The season of goodwill has well and truly arrived at Time+Space HQ as the UK’s largest soundware distributor announces its festive bundles and deals for 2012.
Highlights include…
Free iLok with Synthogy Ivory II pianos – start tinkling those ivories straight away with this great bundle deal.
Toontrack EZkeys and Sound Expansion Bundle – two EZkeys pianos for just £129.00!
25% off The Producer’s Manual and The Secrets of House Music Production – swat up on your music making knowledge and skills with these useful books from Sample Magic.
50% off all Toontrack SDX expansion packs – get extra kits for your Superior Drummer at only £54.95 each.
Free Garritan Basic Steinway worth £99.95 when you buy the Garritan Ultimate Collection.
iZotope Creative Bundle only £379 – save over £200 with everything you need for inspiring adventures in audio manipulation.
The Ultimate Dance Collection – nine top quality Sample Magic titles for just £99.95 – that’s a saving of over £200!
Zero-G sample library bundles – Disco, Sound Design, House and Hip Hop bundles with savings of up to £117!
Still stuck for ideas? Why not buy a Time+Space gift voucher and let them pick out their own plugins?
iZotope has announced the release of Trash 2, an audio mangling and distortion device for Windows and Mac.
Completely rewritten from the ground up, Trash 2 has an entirely new sonic architecture, brand new features, optimized performance, better sound quality, and support for modern hosts and formats.
It’s been a decade since Trash first arrived as the ultimate distortion toolkit. As the years have passed, it’s remained a cult favorite of artists such as Nine Inch Nails, Noisia, Garbage, Ko?n, Sigur Rós, and anyone looking to add dirt, grime, and character to their tracks. Fully overhauled from Trash 1, Trash 2 adds a wealth of new features including twenty new distortion algorithms, fresh filter modules, fifty new impulse responses, multiband waveshaping, 64-bit and AAX support and much more.
“For Trash 2, we wanted increase the level of freedom in the features that Trash 1 users loved best,” explains Product Manager Jack Côté. “Now you can have even more influence over your sound, whether you’re loading your own impulse responses, creating new filter combinations, or designing and editing your own multiband waveshapes. With Trash 2, it’s a new era of personalized distortion.”
Trash 2 features
Distort in ways you never dreamed with the Trash module’s 60+ distortion algorithms, perfect for transforming your sound into something never before heard.
Design your own unique distortions, from massive to mild and everything in between, with a new, customizable, multiband Waveshaper.
Let your tracks inhabit any space or object with the new Convolve module. Choose from over 100 impulse responses, or load your own to put your bass in a washing machine or your keys in a cave.
Find a new voice: make your audio speak and growl with two redesigned Filters, each one featuring new vowel formant filters, screaming peaks, node modulations, and more.
Start trashing your audio immediately with an extensive new preset library and an ear-friendly Limiter that ensures you can play without fear.
Full of extra-exotic and extra-gritty presets for a broad range of sonic treatments, the Edge Expansion Pack is perfect for unconventional guitars, synth basses, synth pads, drum mangling, and more. With 30 new impulse responses for further tone coloring and 70 new presets built directly for these impulses, the Edge Expansion content was born to bring out the best of Trash 2′s classic out-there sound.
Trash 2 is available to purchase for the introductory price of $149 USD through December 6th, 2012 (regular $249 USD MSRP, €195 EUR). The Trash 2 Edge Expansion Pack is available for $29 USD / €25 EUR.
For a limited time, Trash 2 will be available as part of iZotope’s new Creative Bundle which includes Trash 2, the Trash 2 Edge Expansion, Iris+5, and Stutter Edit. This collection is priced at $499 USD / €399 EUR, and available until December 31st, 2012.
Trash 1 customers who purchased on or after October 1, 2012 will receive upgrades to Trash 2 for free. For Trash 1 owners who purchased prior to October 1, 2012, special upgrade pricing of $99 USD will be available.
iZotope has announced the release of its Insight essential metering suite for post production and broadcast applications.
