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Sinevibes has announced the Space Oscillator Audio Unit plug-in for Mac OS X, which is a unique combination of a synthesizer and a sound processor.

At its core, it has a unison oscillator with a spacious stereo sound, that can react to incoming audio in many exciting ways and is simultaneously controllable by a flexible step sequencer. Combined with many other interesting audio shaping tools, Space Oscillator allows to create new sonic textures with a lot of original character and attitude.

Intergalactic strums, droid speech, organic synth and bass lines, old-school game boy sounds, rhythmic zaps and noises, extreme lo-fi glitches and more are possible with the Space Oscillator. Read more…

Developed based on the needs of studios using more than one DAW application, Asylum Studio Productions have created a free plug-in that allows fine tuning of pan law and other panning characteristics for both mono and stereo tracks.

The initial release supports both AU and VST and is Universal Binary. RTAS and Windows support is scheduled for later this year.

Using various curve algorithms for both the pan law and channel attenuation, along with a very detailed graphical representation of the pan settings, a user can very quickly relate what they see to what they hear. This is very useful since most DAWs do not give you many options to control how the built in panners work.

FabFilter has released FabFilter Twin version 1.10, which contains the following new features and bug fixes:

• Implemented new optimizations that especially work well with unison voices. CPU usage has now been reduced by more than 50% when using a high number of unison voices.
• Added a floating parameter value display to the interface for all knobs.
• Added an optional filter display view, in which the filter curves can be dragged separately or together. Using Ctrl-click or Shift-click, slope and responses can be set directly in the filter display. Use the small toggle button in the lower-left corner of the filter area to toggle between the filter display view and the normal knobs view.
• Added three new filter characteristics, especially designed for FabFilter Twin.
• Added the possibility to drag a modulation slot and move it to another place in the modulation matrix. This works even between slot banks and enables you to keep the modulation matrix organized.
• Added support for viewing modulation connections for a specific target, in addition to the existing possibility to show the connections for a specific modulation source. Connections for a source or target can now be shown by double-clicking a source icon or a target knob.
• Modulation source icons of sources that are currently in use, are now highlighted. This is very useful when browsing presets, for example. You can immediately see whether a preset uses the mod wheel, velocity, aftertouch, or other modulation sources.
• Changed the slot bank select button into three separate A, B and C slot bank buttons, which makes switching banks easier and faster. The slot bank buttons will appear dimmed if a slot bank does not contain any active slots.
• Added (vertical) Shift-drag fine-tune behavior to knobs, in addition to the current circular fine-tune mode.
• Increased the maximum number of voices to 32.
• Increased the maximum unison frequency detune to 5 times the previous maximum, which makes unison sound much better when using a high number of unison voices.
• Added a portamento mode switch for choosing either normal or fingered/legato portamento and increased the maximum portamento time to 5 seconds.
• Added ASIO support to the Windows stand-alone version.
• Slightly increased interface contrast.
• Fixed some bugs concerning LFO sync, slots being marked as ‘invalid’ when this was not the case at all, license validation failing on the Receptor and problems with the ‘next/previous preset’ button when using the plug-in in Cubase.

This update is free for existing FabFilter Twin users. If you have not bought FabFilter Twin yet, version 1.10 grants you a new evaluation period to be able to try the new features.

FabFilter Twin 1.10 is now available on http://www.fabfilter.com for $129 (US) as a Windows VST-plugin and as an Audio Units plugin and a VST plug-in for Mac OS X. Packages with FabFilter Volcano and One are also available. See www.fabfilter.com/shop/.

System requirements for FabFilter Twin are either Windows XP, 2000, 98, Me, or 2003, SSE-capable processor, and a VST 2 host, or Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) or higher, G4 or better with AltiVec, and an Audio Units or VST 2 host.

FabFilter has released FabFilter Twin, a synthesizer plug-in for Windows and Mac OS X. FabFilter Twin features high-quality oscillators, smooth and analog-sounding filters, and unique drag-and-drop modulation slots that make complex sounds easy to design.

FabFilter Twin contains two pure and solid-sounding oscillators with triangle, sawtooth, and square wave forms. Hard sync, pulse width, phase sync, and stereo panning are provided, together with smooth and evocative polyphonic portamento.

The two independent multimode filters in FabFilter Twin are based on FabFilter’s unique digital filter technology with three different filter characteristics, ranging from smooth with moderate overdrive to extremely raw and self-oscillating. Low-pass, high-pass, band-pass responses and 12/24 dB/octave slopes are available, and each filter can be panned to create stereo effects without phase problems. Different oscillator-filter routings are possible. Read more…

Audio Damage has introduced 907A Fixed Filter Bank plug-in for VST and AudioUnits hosts. This plug-in is a recreation of the Moog Modular Synthesizer’s 907A module, and it creates a variety of tonal effects by passing its input signal through eight band-pass filters, one low-pass filter and one high-pass filter.

The 907A is a subtle effect, capable of adding luster to pads, and giving percussive and lead synth sounds a vocal quality. It is an excellent tool for the sound designer’s palette, simple to use yet capable of complex and unique timbres.

Features:

• 24db Low-pass and high-pass filters.
• Eight fixed-frequency band-pass filters.
• True stereo operation.
• Low CPU usage.
• Full MIDI learn mode, for MIDI CC control of every control (VST only; handled by host in AU version).

907A is available as a VST effect for Windows, and as an AU/VST for OSX. It retails for US $29.00, and is available directly from the Audio Damage website.

Source: Audio Damage