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Audio Damage unveils their upcoming new product, Eos, which is a new reverb plug-in. Eos aims to provide a nice, long, lush reverb outside of the normal CPU-intensive processes which means that it will be perfectly suited for live uses. Here is an excerpt from their blog :

"Here's a first real look at Eos, the next Audio Damage product. Some highlights:
1. As you can see, it has three distinct algorithms. Plate One is a summed input plate algo. This means it combines the left and right to proved the source input for the algorithm. It has a stereo output on a stereo track, though. Plate Two is a slightly different algorithm, with a stereo input. Superhall is a hall algorithm designed specifically for long dense modulated reverbs, like you'd find on a Harold Budd album. These algorithms were written by Sean Costello under contract to Audio Damage, and are very, very good. (And you'll note that I rarely qualify the word "good," let alone with two instances of "very.")

2. The control structure we've gone with is quite a bit different than our normal methods. You can grab any of the digit displays to change the values; grabbing them towards the left gives you big changes, and grabbing them towards the right gives you small changes. This seemed much handier than having a text value entry (the which I dislike intensely) and gives you control that is just as fine. Also, all the graphical displays are X/Y controllers. The big oval on the top, the X is decay (RT60 in the vernacular) and the Y is size. The little sperm thing inside the oval displays the modulation rate and depth. The filter displays are similar, with X being the cutoff for the respective filter and Y being the multiplier.

This plug-in has a much different topology internally than ADverb (née Reverence) and has a correspondingly much different sound. It also has a ludicrously low CPU usage. As far as I'm able to measure, the DSP itself has no real usage to speak of, and most of the CPU is a result of instancing a VST or AU in the first place. It can easily be used live on a laptop, or multiple-instanced. This was our real goal: to provide a nice, long, lush reverb outside of the normal CPU-intensive processes, and in my opinion that was accomplished."

Pricing & Availability TBA.

Trinity Audio Group Inc. refreshes it's line of mobile audio computers by announcing the Indamixx Netbook Model 2, an affordable Linux audio Netbook with pre-installed audio and mobility software.

"At $499.00 complete with hardware and fully loaded software, we provide the most affordable full featured mobile recording studio in the world," says Creative Director Ronald Stewart. "The Indamixx Netbook is an ideal product for music beginners and priced perfectly for the masses."

Model 2 improvements include :

• 3.0 Transmission (OS) - Custom Linux operating based on Ubuntu 9.04.
• A Private Label MSI Wind U100 with factory installed 2GB RAM - 1 year limited warranty.
• 160GB HDD.
• 10" Widescreen
• An Over clocked Intel Atom chip up to 2.0Ghz with up to 4 hour battery life.
• 3G and HSDPA capable.
• Pre-bundled software with award winning energy XT
• First solution to feature ArdourXchange
• More than 350 classic sample and scratches
• Over 260 Plugins and effects

MOTU has announced the release of Volta v1.01. This maintenance update has numerous enhancements and is recommended for all users. Volta v1.01 is available as a free, downloadable update for all registered Volta users.

For complete details, see the PDF documentation included in the 1.01 updater download.

Pettinhouse has released "Vinyl Drumkits Electronic - Deep House Kit", a new free electronic drum kits for Native instruments Battery 3 or Kontakt 3. This kits was destinated to a new version of Pettinhouse's electronic vinyl drumkit library which it is availble now for free.

To download this kit, please follow the lnk bellow :

Peavey has released a "preview" version of its virtual guitar amp ReValver Mk III in RTAS plug-in format. The downloads are not beta but a preview of the final version.

Windows and Mac OS X versions are available for registered users at :

Last week at the AES in Munich, Neumann has unveiled a new MS stereo/numeric mic pair.

Assembling the KMR81D ("shotgun" style) and the KM120D which features a prototype of the KK120 capsule in a numeric body, this mic pair is specially designed for the video market. If the test-users reviews are positive, we should see this product in our favorite retailers shops by the end of the year.

No price announced so far.