Voxengo has updated its mastering limiter plug-in Elephant to version 3.5.

Changes :

• Issues with DP/Mac OS X fixed.
• Popup windows appearing behind the main window in Logic 9 fixed.

Propellerhead introduce Record U, the University of Recording. Record U is a series of articles created for those who are new to Propellerhead Record, or recording in general. All you need to follow along will be a full or demo version of Record, and — of course — something to record.

Recording Electric Guitar is the first article in the Record U series – this article will teach basic techniques for recording electric guitar, with information about mic'ing guitar amps, and also recording directly into Record with no microphones or amplifiers at all, using Record's built-in Line 6 Guitar Amp device.

Vienna Symphonic Library's suite of nine audio processing tools, Vienna Suite, has just been released as a boxed edition.

Up to now, it has been available as a download product only. Both the download product and the physical product contain exactly the same software, now at version 1.1, that includes Vienna's brand-new Convolution Reverb. Vienna Suite is the only boxed plug-in suite with full 64-bit capability. It retails at €445/$665 and is now available from the company's worldwide network of distributors and dealers.

Loomer has released a new plug-in called Shift. It is a real-time diatonic granular pitch shifting and delay effect for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It has three independent, true stereo, delay lines, each with their own transposition and delay controls, which can be combined to build complex delay structures such as ping-pong delays or harmonized chord echoes.

Features :

• Three independent true stereo delay lines.
• Retro granular pitch shifting sound.
• Pitch shift each delay line by up to an octave up or down, with semitone transposition and finely grained cent detune controls.
• Three modes for each delay line: Chromatic, Recursive, and Diatonic.
• Diatonic pitch tracking for monophonic audio sources.
• Modulation LFO with independent time and ...

IZotope is in the final stages of creating a new plug-in that will "change the way you work with your tracks and busses".

iZotope Echelon combines six crucial mixing tools into one interface--a precise EQ, vintage-modeled dynamics processor, transient shaper, exciter, de-esser and limiter. With a huge range of MacroPresets, Echelon will simplify mixing by putting the most useful controls together in one window.

More details will be available soon.

Meatscience has announced the release of the Convolution Reverb AU plug-in for Mac OSX 10.5+. Here is how they describe it...

"Meatscience Convolution Reverb AU matches or exceeds Altiverb 6 and IR-1 on accuracy and low-latency while offering similar performance on Intel Macs. This means professional fidelity, an open IR library, and high track counts for $500 less. Apply impulse responses to recreate the unique characteristics of real spaces, speaker cabs, classic amplifiers, stompboxes, or experimental audio effects.

Automated Processes, Inc. (API) has received a formal complaint from electronics giant JVC Americas Corporation against API's use of the word "arsenal" in reference to API's recently introduced brand of pro audio equipment. Arsenal Audio by API products include a microphone preamp and two versions of a four band audio equalizer manufactured for use by professional recording artists and engineers.

JVC Americas Corp. is the registered owner of the word 'arsenal' in association with products for car audio equipment.

The complaint centers around the claim that API willfully infringed upon JVC's trademark with the "clear unmistakable intent and effect of causing confusion, mistake and deception among customers".

JVC contends that API's Arsenal Audio products would be confused with JV ...

AcousticsampleS launches its first "Summer Sale" : -35% off everything. This offer may be combined with their quantity discount :

• -35% for 1 item
• -40% for 2 items
• -45% for 4 items
• -50% for 6 items
• -55% for 8 items

This offer is available until 31 august 2009.

Sugar Bytes has released Eloquence, a new MIDI Step Sequencer plug-in.

Eloquence is described as an extremely powerful and intuitive MIDI stepsequencer plug-in, giving you control over just about all aspects of your favorite MIDI devices. You can use Eloquence to create varied and organic bass lines, screaming leads, pulsating chords, and organic pad sounds in the studio or on stage.

For live musicians, Eloquence provides a versatile palette of performance options which can be triggered right from your MIDI keyboard: you can transpose, manipulate, twist up, mutate, and mangle your patterns without even getting near your computer.

Eloquence is a plug-in which can be used with any major Windows or Mac VST or AU host.

Price: €99 / $129. Crossgrade Price for registered SonicBytes ERA users: €69 / $89.

Moog unveils The Moog Guitar - Model E1, the production model of The Moog Guitar introduced at the Summer NAMM tradeshow in 2008.

It uses the same innovative electronics and pick-ups as the original Paul Vo Collector Edition, with some exciting new changes. It's available in three new finishes; Butterscotch, Candy Red, and Black, and now sports chrome hardware, a solid alder body, a choice of fixed or tremolo bridges, and a new lower price tag, $3,495.

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PreSonus presents a new version of the Firebox : the FireStudio Mobile. It combines the analog-circuit design and advanced platform technology of their FireStudio rack-mount interfaces with the ability to run on bus power in field applications.

Features :

• Plug-and-play, high-speed FireWire 400 (IEEE 1394)
• 24-bit resolution with 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96 kHz sampling rates
• Record/playback 10 inputs and 6 outputs
• 2 XMAX PreSonus microphone/instrument preamplifiers with true 48V phantom power for condenser mics
• 8 line inputs, 2 line outputs
• Stereo S/PDIF and MIDI input/output — DB9 break-out cable included
• Zero-latency monitoring
• Headphone output with gain control
• Software router/mixer
• Powered via FireWire bus or u ...