Mac and Music News

East West has just released Quantum Leap Ministry of Rock, a huge 18 gigabyte collection of rock drums, basses and guitars.

Features :

- Legato bass and guitar samples
- Legato and staccato repetitions
- Truly playable rhythm guitars and leads, clean and distorted release samples
- Guitars and basses recorded in dual amp configurations
- Software allows the user to choose amplifier, or mix the sound from both amps
- Dynamic bass that can play everything from ballads to the most hardcore music imaginable
- Round robin bass drums, snares, toms and hats
- Performance drum hits extracted from live playing
- Approximately 18 gigabytes of rock drums, basses and guitars recorded in the EASTWEST Studio 2
- Superior reverb impulses recorded by Prof. Keith O. Johnson and Nick Phoenix

Ministry of Rock is available now for Mac OS X Universal Binary in VST, AU and stand-alone formats and has an MSRP of $495 (€370.00), plus tax. For more information, please visit the link below.

Ohm Force has released Mac OS X updates for their entire plug-in range (excluding Ohmicide). The new versions bring the following improvements:

- Corrected a memory leak in standalones.
- Some crash possibilities in case of host misconduct removed.
- UB plug-ins now supports PowerPC and Intel based platforms running Mac OS X 10.3.9 and later.
- Corrected 10.4.9 AU bug.
- Corrected GUI problems on VST & RTAS.
- VST support improved.

ChocolateAudio announces Mock Bass, an advanced electric bass library. Sampled from a liuther's custom made electric bass made by Jacaranda, this download-only product is available in two packages :

- Mock Bass DI : features the DI sound only, recorded Apogee converters and Millennia TD-1 direct to digital at 96 Khz, released at 44.1 This set weighs about 335 MB and requires just 38 MB of preload in Kontakt 2.2.

- Mock Bass Production Pack : features the DI sound altogether with a Rock and a Round sounds (different sample packs).

Mock Bass Rock is reamped using an Ampeg rig with a Neumann mic to a Focusrite pre and into an Apogee converter at 96 Khz while Mock Bass Round is reamped using a Mark Bass rig with an AKG mic fed into a Focusrite pre and an Apogee converter at 96 KHz.
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MHC has announced a 50% discount on all their products in June through a "Coupon code". MHC is the editor of several virtual instruments (Industrial Tones, Pianos, Ambient Keys, Fatsondo...) and also effect plugins such as Space Effect, Voxynth, etc... They are available as VST and AU formats.

Average price of one plugin : $139.
MP3 demos are waiting for you on their website.

Since quite a while, we encountered hugh problems and trafic jams caused by Yahoo Mail servers. We are therefore constrained to ask our members that use emails@yahoo accounts to change their email account in their member profile, as quickly as possible! We recommend that you simply use a regular email account provided by your internet provider. These never cause any problems...

We are sorry to notify that emails accounts @yahoo will be definitively deleted on July 30!

I was lookin' for EQ and compressor and by chance, I found out this June Sizzling Summer 20% off Sale on the URS web site. So I share this useful information. And it's available to Bundles, Custom Bundle , Individual Plug-ins , or Upgrades .

Remember, offer expires June 30, 2007

VertexDSP has released a major product update of MultiInspector (version 1.2.1).

New features :

- The levels of the spectrum display are now scalable in steps of 10 dB with the Plus/Minus buttons on the right.
- New display modes added. You can now choose between 3 different display modes by a context menu at the top:

* H-Align is the already existing mode of the previous versions with horizontally aligned level bars.
* V-Align adds/aligns the levels vertically without space. This mode provides an instant overview of the frequency distribution of all instances. The height of the level bars is calculated according to the current level range which is shown at the top right of the spectrum display. In this mode the peak settings are without effe ...

East West has announced Quantum Leap Gypsy, a new virtual instrument based on... Gypsy style instruments !

Features :

- Violin (true legato intervals) in classical and gypsy style.
- Classical Guitar.
- Flamenco Guitar.
- Django Style Guitar.
- Spanish Steel String Guitar.
- Campana Accordion.
- Silvestri Accordion.
- Excelsior Accordion Bandoneon.
- Bandoneon.
- Trombone (true legato intervals) in classical and gypsy style.
- Flamenco Dancer.
- Gypsy percussion.
- Reverb impulses recorded by Prof. Keith O. Johnson and Nick Phoenix.

Quantum Leap Gypsy is available now for Mac OS X (UB) in VST, AU, RTAS and stand-alone formats and has an MSRP of $395 (€295.00), plus tax.

As a direct result of feedback from users of their equipment, TFPro have developed the P110, a new microphone amplifier/compressor/EQ combination.

The P110 is a specialist single channel pre-amplifier employing transformer coupled class-A 'current mode' multiple amplifiers, giving extreme signal handling capability and overload margin. The phase shifter gives the option of switched polarity reverse in addition to 180 degree variable phase setting.
The compressor/limiter is of advanced optical design, retaining the warmth and drive of earlier TFPRO designs and adding versatility with ratios from a gentle 1.2 to 1, up to full extreme limit, and with switchable 'models' to provide a taste of other historic compressors, and add colour to the compressed sound. The 'make-up' amplifier is a ...

Neyrinck introduces the Mix 51 Surround Panning and Mixing plug-in for Digidesign Pro Tools LE/M-Powered systems. Mix 51 is a set of powerful 5.1 surround panning and mixing RTAS plug-ins that allow you to take advantage of any Pro Tools system with six or more outputs such as Mbox 2 Pro, Digi 002/003, or M-Audio interfaces such as the Delta 1010 or FireWire 410.

Devine-Machine has released Krishna, a virtual synthetizer. It includes a frame-oscillator, 2 analog-oscillators, filters, LFOs, envelop, a sequencer, various effetcs and play-modes, MIDI fonctions, a preset-manager, and last but not least ... 1146 audio presets, ranging from acoustic bass with World sounds to guitars, leads, pads, sequences, strings, voices and so on...

The price is : 259 euros (box and online version ), 199 euros for online purchase, 35 euros ( 6 months credit), 19 euros (for 12 month credit).

This software will be soon available in AU and RTAS formats . Devine-Machine is supposed to be compatibile with UB format , but it would be better to double check because the website doesn't make it very clear.