Posts Tagged ‘plug ins’

For the entire month of May, Universal Audio is offering 10% off all of their plugins – including their bundles. You can take your pic from:

• Classic Compressors: Teletronix LA-2A, 1176LN, Fairchild 670, and a VCA VU compressor (based on the dbx 160). Link
• Precision Mastering: Precision Multiband Compressor, Limiter, and EQ. All work on UAD-1 and -2 cards. Link
• EMT Classic Reverb: EMT 140 and 250. Link
• UAD 4K Classic Console: 4K Channel Strip (including E Type EQs and filters) and 4K Buss Compressor. Faithfully modeled after the SSL 4000. Link
• Roland Classic Series FX: BOSS CE-1 (chorus stompbox), Roland Dimension D (chorus/spatial imaging), and Roland RE-201 Space Echo. All work on UAD-1 and -2 cards. Link
• Neve Classic Console: 1073/1073SE EQ, 1081/1081SE EQ, and 33609/33609SE Compressor. Works for UAD-1 and -2 cards. Link
• Neve Classic Console MkII: Includes all plug-ins from MkI, but includes the 88RS Channel Strip. All of MkII works for UAD-1 and -2 cards. Link

A lot of choices for your UAD cards. For further pricing info, please check out UA’s site.

We were lucky enough to be invited into the Waves press event that happened at AES. Inside we saw a speech from a small variety of Waves people as well as demos of most of the new Waves plug-ins being launched soon. The only that was missing a demo was the LoAir software, but the rest were covered in pretty significant detail. Let’s take a look at what’s coming to a studio near you soon.

Waves Noise Suppressor and LoAir Subharmonic Synthesizer – $2,800 (TDM) and $TBD (respectively); both available in TDM and Native

Both of the above are part of Waves Post Production bundle. Waves Noise Suppressor (or WNS from here on out) is a broadband noise reduction tool thats aimed at both location and studio recording. It looks like your standard broadband noise reduction plug-in except for the fact that it allows you to work on multiple tracks at a time allowing you to do a lot of noise suppression in a little amount of time.

You know those scenes in movies where there’s a huge explosion and you can feel the rumble? Well, the LoAir Subharmonic Synthesizer is made just for those kinds of scenes. It’s polyphonic, works on either 2.1 or 5.1 setups, and can also be used to enhance the subharmonics on already existing tracks. Something tells me this plug-in will be widely used and abused in the electronic music world, as well as the post world.

Vocal Rider – $400 (Native), $800 (TDM)

This was a lot of fun to see in action. It was also great to see and will be desired by anyone who’s ever had to do lots of tedious vocal automation, whether for music or post. Vocal Rider takes a sidechain input (your music bed) and rides your vocal channel accordingly to ensure a (near) perfect vocal mix. It can also write automation as it tweaks your vocals as well as read any existing automation.

MultiRack – $600 (TDM only; includes a reverb and delay plug-in)

Part of the Waves Live suite, this is aimed at lightening up your live sound rig. The concept is forget all your dynamics and time-based processing racks; use this instead. And after working as a live sound stagehand for some time, this concept scares and excites me. It’s great because it will lower overhead and energy needed to effectively mix a show. It scares because my main job was hauling around racks of amps and processors so that the FOH/monitor guys could do what they needed do, so something like this could put a few guys out of work (which no one needs).

Each rack in the program is it’s own signal chain which can be customized from start to finish. It seems like it has a pretty rich preset function built-in. You can save racks for a band, song, or even part of a song and recall it on the fly. You can also use any Waves plug-in inside the rack which promises to give you that studio sound in the live sound realm.

All the plug-ins discussed above will be available the first week of November and will be included in all of the popular Waves bundles.

2CAudio has announced the 1.0.1 update to their algorithmic reverb plug-in which is available for Windows and Mac OS X in VST and AudioUnits flavors.

