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Custom-engineered by Waves and multi-Platinum mixer Tony Maserati (Black Eyed Peas, Beyonce, Usher) unveils the brand new Maserati GRP Group Processor plug-in as part of the Tony Maserati Artist Signature Collection. It was designed especially for group tracks, to put the finishing touches and sheen on background vocals, drums, master outs, and more.

Featuring:

• Complete all-in-one processing chains
• Mono and stereo components
• Optimized control ranges
• 24bit/96kHz resolution
• Double precision bit resolution processing
• Supports RTAS, Audio Suite, VST, AU
• PC and Mac compatible

The Tony Maserati Artist Signature Collection is Native only, and requires iLok authorization. Available separately and in Waves Mercury. Maserati Collection V7 & Mercury V7 owners covered by Waves Update Plan receive the new edition of Tony Maserati Artist Signature Collection at no additional charge.

Sonnox has introduced two new bundles for Broadcast and Post production, both containing carefully selected Oxford plug-ins for relevant workflow.

• Post Production Super Bundle (inc. Sonnox Restore)
Sonnox Post is an uncompromising plug-in solution for audio post-production. It includes the Sonnox Restore suite which features the DeClicker, DeBuzzer and DeNoiser audio restoration plug-ins, along with the classic Oxford EQ and Dynamics algorithms from the OXF-R3 digital console. Also included are the versatile Oxford Reverb, Limiter and SuprEsser dynamic EQ.

• Broadcast Production Collection
Sonnox Broadcast is a collection of powerful Oxford plug-ins which provide high-quality processing and precision control for broadcast production. Including the renowned Oxford EQ an ...

AudioSpillage has updated its DrumSpillage percussion synth plug-in to version 1.1.

New Features :

• Improved support for automation recording and editing.
• Choke groups (12 groups available).
• Solo buttons for each pad.
• Pad selector in model editor now displays pad triggers in realtime.
• Added copy/paste pad menu items in pad editor.
• Added user preference to view MIDI note ranges as absolute MIDI values (0..127).
• Pads can now transmit 'velocity'.
• Global velocity sensitivity on/off switch.
• Velocity sensitivity can also be toggled on/off on a per pad basis.
• Improved meter sensitivity and accuracy.
• Master meter colour coding.

Here is an interesting excerpt from an SSL post on GearSlutz :

"Computers are getting faster and faster. They're not going to stop getting faster either. Power is no longer a problem - even for those with 3 or 4 year old computers. The limiting factor for any DSP-assisted system these days is the environment that it has to work in. With Soundscape (as an example) it is written from the ground up to work with DSP processing so you can get latencies of only 4 samples running plug-ins. In an AU/ASIO system latency is driven by the buffers of the host application (which invariably was not written for DSP-assisted signal processing but for host CPU processing) and this is one of the downsides of things like Duende, UAD, Powercore et al. So looking forwards at this we at SSL decided that unless you are in an absolute mission-critical application a Native system is more than adequate for the job of making music. Rather than develop a new hardware platform for Duende we came to the conclusion that most people just wanted Native plug-ins.

I can confirm that we are working on Duende Native. We will be rolling out a public-beta test phase in the next 4-8 weeks and will be looking for people to join in. Register onto SSL's mailing list to find out when."

Blue Cat's MB-5 Dynamix multiband dynamics processor is the most flexible audio tool Blue Cat have ever released: check out its 5 independent powerful processors and its cross-band side chaining capabilities, you won't find these elsewhere! It is available as a single plug-in or within the refreshed Blue Cat's Master Pack and All Plugins Pack bundles, or the brand new Energy Pack dynamics plug-ins package. As a side note, it is also their first plug-in that supports the 64-bit VST format on Mac.

Main Features :

• Full featured multiband dynamics processor: compressor, gate, limiter, expander, waveshaper.
• Up to 5 bands, with crossover filters from 6 to 60 dB/Oct for optimal separation.
• Unique envelope routing capability for cross-band dynamics effects (one band ma ...

EastWest has announced the TeraPack, the company's entire collection on a terabyte hard drive with free 10-day trial versions of all products. The TeraPack is designed to allow users to demo the entire EastWest/Quantum Leap product line quickly and easily on their own systems without having to install any samples. TeraPack customers can buy full licenses of most of the included products for 50% off the suggested retail price until September 30, 2010.

The TeraPack is supplied on a Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0 Gb/3.5" internal hard drive with a 5-year manufacturers warranty for optimum performance. The hard drive houses all EastWest/Quantum Leap virtual instrument collections and is used to test drive the 10-day trial versions. Both trial and full l ...