Softube’s Valley People Dyna-mite is now available in Rack Extension format.
The Dyna-mite is a unique and quirky analog limiter/expander, originally designed by Valley People in the 1980′s.
The Dyna-mite is well known for its limiting that goes from snappy to ruthless, its de-essing capabilities and its highly useable expander/gate mode.
Both the original model and the software simulation also have an external input that gives great possibilities for using the Dyna-mite for keying/sidechaining.
The Valley People Dyna-mite RE is available for the introductory price of $119 USD until Friday, February 15th, 6 pm CET (regular price $149 USD).
Josh Levy has released Kitchen Sync Sound Transformer, a creative Rack Extension audio effect for guitar, bass, drums, synth and other instruments.
Kitchen Sync Sound Transformer for Propellerhead Reason.
If you’re looking for something different, you should give this a try. It hard syncs an oscillator to your audio input, creating amazing new sounds that range from lo-fi to synth filter sweeps.
Make your guitars sound like synths and your synths sound like guitars. Bring your bass to life with an electronic distorted punch. Cut through the drum mix with hi-hats and snare effects from crazy alien noise to subtle brightness.
Kitchen Sync features
Sync input audio to oscillator with shapable waveform.
Sync to half or full wave of the input audio.
Envelope follower can control frequency, waveform, volume, or wet/dry mix.
Gate, attack and release controls.
LFO section can control all the major parameters.
Automatable Lowpass filter.
CV inputs can control most of the functions (including volume and wet/dry).
CV outputs: trigger, and two envelope follower CVs, ans LFO.
Save settings that you like with the patch browser.
The Kitchen Sync Rack Extension is available to purchase for $29 USD / €25 EUR.
Propellerhead Software has announced updates to its Reason and Reason Essentials music production software.
Reason 6.5.3 and Reason Essentials 1.5.3 fix a few serious bugs, the most important being a problem where the program could crash under Mac OS X 10.8. These new versions replaces versions 6.5 and 1.5 of Reason and Reason Essentials. It is recommended that you update as soon as is convenient.
Changes in Reason / Reason Essentials
Fixed a problem related to scrollbars under Mac OS 10.8, where the program could crash.
Fixed a Create Menu bug, where sometimes the wrong device would be created.
Fixed a bug in how the Browser uses the registry under Windows. This could lead to situations where some file types couldn’t be browsed and loaded.
The Download All function for Rack Extensions could cause the Authorizer to misbehave or fail.
Rob Papen has released SubBoomBass-RE, the Rack Extension version of the bass synthesizer instrument.
SubBoomBass-RE is filled with excessive amounts of low end ammunition to detonate your tracks! With presets designed by the legendary Rob Papen and other guest artists, this dedicated bass synth will supply you with huge cone-rattling sounds that will body any music track. This software instrument is great for Hip Hop and RnB but can also be used for Dubstep, video game music, film scores and more…
SubBoomBass RE has been carefully crafted to provide you with the tools to create fresh new bass lines. It includes unique tuned drum percussion samples which are great for Hip Hop and RnB basses but can also be used to add rhythm flavour to your tracks. Also check out the innovative ‘Wave-sequence’ feature which will open up brand new sonic possibilities for your music. Other features included are two effects slots which can be modulated using midi from any of the synthesizer parts.
SubBoomBass-RE is available for the introductory price of 49 EUR / $64 USD until December 31st, 2012 (regular 65 EUR / $79 USD).
Uhbik-G is a granular pitch-shifter / phase vocoder (via fast Fourier analysis) which delivers a wide range of dramatic contemporary effects.
Effectively cuts audio material into snippets (‘grains’), then plays them back at a variable rate – even backwards. In the original tape devices, the radius of a rotating cylindrical tape-head determined grain size and the length of tape in contact with the cylinder determined the overlap between grains. But Uhbik-G is not bound by the physical limitations of rotating cylinders – you can make it huge or impossibly small!
Uhbik-P is a phaser effect, with up to 42 allpass filters in series delivering the deepest, richest phasing available.
Bass frequencies can bypass the effect (‘bass sanctuary’) to ensure LF-stability. Feedback accentuates the comb filter effect, but unlike Uhbik-F the distance between peaks is kept fairly constant. As the signal is phase-shifted each time it is fed back, frequencies are created that were not present in the original signal – the main reason why Uhbik-P is also great for wild metallic effects!
Uhbik-G and Uhbik-P are available at the introductory price of $19 USD / 15 EUR each until January 31st, 2013 (regular $39 USD / 32 EUR).
Synapse Audio has updated the Antidote Rack Extension for Reason to version 1.1.
Antidote RE is a brand-new virtual-analog software synthesizer for Propellerhead Reason. This Reason-exclusive device manages to combine the highest audio quality, flexibility and a fast work flow in an extremely easy-to-use Rack Extension. Antidote has been specifically developed to complement Reason, and to perfectly integrate into its environment.
Antidote RE comes feature packed with two stereo oscillator banks, each emitting a stack of up to 50 virtual-analog oscillators per voice, in highest audio quality.
Changes in Antidote v1.1
Wavetable synthesis added, with 8 different wavetables to choose from.
Phaser can now be switched between 2, 4 and 6 stages.
Rate Crush effect added to Distortion section.
Key Follow source added to the modulation matrix.
Performance improvements and bug fixes.
200 new patches added.
The Antidote RE for Reason is available to purchase for 79 EUR until December 31st, 2012 (regular 119 EUR).
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