Insight provides a full suite of audio analysis and metering tools, perfect for visualizing changes made during the mixing process, troubleshooting problematic mixes, and ensuring compliance with broadcast loudness standards. Fully customizable and scalable, Insight allows audio engineers to visually monitor all relevant information from a mix in a convenient floating window, empowering users to look deeper into their audio with intelligent analysis tools and real-time monitoring capabilities.
Insight helps ensure adherence to current broadcast standards using the most advanced metering technology available today, with meters for immediate loudness calculation and True Peak detection, loudness calculation over time, and faster than real-time offline loudness calculation. Advanced visualization and spatialization displays further aid in detecting problems that the ears cannot perceive, like the innovative new Surround Scope and the 3D Spectrogram. Also included are convenient user presets, designed for an array of engineering applications, for quick and easy access to common metering and loudness configurations. Alternatively, users can define new presets with their own preferred customizations, giving Insight unmatched flexibility in the metering space. The perfect tool for post, broadcast, and music engineers, video editors, and sound designers, Insight allows users to keep an eye as well as an ear on the mix at all times.
“iZotope is excited to offer broadcast, post and audio engineers an elegant metering solution that can be custom fit to any workspace and workflow,” says Brett Bunting, Insight Product Manager. “Unlike other metering products, Insight integrates a full collection of state-of-the-art meters into one customizable window, allowing you to easily monitor and visualize all aspects of your audio.”
Insight visually guides you throughout the mixing process, empowering you to look deeper into your audio with intelligent analysis tools and real-time monitoring capabilities.
Insight features
Immediately detect potential mix problems through real-time visual monitoring and color-coded alerts.
Ensure audio is fully compliant with current loudness standards with forward-thinking tools that adhere to standards like BS.1770-1/2/3, then document adherence with an exportable log or graph.
Perform deep and flexible analysis with zoomable meters and the ability to route audio from any tracks or buses to Insight.
Design your ideal metering view by choosing the meters you want to see, customizing them, and resizing the Insight window to fit your current workflow.
Get an extensive suite of metering tools in a single plug-in, including True Peak Meters, Loudness Meters, Loudness History Graph, Stereo Vectorscope, Surround Scope, 2D/3D Spectrogram, and Spectrum Analyzer.
Insight is available for the introductory price of $399 USD through November 29, 2012 (Regular MSRP: $499 USD / €449 EUR) or for free to Ozone 5 Advanced Customers. Ozone 5 Standard customers can upgrade to Ozone 5 Advanced for $399 USD through November 29, 2012 and receive Insight for free. Customers who already own Ozone 5 Advanced will be notified via email with details to install Insight for free.
Audiofile Engineering has announced Triumph, the long awaited sequel to their popular Wave Editor audio editing application.
Available as an app for Mac OS X, Audiofile has redefined audio editing with Triumph as an “audio designer”, sporting a newly redesigned interface and a host of new features and functionality.
Triumph is much more than just a new version of Wave Editor, which is also the reason for the new name. “Our goal is to always be on the cutting edge of technology and interface design. We completely rewrote Wave Editor. We rethought everything, not only how to improve on what we built in Wave Editor, but how we could bring the concept of an audio editor forward”, says Matthew Foust, founder of Audiofile Engineering, “Triumph takes full advantage of all of the latest technologies Mac OS X has to offer.”
Musicians and audio professionals who are already fans of Audiofile Engineering’s Wave Editor will be delighted in seeing the new Triumph’s single window and full screen support, experiencing the completely rewritten audio system and the significantly improved arrangement & mastering features, all fully 64-bit.
Less guess work and more speed Triumph features a unique and patented method for editing audio: Layers. It’s similar to image editing in technique, but is specifically tailored for audio. The Layers method is an innovative way to create combinations of sounds. It saves time by keeping everything live and editable until the final product and results in less guesswork and more speed.
Spacious, natural sounds thanks to FHX™ The new FHX™ effect in Triumph solves a number of the issues often associated with listening to music on headphones. FHX creates a more spacious, natural sound stage over headphones — enabling an exceptional listening experience that will truly inspire and engage.
