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Timbral Research Impulsive features over 4 GB of impulse responses from hardware reverbs made especially for TL Space. Timbral Research supposedly used a new technique called “Realvolution” to best capture the impulse responses. Whether or not this is marketing mumbojumbo or not is beyond me.

From Sweet Water:

Timbral Research Impulsive TL|Space Impulse Response Library Features:

* Over 4GB of Impulse Responses for TL|Space
* Features impulse responses from 24 different reverberators
* 1,000+ hand-tweaked presets that include filter and modulation settings to precisely replicate the sound of the hardware preset
* All impulses are made with a new patent-pending process called Realvolution, delivering a new level of accuracy
* Available in 24-bit/96kHz, 24-bit/44.1kHz and CPU-friendly ECO versions
* Mono In Stereo Out, Stereo, and True Stereo (where applicable)

The official Timbral Research website doesn’t work very well for me here on Firefox in Ubuntu, but perhaps it works better on other systems.

Timbral Research

Mellowmuse

U-He, or Urs Heckmann, has a new synth on the way called ACE standing for “Any Cable Everywhere”, implying it’s modular approach.

I’m actually looking for a modular, or at the very least a semi-modular synth, to go with my new setup. The only real problem as I see it with software modulars is the interface. I don’t mind a digital sound, but patching cables with a mouse isn’t exactly what I want to do. Nevertheless, ACE could prove to be interesting at it’s low price point and what looks to be high-tweakability.

From U-He:

ETA: early December 2009
pricing: 69EUR (includes 19% VAT, ca. 85 USD net when bought from overseas)
formats: VST on Windows, VST/AU/RTAS on MacOS X
system requirments Mac: Apple Macintosh Computer running MacOS X 10.4+ on a G4 processor or newer, Intel Core 2 Duo or better recommended
system requirments Win: VST2 compatible host software on a PC with SSE2 supporting processor, Intel Core 2 Duo or better recommended
number of presets and such: tba
fun factor: high!

U-He

Direct link to ACE

Another video on AutoTune, this time it’s Weid Al explaining it (unfortunately not in song format).

Via: Sonic State

Pro Tools HD 8.0.1cs1 Update for Mac
Pro Tools HD 8.0.1cs1 Update for Windows
Pro Tools LE 8.0.1cs1 Update for Mac
Pro Tools LE 8.0.1cs1 Update for Windows
Pro Tools M-Powered 8.0.1cs1 Update for Mac
Pro Tools M-Powered 8.0.1cs1 Update for Windows

Other news in the 1.1.1 release is:

* New option : Oscillator tuning displayed as frequency.
* Bug fix : The main envelope was trigged when a preset was launched.

This version and all the further updates are free of charge for all XILS 3 owners.

XILS-lab

SPL has announced that they will release a plug-in version of the SPL Vitalizer MK2-T. Funny thing is, I heard this a while back because I emailed Dirk of SPL/Brainworx and asked “will you be releasing an emulation of the Vitalizer soon?” and Dirk responded he would try the first beta in 10 minutes! Unfortunately I couldn’t tell you all about it, but they have now spilled the beans themselves.

The Vitalizer MK2-T is the tube version of the regular MK2. The plug-in is still in beta (I haven’t tried it) but will be released December 7th. I guess you can tell that I’m looking forward to give it a go! So far the SPL plug-ins has been great so I have no doubt in that this will be an excellent emulation as well.

There’s no info on the plug-in on the SPL website yet, but if you want to know more about the actual hardware, they have a page for it on their website.

If I didn’t care about what gear I used I would simply have gone to the store and bought a basic setup under the recommendation of someone that probably 1) didn’t have any real clue about what is good and what is not, and 2) would patronize me by saying that I – as in me – certainly could do well enough with gear all costing under $100 each.

Despite how much I despise that kind of attitude (and it’s very common in music stores here) he would be somewhat right. I would probably go home with my new ’studio’, sit down and record. If I couldn’t record a great song I would do the healthy thing and study the arrangement, maybe ask myself why the guitar is interfering with the lead vocal or whatever.

I still do that sometimes, and I try to do that as much as possible, but I’m painfully aware that I – like so many others reading blogs such as this and are active at the same forums that I am – start thinking about what preamps they need to figure out that lead vocal and guitar sound instead.

FabFilter will be releasing a new EQ, called Pro-Q on November 16 (monday). It’s hard to say anything about the sound, but that workflow looks outstanding! I shouldn’t be so surprised, after all FabFilter presented an excellent workflow in their filters quite some time ago, but this is really taking it to the next level. Fab.

FabFilter

Via: Coyoteous thread on Gearslutz