Soundtoys AAX-64

Finally! The plugin manufacturer everyone relies on for just about every mix can be used in Pro Tools 11. No more running 10 and bouncing files over. You can get all of their mangled delay, compression, tube saturating goodness in a DAW that doesn’t run out of DSP constantly!

We’re excited to announce that version 4.4 of our award-winning effects plug-ins is here, adding 64-bit VST support for Mac and native AAX support for Windows. All of our most popular plug-ins are now compatibie with all supported 64-bit platforms, including Pro Tools 11, Ableton Live, and Cubase/Nuendo on both Mac and Windows, and Logic X on the Mac.
Glorious 64-bit versions of EchoBoy, Decapitator, Crystallizer, FilterFreak, Tremolator, PhaseMistress, PanMan, MicroShift, Radiator, and Devil-Loc are here, and ready to spice up your mix.

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Tone2 Rompler for ElectraX

Bryan

I can’t say enough great stuff about Tone2. Everything they make has its own trademark sound yet still plays well with other synths in your track. The Rompler soundset is a great way of getting the creativity started with its patches that invoke movement and rhythm.

The Rompler soundset utilizes ElectraX’ powerful multi-layer capabilities with a rich blend of sampling and synthesis.
This creative sound library features a selection of 200 breathtaking presets, new inspirational sounds that cover a wide
spectrum of music styles and built to provide a wealth of inspiration.
The perfect companion when writing your new track, Rompler has it all! from evolving atmospheres, evocative pads,
expressive pianos and jazzy organs, up to complex arpeggios, pumping beats and raw basses.
All sounds are carefully tweaked for maximum inspiration, usability and ready to be used in your productions.
Highlights
* 200 presets by professional sounddesigners
* Comfortable installation & integration into the user interface
Perfect for many genres, such as Trance, Dance, Cinematic, Ambient, Electronica, Pop, IDM, Soundtrack, Progressive,
House, HipHop and a wide variety of other music genres.

Price: $49.00
For more info please visit the Rompler product page: http://tone2.com/html/rompler.html

Ear Trumpet Labs Mabel

Bryan

I’ve always been a fan of Ear Trumpet Mics. They have a very cool look and although I haven’t personally used one, the reviews are coming in pretty positive. I really like the swivel type head basket and dual cardioid capsule design they’re using on this one. If you’re looking for a unique looking mic with great components, look no further.

April 3, 2014—Ear Trumpet Labs, a privately owned company in Portland OR that makes handcrafted microphones, today announced the release of Mabel, a new microphone designed specifically for studio work. Mabel is a hand-built multi-pattern condenser microphone utilizing two cardioid medium-large diaphragm (26mm) capsules, designed primarily for capturing demanding sources like acoustic instruments, drum overheads, and vocals. Mabel features a unique copper-ringed head basket with brass grill work, held in a pivoting mount within a stainless-steel yoke, and a copper-and-brass body. The design is both visually stunning and extremely practical, as the pivoting head makes for easy positioning adjustments.
The capsules are a pair of fixed-cardioid electret condensers, individually tested and selected to match each other and strict design criteria. The circuit is a transformerless FET with fully balanced output, incorporating thorough EMI protection. Other electrical components in the signal path are of the highest quality: metal film resistors, polypropylene and polystyrene capacitors, and individually tested, hand-matched and biased transistors and JFETs. Internal Sorbothane shock and vibration damping helps to minimize vibration noise. The dual-cardioid-capsule design is an uncommon approach to a multi-pattern mic. It has advantages in an especially deep null at the sides of the figure 8 pattern and greater control over the directional frequency response across all the patterns. The circuit includes high frequency EQ tuned to the capsules, providing a very smooth high end.

Sensitivity: 25 mv/Pa (cardioid) Output Impedance: 150 ohms
The Mabel is now available for $1000 directly from Ear Trumpet Labs.

Rob Papen Blue II

Bryan

I use Blue constantly and think it usually plays second fiddle to Blade and Predator but I find that I reach for it a lot more than the others due to it’s great sound quality and initial patches. Rob Papen has added even more features in the new version of Blue simply titles Blue II.

