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Keeping all the widely popular features and content from EZmix intact and working in EZmix 2, but adding guitar amp and speaker simulation, new effects and ready made effect chain content as well as introducing a completely new and redesigned interface.

EZmix 2 is a one-stop monster for making professional mixes easy, efficiently and, above all, great sounding!

Since 2010, MaximalSound.com offers an online audio optimization service. Based on a proprietary algorithm, this service allows indie productions, labels and musicians to release their tracks complying with the highest industry standard. This processing uses the same pattern as the human hearing. It supports every music genres from metal to hip-hop, from classical to dubstep.

- The online algorithm is updated to version 3. This latest development provides an improvement in the low frequencies through a refined psychoacoustic model for this part of the spectrum.
- Audio files in 32 bit float are now supported in order to eliminate any risk of saturation during mixing in this format.
- The free preview duration is increased by 50%
- The upload page is simplified.
- The site now includes a customer page

WARmultipress is a tube multiband compressor plugin for VST and AU hosts on Mac and Windows (summer 2012).

- 3 bands, with adjustable cross-over frequencies
- Input gain and output gain for each band compressor
- Optional soft knee compression curve
- Adjustable tube gain, from subtle warming to hot overdrive
- Frequency dependant drive
- Adjustable shape control to add asymmetry and harmonics
- Optional reel to reel tape emulation
- Mono and stereo
- Multifunction display zone (real time, compression curves and drive curves)
- Solo on each band.

The Ventura is a new design from A-Designs inspired by the great Quad Eight consoles. Run at optimal levels, its' signal is clear and ultra transparent, with all the dimensionality, air, and extended bass you expect from high-quality analog.

To add its own special mojo, it features a 3-band EQ reminiscent of console EQs from the golden age of recording.

Binary Music announces the release of Solina String Ensemble sample library for Native Instruments Kontakt 4.

Originally manufactured in 1974, by Dutch company Eminent, and later, under licence by ARP, it was an immediate success across a wide spectrum of music, with users including David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Parliament, Air, Stevie Wonder, Elton John and The Cure.

Every note of each voice (Violin, Viola, Horn, Trumpet, Cello and Contrabass), has been sampled at 44.1 kHz, 24 bit resolution.

Two distinct versions are included – one sampled with the original modulation and three round-robins per note, and one sampled without modulation, but with modulation recreated using Kontakt's scripting and effects.

Available as an instant download, price: £15.00 (approx. $23 U.S. or €18) + VAT in E.U.

The nvelope 500 is an audio processor capable of making subtle or drastic changes to a sound by providing control over its attack and sustain characteristics.

This is extremely useful for reshaping all sorts of individual tones, and is a wonderful tool in any mixing situation as well.

With its unique Dual Band mode, the nvelope 500 gives you enhanced control over processing, and can easily handle complex program material. Additionally, its dynamics sections can be bypassed, allowing it to function as a flexible high/low shelf EQ...