDPA networks. Apple and AT&T announced breakthrough 3G pre-paid data plans for iPad with easy, on-device activation and management.

Continuing Apple’s dedication to designing and creating environmentally responsible products, each iPad enclosure is made of highly recyclable aluminum and comes standard with energy-efficient LED-backlit displays that are mercury-free and made with arsenic-free glass. iPad contains no brominated flame retardants and is completely PVC-free.

Apple today released a new Software Development Kit (SDK) for iPad, so developers can create amazing new applications designed to take advantage of iPad’s capabilities. The SDK includes a simulator that lets developers test and debug their iPad apps on a Mac, and also lets developers create Universal Applications that run on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.

iPad will be available in late March worldwide for a suggested retail price of $499 (US) for the 16GB model, $599 (US) for the 32GB model, $699 (US) for the 64GB model. The Wi-Fi + 3G models of iPad will be available in April in the US and selected countries for a suggested retail price of $629 (US) for the 16GB model, $729 (US) for the 32GB model and $829 (US) for the 64GB model. International pricing and worldwide availability will be announced at a later date. iBookstore will be available in the US at launch.

www.apple.com/ipad

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IK Multimedia is proud to present AmpliTube 3, a massive upgrade of the leading guitar and bass tone gear-modeling software. AmpliTube 3 raises the industry standard of sound variety, realism and creative power. With over 160 precisely modeled pieces of vintage and modern gear available in one package, it is the ultimate tone gear collection for players, producers, engineers.

AmpliTube 3 contains over 160 pieces of gear, more than double the amount of other packages, including models from the most sought-after vintage collections and modern day workhorses. You’ll get 51 individual stompboxes and effects, 31 amplifier, preamp & power sections, 46 speaker cabinet models, 15 high-end stage and studio mics, and 17 post-amp rack effects. Plus, with the new AmpliTube 3 open architecture, you can add more packages as you need them, like AmpliTube Fender and Ampeg SVX.

AmpliTube 3 gear models give you THE most realistic playing feel — not just the tones — but the actual dynamic response of their hardware counterparts. Nothing comes closer to the feel and touch of playing through a real rig than AmpliTube 3. Plus, with IK’s proprietary VRMTM (Volumetric Response Modeling) technology, you can add ultra-accurate rotating speaker effects, free dual mic placements, plus room ambience and response to customize and craft your tone.

The better you sound, the better you play. AmpliTube 3 unleashes more creative power than ever, helping you to easily carve new, truly unique voices for your guitar, bass, keyboard, drum and vocals. Our new creative effects let you create sounds you’ve never heard before, and the new “drag & drop” effects’ configuration feature lets you quickly experiment with effects in the signal chain to get that totally unique sound.

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AmpliTube 3 will be available as Audio Units, VST, and RTAS plug-ins, and as a stand-alone application (shown above). The Mac version requires a G4, G5 or Intel processor, dual 1 GHz or faster, 1GB of RAM, and OS X 10.4 or later.

AmpliTube 3 will ship within February 2010 and will be available in the following versions:

• AmpliTube 3 — $349.99/€269.99
• AmpliTube 3 Crossgrade — $269.99/€199.99 (available to any IK registered users)
• AmpliTube 3 Upgrade — $199.99/€149.99 (available to all previous AmpliTube 2, AmpliTube Metal, AmpliTube Jimi Hendrix, AmpliTube Fender or Ampeg SVX registered users)

Additionally, AmpliTube 3 will be available as a complete software + hardware solution for playing and recording in a bundle with the StealthPedal – IK’s innovative, wah-style interface and controller for guitar and bass players:

• AmpliTube 3 + StealthPedal — $399.99/€299.99

Pre-orders are already available from the IK Online Store and at selected dealers worldwide.

www.amplitube.com

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MeldaProduction effects plug-ins are now available on the Mac platform in VST and AU formats. MeldaProduction specializes in highly detailed dynamics and EQ plug-ins from mix to mastering. Many are very nicely priced, and a select handful are free.

MeldaProduction mixing and mastering plug-ins promise to make your mixes sound better with much less work. MMultiBandLimiter is an advanced state-of-the-art multiband mastering brickwall limiter plug-in that makes your recordings and mixes sound louder with minimal distortion and artifacts. MMultiBandDynamics is an advanced multiband dynamics processor designed originally for mastering, however due to its high performance and zero latency it is also suitable for any mixing purpose.

MAutoEqualizer advanced mastering equalizer and analyzer combines a powerful equalizer, state-of-the-art linear-phase equalizer and analyzer in a single window. It can perform equalization based on an analysis of your recording, another recording or any spectral content which you can literally “draw” using the MeldaProduction Envelope System (MES).

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MeldaProduction also offers MReverb and MMultiBandReverb, with spatial positioning control and 4 modulation sources, and MStereoProcessor, a multiband mastering stereo enhancer.

MeldaProduction was founded in 2005 by current director Vojtěch Meluzín (known as Melda) in the Czech Republic. “At MeldaProduction, we believe that great software cannot be created by developers limited by deadlines and commands from managers, workers for slow and inoperational large corporations. Hence we try to keep MeldaProduction very small and build the power on our great development team. We employ young, clever, motivated people in order to make our products more inventive and sophisticated.”

MeldaProduction offers free-for-life updates for all of their products. Additionally, when you purchase any MeldaProduction software bundle, any software added to that bundle at a later date also becomes free. Copy protection is handled by downloaded licence files. No dongles, hardware devices no internet connection are required.

On the Mac, MeldaProduction plug-ins require OS X 10.4 or later, an Intel processor, SSE2 & dual-core support recommended, and a VST or AU compatible host (32-bit).

www.meldaproduction.com

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