Virtual instrument and plug-in developer Rob Papen Soundware is proud to announce availability of BLUE-II — an all-new reworking of its breakthrough BLUE soft synth for Mac (OS X 10.6 or higher) and PC (Windows Vista, 7, and 8) — as of March 10…

First released in 2005 after namesake company founder and sought-after sound designer Rob Papen formed the RPCX (Rob Papen ConcreteFX) partnership with music software developer Jon Ayers to create a powerful dream synth, the original version of BLUE has truly stood the test of time to remain a bona fide software synthesizer classic, much loved by synth players and producers worldwide to this day. But back in 2005 it already reflected Rob Papen’s cutting-edge, creative, and — most importantly — musical approach towards developing virtual instruments that truly stand out from the soft synth crowd. By first delivering FM and subtractive synthesis — subsequently adding Phase Distortion and waveshaping synthesis — into the creatively combustible musical mix, BLUE blew the competition away, as reflected in its runaway sales success. Rob Papen himself cleverly called it ‘Crossfusion synthesis’ since it covered so much musical ground so effectively. New dreams for old are an inevitable result of time and technology waiting for no one, however, so the time has come for Rob Papen to move onwards and upwards.

Today, therefore, marks the turning point in a long and winding developmental roadmap that has led to Rob Papen’s eagerly- awaited BLUE-II — bigger and better than it ever was! But BLUE-II remains true to the dreamlike ethos of its predecessor, with even more sound dimensions and features to its extended name, starting with six oscillators beating powerfully at its musical heart. These can be connected in various ways, together with two analogue-style modelled stereo filters with no fewer than 27 different filter types, an astounding range of processing and modulation options, serious sequencer, and an amazing arpeggiator. A new range of specially selected waveforms based on samples have been meticulously fashioned for creating new-fashioned and killer-sounding synth sounds to die for!

But BLUE-II is also easy to use, thanks to its user-friendly user interface with an innovative Easy Edit page for speedy sound changes, while the Bank Manager allows whistle-stop navigation through thousands of inspirational Rob Papen presets and artist sound banks covering a wide range of musical styles to suit all eager ears.

All told, then, BLUE-II represents an amazing journey into the dreamlike musical world of ‘Crossfusion synthesis’. By bringing blue sky thinking to virtual instruments, Rob Papen has succeeded in creating an outrageously original and immensely inspirational soft synth fit to follow in its predecessor’s fanciful footsteps — one that, quite simply, sounds stunning! So prepare to be blown away… again!

BLUE-II can be purchased as a boxed version from authorised Rob Papen dealers worldwide for €149.00 EUR (including VAT/tax)/$179.00 USD or downloaded directly from Rob Papen here: http://www.robpapen.com/buy-blue-2.html

Upgrades are also available as follows: BLUE owners can upgrade to BLUE-II for €44.00 EUR/$49.00 USD, while eXplorer II bundle owners can upgrade to the still-to-be-released eXplorer III — which will include BLUE-II and also the upcoming Punch-BD virtual instrument — for €44.00 EUR/$49.00 USD. (eXplorer II owners can also request a ‘temporary’ BLUE-II serial number if planning to upgrade to eXplorer III when released, while anyone who purchased eXplorer II in 2014 will qualify for a free Explorer III upgrade and can also request a ‘temporary’ BLUE-II serial number.)

Tone2 Nemesis Arpmania Expasion

Bryan

Is it me, or is the sub genres of EDM getting a little out of hand. Leave one out and they get all butt hurt. And you don’t want the electronic community mad at you. Imagine an army of strangely dressed people, some with huge plastic rodent helmets on, falling over like high school mascots. Well whatever your genre or headgear, Tone2 has you covered with their groundbreaking new FM Synth, Nemesis; but that’s not all. They’ve offered all the arpeggios your heart can handle with the new soundest for Nemesis. It even includes new skins for Nemesis.

Add movement and depth to your track with the Arpmania expansion for Nemesis. Expand your sound collection
with a set of diverse & vibrant sounds built to cut through the mix and enhance your track.
Featuring evolving arpeggios, rhythmic gates, pulsating bass lines and tight groove sequences, Arpmania offers an
inspiring range of sounds, all running in perfect sync to the tempo of your track.
The Arpmania expansion comes with a set of 100 new arpeggiator patterns you can import into Nemesis, use them
to create your own sounds or to edit existing presets. 3 fresh new skins for Nemesis are also included.
Highlights
* 200 presets by professional sounddesigners
* 100 additional arpeggiator patterns
* Customize Nemesis with 3 additional skins (Black, Silver and Red)
* Unique sound by using the innovative neoFM synthesis
* Comfortable installation & integration into the user interface
* All sounds are properly programmed and do not contain samples. This gives you the complete dynamic range
and highest possible sound quality.
Perfect for many genres, such as Dubstep, Trance, Dance, Pop, Drum and Bass, Complextro, Dirty Dutch, IDM,
Progressive, Techno, Electronic, House, HipHop and a wide variety of other music genres.

