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IZotope is in the final stages of creating a new plug-in that will "change the way you work with your tracks and busses".

iZotope Echelon combines six crucial mixing tools into one interface--a precise EQ, vintage-modeled dynamics processor, transient shaper, exciter, de-esser and limiter. With a huge range of MacroPresets, Echelon will simplify mixing by putting the most useful controls together in one window.

More details will be available soon.

PreSonus presents a new version of the Firebox : the FireStudio Mobile. It combines the analog-circuit design and advanced platform technology of their FireStudio rack-mount interfaces with the ability to run on bus power in field applications.

Features :

• Plug-and-play, high-speed FireWire 400 (IEEE 1394)
• 24-bit resolution with 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96 kHz sampling rates
• Record/playback 10 inputs and 6 outputs
• 2 XMAX PreSonus microphone/instrument preamplifiers with true 48V phantom power for condenser mics
• 8 line inputs, 2 line outputs
• Stereo S/PDIF and MIDI input/output — DB9 break-out cable included
• Zero-latency monitoring
• Headphone output with gain control
• Software router/mixer
• Powered via FireWire bus or u ...

Moog unveils The Moog Guitar - Model E1, the production model of The Moog Guitar introduced at the Summer NAMM tradeshow in 2008.

It uses the same innovative electronics and pick-ups as the original Paul Vo Collector Edition, with some exciting new changes. It's available in three new finishes; Butterscotch, Candy Red, and Black, and now sports chrome hardware, a solid alder body, a choice of fixed or tremolo bridges, and a new lower price tag, $3,495.

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Sugar Bytes has released Eloquence, a new MIDI Step Sequencer plug-in.

Eloquence is described as an extremely powerful and intuitive MIDI stepsequencer plug-in, giving you control over just about all aspects of your favorite MIDI devices. You can use Eloquence to create varied and organic bass lines, screaming leads, pulsating chords, and organic pad sounds in the studio or on stage.

For live musicians, Eloquence provides a versatile palette of performance options which can be triggered right from your MIDI keyboard: you can transpose, manipulate, twist up, mutate, and mangle your patterns without even getting near your computer.

Eloquence is a plug-in which can be used with any major Windows or Mac VST or AU host.

Price: €99 / $129. Crossgrade Price for registered SonicBytes ERA users: €69 / $89.

AcousticsampleS launches its first "Summer Sale" : -35% off everything. This offer may be combined with their quantity discount :

• -35% for 1 item
• -40% for 2 items
• -45% for 4 items
• -50% for 6 items
• -55% for 8 items

This offer is available until 31 august 2009.

Safe Sound Audio (UK) first gained respect with the Model P1 channel strip, a "do all" recording channel that does many things well, but with a key focus on vocals. Today they releases the P501, the first channel strip in the 500 format ever.

The P501 is designed and built in the UK by Robert Campbell (former designer for Neve and Calrec). It features the same clean sound and control of the P1, and features never before included on a single 500 series format device. It is not just a phantom powered pre, or DI, or line level device, it's also a compressor and limiter with full metering on board for input and gain reduction. The P501 still only takes up a single space and is logically laid out.

Features :

• Mic Preamp (with phantom and +72dB of clean gain)
• DI (jack and ...