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Gobbler has announced its Gobblerama referral contest.

Gobbler is offering over $10,000 in prizes from Universal Audio, Telefunken, Focusrite and others, just for inviting your friends!

Throughout the month of May, Gobbler customers who get the greatest number of friends to sign up for Gobbler will win audio hardware and software prizes every week. The grand prize, a Universal Audio 1176LN Classic Limiting Amplifier, will be awarded when the contest ends, May 28th. Daily prizes from Groove3, Slate Digital, Softube, and others will also be given away randomly – just for entering!

More information: Gobbler

Double Impact has released the Ultimate Drum Bundle, a drum sample library for Slate Digital Trigger and WaveMachine Labs Drummagog.

The Ultimate Drum Bundle is a high quality sample bundle which contains 17 Kicks, 19 Toms and 18 phenomenal sounding snares recorded with top of the line microphones, preamps and converters.

The samples are easy to use in all industry standard drum replacement plugins and allows users to fully customize the close mic’s, overheads, room and additional microphone levels of each sample.

To give you instant access to huge drum sounds we provided you with ready-to-go mix presets for trigger and drumagog, containing one of the best sounding reverbs of this decade.

The sample library costs 50 EUR. The snares, kicks and toms are also sold individually for 35 EUR each. Prices ex. VAT.

More information: Double Impact / Ultimate Drum Bundle

Eiosis has announced its re-launch with a major new version of the AirEQ plug-in for Windows and Mac OS X in VST, AU, RTAS and AAX formats.

“My goal was to make something that goes beyond the bandwidth control, something that would drastically change the sounds and extend the possibilities of equalization. AirEQ’s revolutionary Character parameter adds a new layer of control that will become vital to every audio engineer.” – Fabrice Gabriel, CEO of EIOSIS, AirEQ designer, and algorithm designer of the multi award winning Slate Digital products.

AirEQ’s revolutionary Character Control goes Beyond Analog, allowing incredibly transparent, tight boost and cuts in the digital domain, adding a brand new dimension to the standard parametric equalizer.

With its unprecedented Character and Strength parameters, Air and Earth bands, transparent and precise sound, and exceptional high quality processing; AirEQ is your ideal, go-to equalizer for everyday tracking, mixing and mastering.

Additionally, with its ease of use, ergonomics features, musical Q/Gain adjustment behavior, flexible display options, low CPU and zero delay processing, AirEQ is truly unique in design.

AirEQ will be available in 2 versions: AirEQ (MSRP $219.99 USD) and AirEQ Premium (MSRP $349.99 USD).

More information: Eiosis

Analogue Drums has announced the release of Fat Stacks, a new sampled drum library for Native Instruments Kontakt.

Fat Stacks is a natural sounding vintage club kit. With small drums for a big sound, this kit can set the tone for a range of styles that need an organic, lively beat. We think it sounds good for R’n'B, hiphop, funk, raw drum’n'bass, and even acoustic tracks.

With several mic layers to blend, the sound of the kit can go from snappy and clean to gritty and lofi with the twist of a knob. There are 4 snare variations and two kick variations to keep things interesting.

Fat Stacks features

• Multi-sampling: each kit component contains up to 8 velocity layers for expressive detail and dynamics.
• Mic layers: 6x individually controllable mic layers: Close mics, Overheads, Room mics, Smash mic, Kick Sub, and Snare-Bottom
• Round-robin: natural performance thanks to round-robin hits.
• Layouts: Keyboard and eKit/V-Drum optimised mapping layouts provided. The layout is General MIDI (GM) compatible.
• Output routing: stereo and multi-channel output versions provided.
• Kontakt instrument interface: with instrument volume, mic layer, pan and input device controls.
• Sensitivity control: increase the sensitivity of the kit for more intricate and subtle performances or leave it set to full dynamic range for heavier tracks.
• Presets: for quickly dialing up different sounds.
• eKit mode switch to ‘eKit’ mode when using a Roland V-Drum kit, or leave set to ‘Keyboard mode’ for direct MIDI sequencing.
• Trigger maps: for sound replacement – kick, snare, toms – each with separated mic layers.