For more info please visit the Arpmania product page: http://tone2.com/html/arpmania.html
Price: $59.00

Native Instruments Expansions: Marble Rims

Bryan

Who doesn’t want to make the next big west coast track that hits the top of the charts. The laid back, in the pocket style of the west side comes to courtesy of Native Instruments with Marble Rims.

Native Instruments Introduces MARBLE RIMS Expansion for MASCHINE
Berlin, February 27, 2014 – Native Instruments today released MARBLE RIMS – a new MASCHINE Expansion offering producers the laid-back, sun-kissed flavor of classic and contemporary SoCal hip hop. Adding to the scope of included kits and sounds, MARBLE RIMS delivers exclusive recordings from renowned West Coast artists and producers.
Producers can choose from a palette of 40 lovingly-sampled instruments ranging from SoCal staples such as analog basses and leads, soulful electric pianos, and layered percussion, to live sampled guitar licks, one-shots and beat sequences. Benchmark keyboard instruments and synths such as the Fender Rhodes Mark 1, Hammond B3 Organ, a Minimoog Model D, and more were all carefully sampled then equalized using vintage EQs.
Exclusive to MARBLE RIMS are a collection of samples taken from live sessions with some of the most iconic producers and musicians of the urban West Coast. Guitar licks and one-shots featuring Marlon Williams of Warren G fame were recorded using custom and vintage equipment. Highlighting some of the unique equipment Marlon used was a 1978 Gibson Les Paul custom and a 1978 vintage Fender Stratocaster. Six urban kits and drum samples by rhythm virtuoso Dae One deliver classic West Coast beats along with samples designed by Hallway Productionz, and Amplified. Adding to the Expansion’s bold character are four special kits containing MIDI sequences by legendary keyboardist Kenneth Crouch.
MARBLE RIMS is available now exclusively at the NI Online Shop for $49 / 49 € / ¥ 4,800.
Additional information on MARBLE RIMS is available at:
www.native-instruments.com/marblerims

Native Instruments: Supercharger GT

Bryan

No not THAT kind of supercharger. The type that can blow your brains out with transient mangling goodness or just a subtle enhance; the latest enhancement to the Supercharger plugin allows for simple compression with the turn of a knob. With controls like Saturation, Character, and 3 different types of styles of compression ensure this plugin can tackle all of your needs.

Native Instruments today released SUPERCHARGER GT – a compressor inspired by the rich, tube-driven sound of a boutique hardware unit. A feature-rich follow-up to the SUPERCHARGER compressor released in December 2013, SUPERCHARGER GT goes beyond modern tube compression by adding dedicated Saturation and Character modes and additional controls for complete sonic fine-tuning. SUPERCHARGER GT is available at the NI Online Shop for $99 / 99 € / £89 / ¥ 9,800. Owners of the original SUPERCHARGER can upgrade for a special price of $49 / 49 € / £42 / ¥ 4,800 – a $50 / 50 € / £43 / ¥ 5,000 saving off the regular price.
SUPERCHARGER GT was designed for simple yet comprehensive sound shaping. Producers can quickly dial in a wide range of compression effects using a single ‘Compress’ knob. The effect’s automatic make-up gain allows them to stay focused on the sound of the effect without having to compensate for the drop in volume compression can sometimes cause. Pre- set Attack and Release settings provide a starting point for setting SUPERCHARGER GT’s response to incoming signals – producers can start with Punch, Gentle, and Slam modes. Dedicated Attack and Release controls allow an additional degree of fine-tuning.
Aside from compression, SUPERCHARGER GT also delivers a set of tone- shaping controls that make it more than just a compressor effect. A ‘Saturation’ knob with Mild, Crisp, and Slam saturation types give users three ways to add harmonic content to their tracks. At lower settings, SUPERCHARGER GT offers subtle harmonic enhancement. At more extreme settings it delivers raw, distorted coloration. The ‘Character’ knob can fill in missing low end and smooth out unruly high frequencies with Fat, Warm, and Aggressive character modes adding to its versatility. Furthermore, a mid/side mode lets producers create space in a mix by applying the effect only to the left and right sides of a signal – perfect for adjusting stereo imaging. A detector high pass prevents unruly low end signals from mis-triggering the compressor. Combined, these features provide producers dynamic control, warmth, and sonic shaping in one convenient plug-in.

Pricing and availability
SUPERCHARGER GT is available as a software download at the NI Online Shop for $99 / 99 € / £89 / ¥ 9,800.
Owners of SUPERCHARGER can upgrade for a special price of $49 / 49 € / £42 / ¥ 4,800 – a $50 / 50 € / £43 / ¥ 5,000 saving from the regular price.

