PC and Music News

Propellerhead Software today announced their brand new Reason Soul School ReFill to be included free of charge with any new purchase of Reason. This offer is valid starting Friday, November 27th, until December 31st, 2009.

Those who purchase a full version of Reason, Record Reason Duo or Reason Academic from their local retailer, online shop or from Propellerhead Software's own web shop and register it before December 31st 2009 will be given access to download the brand new Reason Soul School ReFill - Propellerhead's latest ReFill that comes packed with REX files and multi sampled instruments that just oozes of the soulful sound of the 60's and 70's.

Voxengo is very happy to announce the release of GlissEQ version 3, a parametric dynamic equalizer plug-in for professional music production applications.

GlissEQ version 3 features the following improvement over version 2 (version 3 can be used in projects alongside version 2):

• Better filter's dynamic behavior
• Notch filters
• Spectrum display zooming
• Up to 96kHz spectrum range
• Multi-channel support
• Multi-platform support
• Mid/side processing
• Undo/redo
• Routing matrix
• Preset manager
• User interface coloration
• User interface re-scaling
• Channel grouping
• Plug-in instance naming

GlissEQ v3.0 is available in AudioUnit and VST plugin formats, for Mac OS X (v.10.4.11 and later) and W ...

JZ Microphones is announcing a new microphone line called JZ Vintage. It will be a new microphone line with a unique and smart design and the well known vintage sound.

The new microphone series mics have a flask shape with built in shockmount and unique capsule. JZ will have three different models — V-67, V-47 and V-12. Each mic will have the best vintage sound in honour of U67, U47 or C-12. Capsules will be improved by patented JZ Golden drops capsule sputtering technology. Everybody who visited JZ booth at AES Convention in NYC was able to see the prototype of this mic.

More details will be available soon.

D16 Group has announced a Half Price Sale : until December 1st, 2009, all products in D16's online shop can be purchased for half price !

BBE Sound Inc. and Nomad Factory are proud to announce their collaboration in the development and design of the Sonic Sweet Plugins.

The BBE Sound Sonic Sweet includes :

• the D82 Sonic Maximizer which is identical to the physical unit it terms of utility and processing
• the H82 Harmonic Maximizer which increases Presence and Clarity, Restore Natural Brightness and adds Deeper and Extended Low Frequencies
• the L82 Loudness Maximizer which is a mixing and mastering multi-band limiter plug-in

Available now for Mac (AU, VST, RTAS, AS) and PC (VST, RTAS, AS) at a price of $149. Note that if you already own the D82 Sonic Maximizer V2, you can upgrade to the BBE Sonic Sweet for only $50.

Toontrack Music has just announced the release of the Electronic EZX, their first electronic drum collection.

"It is with great excitement that we introduce the Electronic EZX®.

A modern collection of classic, circuit bent and resampled electronic drum sounds suitable for a wide variety of genres and production styles. Pristine classics, otherworldly one of a kind bends, and gritty must haves make this the hottest collection of electronic drums imaginable. This EZX® includes 33 meticulously crafted kits with additional menus of the most requested electronic kick and snare drums. It also features our ever-popular use of parallel FX processing for unlimited variation and new sonic depths. With this EZX®, you will be able to cover a broad range of popular and emerging electronic genres. You name it.... House, Dub, Techno, Progressive, Pop, Hip-Hop, Rap, Electro, Grime, Jungle, DnB, RnB, Dub-Step, Trip-Hop, Acid, Disco, Electro-Crunk, Ghetto-Tech, Baile Funk, Industrial, Garage, Experimental, Noise-core, Hard-core, Minimal, Glitch, Gabba, Ambient, Trance, Miami Bass, 2 Step, B-more and many more... its in here!!