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The design of Shure's Super 55 microphone is an industry and cultural icon. Known for its excellent sound quality and natural vocal reproduction, Shure created a Special Edition Super 55 microphone that features a sharp new red and black color scheme.

The Special Edition Super 55 incorporates modern technology while paying tribute to the original Shure Unidyne – the first single-element unidirectional microphone – introduced in 1939.

Featuring a black die-cast case, supercardioid polar pattern, and striking red foam, the Special Edition Super 55 is ideal for stage, studio recording, podcasting, and other sound applications where a stand-mounted microphone with a classic look is desired. An integrated, swivel stand mount base and microphone bag are also included.

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UVI Sound Source introduces The Seventh.

For the first time, the last sequel - Mark 7 - of the all-time famous electric piano brand is now available as a virtual instrument. Only for UVI users.

While sharing the same electro-mechanical design with its ancestors, this great piano also brings its own soul and character along with sound and music quality.

"Thanks to the UVI radical chain of recording gear and sampling techniques, we were able to achieve certainly one of our best electric piano ever : first we took the time to carefully tweak the instruments to obtain the most homogenized playing sensation possible (voicing, tuning ...). Then we did record direct from the internal microphone to a custom Universal Audio preamplifier plugged into the Prism Orpheus converters using Vovox uniques cables. We sampled up to 14 velocity levels as well as the release sounds for every note. Everything was captured at 24bit / 96khz for a crystal clear sound quality.

The result is a very unique and expressive electric piano: a 21st century instrument with the soul of the 70s."

Compatible with every configuration thanks to the free UVI Workstation. It's also fully compatible with MOTU BPM, Beat Production Machine and MachFive2.

The Seventh is available now for $79 as digital download.

MeldaProduction has released MUtility, a free plug-in which provides many elementary actions often useful by every engineer as well as more scientific features.

This consists of volume, panorama, phase inversion, stereo swapping, DC blocker, delay in samples and milliseconds, RMS and envelope, a few mathematical functions, expression evaluator and mono-stereo (de)encoder.

Features :

• Up to 8 channels surround processing.
• Easy-to-use user interface. You can easily change all values, fine-tune each control in multiple ways. Easy orientation in a standardized GUI, textual editing and smooth visualization with almost unlimited zooming are standard. • Resizable and stylable GUI.
• MIDI controllers with MIDI learn - you can map any parameter to any MIDI controller or MIDI keyboard and control it realtime or record and automate it.
• Optimized for SSE and SSE2 processors.
• Global preset management - using a title button you can save your settings (which are shared on the computer) so you can easily access these in other songs.
• Fully automatable.


The free MUtility plug-in is available now for Mac and PC in VST and AU formats.

Audio Damage today announce the release of Axon, a neuron sequencer coupled with 7 individual FM synths.

Puremagnetik has released Artifact - a Micropak created from digital anomalies and computer malfunctions

Artifact comes packed with things you would normally want to avoid in the studio: digital aliasing, clock glitches, control 'voltage' waveshaping, sysex errors and mis-quantized samples.

The sound designers at Puremagnetik have harnessed these anomalies in a controlled environment and reprogrammed them in a more musical context for Ableton Live 8, Kontakt 3 and Logic 8/9.

Artifact is organized into 6 playable kits complete with macro controls for Ableton Live and a custom Kontakt GUI. In addition, Artifact includes a generous collection of looped MIDI clips*.

Artifact Features

• 6 kits packed with digital malfunctions
• Multi-sampled library with advanced ...

Voxengo LF Max Punch version 1.3 update is now available for download. LF Max Punch is a professional audio effect plugin for music and sounds where low-frequency thump and punch are most welcome, and where distortion is applied specifically to bring the bass sound to life. LF Max Punch is available in AudioUnit and VST plug-in formats, for Mac OS X and Windows computers.


Version 1.3 update implements the following changes:

• Additional visual look variation settings added.
• The "No Multi-Channel Operation" global switch was added that fixes incompatibility with some non-VST2.3 compliant VST hosts.
• The "Show All Channel Meters" routing switch added.