Luftrum has released Luftrum 2, an ambient ReFill for Reason 4.0 focusing on ambient patches for Thor.

Luftrum 2 is taking Thor to a level yet unheard, containing deep pads, sleeping drones, evolving soundscapes and minimalistic lead synths. A unique tool in every ambient studio setup, whether you produce cryo-sleeping ambient, space drone music or downtempo IDM electronica.

Luftrum 2 features

• 69 Ambient Patches for Thor
  • 38 Ambient Pads
  • 16 Textured Soundscapes
  • 8 Minimalistic Lead Synths
  • 7 Sleeping Drones
• Sounds like: Harold Budd, Tangerine Dream, Brian Eno, early Aphex Twin, Global Communication, FSoL, Moby and Biosphere.

Luftrum 2 is available for download for $12 USD. A bundle of Luftrum 1 and 2 can be purchased for $20 USD (save 30%).

Visit Luftrum for more information and audio demos.

Some interesting things I found on May 30th, 2008:

# Mainstream Multi-Touch is Coming, And It’ll Rock for Music

Peter Kirn writes:

The video above, showing multi-touch integrated with the next version of Windows 7 (expected at the end of next year), demonstrates one thing to me: multi-touch is coming, and it’ll be mainstream. And that’s huge for creative performance.

# GetLoFi - Abelincoln live looper - The “abelincoln live sampler” utilizes 3 Yada Yada Yada voice recorder circuits and simple passive 3 channel mixer for the Output signals.

# LittleGPTracker Hits 1.0; Free, GP2x, Linux, Mac, Windows, Does Lots of Stuff - LittleGPTracker (a.k.a 'The piggy') is a music tracker optimised to run on portable game consoles. It is currently running on Game Park's GP2x but there's a version for windows & mac too.

# 8bitcollective.com Compilation CD “Hello World!” OUT NOW! - Free CD includes 16 creative commons licensed 8bit tracks.

# Kontakt Tutorial Video: Creative Abuse with Modulation, Scripting - Peter Dines’ tutorial on scripting and modulation in Kontakt 3.

# The C1 has landed! - Casper Electronics circuit bent C1 is available in three styles: CS1 Speak&Spell, CM1 Speak&Math, CR1 Speak&Read. You can get one for $250.

Audio Damage has released Kombinat, a distortion effect plug-in capable of sophisticated and unique sounds.

Taken as a whole, Kombinat is a tweaker’s paradise, yet designed so that it is easy to just grab one of the 64 presets and touch it up a bit to suit the source material.

Kombinat features

• “DJ” style three-band isolator EQ for band-killing effects.
• Three distortion engines, consisting of seven algorithms each (plus pass-through) that can operate per-band or in series. The included algorithms are Fuzz, Distortion, Saturation, Warp, Clip, Bit/Sample-Rate Reduction, and Ring Mod.
• Self-Resonating Four-pole lowpass filter.
• Compressor, configured for one-knob operation for ease of use.
• Full MIDI learn (VST version only) for hardware control of all parameters.

Kombinat is available for Windows and Mac (VST/AU) for $49 USD.

Visit Audio Damage for more information and audio demos.

Audio Ease has announced the All In Bundle, a collection of all Audio Ease plug-ins and Snapper.

The complete versions of Altiverb, Speakerphone, the Nautilus Bundle, the Rocket Science bundle and Snapper, thrown into a single box, at a discount of over $500 dollars!

Audio Ease All In Bundle features

• Altiverb 6 (regular or XL, which adds TDM and 5.1 surround support), a convolution reverb plug-in which uses top quality samples of real spaces to create reverb, ranging from Sydney Opera House to the cockpit of a Jumbo Jet.
• Speakerphone, an audio plug-in which gives you authentic speakers of any size together with their natural environments.
• Nautilus Bundle, includes RiverRun (Granular Soundscape Synthesizer), PeriScope (real-time animating spectroscope, graphic analyzer) and Deep Phase Nine (a true phaser that offers unprecedented control and visual feedback).
• Rocket Science bundle, includes Roger (human vowel filters), Follo (dynamically adjusts the peak of a resonating bandpass filter according to the level of the incoming audio) and Orbit (lets you control the virtual position of your sound source).
• Snapper, a tool which shows the wave form of audio files in the Mac Finder. It then allows you to Play, Drag, Drop and Convert them.

The All In Bundle is available for Mac only, for $1195 USD for the Altiverb 6 Regular version, and $1595 USD for the Altiverb 6 XL version.

Visit Audio Ease for more information on this bundle and its individual products.