Waves are introducing a new plugin, the H-EQ. It’s a uniquely powerful hybrid equalizer, featuring vintage and modern EQ inspired by the finest British and American consoles; seven different filter types per band, including a newly-developed, one-of-a-kind asymmetrical bell filter; an intuitive keyboard graphic that lets you choose frequencies by clicking on notes; an exclusive MS Mode so you...

Revolution-808 by Sounds Outside the Lines, boasts over 3,600 unique samples that cover every possible tonal variation of the original TR-808 unit, providing you with a host of useable drums that you can drag and drop into Kontakt, EXS24, and all hardware and software samplers that support WAV format. Revolution-808 Main Features Intuitive user interface that mimics that actual hardware (Kontakt...

Cockos have updated REAPER to version 4.02. This improves on 4.0′s mouse modifier support, adding more scrub/jog customization and marquee zoom support. REAPER now has a stack of zoom/scroll states, so you can easily cycle through recent views. The project settings dialog has also been reorganized slightly, offering a cleaner arrangement of project specific configuration. This version also offers...

Tribal & Tech House serves up an exciting selection of tribal infused tech house rhythms and authentic percussive ensembles. Here you will find over 600MB of finely crafted tribal house grooves, tech house tops, groove layering tools and live percussive workouts! All included mixed percussion loops and live performances have been captured using high end recording equipment, pre-amps and microphones....

Waves Linear Phase EQ is a transparent equalizer, designed especially for maintaining phase relations in mixing and mastering situations. When we do regular equalization, we tend to think that we’re manipulating only a certain frequency range. While that’s true to some extent, what actually happens is that different amounts of processing delay take place on different frequencies. This is called...

Roland’s all-new JUPITER-80synthesizer is the first synthesizer designed completely around SuperNATURAL® sound modeling technology, delivering expressive instrumental realism far beyond anything previously possible. Authentic sounds spanning acoustic, electric, orchestral and ethnic spring to life at your fingertips. It’s all in the same keyboard as powerful cutting edge synths bridging the past,...

Steinberg Media Technologies announced that it will be distributing Alan Parsons’ Art & Science of Sound Recording video series by Keyfax NewMedia. With multi-platinum producer Alan Parsons presenting video footage on recording techniques, studio equipment and instruments, The boxed set contains three DVDs encompassing 24 sections on a range of useful topics from MIDI to audio recording techniques....

SampleRadar are offering a collection of free lounge samples, containing 166 individual sounds. The details are below: “At a time when every right-thinking person in the UK has been calling for calm, SampleRadar is doing its bit by bringing you a collection of anger-managing lounge samples.” Pull up your plushest studio chair, load it up with your plumpest cushions and prepare to ease...

I guess it’s all about the freedom to make music wherever you go, and laptops seem to have become obsolete, and iPads are the preffered alternative. That’s the only way I can explain the explosion of apps that are flooding the market today. If that’s a good thing, or a bad one, I’ll let you decide. On topic now… there’s a new drum machine for iPads, and below you’ll...

Ian Boddy: Analogica is a rich marriage of classic synths and Alchemy’s sophisticated digital manipulation. Created in a studio crammed with analogue hardware, enjoy a host of unique effects from shimmering ring mod and FM soundscapes, gently flanging pads, darting & weaving arpeggios, rich and squelchy Minimoog basses to subtle wavetable movement, gritty, growling hard sync and walls of...