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Ugo Audio has announced the release of Ironhead:Spawn, a collection of 13 instrument plug-ins for Windows.

Meet the Spawn of Ironhead! Going well beyond the original Ironhead, the Spawn plugs have been mutated and modified to provide a far wider range of percussive and melodic sounds, and they can be played like normal synths…tracking pitch across the entire keyboard. If you like tuned percussion, you’re going to love this.

Ironhead is drum kit…Ironhead:Spawn is a whole band.

Ugo Audio Ironhead:Spawn

Ironhead:Spawn features

• Fast, fun, and easy interface.
• 13 unique sounding percussion instruments .
• Morphing (controled by LFO, automation, MIDI).
• Random variance.
• Dual delays (BPM sync with dotted notes).
• Randomizers.
• Over 40 presets in each, totaling over 540 presets in the bundle.

Ironhead:Spawn is available for Windows PC (VST) for $35 USD (includes Tunguska, a $10 USD value). A demo version can be downloaded here.

Visit Ugo Audio for more information and audio demos.

Ugo has announced a Holiday Sale, your chance to get Ugo’s instrument and effect plug-ins at discounted prices.

We are rapidly approaching the holidays once again. It’s that time of year where many of us focus our attention on buying gifts for our friends and family. But first, why not splurge a little and get yourself something?

To encourage this minor self indulgence, I am having my first sale ever, and it’s a big one!

Holiday Sale prices

• The Big Bundle: $60 (normally $99)
  6 VSTs for only $60, that is more than half off the individual purchase price! Includes:
  • M-theory – Physicial modeling hybrid synth
  • Ironhead – Morphing percussion synth
  • Disturbance – Experimental slicer
  • Metallurgy – The ever popular multi effect
  • Dualism – Dual programmable arpeggiator
  • Tunguska – Morphing multi effect
• Individual VST sales:
  • M-theory: $25 – Bonus: comes with Dualism (normally $35)
  • Ironhead: $25 – Bonus: comes with Tunguska (normally $35)
  • Disturbance: $25 – Bonus: comes with 75 loops from Perimeter Sound Arts (normally $35)
  • Metallurgy: $15 (normally $20)

The Holiday Sale only lasts until December 1^st so check out demos and audio demos at Ugo now.

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Ugo has released updated versions of loop/sample mangler Disturbance and multi-effect Metallurgy.

Changes in Disturbance v1.1 / Metallurgy v1.5.1

• Rendering issue in Cubase SL/SX improved.
• Loop timing issue in energyXT fixed.
• Disturbance: new volume sequencer.
• Disturbance: new fine tuning control for the pitch shifter.

Ugo has also announced that Dualism and Tunguska, previously only available in bundles, are now available separately for $10 USD each.

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Ugo has released version 1.1 of M-theory, a hybrid modeling synth VST instrument plug-in for Windows PC.

The update includes Dualism, a plugin version of the dual arpeggiators and 2X MIDI utilities found within M-theory and, as such, provides you with the ability to arpeggiate/double any other synth you wish, including hardware synths.

New in M-theory v1.1

• 5 new arp speeds: Slower, Faster, Very Fast, Odd 1, and Odd 2.
  The latter two provide a kind of offset/odd timed feel.
• Arp pattern (clock gate) length adjustment.
  This allows you to set how many steps the clock gate sequencer uses, ranging from 1 (gate full open) to 16. This can be useful for odd time signatures and each arp can be set individually.
• Arp bypass option when latched.
  This new bypass feature should be especially handy for people who play/record live (rather than step sequence) since it lets you jam over top of an arp pattern without your having to load another instance of the plugin to do it.
• Sound quality modes: HQ / LQ.
  High quality is the default and how it was previously. Low quality mode provides a softer tone which can save some cpu. Basically, what it does is just removes a whole bunch of tonal enhancements from various points in the signal chain.
• Other tweaks, fixes, and slight improvement in clarity.

M-theory is available for Windows PC and costs $35 USD. Dualism is bundled with M-theory and is free to all current M-theory users as well.

Visit Ugo for more information and a link to download demo version of M-theory.

UGO has released two new VST plug-ins: M-theory, a hybrid modeling synth, and Disturbance, a loop & sample glitch/mangle/slicer tool.

M-theory

M-theory (the successor to String Theory) is a hybrid synth that is built around the Karplus-Strong delay based physical modeling technique, and uses samples, VA oscillators, and noise to drive the delay based oscillator; resulting in a very wide range of high quality synthetic and hybrid acoustic modeled sounds.

M-theory key features

• Karplus-Strong style synthesis engine.
• Dual exciters, each with the option of samples, VA or noise sources.
• Option to load your own samples.
• Independent low, band, high, and all pass filters.
• Dual programmable arpeggiators and an extra MIDI note trigger/doubler feature.
• Built in tremolo, metal effect, chorus, delay, and reverb.
• 320 presets.

M-theory is available for Windows PC for $35 USD.

Disturbance

Disturbance is primarily intended for the glitching/mangling of drum loops but it can also be useful with melodic material, vocals, and pretty much anything else you want to get glitchy with.

Disturbance is similar to a slicer, but a bit different. It works by chopping up a loop into 64 equal parts (no beat detection), then sequencing their playback, and each slice in Disturbance has its own loop point.

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The KVR Developer Challenge 2007 has its winner: xoxos (Rurik Leffanta).

xoxos took first place with Sounds of Nature, a collection of VSTi for emulating common natural sounds – wind, rain, thunder, songbirds and insects.

xoxos Sounds of Nature

Well done Mr. Rurik! I did not vote myself (lack of time to check all the entries), but even if I wouldn’t have put xoxos’ entry first place, it is a well deserved win. xoxos has released tons of cool freeware plug-ins over the last few years, more than doing his part in the community.

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