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Toontrack Music announces worldwide shipping of The Metal Foundry SDX

The originators of multi sampled drums and Drumkit From Hell, Toontrack Music announces the worldwide shipping of the all-new SDX expansion pack for Superior Drummer 2.0 - The Metal Foundry SDX.

The Metal Foundry SDX is an all-new recording with Meshuggah drummer Tomas Haake, featuring seven massive drum kits, spanning 300,000 sound files of raw, single hit drum recordings in the vein of Drumkit From Hell and dfh Superior, covering Hard Rock to Metal, from the early Blues tinged sound of the late 60s to the fragmentation of todays music, from Power through Thrash, Death and Progressive Metal.

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Tomo Audiolabs, Germany launches the flagship of a totally new type of product family for analogue tonal refinement in audio mastering with the dynamic mastering equaliser, "Lisa".

Lisa has a unique linkage of EQ with integrated dynamic processing at its disposal. With two shelf bands and four parametric bands - (two parametric bands can additionally be switched over to shelf), as well as low-cut and M/S matrix, the parallel-structured compression EQ offers undreamed-of intervention possibilities and subtly-nuanced refinement options. The most important field of application in mastering is gain with concurrent retention of a dynamic and live acoustic contour.

Product facts :

• Six frequency bands with a broad frequency overlap enable the greatest possible range of processing ...

Shure unveils its SRH series of studio headphones. There are three models in the range : the SRH240 (€199), the SRH440 (€249) and the SRH840 (€299). All three have closed-back earcups for use in recording applications.

The SRH240 is described as a perfect headphone for general listening while the SRH440 is optimized for studio monitoring and accurate listening. Last but not least, the SRH840 is specially designed for professional audio engineers and musicians and offers "rich bass, clear mids and extended highs".

All three models in the SRH series will be shipping in the coming months. For more information, please visit the link below :

Until Monday, June 28th, PSP Audioware offers a 25% discount on any order, either individual plug-ins, a custom bundle, or an upgrade to a bundle or newer version.

To get this discount, enter the following code in the additional discount coupon field during check out on their web store : SummerTime.

Novation has updated Automap to v3.1.

New Features :

• Added new range editing system.
• Added button modes.
• Added home page button.
• Added keyboard navigation of HUD.
• Added highlighted group selection to plug-in manager.
• Added search filter to plug-in manager.
• Increased the max count of wrapped AU plug-ins (Mac OS).
• Renaming parameters now requires double mouse click on parameter name.
• More default plug-in mappings.

Fixes :

• Re-added Logic component to installer for the Advanced Logic template.
• Re-implemented "Show on Startup" option.
• Fixed issue with master bypass controls in Pro Tools 8.
• Fixed issue with Cubase mixer clien ...

Cockos has announced the update of its marvellous sequencer Reaper to version 3.04.

Changes :

• Joystick MIDI improvements (modeless config, submodes, etc.).
• Allow ctrl+drag copy of selected areas of items even with very small selections.
• Actions: split selected items at project markers, split selected items at grid.
• Action: remove content behind selected items (shift-X by default).
• Crossfade selected items action allows time selection that is completely within both items.
• Fixed bug with render dialogs render master not being restored from configuration.
• ReaDelay: fixed label of delay length (from QN to 8N).
• Fixed some bugs relating to Unicode conversions when getting long UI strings.
• OSX: fixed sending 1 and 2 byte ...