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"RAW" is a sound bank for Image-Line VSTi Toxic Biohazard.

"It is a rich selection of sequenced melodies to mix with the spectral special effects or lush synthesizers. Try out the unleashed presets with the modwheel and aftertouch actions mapped. The wild and untamed sounds are to lead towards the final thought of the long awaited compositions."

Features :

• 89 composer sequences,
• 25 multidimentional special effects,
• 24 toxic synthesizers,
• 7 cooling keyboards,
• all the presets have modwheel and aftertouch action mapped,
• Windows and Mac.

Pricing : $23

The MasterWorks Collection by MOTU is now available for RTAS, Audio Units, and VST3 host software on Mac OS X (version 10.5 or 10.6) :

• MasterWorks EQ - Modeled British analog EQ
• MasterWorks Leveler - Vintage automatic gain control
• ProVerb - Stunningly realistic acoustic spaces

Pricing : $295

CFA Sound has released their E-Play Series Divorce sample player.

"How many piano libraries are out there ? Right, tons of ! So what's the deal with the CFA E-Play Series ? You don't get similar sounding (e)-pianos, you get a whole lot more. Modern, fancy, extraordinary, neverheard or hard-to-achieve keys, suitable for various styles from Jazz to Electronica - all at your fingertips. Samples are wrapped in a small and beautiful plugins for your daw - get in touch!"

Divorce - the dirty side of the e-play series. Divorce contains 25 unique e-pianos with a special dirty and nasty touch.

Features:

• Sampleplayer for PC-VST & Mac-AU
• contains 25 unique e-pianos
• 32 bit precision
• high quality interpolation
• DFD (direct-from-disk-streaming)
• 32 voices
• built-in reverb
• all e-pianos also included in NKI format
• 1,99 GB content

Pricing :

• Introductory price (first 100 copies): 25,00 €(excl. VAT)
• Normal price: 40,00 €(excl. VAT)

Here is an interesting info found on Audio Damage's blog about their next plug-in :

"This isn't a new product per se, but rather a significant update that will combine and deprecate several old products. One of the problems with our relatively large product line is that doing line-wide updates is disagreeable in the extreme; our intention in that regard is to reduce the number of products we offer, so that we're able to better deal with the fairly regularly timed body blows emanating from Cupertino.

So, this product, as yet unnamed, will be a multi-effect consisting of the engines of Liquid, Fluid, Vapor, and Phase Two. You will be able to select any one of those engines per instance, and the whole will be lovingly wrapped in a stereo delay. In this regard, it will be similar to Discord3, in both layout and operation, but rather than three different pitch shifters, it will have four modulation effects. The delay will be routed slightly differently, more like a send effect than inline as it is in D3, but that's a design decision that is down the road a bit.

For purchasing, we haven't decided on a final price, but we will almost certainly hew to our current major effect price of $59. The way upgrading will work will be that for each of the four individual effects you own, you'll receive a $10 discount from the price. So if you only own, say, Liquid, your price for this plug-in will be $49. If you own Liquid and Fluid, your price will be $39, and so on. We will, as I mentioned, be deprecating the four plug-ins in question."

Tonehammer has released Requiem Light, a new Cinematic Choir sample library.

Requiem Light is based on a variety of new recording- and sampling techniques some which have never before been integrated in choral sample libraries, according to Tonehammer. The library can sound like a real choir and includes both full choir (SATB), divisi groups (males/females) and two solo singers (soprano and tenor) – all recorded in 24 bit / 44.1khz with 1 microphone position (pre-mixed from Requiem Pro (5.1) mics.

The library contains true (polyphonic) legato intervals from piano to forte, sustains from piano to forte, staccato with repetitions, ultra forte marcato, BPM (host-synced) based latin chants recorded at different speeds across entire interval of choir, tons of choral effects including whis ...

P4 DMS compressor is a new hardware compressor from FCS (Foote Control Systems). DMS stands for Dual Mono / Stereo and it is linked using true power summing.

It offers similar smooth control that FCS processors are known for, but is a departure from what they have done before.

This compressor has a definate sound of it's own. The audio path is a new design that uses transformer balancing on inputs and outputs and a discrete op amp in the output stages. As a matter of fact, the whole path is discrete except for the 8 top grade VCAs. 4 VCAs are used per channel to optimize noise and headroom performance. The VCA topology is based on an updated version of the dbx 202 design.

The audio path is extremely short....
Input transformer > VCA module > Discrete Op Amp > Output transformer. ...