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Acousticas has announced the release of its impulse response version of what have managed to manifest itself as the "Studio Standard" throughout many years. Consisting of 711 unique impulse responses this library covers a wide range of the capabilities of the Lexicon 480.

The library has been divided into 9 categories ranging from the complete Lexicon Factory presets to carefully tweaked plates, churches and chambers etc. The "Stereo Maker" category is very special and is exclusively made for providing width to any sound source. A cluster of 4 delays have been assembled to achive this and the delay time is variable by adding multipliers to the delay times.

Besides being compatible with any convolution reverb capable of reading .wav files, Acousticas offers proprietary preset support for the following plug-ins on both Mac and Windows platforms : Altiverb, IR1 & IRL, Revolver, TL-Space, Space Designer, Structure, Kontakt 2 & Kontakt 3.

Pro Tools users receive presets for the Short Delay II Plug-In which emulates the modulation of the actual device. Users of other DAWS are provided with the information, via screen shots of digidesign's Mod Delay II, on how to recreate the modulation within their choice of DAW and plug-in.

The Acousticas L480 IR Library is available now and is priced at €69. Note that many sound demos and a blind test video are provided at :

Solid State Logic is proud to announce that X-Desk is now shipping. Designed to be at the heart of high-end project studios, it's a "superanalogue" line mixer with eight dual-input mono channels, stereo and mono auxiliary sends and comprehensive monitoring control.


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Teaboy Audio is proud to announce that they have just released the first version of the Teaboy software/service. For the first time ever, engineers and producers don't have to reply on tedious pencil and paper to document their equipment settings. It can now be done in the digital realm simply using a laptop and an internet connection. Instead of pencil and paper you get real pictures of gear to interact with for much higher precision. And because it's digital, you no longer have to start each documentation project from scratch like you do using Pencil and paper! Create templates and use Copy/Paste functions. This power tool saves hours of valuable time and money.

Teaboy Basic – The Basic subscription lets you use the Teaboy service for an unlimited period of time. You can load as much gear as

Slip-N-Slide by Intelligent Devices is a unique frequency domain audio morpher/mangler. It offers several different frequency domain effects, each with a significant amount of control over the effected as well as uneffected portions of the sound and each affording either a little or a lot of "ra n do m n e s s ."

With Slip-N-Slide you can create almost anything from shimmering, temporally rigid, spectral tremolos to slurred speech, to quirky, reverse-gate sounding effects, to new ambiances to continuously new rhythmic and sonic artifact riddled accents. The combination of spectral processing with controllable randomization is very powerful.

Features :

• Modify existing sounds or to create whole new sounds from existing material.
• Create patterned or random slides of the spectral content, create a spectral sample and hold
• Pluck out individual components from complex sounds.
• Or mix and match.

Slip-N-Slide is available now for both Mac OS X and Windows in VST format at a price of $79. Note that audio examples are available at :

NuGen Audio has just updated its audio analysis tool Visualizer to version 1.8.

This new version introduces the ability to set independent ballistics, peak and colour settings for the primary and secondary level meters. An intermittent problem affecting the accuracy of time averaging view Snapshot data has also been fixed.

Univers-Sons/ Ultimate Sound Bank introduces a brand new UVI Soundpack called Upright Grand Piano. Here is the official press release :

"Once again, we are glad to introduce a new beautiful sounding piano, this 5 GB library brings up a strong upright piano full of personality and musicality.

After the successful launch of the UVI SoundPack Acoustic Grand Piano and UVI SoundPack Baby Grand Piano, the number one request of our customers was to have a very good Upright Piano, that would be used a lot these days in modern Rock, Pop and even Jazz music.

To find a good sounding upright piano was not an easy task, so we did look over several models and several places, until we found the one that delighted our team, and to be honest: we love it. A modern and high-end version from the manufacturer Seiler was unanimously picked to be the one. As you can hear in the demos, it sounds really close, warm and musical.

As for all our sounds, we did use extremely good microphones, excellent sounding mic pre and insanely good analog to digital converters. Every single note was carefully multi-