myVST Demo: ValhallaFreqEcho MkI from myVST on Vimeo.

Product Description

Bode-style frequency shifter + analog echo emulation = skull melting chaos. Perfect for dub, Dr. Who and all of your psychedelic needs. Sonic results range from subtle chorusing and double tracking to barberpole phasing and flanging to endless glissandos and runaway echos. I get lost in this one.

http://www.valhalladsp.com/freqecho.html

What is The Time Modulator?

CONTROL TIME ITSELF! - with The Marshall Time Modulator (now in a convenient, cross-platform plug-in size!)

Once in a while something is created that is so good, so unbelievably useful, it becomes "timeless"...

The Marshall Time Modulator is one of those creations. Before there was much "digital" anything, and before records were considered something anachronistic and nostalgia evoking, back when "Dark Side of the Moon" was new and Hip-Hop kind of a distant dream, Stephen St. Croix had an idea: What would happen if you took the the longest analog delay line possible, gave it the greatest signal to noise ratio in a piece of outboard gear, and then made the modulation of it possible over such a wide range that it could effect sound in ways sublime AND outrageous. Something so utilitarian and necessary that it could fit in equally well on Stevie Wonder's "Songs in the Key of Life," or as the means of giving extra gravitas to the sound of a bad acid trip. Stephen called it: The Marshall Time Modulator. You'll call it "indispensable".

http://intdevices.com/proaudio/product/show/11/

The VIRTUAL CONSOLE COLLECTION consists of two plugins, Virtual Channel and Virtual Mixbuss. Each plugin allows the user to choose from one of six modeled consoles. Virtual Channel is applied on individual mixing channels. Virtual Mixbuss goes on the first insert of the master fader. When using the Virtual Console Collection, your DAW instantly takes on
the personality of a real analog mixing desk. The imaging and depth improves, instruments sit better in the frequency spectrum, and mixing becomes easier and more musical. You can even push the DAW faders up to find each mixer’s ‘sweet spot’. This is due to the algorithms being dynamic, just like a real console.

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From Slate Digital Co-founder Steven Slate:

The Virtual Console Collection has been a dream of mine for years. I've always mixed on analog consoles because I love the color and sound that they provide, and I missed it while trying to mix "in the box".

The Folcrom allowed me to get the best of both worlds, and I've used it on hundreds of mixes and productions with great results. However, after creating Slate Digital with Fabrice Gabriel almost two years ago, one of the first things we looked in to was recreating the sound of analog mixing, but with digital.

This first lead us to the question: What is wrong with digital summing?

To answer this question, we first built our own digital summing buss. In fact we built three of them. Our conclusion?

NOTHING. Nothing at all is "wrong" about digital summing, whether it be fixed integer or floating point, dithered or undithered... None of these things had an audible effect that any human could pick out in a blind A/B test.

No, actually the problem is with analog summing. With an analog console, the audio path contains a lot of circuitry. By the time a mix is summed in an analog console and gets passed to the outputs, it contains varied degrees of harmonic distortion, phase distortion, and noise. However, it is these nonlinearities that sound "musical" to the human ear.

Fabrice Gabriel is not only a genius at audio DSP, but he has a degree in electrical engineering. He was able to carefully analyze the schematics of all the great mixing consoles and produce individual DSP modules that reproduce various parts of the circuit path, from line input amplifiers to fader buffers to summing amps. Over the past year, we then tweaked the modules by EAR in a mastering room to precisely match the hundreds of test files that were processed with each console.

Keep in mind, that an analog console is a dynamic instrument. As you begin to push the faders into the mix buss, the amplifiers start to reach their threshold and various changes occur in the harmonics and overall sound. This is all recreated in this plugin suite.

In conclusion, I'm so proud of this plugin, and I think it will change the way many people think of "mixing in the box". As we've been developing the Virtual Console Collection, we've been pleased to see other digital models of analog mixing pop up (such as the Harrison Mixbuss), showing us that this was an important issue for the audio industry, and we're glad to add to it.

The Virtual Console Collection is RTAS, VST, AU on both Mac and PC, and along with the whole Slate Digital line, will now be available very soon with a 14 day demo. I'm eager for you all to try them.

- Steven Slate

www.slatedigital.com

"I am pleased to say that this is an incredibly accurate software recreation of my original A-Range design."

Professor Malcolm Toft, Original designer of the Trident A-Range console

Linköping, Sweden. February 1st, 2010. Softube is shipping the Trident A-Range for native VST, AU, RTAS and TDM. Trident A-Range is available today at the Softube web shop and at authorized Softube dealers at an introductory price of $229 (Native) or $329 (TDM/Native), excl. VAT. The introductory offer will last through out February, thereafter the price will be $279 and $449, respectively.

