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Steinberg is proud to announce a forthcoming major update to its Audio Editing and Mastering Suite.

WaveLab 7 represents a new benchmark for audio editing and mastering for Mac, while adding new capabilities to its previous Windows incarnation. Among the new features is a unique GUI concept that allows fast and fluid handling of audio material across multiple windows, montages and podcasts with an intelligent docking and scaling system as well as new VST3 plug-ins and restoration tools, a new CD and DVD-A burning engine and much more.

The new WaveLab 7 user interface handles audio material faster and more intuitively, speeding up workflows in audio editing and mastering with an ultra-fluid, intelligent and completely customizable window and toolbar management system. WaveLab 7 also ...

Softube has announced the upcoming release of the Valley People Dyna-mite plug-in, a faithful virtual replica of the hardware Valley People Dyna-mite, a multi-dynamics tool capable of limiting/ compressing, expanding, gating, keying, ducking, de-essing, etc. The Valley People Dyna-mite is a swiss army knife limiter/expander design with unique character that inspires to new sounds.

The Valley People Dyna-mite was designed in the '80s and has become a secret weapon for some. For others, it's still a hidden treasure just waiting to be discovered. It features a limit mode, an expander mode, a gate mode, a de-esser mode and on top of that, two sidechain modes that let you duck or follow a track.

Nowadays, the Dyna-mite has a reputation not only as a problem solver but also as a creative t ...

Lexicon announcesd the LXP Native Reverb Plug-in Bundle, a new cross-platform native software plug-in collection that delivers four signature Lexicon reverb plug-ins with over 200 versatile and finely-crafted studio presets designed to bring the highest level of sonic quality and function to all your audio applications.

The LXP Bundle was specifically developed for project and professional recording engineers, as well as artists that want to envelope their mix with that magical "Lexicon sound" that delivers the clarity, depth and fullness that can only be created when recording in a major studio.

Features :

• 4 legendary Lexicon Reverbs : Chamber, Hall, Plate, Room.
• Over 200 presets.
• Graphical real-time display illustrating the frequency stages of each algorit ...

PreSonus presents a new version of the Firebox : the FireStudio Mobile. It combines the analog-circuit design and advanced platform technology of their FireStudio rack-mount interfaces with the ability to run on bus power in field applications.

Features :

• Plug-and-play, high-speed FireWire 400 (IEEE 1394)
• 24-bit resolution with 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96 kHz sampling rates
• Record/playback 10 inputs and 6 outputs
• 2 XMAX PreSonus microphone/instrument preamplifiers with true 48V phantom power for condenser mics
• 8 line inputs, 2 line outputs
• Stereo S/PDIF and MIDI input/output — DB9 break-out cable included
• Zero-latency monitoring
• Headphone output with gain control
• Software router/mixer
• Powered via FireWir ...

RME has unveiled the Babyface, a new 22-channel USB 2.0 audio interface featuring digitally controlled mic preamps, instrument input, and a TotalMix FX DSP mixer, all in a compact, portable package small enough to fit in your pocket.

Features :

• TotalMix with DSP effects
• 192 kHz AD / DA converters
• Active jitter suppression
• 2 x Analog I/O
• 2 x Mic / Line preamps, digitally controlled
• 1 x Instrument input (alternate)
• 1 x Stereo headphone output
• 1 x ADAT I/O
• 1 x SPDIF I/O (optical instead of ADAT I/O)
• 1 x MIDI I/O
• 1 x USB 2.0

The Babyface comes with TotalMix FX software (Mac / Win), DIGICheck software (Mac / Win), breakout XLR, an optical cable, USB cable, CD-ROM, manual, and power supply. MSRP : €599.

The FL Extension box from Image Line brings more than 75 additional plugins and product upgrades from the FL Studio library into retail stores. Buy an FL Extension box in-store, choose and download your FL Extension product on-line.

Consumer research conducted by Image Line showed that 61% of customers buying FL Studio and plugins from a retail store were aware that online purchases were available. Reasons cited for buying in a physical shop included not having a credit card and not trusting online shopping. Of the in-store shoppers, 74% said they would buy the FL Extension product if it were available. Interestingly, 54% of download customers also said they would buy the FL Extension product as it was seen as more convenient than using a family/friend's credit card or bank-wire method. ...