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Vienna Symphonic Library's suite of nine audio processing tools, Vienna Suite, has just been released as a boxed edition.

Up to now, it has been available as a download product only. Both the download product and the physical product contain exactly the same software, now at version 1.1, that includes Vienna's brand-new Convolution Reverb. Vienna Suite is the only boxed plug-in suite with full 64-bit capability. It retails at €445/$665 and is now available from the company's worldwide network of distributors and dealers.

Voxengo has updated its mastering limiter plug-in Elephant to version 3.5.

Changes :

• Issues with DP/Mac OS X fixed.
• Popup windows appearing behind the main window in Logic 9 fixed.

Meatscience has announced the release of the Convolution Reverb AU plug-in for Mac OSX 10.5+. Here is how they describe it...

"Meatscience Convolution Reverb AU matches or exceeds Altiverb 6 and IR-1 on accuracy and low-latency while offering similar performance on Intel Macs. This means professional fidelity, an open IR library, and high track counts for $500 less. Apply impulse responses to recreate the unique characteristics of real spaces, speaker cabs, classic amplifiers, stompboxes, or experimental audio effects.

Automated Processes, Inc. (API) has received a formal complaint from electronics giant JVC Americas Corporation against API's use of the word "arsenal" in reference to API's recently introduced brand of pro audio equipment. Arsenal Audio by API products include a microphone preamp and two versions of a four band audio equalizer manufactured for use by professional recording artists and engineers.

JVC Americas Corp. is the registered owner of the word 'arsenal' in association with products for car audio equipment.

The complaint centers around the claim that API willfully infringed upon JVC's trademark with the "clear unmistakable intent and effect of causing confusion, mistake and deception among customers".

JVC contends that API's Arsenal Audio products would be confused with JV ...

IZotope is in the final stages of creating a new plug-in that will "change the way you work with your tracks and busses".

iZotope Echelon combines six crucial mixing tools into one interface--a precise EQ, vintage-modeled dynamics processor, transient shaper, exciter, de-esser and limiter. With a huge range of MacroPresets, Echelon will simplify mixing by putting the most useful controls together in one window.

More details will be available soon.

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 FireWire bus or u ...