Audiofile Engineering has teamed up with iZotope and now includes iZotope Restore & Restoration as well as the advanced iZotope MBIT+ and 64-bit SRC options for disc burning in Triumph.
Triumph features
Redesigned Meters inspired by the beautiful UI from the Spectre, Audiofile’s real-time analysis application.
Auto Save & Versions – automatically save your projects with browse history.
Multi-Touch Gestures.
Full Apple Script Support for complex workflows, automation and interacting with other applications.
Actions for a clean, uncluttered interface and intuitive workflow.
Effects Groups – save a group of Effects including their settings for use on future projects.
Effects Automation – new Shapes feature can automate the parameters of an effect.
High performance scrubbing and innovative FHX™ headphone listening plug-in.
Hardware Output & Channel Mapping for greatly improved system configuration.
Full Support for iXML.
Support for Retina displays.
Analog Simulation.
Triumph is available to purchase for Mac, at the introductory price of $59.99 USD through November 16th, 2012 (25% off regular $79.99 USD). Users who purchased Wave Editor 1.5 on or after May 1st, 2012 may request a license key for Triumph 2.0 at no charge.
This great value software package includes 3 music production tools for recording vocals, creating beats and then sharing them online. Whether you’re new to making music or need an easy to use sketchpad for ideas, the T-Pain Hip Hop Production Package is for you.
T-Pain Hip Hop Production Package features
The T-Pain Engine allows you to combine any of the 50 professionally crafted beats with your own vocals to create tracks that can be exported and then shared online. A full set of drum loops are included with intro, verse and chorus song parts. If you want to get advanced then the patterns can be edited directly in the iDrum: T-Pain edition which is also included.
The T-Pain Effect plug-in is compatible with all major DAW applications like Garageband, Logic or Pro Tools and can be used to get the T-Pain sound on your own productions. It’s great for simple pitch correction or can be used for some truly crazy vocal action.
iDrum: T-Pain Edition is a powerful virtual drum machine that can also be used as a plug-in within all major DAWs. Build your own patterns and songs using the iDrum step sequencer with either the included 50 T-Pain iDrum kits or your own drum sounds which can be easily imported.
Throughout November, the T-Pain Hip Hop Production Package is £39 GBP / 49 EUR.
iZotope has announced Insight, an essential metering suite for post production and broadcast applications.
More than just a traditional metering plugin, Insight provides the valuable visual feedback imperative to the mixing and mastering stages of any audio project. In addition, Insight offers peace of mind and added security to audio engineers seeking compliance with BS.1770 loudness standards, as specified by regulations like the CALM Act.
Insight provides a full suite of audio analysis and metering tools, perfect for visualizing changes made during mixing and mastering, troubleshooting problematic mixes, and ensuring compliance with broadcast loudness standards. Fully customizable and scalable, Insight allows you to visually monitor all relevant information from your stereo or surround mix in a convenient floating window. With level meters, loudness meters, a spectrogram, spectrum analyzer, vectorscope, surround scope, and a loudness history graph, Insight allows you to keep an eye as well as an ear on your mix at all times.
Insight features
Immediately detect potential mix problems through real-time visual monitoring and color-coded alerts.
Ensure your audio is fully compliant with current loudness standards with forward-thinking tools that adhere to standards like BS.1770-1/2/3.
Perform deep and flexible analysis with zoomable meters and the ability to route audio from any tracks or buses to Insight.
Design your ideal metering plug-in by choosing the meters you want to view, customizing them, and resizing the Insight window to fit your current workflow.
Get an extensive suite of metering tools in a single plug-in, including true-peak level meters, loudness meters, loudness history graph, stereo vectorscope, surround meter, 2D/3D spectrogram, and spectrum analyzer.
Insight will be released mid-November, 2012. Insight will be available separately and will be included with all purchases of Ozone 5 Advanced. Upon Insight’s launch, all existing Ozone 5 Advanced customers will be notified with details to install Insight for free.
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