The Fat Stacks kit is available to purchase for $19 USD. Fat Stacks is compatible with Kontakt full version (v3+), and mappings for Slate Digital Trigger are also provided.

More information: Analogue Drums / Fat Stacks

Slate Digital has announced Virtual Buss Compressors, a new plugin in Slate Digital’s Virtual Analog series.

VBC comprises FG4014, FG8014, and FG MU compressors.

VIRTUAL BUSS COMPRESSORS offer three unique sounding, 100% analog modeled dynamic processors that are ideal for program material.

Every nuance of real analog compressors has been modeled including the exact nonlinear characteristics of their transformers, tubes, vcas, amplifiers, phase distortions, harmonic distortions, and timing.

The first compressor is called the FG4014. It is modern, clean, pristine, and can compress program material in a musical but transparent manner. It is perfect for all types of mixes and masters, and even sounds great on drum overheads and acoustic guitar.

The second compressor is called the FG8014. This analog beast of a compressor is a hybrid model of a famous british console compressor combined with characteristics of another famous compressor known for it’s red faceplate. It’s punchy, fat, tight, and rich sounding, with a drive control that can enhance the transformer saturation to give it even more attitude. It is an amazing buss compressor for all types of music including rock, pop, country, hip hop, house, and more. It also sounds amazing on drum busses and even individual drums like kick snare and toms. This compressor was designed to be the ultimate “dream buss compressor”.

The third compressor is called FG MU. It is modeled after the classic Fairchild 670, but then we added characteristics of two modern Vari MU compressors as well. It is absolutely gorgeous sounding with a warm, fat, deeeeep, musical character that is perfect for all types of music. For mastering, it can add the perfect final bit of glue, air, depth, and transient sparkle.

All of the compressors in the VBC bundle have a variable hi pass filter, AND a mix knob that can be used to control the ratio of the compressed signal to the dry signal. The FG MU can be used in stereo and mid/side. Each compressor can be used in a series, and the series can be rearranged by dragging and dropping. Compressing a mix with each one doing a very little amount can sound amazing! The series also makes it very easy to A/B/C the compressors on source material. Finally, VBC will come with stock presets made by some of the industry’s top mixers.

Virtual Buss Compressors will be available November, 2012, with an introductory price of $199 USD.

More information: Slate Digital

Slate Digital has announced a limited time Upgrade Sale, offering users of Steven Slate Drums a chance to upgrade to the latest version of the virtual drum instrument for Windows and Mac at a reduced price.

SSD4 replaces the Kontakt player version of SSD with a state of the art virtual instrument built from the ground up by the Slate software team. SSD4 is easier to use, has an internal groove player, incredible editing and remapping features, the ability to import your own sounds, and most of all, new algorithms have been implemented that make the drums sound way better!

But most of all, you get the Slate DELUXE kits. These new kits are unprocessed and recorded with four times the detail of the classic kits in 3.5! Add new vintage Ludwig kits, Gretch Jazz kits, new metal kits, and even some amazing Electronic kits to your drum arsenal! Plus, the new SSD4 playback algorithms ensure the most natural and realistic playing. You also get the new Deluxe cymbal pack featuring SOULTONE cymbals!

Upgrade/Crossgrade Pricing:

• Platinum 3.x to Platinum 4.0: $149 discount – COST: $99.
• EX 3.x to EX 4.0: $49 discount – COST: $29.
• EX 3.x to Platinum 4.0: from $49 to $149 discount (depending on number of expansion packs).
• Competing Drum Software to Platinum: $149 discount.

The promotion ends Wednesday October 31st, 2012.

More information: Steven Slate Drums / SSD 4.0 Upgrade