AmpliTube 2 Live is a complete guitar amp modeling solution and effects powerhouse with ultra accurate models of the most sought after gear and the ability to mix and match separate components to build your own amps and craft a unique and ultimate tone. It comes both as a standalone application and a plug-in compatible with your favorite recording software, including Pro Tools, Cubase, Logic, GarageBand, and others.

Fully MIDI-controllable, AmpliTube 2 Live is based on AmpliTube 2’s unique DSM™ technology and includes three guitar and bass amplifier models of the most sought after vintage gear for a total of 15 amp combination possibilities, 11 effects, a built-in tuner, an amazing selection of over 128 customizable user presets, and SpeedTrainer, an integrated audio player with pitch and speed control, ideal for learning your favorite songs.

AmpliTube 2 Live also includes AmpliTube X-GEAR, with additional amps and cabinets, dual rig and the possibility to use AmpliTube 2 Live with any other “Powered by AmpliTube” software with full mixing and matching between the included models.

Features:

• two separate modules: tuner + configurable stomp pedal board, and amp head + cabinet + mic
• nine stomp effects plus spring reverb and noise gate
• three amp models
• four cabinet and two microphone models
• digital tuner
• standalone and VST/AU/RTAS plug-in for all popular DAW platforms
• includes SpeedTrainer™ for playing along with your favorite recordings
• includes AmpliTube X-GEAR for seamless integration with all the other “Powered by AmpliTube” products, MIDI control and StompIO integration
• powered by AmpliTube® with exclusive DSM™ (Dynamic Saturation Modeling) technology for award-winning sound & realistic feel
• Mac OS X (including Leopard) and XP/Vista compatible

It’s a good deal I think.

Included in SOUNDMAGIC SPECTRAL are the following plug-ins:

Spectral Averaging • Spectral Bin Shift • Spectral Blurring • Spectral DroneMaker

Spectral Emergence • Spectral Filterbank • Spectral Freezing • Spectral Gate and Hold

Spectral Gliding Filters • Spectral Granulation • Spectral Harmonizer • Spectral Partial Glide

Spectral Pitch Shift • Spectral Pulsing • Spectral Shimmer • Spectral Shuffle

Spectral Stretch • Spectral Tracing

Chorus • Comb Filter Bank • Grain Streamer • Idee Fixer • Mr Filterbank

Get SoundMagic Spectral {Audio Unit for Mac OSX}

Answer a short survey, CLICK HERE, and get a FREE starter version of the most popular professional symphonic orchestra virtual instrument ever made. It works with most sequencer/notation hosts including Ableton Live, Cubase/Nuendo, Digital Performer, Finale, FL Studio, Garageband, Logic, Pro Tools, Sibelius, Sonar, etc. Or you can use it as a standalone application with your music keyboard.

If you like the starter version, you can upgrade to the Gold, Platinum, or Platinum Plus versions. Using the promotional code in your email, CLICK HERE, enter the promotional code and you will see the discounted price. European customers CLICK HERE. This offer expires January 31, 2010.

Of course, if you choose not to upgrade, you get to keep this version which is not time limited, and not copy protected!!

Sounds like a pretty decent deal. EastWest is considered one of the best in this field but the PLAY Engine can be buggy particularly in Pro Tools. I’m currently downloading mine (a couple hours to go) and as long as it’s stable I’m sure I’ll find a use for it.

Let me know what you think of it.

Here’s what they have to say about Symptohm PE

This ‘Performer Edition’ is a simplified version of our Symptohm:Melohman powersynth, especially made for live use – but being also handy at the studio. The core of the synth, its oscillators and all the filters are there: it’s the same audio engine of the ‘normal’ version. The only difference is that they’re all already programmed/fixed for each one of the (up to 1200!) patches from Symptohm’s sound library, the result being a simple and straight forward interface.

So you won’t worry about tweaking knobs in the plug-in interface, being able instead to focus in live preset morphing using your midi keyboard controller and the Melohman feature. The midi mapping for each plug-in parameter is still there too, so map them all and please your crowd with bewildering sounds. Last, but not least, try setting your own samples instead of the default ones, and get an intuitive and fun experience! What are you waiting for? Download it right now and you’ll be playing what maybe is one of the best freeware synths out there…

Symptohm PE is for Mac & PC; VST, AU, RTAS

Read more about the Symptohm PE features here
So TRY OUT Symptohm PE this week and let me know what you think. Is it nasty enough?

Blue Cat Audio has been around for a few years, I’ve used some of their free plugins in the past and I would recommend them over some of the included DAW plugins. Blue Cat came back on my radar when they announced RTAS (Mac + PC) Beta versions for their Freeware Plugins Pack.

All Blue Cat Audio freeware audio plug-ins gathered together in a bundle. It’s here! Save download time and get them all in a single package.

The bundle contains a wide range of modulation effects, an EQ and analysis tools to get you started with your favorite Digital Audio Workstation, for free! This bundle is available for Mac and PC, in VST, RTAS (beta), Audio Unit and DirectX plugin formats. Enjoy!

