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X-ISM is a state of the art VST/AU plug-in which can interpret inter-sample peaks, allowing engineers to make informed judgements about the resultant sound quality of the mix.

There is currently a trend in the in the audio industry known euphemistically as 'The loudness war' in which the engineering process is driven to produce a product which is as loud as is technically possible within the constraints of the medium. Debate rages as to whether this produces problems that degrade and distort the audio. One reason for this distortion is often blamed on the presence of 'inter-sample peaks', where signals that are usually missed by the Fs sampling of DAW meters, may actually exceed 0dBfs in reconstruction from digital to analogue domain in some Digital to Analogue Converters (DACs).

X-ISM uses significant processing to provide a combination of up-sampling and filtering that mimics the operation of an oversampling DAC's reconstruction process. The result is a meter that shows inter-sample errors and provides a useful tool that most DAW metering misses.

The plug-in is available in VST, AU and RTAS formats making it compatible with virtually all audio software currently available on both PC and Mac.

Sonicccouture has made their popular VA Brush Kit product available for free download. The 150mb Drum kit features mixable direct and ambient microphones, Drum roll emulation via the Roll Control KSP script, multiple velocity layers and articulations. The kit was recorded at Peter Gabriels Real World Studios in Bath, England.

Brush kit is available in Kontakt 2 + 3, Battery 2 + 3 format, and is taken from the larger VA Drums drum library.

Scarbee today released Red Bass, a sample library made for N.I. Kontakt 2.2. Red Bass is built on the samples of J-Slap'n Fingered, but has been reprogrammed to take advantage of Scarbee's highly advanced scripting technology originally developed for Black Bass. Three pick-up settings: Bridge, Both and Neck have all been recorded in both a fingered and slapped version—without the use of compression, tubes or EQ to ensure maximum flexibility in the sound production. Red Bass was designed to be very easy to play live. Almost all articulations can be triggered without any keyswitches.

Features :

- More than 6000 samples
- Real-time playable
- A powerful user interface pushing the Kontakt user interface to its limits: a fretboard display gives an overview of the playing position and f ...

Eiosis is proud to announce the E²Deesser, the first in the series of Eiosis' new E²Processors. Featuring Eiosis' patented, exclusive processing structure and algorithm the E²Deesser brings you a new approach to de-essing.

A de-esser is usually a simplified multi/single band compressor driven by a filtered side chain. With the E²Deesser, the detection process is completely independent from the processing, offering unprecedented flexibility in controlling and adjusting the amount of sibilance in your recording. You may combine wide band reduction with narrow band or low pass sibilant reduction, or even reduce a certain frequency range while boosting the sibilants' global volume.
And there's more: you can add some sparkle to the voiced parts without touching the sibilants…

The E²Dee ...

TC Electronic has announced a new member in the PowerCore family, boosted with 8 DSP processors, the PowerCore X8 is twice more powerful than any other member of the existing line.

It includes the v3.0 software, with an improved design and features of 6 out of the 14 audio treatment pluggins : Chorus-Delay, Master X3, Master X5, Mega Reverb, PowerCore Compressor/Limiter and VoiceStrip. The 24/7-C, Dynamic EQ, Filtroïd, PowerCore CL as well as the PowerCore 01synth have now an external sidechain circuit.

The PowerCore X8 (price to be announced) is planned to be released in next november, in addition of all pluggins in the pack it will also include a voucher of 500$ to get optional pluggins.

Note that PowerCore 3.0 system software will be available as a free download in october for the registered users.

Digidesign has announced the upcoming release of Eleven, a new virtual guitar amp plug-in for Pro Tools, VENUE live sound, and Avid systems. Created using an innovative tone-cloning technique, Eleven offers a carefully selected emulations of modern amplifiers and speaker cabinets based on amps and cabinets from Vox, Fender, Marshall, Mesa/Boogie, and Soldano, as well as several custom Digidesign creations inspired by the most revered amplifier designs in the world. Eleven also features groundbreaking, convolution-based speaker cabinet and microphone (on- and off-axis) modeling, the latter of which features emulations of popular dynamic, ribbon and condenser microphones.

Eleven will be available in two versions—Eleven and Eleven LE. Eleven will support TDM, RTAS, and AudioSuite plug-in formats for use with Pro Tools|HD, ICON, and VENUE systems. Eleven LE will support RTAS and AudioSuite plug-in formats for use with Pro Tools LE and Pro Tools M-Powered systems. Note that Digidesign is offering a 30-day trial of a prerelease version of Eleven for qualified Pro Tools and Avid system users. The trial version is a free download from the Digidesign website, and is available for the following system configurations:

* Digidesign-qualified Pro Tools|HD, Pro Tools LE, or Pro Tools M-Powered system running Pro Tools 7.1 or higher software (Pro Tools 7.3 or higher recommended)
* Qualified Avid Xpress®, Avid Xpress DV, or Avid DNA system (AudioSuite only)