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VirSyn has just updated its plug-in suite VTAPE to version 1.2 which is now VST3 compatible.

New multi-channel capabilities have laid the basis for a new kind of Surround effect delay - imagine what you can do with up to 16 tempo sync'd delay taps for each audio channel with independent level control. The new multichannel capabilities in VST3 makes the handling of VTape much easier, apparently.

New Features :

- Surround effect delay.
- VST3 compatibility.
- Multichannel capabilities up to 10.2 (VST3 / AU / RTAS).
- Independent level control for each tap.
- Delay: Multichannel Mixer.
- Delay: Input link function for multichannel delay.
- Saturator: automatic gain compensation.

FXpansion has just released BFD B.O.M.B (Big Orchestral Marching Band), a new expansion pack for BFD 1.5 and BFD2 delivering a heavy payload of orchestral and marching drum instruments to your percussive arsenal.

Highlights :

- Expansion pack for BFD1.5 & BFD2 with 38GB of new sounds.
- Set of four timpani covering 1.5 octaves, each pitch recorded with felt and wood mallets.
- Full set of orchestral chimes covering 1.5 octaves.
- 4 tonal bass drums with multiple beaters.
- Concert bass drums including a 40" played with three different beaters.
- Marching quad toms played with sticks, mallets, and hotrods.
- 7 marching and orchestral snares played with sticks, brushes, mallets, and hotrods.
- Groove suite featuring drum-corps and marching performances, hip-hop street beats and more.

BFD B.O.M.B is available now and is priced at $199 / €149 / £99.

AudioWarrior has just released Studio Organ Donor, a sample library for Steinberg's HALion 3. It includes samples from a B3, a church organ and the "Wurly piano organ" which mixes a piano sound with gritty organ tones with optional Flange, Rotary, and Pan-Tremolo.

Studio Organ Donor is available now for Mac OS X and Windows XP | Vista, it costs $49. Note that HALion 3 is required.

Time+Space launch a competition : to celebrate the forthcoming release of Rob Papen's new virtual synth RG, they have 3 complete sets of Rob Papen products to give away. All you have to do is answer a "very simple question".

Each winner will receive a boxed copy of Albino 3, Blue and Predator as well as a copy of RG when it is released. You'll also get a limited edition Rob Papen t-shirt.

To enter the competition visit :

Time+Space Competition

Puremagnetik has released 3 new library bundles for Ableton Live, Kontakt, Logic and GarageBand. All bundles are available directly from the Puremagnetik website for immediate download at a price of $60 each.

Vintage Collection
Vintage Collection contains 7 Puremagnetik's old-school synthesizer Micropaks sourced directly from the classics of the 1970s and 80s :

- TeeBee - Roland® TB-303 instrument and loops
- Circuit:30 - "Circuits" based on Moog® synthesizers and effects
- Analog Bass Volume 1 - Assortment of deep analog bass instruments
- P-50 Linear - Sounds from Roland's® classic 1980's D-50 synthesizer
- String Machines - A collection of the great string synths from the 1970s
- Eight Bit - Classic Commodore 64 SID chip sounds
- Vintage 80's Classics - assortment of ...

After the beautiful Olga, Schwa has just released Oligarc, a collection of four virtual analog FX, tied together by a modulation nerve center that converts the input audio into control signals that can be routed to most of the effect knobs. Oligarc can be an LFO-driven filter, an envelope-controlled phaser, a gate-triggered saturation effect, or anything else you can think up, including mad combinations of linked modulation of multiple effects at once.

In addition, the Oligarc package contains standalone versions of the Drive, Phaser, and Chorus effects, for more traditional usage - although there's nothing traditional about these effects.

Oligarc is available in for Windows (VST) and Mac OS X (AU) and costs $60 (All hosts, commercial use license) / $40 (Reaper-only, non-commercial use license).