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LSR Audio has announced the release of three effect plug-ins for Windows and Mac.

LSR Audio’s vintage compressor and tube drive effect plugins are now available.

LSR Audio plugins

• WARMultipress – Multiband (3 bands) tube compressor with audio tape emulation. Price $129 USD.
• TUBEnhance – Vintage dual band tube driver with with adjustable cross-over frequency. Price $49 USD.
• COMPrime – Vintage tube channel compressor for natural progressive compression. Price $59 USD.

The plug-ins are now available to purchase as effect plugins for Windows and Mac (VST/AU/RTAS). The LSR Vintage Pack bundles all three at $189 USD (20% off individual prices).

More information: LSR Audio

Plugin Alliance has announced the release of bx_rockrack, a guitar amp plug-in par excellence, developed by Plugin Alliance founder member Dirk Ulrich’s renowned German plug-ins company Brainworx.

BX give you a handful of perfectly modeled tube-amps, and the way they have captured COMPLETE recording chains in some of the best equipped studios with the help of very experienced engineers is simply revolutionary. Select your favorite speaker, choose your amp, tweak the gain and EQ settings, and there you go.

World-class guitar sounds, recallable and reliable. If you have ever tried to record the same identical amp in the same studio twice and ended up frustrated because the results just were NOT the same in the end you know what we are talking about.

Unlike most other guitar amp plug-ins, bx_rockrack can be controlled just like a real amp and small effects rack; moreover, with so many perfect-sounding set-ups to choose from, its recording chains need not be edited or altered — simply select the cabinet, microphone, studio, and… keep on rockin’ in the real world! A nice-sounding vintage delay, noise gate, and high-quality guitar tuner are also at hand, helpfully, while some innovative Brainworx filters speedily shape amp set-ups with ease.

bx_rockrack can easily be played live since it offers a CPU-friendly, ultra-low-latency engine, so multiple instances can comfortably be run on any modern computer. The basic version includes the amps, recording chains, and Effects Rack, while the soon-to-be released PRO version will offer additional guitar-orientated plug-ins, plus an ability to use the bx_rockrack recording chains with other guitar amp plug-ins, or even real guitar amps via their line-out connections to the computer.

Brainworx bx_rockrack features a choice collection of high-end guitar amp models that exactly emulate guitar recording in the highly-coveted Brainworx studio or The Mix Room.

bx_rockrack features

• 5 channels modeled to sound like these classic amps: Clean Marshall® JCM800®, Lead Marshall® JCM800®, Clean ENGL® 530, Lead ENGL® 530, MesaBoogie® Rectoverb®
• Cabinets used: Marshall® 1960 TV, MesaBoogie® 4×12, Orange® 2×12, Diezel® 4×12.
• Original recording chains from The Mix Room (Ben Grosse) and Brainworx Studio (Dirk Ulrich).
• Microphones: Vintage Neumann® CMV-563, Royer® 121, Shure® SM57.
• Consoles: NEVE® VXS72 (Brainworx Studio), plus TAB® V76 mic preamp, SSL 9000K (The Mix Room LA) with Vintage Neve 1073 preamps & EQs.

The bx_rockrack for Windows and Mac (VST/AU/RTAS/AAX) is available to purchase for the introductory price of $199 USD until July 30, 2012 (regular $249 USD)

More information: Plugin Alliance / bx_rockrack

CDSoundMaster has announced the release Vintage Tube Collection and Tube Booster, two new tube effect plug-ins for Windows and Mac.

Vintage Tube Collection & Tube Booster effect plugins powered by Acustica Audio’s Nebula.

With the Vintage Tube Collection, everyone can afford to be a collector of rare vintage vacuum tubes. Included are prized tubes from Mullard, Amperex, Brimar, and Radiotechnique. There are a total of nine different tube programs in this collection.

CDSoundMaster states that “most modern producers have not had a lot of hands-on time with expensive, vintage tube gear, so their experience in the software market has largely been with overly-distorted, fake sounding tube drive. As a result, their expectations of what real tubes are supposed to sound like are anywhere from fizzy and distorted, to saggy and lacking in dimension. What we are doing is providing the real sound without overemphasizing the qualities. We actually built the hardware device to play the tubes. The result is the tube’s behavior at all volumes, also known as dynamic range, the frequency spectrum, and the harmonic distortion.”

The Tube Booster plug-in allows the user to add higher gain natural tube harmonic saturation. This is a process that has been emulated in many forms over the years, but because of its subjectivity, it is often implemented poorly and over-emphasized.

CDSoundMaster states that “… our technology allows us to recreate the purity of the analog signal with great detail, and in multiple dimensions.” This technology, called V.V.K.T., or Vectorial Volterra Kernels Technology, has been developed by Acustica Audio over many years, and CDSoundMaster has maintained close ties as beta tester and official 3rd Party Developer.

CDSoundMaster’s attention to detail does not end at the excellent sonic capabilities of these plug-ins, but they have also designed some of the most realistic Graphic Interfaces to date. Even more amazing is that these GUI’s, created by Vincent at GravityLinks, are completely unique to the software, and were designed from scratch.

The Vintage Tube Collection and Tube Booster for Windows and Mac (VST) are available to purchase for $79 USD and $49 USD respectively.

More information: CD Sound Master / Vintage Tube Collection / Tube Booster

Xenium Audio has released X-Tube, a free tube amplifier effect plug-in for Windows.

X-Tube is a Microsoft Windows VST plugin that simulates tube amplifier saturation effect. VST plugin can be used in Microsoft Windows 32/64bit (XP SP2 or later, Windows 7) OS with any VST DAW.

Xenium’s X-Tube simulates a one stage 12AX7 tube amplifier.

X-Tube features

• Type of vacuum tube for simulation – 12AX7.
• Mono, Stereo, Qudro and 5.1 audio track support.
• 64-bit floating point processing.
• Easy to use and operate.
• Zero latency processing.
• 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x, 12x, 16x oversampling mode.
• IIR-type 3 Band equalizer with ±12dB range.
• Separate adjustment of drive and bias.
• 12 Factory presets, 8 User presets.

X-Tube is available to download as a freeware VST effect plug-in for Windows.

More information: Xenium Audio / X-Tube

Audiffex has released version 1.5 of inValve, a collection of software models of tube preamp and effects.

As the production of PowerCore is discontinued and there are some musicians and engineers still interested to use the warmer sound produced by the inValve effects, we are releasing the native version of inValve.

Audiffex InValve – Preamp, equalizer and compressor effect plugins.

inValve features

• inValve Preamp, a precise software emulation of a tube amplifier. The sound is not affected too much, it adds just warmth and smoothness you need for analog-like mixes.
• inValve Equalizer, a four-band equalizer with a tube circuit emulation for each band.
• inValve Compressor, a standard analog compressor emulation utilizing the characteristics of tubes.

inValve Native is available to purchase for $49 USD (previously $249 USD). The update is free for all customers who purchased VL2 or inValve for PowerCore.

More information: Audiffex / inValve

LSR Audio has announced COMPrime, a vintage tube compressor effect plugin for Windows and Mac.

LSR Audio’s COMPrime vintage tube compressor.

COMPrime features

• Natural progressive compression.
• Vintage VU meter.
• Adjustable tube gain, from subtle warming to hot overdrive.
• Mono, stereo and multi-channel.

COMPrime for Windows and Mac (VST/AU/RTAS) is scheduled for release Summer 2012. A beta version is available to download for registered users.

More information: LSR Audio / COMPrime