Mac and Music News

EastWest is putting its users' creativity to the test while offering a chance to win all seven PLAY products with its "Score This Movie" contest.

From now until June 30, 2008 users can create their own score for an original short movie created by Zennor Alexander and posted on the EastWest forum. The score should have a wide variety of pace, mood and style and must be composed solely with sounds from libraries distributed by EastWest, with an emphasis on EastWest Play-powered virtual instruments.

The winner, who will be announced on July 15th, 2008, will receive all seven PLAY products which include: Fab Four, Quantum Leap Pianos, Quantum Leap Gypsy, Quantum Leap Ministry Of Rock, Quantum Leap Voices of Passion, Quantum Leap SD2 and Quantum Leap Goliath.

Few month ago we told you about the acquirement of Alien Connections by Peavey. Well, today Peavey announces the release of demo versions of ReValver Mk III for Windows and Mac OS X in VST and AU plug-in formats.

Features :

- 15 amp models, including Peavey 6505, JSX, Classic, ValveKing and Triple XXX.
- 12 Preamplifiers.
- 9 Power Amplifiers.
- 19 Stomp boxes.
- 11 Effects.
- More than 150 speaker simulations using real-time convolution and membrane modeling.
- 7 Utility Functions including tuners, analyzer, splitters, and more.
- Fully MIDI mappable.
- Tuner.
- VST, AU compatible.
- ASIO/WDM, CoreAudio.
- Standalone or Plugin.

Time+Space has decided to celebrate the upcoming summer by offering you some sizzling offers... The Spring Specials includes discounts on some of the latest new plug-ins from Rob Papen, Zero-G, Overloud and Vir2 Instruments.

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FXpansion has just released BFD B.O.M.B (Big Orchestral Marching Band), a new expansion pack for BFD 1.5 and BFD2 delivering a heavy payload of orchestral and marching drum instruments to your percussive arsenal.

Highlights :

- Expansion pack for BFD1.5 & BFD2 with 38GB of new sounds.
- Set of four timpani covering 1.5 octaves, each pitch recorded with felt and wood mallets.
- Full set of orchestral chimes covering 1.5 octaves.
- 4 tonal bass drums with multiple beaters.
- Concert bass drums including a 40" played with three different beaters.
- Marching quad toms played with sticks, mallets, and hotrods.
- 7 marching and orchestral snares played with sticks, brushes, mallets, and hotrods.
- Groove suite featuring drum-corps and marching performances, hip-hop street beats and more.

BFD B.O.M.B is available now and is priced at $199 / €149 / £99.

AudioWarrior has just released Studio Organ Donor, a sample library for Steinberg's HALion 3. It includes samples from a B3, a church organ and the "Wurly piano organ" which mixes a piano sound with gritty organ tones with optional Flange, Rotary, and Pan-Tremolo.

Studio Organ Donor is available now for Mac OS X and Windows XP | Vista, it costs $49. Note that HALion 3 is required.

BIAS has announced the release of the Peak Pro 6 little brother : Peak LE 6.

New Features in Peak LE 6 :

- Podcasting — fully-integrated audio podcast publishing, no additional software required
- Voiceover Ducking DSP — automatically lowers the music level during a voiceover
- iTunes Integration — send audio to iTunes directly from the playlist or document
- Extra plug-in insert — supports two simultaneous real-time AU/VST effects/instruments
- Record Timer— automates recording stop time
- Record Notepad — enters marker cues during recording
- Metadata support — read and write "tags" (artist, album, etc.) for major file types
- Sleek new user interface — includes global contrast control, magnetic windows, improved meters, hide windows, and more


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Ueberschall has released the Urbanic Producer Pack, a massive library dedicated to Hip Hop & RnB Sounds.

With more than 1120 individual single drum sounds consisting of punch filled: kick drums, claps, snare, hi hats, percussion, cymbals and shaker samples. This superabundant collection also consists of loops from: hi hat, percussion and FX as well as bassline, synth, guitar, rhodes, piano, string sequences. BPM information and root key (key signatures) are embedded in most loop file names, simplifying selection and direct use.

Ueberschall fortified this library with bass and lead instrument sounds, sampled with lengths of up to 8 sec. With tone captured form top trusted and tested brands like: Moog, Studio Electronics, Oberheim, and Roland, to name a few.

As usual the Elastik Player is included, which means that no sampler is required.

The Urbanic Producer Pack is available now for Mac OS X and Windows in VST, AU and RTAS formats at a retail price of €99.

VirSyn has just updated its plug-in suite VTAPE to version 1.2 which is now VST3 compatible.

New multi-channel capabilities have laid the basis for a new kind of Surround effect delay - imagine what you can do with up to 16 tempo sync'd delay taps for each audio channel with independent level control. The new multichannel capabilities in VST3 makes the handling of VTape much easier, apparently.

New Features :

- Surround effect delay.
- VST3 compatibility.
- Multichannel capabilities up to 10.2 (VST3 / AU / RTAS).
- Independent level control for each tap.
- Delay: Multichannel Mixer.
- Delay: Input link function for multichannel delay.
- Saturator: automatic gain compensation.