DontCrac[k] has teamed up with Nomad Factory to create the “Ultimate Producer Pack”. It contains 26 plug-ins and are available for 15 days only. The plug-ins are derived from previous Nomad Factory bundles “Blue Tubes”, “Liquid”, “Analog Signature – Mastering Tools”, “Essential”, “Retrology” as well as the new “British Bundle”. Price? $499.
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Koblo continues on their Vibra synth rampage (previous post with a little history and comments by the creators), this time with the Vibra3000. Like the Vibra2000, it is also priced attractively, actually even lower than the 2000, at $19.95.
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SPL recently released their first plug-ins, emulations of their Ranger EQs and the very popular Transient Designer. I asked Dirk Ulrich, head of SPL software and Brainworx, some questions regarding the new SPL plug-ins as well as the upcoming Brainworx EQ.
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Native Instruments has launched a Kontakt 3 crossgrade offer for owners of the now deceased GigaStudio. From now until December 31st 2008, owners of any version of Tascam GigaStudio can get Kontakt 3 for a reduced price of $279 / EUR 249. I wonder what took them so long.

More information on the Kontakt 3 crossgrade at Native Instruments

From the looks of it, Avid isn’t doing too well, and the latest news doesn’t look to bring much light to their future either. We’re talking cuts, selling entire product lines and more.
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GForce has updated their old Mellotron emulation M-Tron, and this time it has a “Pro” in the name! OK, so perhaps the name itself doesn’t make it better, but I got to say, this thing looks pretty interesting.
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Ueberschall has released Electro Producer Pack, described as “a gigantic library of cutting edge Club Electro necessities”. The sounds have been organized to fit various genres such as: House, Minimal, Trance, HardTechno, Dance or JumpStyle; and more. Both analog and digital synthesizers have been a part in the process of making this sound library.
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Passenger Records Nick Thayer (who has 30 releases, 2 mix CDs and a Breakspoll Award behind him according to Loopmasters) has put together a selection of beats, breaks and bass lines released in Loopmasters Artist Series.
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I was very excited when Softube told me about two of their new products they were working on, Spring Reverb and Tube Delay. First of all, I’m a delay-junkie. To me room equals delay, and I don’t care for most type of reverb, though I usually end up using one in my mixes nowadays. Second of all, this reverb was a spring reverb emulation, not another convolution one. Third of all, they were made by Softube!
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The US and Danish collaboration Koblo Audio Software has announced the release of Vibra2000 “mini-synthesizer plugin”. The Vibra synthesizer line was originally part of the Studio9000 bundle distributed by Digidesign in the turn of the millenium. Could this be considered an emulation of a vintage plug-in? Perhaps not really, but it makes you think what we might end up seeing in the future. To learn the future, just read on as I dig into the past… And oh, we’ll look at the Vibra2000 as well.
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