Gigfiles.com has announced The Minimoog Voyager bass library.

This library has been recorded from a Minimoog Voyager v3.01 all options and offers the best sound of Minimoog basses from the original soundbank.

Features:

• Each sound is recorded for six seconds or more
• 4 levels of velocity for exactly the same as heard from the original
• Mixed with a true analog Mackie LM-3204 mixer and an EMU card in 44.1Khz, 16 bits

Each patch is 30MB large so it leaves plenty of space in your computer memory.

3.8 GB of data, PC/MAC compatible.

List of the presets:
2 Poles Bass
Anne Boleyn Bass
Basso Fabulo
Birdy Bass
Bomb-Basstick
Boogie Bass
Citadel Bass
Dr Who Bass
Get the Funk
Good Old Faithful
Grits and Eggs Bass
Just the Sub
Katy Moog Bass
Moogpeow C
Nige Classic Bass
Owwww Bass
Pedal Power
Thumping e-Bass
Velocity Growl
Walk Away
Yowsa Bass

This DVDROM contains AKAI (.akp), PULSAR (.p), HALION, KONTAKT, Reaktor (map), GIGASTUDIO 2 (.gig), EXS24.

Everything is compressed on a single DVDROM, PC/MAC compatible.

For more information, visit their web site at www.gigfiles.com.

Posted in Computer, Plug-Ins, Software, Synth

Music Unfolding announces the release of xEQ, which is offered for free as part of the Twister Series, a new line of Audio Unit effects.

xEQ is a parametric EQ/Tone Control. It consists of Low and High shelf filters and three Peak/Cut filters. It is very useful for placing around distortion effects. Place one xEQ before your distortion effect to act as a preamp’s tone control. Place another xEQ after your distortion effect to simulate a speaker cabinet’s frequency response curve.

Music Unfolding provides some example presets that are useful starting points for tailoring your tone. Presets that begin with “TC” are tone control curves and those that begin with “SC” are for speaker cabinet response curves.

xEQ is free and is available for OS X as a Universal Binary. A demo version is available here.

For more information, visit their web site at www.MusicUnfolding.com.

Posted in Audio, Events, Plug-Ins, Recording, Software, Technology

Music Unfolding announces the release of hD, the third of the Twister Series, a new line of Audio Unit effects.

hD is a distortion effect with harmonic generators. It can generate two pitch-shifted copies of up to two octaves above the input signal. The volume level of the two voices can be set independently. hD also has a sub-octave generator. hD’s design uses its harmonic generators to enhance the distortion. The two harmonic voices are mixed into the signal before the distortion stage. Music Unfolding developed the sub-octave generator algorithm specifically for hD. It is latency-free. Placed after the distortion stage, hD delivers a good rumble without sounding like you’ve run a bass through a fuzz box.

hD can also be used to generate 12-string guitar effects and as a note doubler. Music Unfolding recommends also downloading and using their free parametric EQ, xEQ, when demo’ing hD. xEQ is available on the Music Unfolding website.

hD is $19.99 and is available for OS X as a Universal Binary. A demo is available here.

For more information, visit their web site at www.MusicUnfolding.com.

Posted in Audio, Computer, Plug-Ins, Recording, Software, Technology

Universal Audio, a manufacturer of high-quality vintage audio hardware and DSP software plug-ins for digital audio workstations, today announced the immediate availability of the UAD-1e Express PAK and UAD-1e Expert PAK, PCI Express DSP Cards & Powered Plug-Ins(tm). The UAD-1e Express PAK (US$499 street) and Expert PAK (US$999 street) will both ship in Q3 2006 bundled with UA’s core 15 free Mix/Gtr FX plug-in suite plus a UAD$100 (Express) and UAD$750 (Expert) voucher that customers can use to pick and purchase UA plug-in authorizations online.

“The UAD-1e Express PAK and Expert PAK offer DAW users with new PCIe-based Mac/PC computers access to UA’s DSP-powered and sonically superior mixing and mastering plug-ins.” said Mike Barnes, VP of Marketing for Universal Audio. “This is the first big milestone in our UAD strategy to offer a wider range of UAD solutions, help our customers cross-grade to new systems and give them total flexibility to choose precisely which plugs they actually want at the UA online store.”

Key Features include:

• UAD-1e Express PAK ($499 with UAD$100 plug-in voucher for my.uaudio.com)
• UAD-1e Expert PAK ($999 with UAD$750 plug-in voucher for my.uaudio.com)
• UAD-1 & UAD-1e can be used together seamlessly in the same system
• Cross-grade UAD$ voucher program for existing UAD-1 users who buy a new UAD-1e

Customers keep their UAD-1 & purchase an Express PAK for an extra UAD$100 voucher, or purchase an Expert PAK for an extra UAD$250 voucher.

“The PCI Express (PCIe) bus offers exceptional performance, lower system overhead, and higher reliability for low-latency audio signal processing while allowing us to maintain software compatibility with legacy PCI and PCI-X systems.” stated Joe Bryan, VP of Technology. “This approach allows users to mix and match UAD-1 and UAD-1e cards in any combination for maximum flexibility. The PCIe bus and ExpressCard system interfaces are vastly superior to other high-speed interconnects, and allow us to run many more channels (up to 254 channels per card), operate reliably at higher sample rates, and offer much more powerful DSP expansion than alternatives using FireWire or EtherNet. Put simply, PCIe is the professional solution.”

For more information, visit their web site at www.uaudio.com.

Posted in Audio, Computer, Plug-Ins, Recording, Software, Technology