Includes

• Blue Cat’s Chorus
• Blue Cat’s Digital Peak Meter
• Blue Cat’s Flanger
• Blue Cat’s FreqAnalyst
• Blue Cat’s Gain Suite
• Blue Cat’s Phaser
• Blue Cat’s Stereo Chorus
• Blue Cat’s Stereo Flanger
• Blue Cat’s Triple EQ

As with all beta software, don’t be surprised if it doesn’t work quite right (or at all) on your system. There’s not that many Free RTAS plugins out there, especially for Mac, so if you’re looking for a big bundle of alternatives to the stock Digi and AIR plugins, give these a try.

Ignoring the Pro Tools compatibility for a second, Blue Cat Audio’s plugins work on ALL DAWs!

Supported Platforms: Mac-AU / Mac-RTAS / Mac-VST / Windows-DX / Windows-RTAS / Windows-VST  – Yep that’s pretty much all of them.

Get the Freeware Pack here: http://www.bluecataudio.com/Products/Bundle_FreewarePack/

Just announced this morning, TC Electronics has released the Free M30 Reverb plugin (PC VST, Mac VST + AU) This is a limited time offer, 3 days only.

About the M30 Studio Reverb.

The M30 Studio Reverb is a simple to use, great sounding reverb that is powered by AlgoFlex™ – a new high definition TC technology that enables hardware quality and predictability to be ported to native software.

TC Electronic has been at the forefront of effects development for decades, and our reverb algorithms can be found in the best recording and mixing environments in the world. With its great sound M30 is a unique addition to VST- or AU compatible applications running with Mac or PC.

I haven’t had a chance to check it out yet, I’m not sure if this is old or new, but be sure to grab it right away before it’s too late.

Get the TC M30 for free here: http://www.tcelectronic.com/freetcreverb.asp

Last week Brainworx released their second free plugin bx_cleansweep and since I actually use their other free plugin bx_solo quite often I figured I’ll talk about them both. 1 is new, 1 is not, both are helpful tools. PC: VST & RTAS; Mac: VST, RTAS & AU

bx_solo is a simple MS tool. It allows you to swap Left and Right, solo Left/Right/Mid/Side as well as a handy stereo width control. Once in a while I’ll have something in a mix that I want über wide and in the background so I’ll set the stereo width control to 400%. More info on bx_solo

bx_cleansweep is a hi-pass and low-pass filter (aka bandpass) but goes about it in an interesting way with a joystick to adjust HP and LP cutoff simultaneously. Additionally there is a knob for each filter for finer/more traditional adjustment. More info on bx_cleansweep

Get both of these on the Brainworx Free downloads page, the TT Dynamic Range Meter is also available for download on that page.

]]> http://www.audiogeekzine.com/2009/11/free-plugin-of-the-week-brainworx/feed/ 2 http://www.audiogeekzine.com/2009/11/free-plugin-of-the-week-bootsie-epicverb/ http://www.audiogeekzine.com/2009/11/free-plugin-of-the-week-bootsie-epicverb/#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:30:56 +0000 Jon http://www.audiogeekzine.com/?p=1321 It’s been a while since I’ve done a Free Plugin Of the Week post, I intend to have a new one every Monday. See all the previous posts in the series.

Bootsie epicVerb isn’t brand new, but over the past few months its become my favorite free reverb.

As I said before, this is my favorite free reverb, it’s easy to use, has many great preset settings and sounds great. I don’t use it on all my mixes, but I’m thankful to have it in the mixing toolbox. Be sure to check out Bootsie’s many other great free plugins.

PC – VST

Get it here: epicVerb

Lately I’ve been finding this new plugin TT Dynamic Range Meter by Pleasurize Music Foundation to be useful. I use it for two things, when I’m building a mix up I have it on the master so I can have nice big meters showing peak and RMS, this helps me keep things a conservative level from the start. The other thing I use this for is the MONO button. Setting your balances and even panning in Mono can really help. My interface doesn’t have a mono button on it (my 002r did but my 2626 doesn’t) so the MONO button on this plug makes it really simple.

My only complaint about this is the plugin is HUGE! It takes up nearly a 1/4 of my 22″ monitor

Oh yeah…it’s FREE! VST|RTAS|AU Mac/PC so everyone can play. A great weapon for fighting the loudness war, whichever side you’re on.

They also have an offline program to analyze the dynamic range of audio files, might be useful to some.

Pleasurize Music Foundation

EDIT – NOVEMBER 4 2009

I just noticed Brainworx has the TT Dynamic Range Meter for download here

For those of you that missed this on the Twitter, Digidesign has released a few of the older plugins free.

Pro Tools 8 comes with a ton of new plugins, but it also comes bundled with a few very useful oldies. These are now free for anyone on a 7.3+ system. Look for the version 8 download for each of these. No iLok required for any of these, no codes, just run the installer.

Digidesign: D-Fi Bundle (Lo-Fi, Sci-Fi, Recti-Fi, and Vari-Fi)

Digidesign: Maxim

Bombfactory: Sansamp PSA-1

Trillium Lane Labs: TL AutoPan

Trillium Lane Labs: TL Utilities (TL Metro, TL InTune, TL MasterMeter)

Even if you don’t upgrade to Pro Tools 8 you can still use these. Sansamp is my favorite right now.

You’ll likely need to get the most recent Pace InterLok drivers [end user dropdown box on right]

Happy Holidays!