The Trident A-Range plug-in is a model of a channel equalizer from the legendary Trident A-Range console, a holy grail for sound engineers and producers since the seventies when hit records by David Bowie, Elton John and others were recorded at Trident Studios in London.

The plug-in is fully endorsed by Trident Audio Developments and the original A-Range designer Malcolm Toft. Toft calls the plug-in an "incredibly accurate software recreation", even down to the overdriven sound of the original.

As only thirteen A-Range consoles were ever built, it's a very exclusive piece of equipment that now is available in a plug-in format. The sound is continuously referred to as "colorful" and "musical" and will provide you with a very unique way of shaping your sound.

A fully functional 20 day demo can be downloaded from http://www.softube.com.

Here's how it works:

1. Fill out the Public Beta authorization request form.
2. Download the currently available Public Beta software and install.
3. Download your authorization from your iLok account and away you go.

Make sure to read the info on known issues, and then use the special Public Beta form to report any issues, make suggestions, or slather on about how cool we are. Be aware, if you do not read the known issues and report one, we are likely to mock you secretly behind your back.

Availability: 12/15/2009 - 01/31/2010

http://www.soundtoys.com/beta/

I got the Decapitator locked and loaded on the ilok and I am loving it so far.

I just got the Lexicon PCM Native Reverb up in running. It sounds great and is REALLY flexible and in-depth when it comes to editing presets. I can't wait to dive in and really start tweaking this plug. There will be a full video review to come.

Thanks to Tony Belmont at www.highprofileaudio.com for the demo license.

http://www.lexiconpro.com/product.php?id=163

McDSP has turned up the notch of dynamic range processing once again. Building on the entire award winning McDSP compression algorithm code base, the 6030 Ultimate Compressor adds new sonic capabilities, stunning new user interfaces and a collection of new designs mixed with unique twists on vintage emulations. The 6030 Ultimate Compressor will be available in May of 2010 (pricing TBD). The 6030 Ultimate Compressor will also be added to the Emerald Pack bundle, available to Emerald Pack 4 customers as an upgrade (pricing TBD).

McDSP will be offering Audio Units (AU) support for ALL McDSP plugins in MAY 2010.

http://www.mcdsp.com/

$229 Native
$349 TDM
ON SALE FEB 1ST 2010
DEMO AVAILABLE FEB 1ST 2010

http://www.softube.com/

Fusing vintage and modern, complexity and ease of use, Echo Trip presents new standards in the echo domain! Whether you are after the perfect emulation of vintage tape-echo machines, or you need new exciting audio spices- take a ride with Echo Trip and you just might fall in love!

Accurate emulation of classic echo units
Whenever you wish to capture the magic of a vintage tape-echo unit, imperfection is the name of the game! Echo Trip reproduces the sonic qualities and artifacts generated by tapes, tubes, and mechanics for the most accurate emulation of any echo machine that has ever been created!

Among the classic echo units that were investigated during the development process, you can find Space Echo, Echoplex, Oil Can, Memory Man and many others. Each nuance of these enchanting machines was carefully learned and implemented, and even the distinct noise that each unit produces, was integrated within Echo Trip for the most authentic analog sound and feel!

Features:
-Choose from 50 echo sounds, including space echo, echoplex, oil can, and others
-Accurate emulation of vintage classic echo units
-Produces a wide variety of cutting-edge innovative effects
-Independent control over the echo timing and echo sound
-Set your echo groove by adjusting shuffle and accent
-Ultra mode for an easy creation of complex echo patterns
-Countless sound shaping options and modulation paths
-Reversed and slowed down delays
-Echo ducking effect helps your echoes blend with your mix
-Midi learn for manipulating parameters in real-time
-Superb sound quality
-Support for sampling rates of up to 192 kHz

http://www.v-plugs.com/echo_trip_vst_effect.htm

from the McDSP site:

McDSP has turned up the notch of dynamic range processing once again. Building on the entire award winning McDSP compression algorithm code base, the 6030 Ultimate Compressor adds new sonic capabilities, stunning new user interfaces and a collection of new designs mixed with unique twists on vintage emulations. The 6030 Ultimate Compressor will be available in May of 2010 (pricing TBD). The 6030 Ultimate Compressor will also be added to the Emerald Pack bundle, available to Emerald Pack 4 customers as an upgrade (pricing TBD).

2010 Winter NAMM Show at booth #6405