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Or the first time ever, the German manufacturer bundles hardware and software products into two different packs, which will be available until the end of the year. Choices include hardware products to place in the signal path before or after your computer.

SPL offers a "Front End Pack" and a "Back End Pack." Each pack includes free licenses for some of SPL's own Analog Code® plug-ins. If you buy a Track One you get a "Front End Pack,"which includes the EQ Rangers and TwinTube Analog Code® plug-ins. If you go for the SPL 2Control instead, you get a Vitalizer® plug-in as part of the "Back End Pack."

Universal Audio today announced the release of the
long-awaited, Solid State Logic-authenticated, SSL E Series Channel Strip and G Series Bus Compressor plug-ins for the UAD-2 platform.
The SSL E Series Channel Strip plug-in
for UAD-2 is the result of Universal Audio's painstaking circuit emulation of the esteemed SSL 4000 console, complete with both the Type E "black knob" and "brown knob" four-band EQ — widely held to be the favorites in SSL's signal processing lineage. Other features include high and low cut filters, and independent Expander/Gate and
Compressor/Limiter.

E-MU Systems has announced the release of their new 0204 USB, 24-bit digital audio interface for the Macintosh and PC. The 0204 USB is the successor to E-MU's celebrated 0202 USB 2.0 adding another pair of 24-bit outputs and improving the already outstanding audio specifications ( record until 192kHz).

The headphone outputs are of the same high quality as the main outputs and can be used as two completely separate channels for a total of four.
The E-MU 0204 USB is compatible with Macintosh OS X, Windows 7/x64, Windows Vista/x64, Windows XP.
Price: 129,99$, 129,99£.

Instantly accessible by taking advantage of Steinberg's MediaBay and VST Sound technologies through the Prologue polyphonic subtractive synthesizer featured in the fourth and fifth versions of Cubase and Sequel 2, the new add-on holds over 180 VST 3 sound presets and more than 200 MIDI loops conveniently arranged in categorized construction kits. Created by professional sound designers in collaboration with Steinberg's in-house planners, Prologue Discoveries is an expansion set that will pique the interest of both aspiring and tenured producers of dubstep, glitch-hop and grime, but also holds a wealth of sounds for electro, techno and minimal.

From the WaveFront ReFill, comes WaveFront Volume One for Kontakt 3 or greater. The original data archive was remastered, and the resulting Volume One includes much of the original WaveFront, but includes new bonus material as well. The first half of Oxide Kits is also included as bonus kits, just like in the original release.

While WaveFront Volume One is based on the original master data, it is not a clone of the first release, it is a reworking of the core data, yet still offering a similar feel and programming style in the Kontakt format. Avalaible until First of January 2011

Blue Cat Audio has released a new version of its free spectrum analysis plug-in, Blue Cat's FreqAnalyst. The update includes a new look and feel, 64-bit VST format support on the Mac and several user interface enhancements borrowed from Blue Cat Audio's commercial plug-ins.

What's new in Blue Cat's FreqAnalyst 1.7:
- 64-bit Mac VST support.
- User interface enhancements:
- Improved readability.
- Select and zoom with one click.
- Drag the rulers to move the curve when zoomed
- Zooming is now animated.
- Improved consistency with our other analysis tools.
- Performance improvements (the plug-in now requires an SSE2-enabled
processor).
- Default release time is now shorter.
- Fixed issue with Freeze button not freezing all curves on the stereo version.