PC and Music News

It's not summertime without a sale, and from now through August 15, the entire Cinesamples collection is up to 30% off! Specials include:
- Hollywoodwinds: $179
- CineBrass CORE: $349
- CineBrass PRO: $349
- CineBrass Bundle: $698
- CineWinds CORE: $299
All other titles are 30% off. If you've been planning a Cinesamples purchase, now is the time to buy! Sale ends August 15. Happy Summer!

U-he Releases Public Betas of Zebra v2.5.4 and Diva v1.1.1

Some features (and many bugs fixed):
- Fixed some preset names.
- Fixed some installer scripts.
- Includes fixes for Reason.
- Installers (Mac) delete files before new ones are installed.
- Mac-Installers don't ask to install "for all users" anymore.
- Diva-Tunemod bug fixed ("Zero Vibrato + quantize" modulation problem).
- Zebrify Mono/Left/Right modes work again.
- Keyboard-Input works better.
- Crash bug win-xp (could have happened in any Windows OS). Fixed.
- Wrong signatures for Zebra2/Diva (HZ was okay). Fixed.
- Installers showed ????? when data was a shortcut (also Zebra & Diva but not HZ). Fixed.
- Mac installers install correctly without deleting the old component first.
- Saved Text appears in Windows VST dialogs.
- Symbolic links can't create endless loops anymore.
- Win64 doesn't produce silent synths in huge projects anymore.
- Additional minor fixes.

Sinevibes is pleased to announce major updates to its Diffusion monophonic synthesizer and Turbulence waveshape modeler AudioUnit plugins. Both of them receive totally new interfaces with much sharper graphics, better color contrast and enlarged control areas for more convenient operation.

Diffusion 1.3.0 features the following enhancements:

‒ Completely redesigned user interface with larger control elements, improved colors, shapes, and contrast.
‒ Oscillator I / II balance can be modulated by the envelope sequencer.
‒ Fixed sound quality issue.
‒ 10 new preset patches.

Turbulence 1.1.0 brings these improvements:

- Completely redesigned user interface with larger control elements, improved colors, shapes, and contrast.
- New input/output balance automation parameter.

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Until August 29th, both are available together for just EUR 49 / USD 59 - a savings of around 30%.

The MUX is a high-quality and super flexible modular synth and effect plug-in.
The MUX can be a vintage synthesizer or a hi-tec sample player, it can be a multi-band compressor or a stereo reverb, and it can be so much more... You can do almost anything with it!

The MUX is integrated into MuLab and is also available as a VST plug-in for Windows.

Hornet Launches a major update for VU Meter.
You can make your own template with a different VU Meter color for each track for example.

Some new features:

- Useful input gain control
- Selectable bar color for the VU level display.