Drumatom

Bryan

Love mixing but hate cleaning up mic bleed from drums? Want to spend time processing and making the drums shine instead of hunting and clicking? Well you need Drumatom. This new standalone software available on PluginAlliance will make removing mic bleed seamlessly and painlessly through their patented technology. The best part about this software is that it doesn’t remove ghost notes and other rhythmic artifacts.

After an intense public beta phase we are pleased to annonce the V1.1 release of DRUMATOM. DRUMATOM is the first and only software that can help you reduce the crosstalk captured by microphones when you record drums with multiple mics without the use of noise gates, filters etc. Hear your drums as punchy and real as never before.
V1.1 is the very first official release of DRUMATOM. If you are already using the public beta you should download the 1.1 update now.
When we first demonstrated the alpha version of Drumatom, we found that we had a problem explaining what it’s all about. Explaining a completely new type of processor can be difficult! Well, let’s start with what Drumatom is NOT: Drumatom is not a noise gate or a drum replacement tool! Drumatom is a novel stand-alone application that can drastically reduce microphone leakage in drum recordings, based on patent-pending technology. In any case, your ears will do a much better job in deciding what it is. Please download the fully functional demo and listen for yourself!
Whether you call it microphone bleed, spill or leakage, it’s a thing that sound engineers have learned to live with since the 60’s, when multitrack recording technologies started spreading around the globe. It might not be an issue for most instruments, but as far as multichannel drum recordings are concerned, leakage is always there in every close-mic. Sound engineers go to great lengths to ensure that leakage is reduced, or turned into something “usable”. Most of the times, a sound engineer has to resort to using a simple time-domain switch (a noise gate) or a drum replacement tool. Noise gates might not always work and when they do, they often mess with the signal’s transients or eat away at the decaying portion. Drum replacement tools can be very helpful, but they are doing what they promise: they replace the drummer. Drumatom is a new option, one that gives you the opportunity to work with the sound that you so carefully recorded, helping you preserve the personal style of a human drummer combined with the unique sound of a well-tuned drum set.

Try it out or buy it for $399.00 at plugin-alliance.com

Elephant Development: Temptress

Bryan

Writers block can be a tough obstacle. Never mind writers block, but sitting down in front of your studio trying to even find a starting point can quickly have you out of the creative mood. This plugin from Elephant Development (it rhymes!) is a Godsend. This uses MIDI data to give you a fresh new perspective with chord progressions to spice up your tracks. I just wish it came in AAX.

Songwriting-specific software developer Elephant Development Software is proud to announce availability of its inaugural product in the tempting form of the Temptress plug-in — providing inspiration and modern musical production elements within a powerful virtual instrument for RTAS-, VST-, and AU-capable workstations — as of February 24…

Temptress is a new concept for songwriting and productions. Unsurprisingly, Elephant Development Software assembled a team of top songwriters and producers to create contemporary musical content while simultaneously expertly engineering an exciting new way to integrate chord progressions and musical phrases into user’s productions in any key and at any tempo they choose (using an innovative industry-leading pitch shift and time-stretch engine) — all in realtime, locked to the host sequencer!

Temptress is both a blast and a breeze to use. The simple yet powerful browser in the Temptress plug-in window provides previews of the diverse musical content in its ever-expanding library — all but a click away. Whether pop, rock, dance, hip-hop, or country floats your musical boat, the huge (over 3GB) TEMPTRESS CORE library’s hundreds of cues have got you covered. Future libraries will provide cues in ever-expanding genres and will even work in conjunction with previous libraries to expand their creative possibilities. Feel free to utilise the plug-in’s already awesome-sounding audio elements or the actual MIDI data used to create the cues. The choice is yours. Either way, simply drag-and-drop directly from Temptress to tracks in the host DAW to have stunning-sounding musical phrases immediately available at your fingertips. It’s surely simplicity itself.

There are no great secrets here — all sounds used are from the newest and most-popular synths and sound banks. Temptress even shows you which patches were used to create each cue.

Quite simply, Temptress is a catalyst for great songwriting, as well as an almost limitless musical resource for productions and remixes. Change tempo, change key, change your mind… Temptress keeps pace with your creativity as an inspirational production partner for any modern music-making endeavour.

In-case copies of Temptress can be ordered directly from the dedicated online Store for $149.00 USD here: http://www.temptresstheplugin.com/store

Watch an informative Temptress tutorial video with Peter Amato, multi-platinum songwriter/ producer/programmer (LeAnn Rimes, Ricky Martin, Micheal Bolton, The Voice) here: http://www.temptresstheplugin.com/video

For more detailed information please visit the dedicated Temptress website here: http://www.temptresstheplugin.com

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