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Audio-Technica unveils its first-ever ribbon microphones, the AT4080 and AT4081 Bidirectional Active Ribbon Microphones, two new offerings from A-T's expanding 40 Series.

Audio-Technica's R&D team in Japan engineered and manufactured the AT4080 and AT4081 from the ground up, utilizing a hand-built, proprietary design and rugged, durable construction. Both offer smooth, warm and natural sound with precise, articulate detail to meet the critical requirements of today's recording, broadcast and sound reinforcement professionals. With 18 patents pending, Audio-Technica's innovative ribbon transducer advances the evolution of ribbon microphone technology, combining remarkable durability and high SPL capability with smooth, rich audio quality.

The AT4080, whose footprint is that of a cla ...

Spectrasonics has announced that the world premiere of its highly anticipated new bass virtual instrument "Trilian" will be in Paris, France on October 22, 2009. The event will take place at the IRCAM Facility (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique) in central Paris. Although the event is free, seating is limited and attendance is set by RSVP to a special webpage, first come first served. There will also be a raffle at each of the two sessions, 3pm and 6pm, where a copy of the Trilian Total Bass Module software will be given away free to one of the lucky attendees. Representatives from Spectrasonics will be at the event presenting the live demonstration and answering questions afterwards.

Spectrasonics' Trilian Total Bass Module is the successor to its award-winning Trilogy bass module. The virtual instrument has a much larger core library and features highly detailed new acoustic, electric and synth basses, as well as enhanced versions of the classic Trilogy sounds. Sporting a brand new user interface with numerous software innovations, Trilian is the

Voxengo has released TransGainer — an audio plug-in suitable for a wide range of professional music production uses. TransGainer implements audio signal envelope adjustment algorithm that reacts on transients rather than on signal's loudness level. This algorithm allows you to adjust volume of attack and sustain stages of any sounds you use it on. TransGainer was designed in a way to be suitable for all possible sound sources — be it individual tracks or full mixes.

Features :

• Transient stage loudness adjustments
• Sustain stage loudness adjustments
• Transient-to-transient time control
• Multi-channel processing
• Internal channel routing
• Channel grouping
• Mid/side processing
• Up to 8x oversampling
• 64-bit floating point pr ...

Avid Technology today announced three new Pro Tools Essential bundles, hardware-software combinations that target consumers and hobbyists who are interested in musical composition, editing, and production, or who want to create and share music, podcasts, narrations, and other audio content. The packages are: Pro Tools Vocal Studio, Pro Tools Recording Studio, and Pro Tools KeyStudio.

Pro Tools Vocal Studio includes the Producer USB microphone that lets people capture vocals, as well as record acoustically played instruments. Using the software, users can remix vocals to produce soundtracks and podcasts. It also comes with a desktop stand and carrying case.

Pro Tools Recording Studio lets users craft songs

FXpansion is proud to present the latest addition to the BFD2 Expansion Pack range, a collection of Yamaha artist signature snares for your BFD2 library.

The snares are captured in the same room as the previous Yamaha expansion kits and the Jazz & Funk, Percussion and B.O.M.B expansion packs, in Omega Studios, Rockville, MD, USA. The tight, precise and very playable sound makes them sound great when combined with any kit-pieces in the BFD library.

BFD v2.1's support for custom articulations allows these snares to offer 'rim clicks' in addition to the standard snare articulations, as well as positional sensing when used with electronic drums.

Feature Highlights Include :

• Five signature Snares
• 1.Roy Haynes Signature Snare Drums (14" x 5.5")
• 2.Bamboo Snare ...

Unfortunately Sugar Bytes has to rename their midi sequencer product Eloquence. The owner of the trademark Eloquence has been pretty clear about the mighty power of their lawyers, so Sugar Bytes changed the name rightaway.

Sugar Bytes has decided for the new name Thesys. The product will be updated to Thesys 1.0.2 on upcoming monday, September 14.