iZotope today released Nectar, a new plug–in which offers dozens of professionally designed vocal production styles powered by eleven processing modules. Users can select an included style and then customize it with faders tailored to that style. For further customization, switching to the Advanced View allows access all of the controls of the underlying modules that power the plug-in.
Avid today announced Pro Tools 9—an impressive evolution of the industry’s most popular music creation and audio production solution. Version 9 of Pro Tools offers customers the unprecedented choice to work with Avid audio interfaces, third-party audio interfaces, or no hardware at all when using the built-in audio capabilities of your computer. New support for the Avid EUCON open Ethernet protocol now enables customers to expand control surface options to include Avid’s Artist Series and Pro Series audio consoles and controllers.
FabFilter has expanded their line of professional mastering and mixing plug-ins with the introduction of FabFilter Pro-L, a feature-packed limiter plug-in suitable for both mastering and mixing. Pro-L delivers sophisticated limiting algorithms, highly accurate metering, linear-phase oversampling and dithering, but above all, it promises the sound quality and innovative interface design that you’ve come to expect from FabFilter.
3R Audio has released the first version of Space Designer Manager, extending the usability of Logic Pro’s popular Space Designer impulse reverb.
ValhallaDSP today announced the release of ValhallaShimmer, a high quality reverb plug-in designed to produce a smooth decay that is both dense and colorless. There are several reverberation modes available, to allow the user to dial in reverb decays of different sizes, ranging from smaller rooms to vast ambiences. The algorithms in ValhallaShimmer are the results of over a decade of research into both reverberation algorithms and pitch shift algorithms.