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Eventide announced the agreement for exclusive worldwide distribution of the Princeton Digital Reverb 2016 bundle and the SST-282 Space Station plug-ins for Pro Tools TDM. To kick off the new agreement, the Reverb 2016 plug-in bundle will be available for the month of July at a special reduced price of $299 (regularly $699).

The Reverb 2016 bundle includes the three algorithms originally included in the SP2016, the first multi-effect processor ever, introduced by Eventide in 1982. Included are the Stereo Room, Room Reverb, and High Density Plate. Widely used on hit records for the last three decades, this plug-in suite offers a distinctive palette of reverberant spaces that add that special sparkle to your tracks.

The Space Station SST-282 plug-in, developed in cooperation with the S ...

During the next few months Arturia is offering a two for one deal on all of their software synthesizer titles: moog modular V, CS-80V, Minimoog V, Prophet V, ARP2600 V, Jupiter-8V, Analog Factory, Brass, and The One. Which means for any Arturia software synthesizer instrument purchased, customers will be offered another one for free!

Also, customers purchasing the V Collection 2 will not miss out on the savings either: during the same period, the V Collection 2 is $100/100Eur off!

These offers last from July 1st until August 31st 2010.

MOTU has announced the MicroBook, a USB bus-powered audio interface that delivers studio-grade audio performance in a compact size small enough to fit in your pocket. The MicroBook turns a Mac or PC computer into a personal 4x2 recording studio with all the audio I/O and mixing needed to make professional-quality recordings.

The MicroBook gives users a complete personal recording solution for a Mac or PC laptop or desktop computer, with four simultaneous inputs for a microphone, a guitar, and a keyboard or other stereo line level device. The mic preamp delivers neutral coloration and pristine sound, with 20 dB pad and 48V phantom power for condenser mics. Programmable analog, digital, and headphone outputs provide flexible monitoring options. The guitar input provides the proper impedan ...

Steinberg announces the release of HALion Sonic, the premier VST workstation instrument and successor to the Hypersonic 2 VSTi. HALion Sonic combines a sample library with a powerful sampling and synthesis engine. HALion Sonic supports both VST and AU plug-in formats and is compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.5 as well as Windows 7 and Windows Vista, which also includes a native x64 version. HALion Sonic is now available for EUR 249.

With more than 1,200 synths, hybrid and acoustic instruments spanning across 12 GB of hard drive, the included library is the upshot of a strong collaboration between Steinberg and Yamaha sound design teams. A maximum of 20 articulations per instrument cover a generous scope of playing styles for various instruments, while support for Steinberg's VST Expre ...

Voxengo PHA-979 version 2.2 update is now available for download. Voxengo PHA-979 is a track phase and time alignment audio plug-in, available in AudioUnit and VST plugin formats, for Mac OS X and Windows computers.

PHA-979 is useful during mixing sessions, especially when working with the sound material recorded through an array of microphones. In many cases this allows you to solve various phasing problems arising from the microphone placement chosen during the tracking session. In other cases this process may help you to align drums and other instruments to each other bringing punch and time coherence not attainable by the ordinary time-aligning alone.

PHA-979 version 2.2 includes the following changes:
- Plug-in initial loading time reduced.
- Crash problem on inserting the plu ...

Keith McMillen is introducing StringPort, "The First Computer Platform for Guitar". The StringPort very carefully processes, converts and conveys to the computer the polyphonic audio from industry-standard hexaphonic pickups (like the GK, Graph Tek, Zeta and RMC models) through high speed USB2. They have written custom drivers with extremely low latencies and all their applications take full advantage of multi-threading and multiple cores. High resolution (24bit) converters and impeccable design provide greater than 92 dB SNR from analog in to analog out.

But what really makes StringPort the last string/synth/processor device we will ever need is the powerful suite of software for use with the StringPort Hardware. The suite includes 24 applications including fast and accurate Analysis (for converting every little nuance of your performance into control data), powerful Polyphonic FX Processing (Wave Guide, PolyFuzz, Phase Vocoder, SMACK), a versatile VST FX Wall (perfect for all those plug-ins you've been "collecting"), a side of Synthesis (Classic FM and direct support for the world-famous Synful synthesizer), a friendly and useful Notation application (to capture data for output to your favorite music notation software), and MIDI Out to integrate StringPort into your existing MIDI world.