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TC Electronic has announced a new member in the PowerCore family, boosted with 8 DSP processors, the PowerCore X8 is twice more powerful than any other member of the existing line.

It includes the v3.0 software, with an improved design and features of 6 out of the 14 audio treatment pluggins : Chorus-Delay, Master X3, Master X5, Mega Reverb, PowerCore Compressor/Limiter and VoiceStrip. The 24/7-C, Dynamic EQ, Filtroïd, PowerCore CL as well as the PowerCore 01synth have now an external sidechain circuit.

The PowerCore X8 (price to be announced) is planned to be released in next november, in addition of all pluggins in the pack it will also include a voucher of 500$ to get optional pluggins.

Note that PowerCore 3.0 system software will be available as a free download in october for the registered users.

Digidesign has announced the upcoming release of Eleven, a new virtual guitar amp plug-in for Pro Tools, VENUE live sound, and Avid systems. Created using an innovative tone-cloning technique, Eleven offers a carefully selected emulations of modern amplifiers and speaker cabinets based on amps and cabinets from Vox, Fender, Marshall, Mesa/Boogie, and Soldano, as well as several custom Digidesign creations inspired by the most revered amplifier designs in the world. Eleven also features groundbreaking, convolution-based speaker cabinet and microphone (on- and off-axis) modeling, the latter of which features emulations of popular dynamic, ribbon and condenser microphones.

Eleven will be available in two versions—Eleven and Eleven LE. Eleven will support TDM, RTAS, and AudioSuite plug-in formats for use with Pro Tools|HD, ICON, and VENUE systems. Eleven LE will support RTAS and AudioSuite plug-in formats for use with Pro Tools LE and Pro Tools M-Powered systems. Note that Digidesign is offering a 30-day trial of a prerelease version of Eleven for qualified Pro Tools and Avid system users. The trial version is a free download from the Digidesign website, and is available for the following system configurations:

* Digidesign-qualified Pro Tools|HD, Pro Tools LE, or Pro Tools M-Powered system running Pro Tools 7.1 or higher software (Pro Tools 7.3 or higher recommended)
* Qualified Avid Xpress®, Avid Xpress DV, or Avid DNA system (AudioSuite only)

Audio Ease has finally released Speakerphone, their speaker simulator plug-in announced a year ago. A bad GSM connection on a busy sidewalk, a bullhorn with feedback and a helicopter overhead, or a 1952 rockabilly guitar amp in a recording studio live room: Speakerphone gives you authentic speakers of any size together with their natural environments.

All the walkie-talkies, distant transistor radios, Guitar cabinets, upstairs TV sets, bullhorns and cell phones you'll ever need. Speakerphone will add dial tones, operators and static, and you can select from a wealth of ambiences on either the caller or receiver's end. And with a click you can send anything from the sample-playback bay right to the cursor in your Pro Tools track.

Operation is extremely quick: you just call up one of the hundreds of carefully crafted and archived presets. If you're a tweaker just click 'show controls' and the whole dashboard slides out, at your disposal, with the most minute detail.

Speakerphone, powered by Altiverb, combines a wealth of effects including a convolution engine that uses actual samples of hundreds of original speakers, a radio receiver tuning dial, record player scratch and static generator, GSM cell phone data compression, distortion, tremolo, delay, a variety of EQ and dynamics, bit crushing, sample rate reduction, a full blown convolution reverb, and a library of samples to combine into entire environments.

And then there's the host of classic guitar amps, complete with tailor made distortion, spring reverbs, and everything else to build guitar tone like you've never heard from a plug-in.

Speakerphone is available now for Mac OS X in VST, RTAS, AudioSuite, Audio Unit and MAS formats but also for Windows in RTAS and VST formats at a retail price of $495 / € 395 ex VAT.

Ambrosia Software, Inc. announced the release of WireTap Studio 1.0.0. This innovative audio recording and editing application features patent-pending technology that brings professional caliber audio recording and editing to the masses. WireTap Studio works with Mac OS X Tiger 10.4 and Leopard 10.5

• WireTap Studio is a complete audio recording and management solution, allowing you to manipulate and manage your audio like never before. Record the discrete audio output of any application, as well as all system audio, or even record audio input from any microphone, line- in, or audio input hardware.

• Lossless master recording technology enables you to edit your recorded audio without any loss of quality or content. You can even take a file you mistakenly recorded at a lower ...

At the AES, AMS-NEVE introduced it's new Genesys product which will be available next year : 16 analogik buses, 16 faders , 8 Aux, 8 groups and 4 sends dedicated to your favourite DAW ...

Approximative price ... 50 000 €

Sample Logic is proud to present the 6 Elements of music :

Ambience (456 patches)
Bass (122 patches)
Harmony (138 patches)
Impacts (391 patches)
Melody (354 patches)
Rhythm (227 patches)

This 14 GB/4 DVD library contains over 1700 instruments, tempo synced loops, and multis. The Elements operates on both Mac and PC platforms and is delivered in Audio Unit, VST, DXi, and RTAS formats. The library comes preloaded with Kontakt Player 2 software and is ready to go out of the box as both a standalone instrument and plug-in. The library can also be loaded and customized in the full version of Kontakt 2.

Cost : $299