PC and Music News

Throughout the long history of Steinberg, many products have come and gone, many have been superseded by new variants and others have been dropped completely. Once in a while, however, some of our developers like to dig up one of these long forgotten gems and polish it ready for current operating systems.

As these revived products remain discontinued, their updates are not officially supported. Updates for discontinued products are sporadic as these are voluntarily provided by our engineers in their free time.

Today, Steinberg would like to share with you the following:
Model E — classic analog synth with ultra-low CPU load
VB-1 — virtual bass emulation with selectable pick position.

EASTWEST introduces two special offers for the 2011 Holiday season. The first is the wildly popular BUY ONE GET ONE FREE promotion. This promotion allows customers who purchase any of 19 qualifying product by December 31, 2011 to choose a second product of equal or lesser value, free of charge.

The second is the HOLLYWOOD SERIES HOLIDAY SPECIAL. This promotion allows customers purchase EASTWEST‚s flagship Hollywood Series products; Hollywood Strings and Hollywood Brass, for up to 30% off the retail price.

FabFilter has released updates for all FabFilter plug-ins, introducing support for the new AAX plug-in format in Pro Tools 10.

The FabFilter Pro-L limiter now offers a new 'Compact' view, and the FabFilter Pro-Q EQ plug-in features spectrum analyzer and solo mode improvements. Furthermore, all FabFilter
Pro plug-ins now support the most common Pro Tools hardware control surfaces. The updates are now available on all platforms: Windows and Mac OS X, 32-bit and 64-bit.

The Vienna Symphonic Library team has accomplished one of their most significant achievements, converging two technologies to bring forth a stunning symbiosis of systems and workflows – VIENNA ENSEMBLE PRO 5 with one-click integration of VIENNA MIR PRO.

Both new software applications come with a host of groundbreaking features. Free demo versions are available for download at the Vienna Symphonic Library web shop. Registered users may benefit from various upgrade discounts and introductory offers for new users are available through December 15, 2011.

Elixir is a novel kind of program limiter carefully designed to accomplish a truly pure natural sounding result without changing the nature of the audio material and its timbre, presenting none, or effectively reduced, conventional limiting "pumping" effects even during heavy processing.

Intended to fulfil the requirements of the broadcast, post-production and mastering industry, Elixir provides real True Peak output level in accordance with the ITU-R.BS 1770 and EBU R128 norms, and for surround/multichannel operation Elixir provides up to eight channels of simultaneous processing.

All product selections are discounted at over 75% off!

The Complete Composers Collection PLAY Edition is the most inexpensive way to obtain our award-winning Virtual Instruments, and includes seven of our most popular collections for film/tv/game composers which can be customized only at www.soundsonline.com and www.soundsonline-europe.com.

The standard configuration of the Complete Composers Collection is available for $779 / €593. You may customize your Complete Composers Collection and the price will change to reflect the components you choose. Components in the standard configuration are discounted at over 75% off list price.