RTAS/TDM plug-ins can be damn expensive as we’ve seen been discussed this week. But don’t fall into the trap of believing that you need to shell out big sums of money for a good setup of plug-ins. Here’s is one list of good plug-ins if you’re on a budget.
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… You get help for free with things you didn’t know you needed. Thanks to Jonathan Grand at Moozek for the new ProToolerBlog favicon

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As promised, Eiosis continues their E² series that started with E²deesser with another plug-in. This time a transient designer that’s supposedly more than just that. Knowing their other products, I find little reason to doubt them.
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Between April 20th – May 31st, SynthMaster is on sale for only $49 (€32). You’ll also receive a free upgrade to version 2.0 when it’s released (KV331 is aiming for release this fall).

A new soundback is also coming up for registered users, created by sound designer Teoman Pasinlioglu.

Last but not least, here are some development news for SynthMaster 2:
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SoundToys 3.03 is now available for Windows users. This update is supposedly more DSP efficient.

Thanks to Svein for the tip!

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I might not write that much about non-Digidesign, non-M-Audio hardware here except on the special occasions when I find something that really interests me. No matter the poll results I will continue to do that because it’s good to my mental health. But I always listen to opinion, and even though democracy are for losers, a number of changes have been made on this blog because of your opinions. So here’s you chance to control the amount of hardware reports.

I think I need to clarify what I mean by hardware in this regard. We’re not talking about other sound cards and things like that, but more preamps, microphones, monitors and outboard gear. Now vote! (and comment if you like).

Following their ongoing Edition Beurmann, German-based sample manufacturer realsamples offers another harpsichord sound library: The green 1628-built Ruckers harpsichord of the renowned Beurmann collection. Regardless of how it sounds, realsamples have possibly found the most beautiful harpsichord to sample!
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Studer is moving within Switzerland to a smaller location and cut down people to development only. Soundcraft will build the whole Vista console now.

For those of you interested in economics, Avid first quarter results.

Here is some more news from RNDigital (who obviously have little support from Roger Nichols himself these days).

RNDigital is offering Inspector XL at a special discount of 20% until April 30, 2008.

RNDigital plug-ins will be available for electronic download only. Retail box versions will no longer be available.

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