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Plugin Alliance LLC announce availability of noveltech VOCAL ENHANCER, an all-new native version of Alliance partner company noveltech Audio's unique vocal processing plug-in.

noveltech VOCAL ENHANCER gives vocal recordings unprecedented clarity and crispness without unwanted side effects, thanks to Finnish high-quality audio technologies developer noveltech Audio's patented IAF (Intelligent Adaptive Filtering) technology that lies at its very core. Unlike conventional enhancers, it dynamically boosts the 'desired' characteristics in audio recordings, rather than statically boosting set frequencies, like an EQ, or artificially adding harmonics.

Torsion's sound structure is similar to a traditional subtractive synthesiser – three oscillators going into a low-pass filter and into an amplifier. But Torsion's oscillators produce simple additive waves based on just a few partials, which are then enriched with spectral content using a technique called waveshape modeling.

There is also a ring modulator and an audio-range oscillator for filter FM.
Torsion features as many as four separate LFO generators – one for each oscillator and one for the filter and output amplifier. In addition to precise synchronisation, each LFO cycle can be self-randomised, which makes the modulation rhythmical yet non-repetitive. There are also two AHDSR envelope generators, as well as a two-dimensional chaos oscillator.

Specifications
- Three oscillators each with four basic additive waveforms and four waveshape models.
- 24 dB/octave resonant low-pass filter.
- 12 dB/octave high-pass filter.
- Ring modulator.
- Modulation oscillator for low-pass filter FM. Four tempo-synchronised LFO generators with four waveforms and per-cycle randomisation.
- Two AHDSR envelope generators.
- Two-dimensional chaos modulation generator based on Lorenz attractor.

This fixes some long time (but not very common) problem when restoring loops, some of you reported this, but we rarely being able to reproduce anything, and if, it often the problem vanished right away, or so it seemed.

Finally we have been able to smash a bug which could lead to either a loop not being displayed correctly or not played back correctly, after restoring a song/project in your daw. The bad news is that the bug is partly in the saving, so this fix will not magically repair any project that suffers from the problem, but prevent it from occuring again (and also fix an issue which is on the loading side only). So in any case, this is a recommended update.

Resonance Sound introduces Colours Vol.2 by Aiyn Zahev Sounds: 128 Trance, Electro & Progressive House presets for Sylenth1.

Expanding your sound library with a wide range of inspirational and immediately usable sounds.
Among the 128 sounds you will find huge basses for Trance & Electro tracks, fast and punchy trance bass sounds, huge full pads & anthem leads typical in Trance and Main-room, deep & clean plucks for Trance & Progressive house, fascinating arpeggios & a variety of atmospheric sounds and FX perfect for intros.
Combined with 6 MIDI construction kits, which you can hear in the audio demo, royalty free for your next production.

The Blues EZX is Toontrack's 17th EZX expansion pack for EZdrummer or Superior Drummer and features two vintage kits and plenty of extras to deliver Blues drum sounds that range from the old school to the modern.

The two complete kits – a 1970s Gretsch and a calfskinned Swedish Levin set from the 1940s – are complemented by contemporary Paiste and Sabian crashes, vintage Zildjan A and K series cymbals as well as extras such as a suitcase and a set of calfskinned tambourines.

All the instruments in the Blues EZX were handpicked and in many cases road-worn by the sampling drummer himself – Hans Lindbäck – a Blues musician with more than half a century's worth of experience.

Tone2 Audiosoftware are proud to announce the release of the ElectraX 1.4 update,
including 64 bit Mac versions, several feature enhancements and fixes.

The 1.4 update is free for all ElectraX customers.

New features:
- 64 Bit VST & AU version for Mac (requires OSX 10.5 or higher)
- Mouse-wheel support for list selectors and knobs (if the host supports it)
- PDF manual can now be viewed from within the plugin (Mac)
And many enhancements...