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LAWO Plugin Server Offers SurCode for Dolby E In a common development effort, Lawo, Dolby and Minnetonka Audio Software, Inc. (MASI) announce the new Lawo SurCode for Dolby E Real-Time Decoder plug-in that operates in the new Lawo Plugin Server. A Dolby E Encoder module will follow later this year.

The Lawo SurCode for Dolby E plug-in functions as a VST plug-in that is controlled by a graphical interface allowing for full control and recall on the fly, completely integrated into the Lawo production environment. The unique real-time integration allows one or more instances of the Dolby E Decoder on the Lawo Plugin Server to be used in combination with existing Dolby E hardware products. (more…)

Vir2 Instruments announces the release of the first expansion pack for its groundbreaking syntAX instrument, entitled Complex Evolution. Adding on to the 2000+ patches that form the core library of syntAX, Complex Evolution adds another 100 fresh and innovative patches to the sound palette of syntAX users. (more…)

The Chime Tree is essential in most music productions for adding sparkle and motion. Chimes Collection has 54 24-bit stereo WAV files in different directions and speeds. In this library you will find the right Chime samples to fit the production.

You could use the WAV files in any host supporting the WAV format. We have also made mappings for HALion, Kontakt and Gigastudio (16bit) if you rather use a keyboard to triggering the sounds.

All formats are included when you buy the library.

Chimes Collection costs $19 (+$11 if you want it on CD-R).

For more information, visit their web site at www.precisionsound.net.

iZotope, Inc., a leading innovator in audio signal processing technology, has released iZotope RX™ audio restoration plug-ins, featuring the essential tools for cleaning and restoring audio. Available for VST, Audio Unit, MAS, ProTools (RTAS, AudioSuite), and DirectX, the plug-ins are now included with the award-winning standalone version for the same price of $349. Current RX customers will be able to download the update free of charge. (more…)

Following their ongoing Edition Beurmann, German sample manufacturer realsamples offers another piano for your virtual sampler: The Traugott Berndt pianoforte of the renowned collection of Professor Andreas E. Beurmann.

Built in 1848 by Johann Karl Traugott Berndt in Breslau, the instrument sports a special and unique sound far away from any usual lifeless modern piano sound: The historical piano sports a graceful, charming yet smart and slinky sound hidden in a plain-Jane bourgeois Biedermeier style housing. Only 9 Berndt pianos are preserved to this day. (more…)

Features:

• Changes the pitch but not the length of a sound.
• Large and easy to use, ideal for experiments and live performances.
• Full range adjustments from one semitone to an octave up or down.
• Unique intertia parameters for springy vibrato effects.
• Sample accurate changes prevent stepped pitch changes.
• Phase locked for stereo sounds.
• Buffer size changes, allows quality adjustments for vocal or percussion.
• Great visual feed-back with semitone snap, and actual pitch indicator.
• Extremely low CPU.
• Low price.

Classification: Effect — pitch shifter.
OS: Windows & Mac OS-X
Format: VST & Audio Unit Universal Binary.
Protection: Unlock key.
Cost: $30.
For more information, visit their web site at www.quikquak.com.

The E2 Deesser (http://www.eiosis.com/e2deesser) is now available in all native formats for both Windows and Mac OSX.

Now includes the VST version This new version supports Syncrosoft, and features the VST, RTAS and AU versions for Windows and Mac OSX.

A Syncrosoft demo version is available on our website, and now you can download the E2 Deesser demo for both Syncrosoft and iLok.

For more information, visit their web site at www.eiosis.com.

Antares Audio Technologies has announced the release of Voice Thing!(http://antaresvox.com/voicething.html , an extremely affordable and easy to use PC application for changing voices in real time. Designed for online gaming, voice chat, VoIP, and video and podcast production, Voice Thing! can change a person’s voice in an almost limitless variety of ways.

Based on technology developed for Antares pro audio voice processing applications, Voice Thing! requires only a microphone and any PC application that accepts audio input. Voice Thing! lets anyone subtly or radically change the character of their voice, turn their (audio) self into a monster or alien, or create the effect of being in a wide variety of sonic environments, from small rooms to huge halls. (more…)

Audio Damage have released Ricochet which they describe as a sophisticated, yet easy-to-use multi-tap delay, with the signature Audio Damage sound. They say that, featuring a 16-step grid for programming tap time, Ricochet is right at home in modern electronic music production, designed specifically for that context, and is much quicker to program than the run-of-the-mill multi-tap. (more…)

Virsyn have released MATRIX 1.1.1, an update to their Vocoder that is only important for people who work with the VST 3 version in Cubase and Nuendo.
New bugfixes in MATRIX 1.1.1: (more…)