Ueberschall has released Crunkzilla, a sample library featuring Crunk-based grooves and shots.

Genuine flavor and trends from actual Crunk Music plus surrounding styles like Dirty South and HipHop. Kits include main and variation folders with all loops used to make the structure of the mix as well as single shot folders for the drum samples.

Crunkzilla features

• 2 GB, 40 Crunk Kits (940 Loops and Samples).
• Tempo from 67 to 145 BPM.
• Elastik Soundbank for Mac/PC/AU/VST/RTAS.
• Elastik Player included - no sampler required.

Crunkzilla is available for $119 USD / €99 EUR / £69 GBP.

Visit Ueberschall for more information and audio demos.

Massenburg DesignWorks has released MDW Hi-Res Parametric EQ 3.0, a plug-in which emulates the filter curves of Massenburg’s legendary GML 8200 reference-standard equalizer.

Massenburg DesignWorks MDW Hi-Res Parametric EQ 3.0

From Digidesign:

Designed for Pro Tools|HD® systems, version 3.0 offers new RTAS® support, giving you the flexibility to use the EQ with Pro Tools LE® and Pro Tools M-Powered™ systems too. With its unprecedented clarity, unmatched smoothness, and excellent high-frequency response, MDW® Hi-Res Parametric EQ will help you achieve optimal definition in your mixes.

MDW Hi-Res Parametric EQ 3.0 features

• Wide frequency selection, from 10 Hz to 41 kHz, with variable Q and choice of three- or five-band EQ.
• Double-precision 48-bit processing for unprecedented clarity.
• Emulates GML 8200 constant shape reciprocal filter curves — the industry-standard reference.
• IsoPeak® functionality lets you quickly solo a target frequency band.
• A/B snapshots allow settings comparisons.
• Supports both TDM and RTAS plug-in formats.

MDW Hi-Res Parametric EQ 3.0 is available in a TDM/RTAS version for Pro Tools|HD users at $795 USD, and an RTAS version for all Pro Tools users at $395 USD. Special upgrade pricing is also available if you currently use an older version of the plug-in.

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Native Instruments is steadily building a formidable collection of KORE SoundPacks. The recently released Deep Transformations is the first SoundPack that doesn’t actually have any sounds.

From the product page:

DEEP TRANSFORMATIONS is the first effects-only KORE SOUNDPACK, harnessing the power of KORE’s integrated audio engines to turn KORE 2 and the free KORE PLAYER into a highly creative and unconventional multi-effects plug-in. Simply insert KORE 2 or KORE PLAYER on an audio or software instrument track and use the DEEP TRANSFORMATIONS effect patches to radically process vocals, drum loops, guitar, synth lines and more into something completely new and different. You’ll have to look elsewhere for standard effects; this SOUNDPACK provides highly creative and morph-able effects not found in any other software or hardware unit.

Deep Transformations comes with 150 effects, and a total of 1,200 sound variations. These effects are generated by the Guitar Rig, Absynth, FM8 and Reaktor engines, and the 30 effects that come with KORE.

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Audio Ease has released version 6.2 of Altiverb, a convolution reverb plug-in for Mac and Windows.

It uses top quality samples of real spaces to create reverb, ranging from Sydney Opera House to the cockpit of a Jumbo Jet. Altiverb 6 offers the most extensive set of parameters, it supports all professional plug-in formats including protools TDM on the Mac, parameter automation and surround. Altiverb 6 gives you a choice between iLok SmartKey or Challenge/response copy protection, it lets you sample your own spaces (currently Mac only), and Altiverb is efficient on your cpu.

Changes in Altiverb v6.2

• [PT] Pro Tools 7.4.2, OS X 10.5.3 and Intel Mac compatible. The RTAS version has been fixed to work with optimal performance in Mac OS X 10.5.3 and Pro Tools 7.4.2. Earlier there was the need to exclude some processor cores from RTAS processing, the playback engine can now be set to the number of processor cores available.
• [PT TDM] The TDM version has a fix to make reloading a session with several Altiverbs active reliable. Data traffic to and from the DSPs could be hampered during load of a session, especially with an Expansion Chassis (ethernet or Magma) is connected. The fix makes the traffic reliable, albeit on a chassis somewhat slower.
• [PT ]The RTAS version has been made better compatible for exchanges between PC and Mac, and between HD and LE systems. A session with a TDM version inserted will now open an RTAS instance automatically when transported to an LE system.
• [PT MAC] Stopped CFM support for Pro Tools (from Altiverb 6.2 on Altiverb will not work anymore Pro Tools 6.x, Pro Tools 7 is required).
• [PC] compatibility with Sonar improved.
• [PC] compatibility with pyramix improved, Altiverb 6 XL surround options too.
• Removed several smaller problems.
• Added possibility to turn off auto update checking.

Visit Audio Ease for more information.