Aside from bug fixes, new GUI options, and various improvement updates, Aether also has a bunch of new features:

• AU: Mono-to-Stereo support in Logic 8 and 9
• AU: Automation now reports correct parameter changes
• AU: Automation can be recorded via changing parameter values on the GUI
• Aether’s plug-in state is now saved and recalled by the host for both A and B setups
• Aether’s current preset name and origin (user/factory/file) is now saved and recalled by the host
• Improvements to the preset menu system

You can find a demo version of Aether on 2CAudio’s website. More info on the 1.0.1 update after the jump.

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McDSP is offering their very nice looking Chrome Tone amp modeling software and their software instrument Synthesizer One at an awesome Summer rate until August 31.

I’ve tried a lot of guitar modeling software, but knowning McDSP’s usual stellar plug-in quality, I’d say this is probably a massive steal on it’s own.

And just to give you an idea of what a massive deal this is, Chrome Tone and Synth One go for $495 seperately. So if you’re into what McDSP does, nows the time to grab some of their code for your studio.

All the plug-ins mentioned will run on Windows or Mac and are available in RTAS (Native), TDM (HD), and AudioSuite which means all you non ProTools users are out of luck.

The summer of deals continue! Check out the latest promotion being offered by IK Multimedia:

IK Multimedia is proud to announce the “Summer Group Mix Promotion” where musicians, engineers and producers can get up to three free T-RackS 3 Singles plug-ins for the price of one. From July 1, 2009 through August 31, 2009, when customers purchase and register any award-winning T-RackS 3 Singles plug-in from an authorized IK Multimedia Retailer or IK’s online store, they will immediately receive another T-RackS 3 plug-in free as a download from their User Area.  This alone is an outstanding promotional offer, but it gets even better:

IK’s “Summer Group Mix” promotion is really a community-based promotion – in brief, the more people who participate, the better the promotion becomes. All participants immediately get 1 additional plug-in with their purchase and then, if the word spreads and 500 or 1000 people participate, all of them will be instantly rewarded with additional plug-ins. If we reach our goal of 1,000 participants, users will actually be getting four plug-ins for the price of one, or each plug-in for €18.75/$25* each – that’s incredible value!

If you’re unfamiliar with the T-RackS 3 singles, they’re basically individual signal processors from the T-RackS 3 Deluxe Mixing and Mastering Suite. The T-RackS 3 singles also fit into the T-RackS Standard 12-slot setup.

Here’s a complete list of the plug-ins available through this deal:

• Vintage Tube Compressor/Limiter model 670
• Vintage Tube Program EQ
• Opto compressor
• Brickwall limiter
• Linear Phase EQ
• Classic T-RackS Compressor
• Classic T-RackS Multi-band Compressor
• Classic T-RackS Clipper
• Classic T-RackS EQ
• Complete Metering Suite

All of those plug-ins at $99 a piece (unless you all join in on the promotion) is an extremely nice deal. But before you go any buy the whole set, here’s the feature-set:

• 10 individual mixing/mastering processors series comprised of 3 analog and vintage emulations (including models based on the Fairchild 670 and the Pultec EQP-1A), 2 digital processors as well the 4 classic T-RackS processors plus metering suite with Peak, Perceived Loudness, Phase, and RMS meters, plus a Spectrum analyzer with Peak, RMS and Averaging indicator
• VST, Audio Unit and RTAS plug-ins for any compatible DAW on Mac or PC
• New high-fidelity oversampling with crystal clear transparency, for high quality audio processing
• A-B-C-D quick comparison settings allow to compare various processor set-ups with one click
• New SCC™ technology coupled with IK’s unique DSM™ technology provides the most realistic software emulation of vintage gear to date
• Can be integrated within T-RackS 3 Standard Mastering & Mixing Suite plug-in or standalone
• Presets can be read within module presets in T-RackS 3 Deluxe or Standard Mastering & Mixing Suite
• Extremely affordable: each plug-in are available for a fraction of what comparable sound quality plug-ins cost
• Current owners of T-RackS 3 Deluxe or Standard suites will be given the individual modules (included in the package they purchased) as a FREE download in their IK User Area

All-in-all, a very worthwhile promotion. I for one will be grabbing demos of a few of these plug-ins, and I suggest you do the same. Can’t wait to hear them in action!