News From the World

API is now shipping the 527 compressor, a single channel module based on API's 225L discreet channel compressor.

LOUD Technologies Inc. (parent company of Mackie) today announced it has signed an agreement with Avid that licenses the use of Mackie's new Onyx-i Series FireWire Recording Mixers with Avid Pro Tools M-Powered 8 software.

Here is a great news from Ohm Force...
Two months ago we announced our pricing changes in our it's still business, but let's keep it reasonable" disclaimer, and we listened to all kind of reactions. Some guys from the audio/plug-in industry might have said that we're naïve or anti-corporate, while the music press has warmly reacted and dozens of individual music producers have written to us to comment on how much they share the same point of view about it all.

Native Instruments has released Holiday Selection 2009, a freely downloadable instrument that combines selected sounds from the range of Kore- and Kontakt-Powered instruments. Covering a wide sonic spectrum from sampled acoustic instruments to futuristic soundscapes and radical poly-effects, Holiday Selection 2009 provides diverse and musically useful sound material for all kinds of genres, for use with Kore 2 and with the free Kore Player.

Lexicon announces that their brand new PCM92 Stereo Reverb/Effects Processor is now shipping. With 4 decades of experience, Lexicon is regarded as the gold standard in digital audio processing. Building on the legendary design of the venerable PCM81 and PCM91, and the breakthrough technology of the PCM96, the PCM92 represents the most advanced reverb and effects processor in its class.

Steinberg has released new updates for the WaveLab family and announced that it is working on the fourth incarnation of its software sampler HALion. Not much info about HALion 4 yet, but Steinberg says that for all intents and purposes, HALion 4 is a new product - every single aspect of the program's code is being written from the ground up.

iZotope, Inc. and eMedia, Inc. announce the release of iZotope Music & Speech Cleaner, a complete audio cleanup suite. Experience the difference in impact and clarity that clean audio can have by easily removing unwanted noise and enhancing your recordings.

Native Instruments today introduced SONIC FICTION, a new KORE-Powered instrument that combines inventive field recording with advanced synthesis into an arsenal of hundreds of genuinely otherworldly sounds. Designed by prolific sound design artist Jeremiah Savage and usable with KORE 2 and the free KORE PLAYER, the instrument provides musicians and producers with a inspirational resource for movie and game scoring, modern sound design and various electronic music styles.

TC Electronic – leaders in the world of signal processing and effects – is giving everyone the chance to download a professional TC Reverb… but hurry – the offer only stands for 72 hours!

After new Trilian Total Bass Module virtual instrument, Spectrasonics release new version 1.1 of Omnisphere Power Synth - featuring native 64-bit Windows support, core library integration with Trilian and more. The new v1.1 is also Mac and Windows 32-bit compatible. For users who have both virtual instruments, sounds from Trilian can now be opened inside Omnisphere - allowing deeper editing of the Trilian sounds, as well as the creation of layers and splits with both instruments' sounds in the same environment.