Camel Audio has released two new Alchemy Soundbanks - Luftrum: Ambient and Cameleon: Remixed. Like all Alchemy Soundbanks, each bank is a standalone instrument in its own right, as it comes with a complementary copy of the new Alchemy Player, and costs $59 / €49 / £39.

Luftrum: Ambient is a journey between worlds, from summer afternoons to the icy depths of space. With dense washes of warm, shimmering pads and soundscapes, gentle guitar and piano arpeggios, music boxes, delicate, and ethereal sound effects that totter between beauty and despair, this is a particularly inspiring collection for the ambient musician, film, TV or game soundtrack composer. Its darker elements include chilling machine sounds, disturbing alien atmospheres, the voices of haunted children, water droplets, p ...

Blue Cat Audio has updated its 11 equalizer plug-ins. With these new versions, Pro Tools and 64-bit platforms are natively supported on both Mac and PC. The new release also brings several enhancements and fixes detailed below.

These Blue Cat Audio EQ plug-ins include the Liny EQ series (linear phase graphic equalizers), the Parametr'EQ series (digital and analog parametric EQs) and the Triple EQ plug-ins (semi-parametric visual filters). They all come in three flavors, offering a wide variety of capabilities. In particular, the Widening versions propose mid/side processing for frequency selective stereo narrowing or widening.

What's new for all plug-ins:

• RTAS plugin format support for Pro Tools (Mac and Windows).
• 64-bit applications support for Windows DX and VST u ...

TC Electronic System 6000 MKII reverb and signal processor is now shipping.

System 6000 MKII Rack unit:
• System 6000 MKII can now be controlled and updated over a network or via wi-fi, making for more convenient and flexible installations and updates
• Presets from System 6000 will load on the System 6000 MKII
• Includes a new Matrix mixer for serious summing flexibility
• Opens the door for new and much more powerful algorithms

Icon MKII:
• Faster operation of touch screen and faders
• Controls a variety of TC processors, not just System 6000 MKII
• More connectivity
• New silver finish

For the month of May, the H3000 Factory Ultra-Harmonizer Pro Tools TDM plug-in, based on the Factory algorithms from the legendary H3000, will be available as an individual plug-in for only $199. The H3000 Ultra-Harmonizer effects processor has been a staple of countless major motion picture soundtracks, hit records and live performances for over twenty years.

Users will find a wealth of classic Eventide signature effects among the over 350 presets, including many from the original H3000, plus many new ones, including a preset bank from sound designer Richard Devine. The results range from subtle Eventide signature effects like micropitch shifting, great for thickening and adding depth to any track, to classic post production effects like "TV in a Room", to extreme sound mangling.

Softube has announced the release of the Valley People Dyna-mite plug-in, a faithful virtual replica of the hardware Valley People Dyna-mite, a multi-dynamics tool capable of limiting/ compressing, expanding, gating, keying, ducking, de-essing, etc. The Valley People Dyna-mite is a swiss army knife limiter/expander design with unique character that inspires to new sounds.

The Valley People Dyna-mite was designed in the '80s and has become a secret weapon for some. For others, it's still a hidden treasure just waiting to be discovered. It features a limit mode, an expander mode, a gate mode, a de-esser mode and on top of that, two sidechain modes that let you duck or follow a track.

Nowadays, the Dyna-mite has a reputation not only as a problem solver but also as a creative tool tha ...