RME has unveiled the Babyface, a new 22-channel USB 2.0 audio interface featuring digitally controlled mic preamps, instrument input, and a TotalMix FX DSP mixer, all in a compact, portable package small enough to fit in your pocket.

Features :

• TotalMix with DSP effects
• 192 kHz AD / DA converters
• Active jitter suppression
• 2 x Analog I/O
• 2 x Mic / Line preamps, digitally controlled
• 1 x Instrument input (alternate)
• 1 x Stereo headphone output
• 1 x ADAT I/O
• 1 x SPDIF I/O (optical instead of ADAT I/O)
• 1 x MIDI I/O
• 1 x USB 2.0

The Babyface comes with TotalMix FX software (Mac / Win), DIGICheck software (Mac / Win), breakout XLR, an optical cable, USB cable, CD-ROM, manual, and power supply. MSRP : €599.

Steinberg is proud to announce a forthcoming major update to its Audio Editing and Mastering Suite.

WaveLab 7 represents a new benchmark for audio editing and mastering for Mac, while adding new capabilities to its previous Windows incarnation. Among the new features is a unique GUI concept that allows fast and fluid handling of audio material across multiple windows, montages and podcasts with an intelligent docking and scaling system as well as new VST3 plug-ins and restoration tools, a new CD and DVD-A burning engine and much more.

The new WaveLab 7 user interface handles audio material faster and more intuitively, speeding up workflows in audio editing and mastering with an ultra-fluid, intelligent and completely customizable window and toolbar management system. WaveLab 7 also ...

Lexicon announcesd the LXP Native Reverb Plug-in Bundle, a new cross-platform native software plug-in collection that delivers four signature Lexicon reverb plug-ins with over 200 versatile and finely-crafted studio presets designed to bring the highest level of sonic quality and function to all your audio applications.

The LXP Bundle was specifically developed for project and professional recording engineers, as well as artists that want to envelope their mix with that magical "Lexicon sound" that delivers the clarity, depth and fullness that can only be created when recording in a major studio.

Features :

• 4 legendary Lexicon Reverbs : Chamber, Hall, Plate, Room.
• Over 200 presets.
• Graphical real-time display illustrating the frequency stages of each algorit ...

Softube has announced the upcoming 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 t ...

Voxengo is happy to announce the release of Deft Compressor, an audio signal compressor plug-in available in AudioUnit and VST plugin formats, for Mac OS X (v.10.4.11 and later) and Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) computers.

The characteristic feature of this compressor is its ability to produce "slim" and "slick" sounding compression, with intelligibility enhancement effect. Such result is achieved by compressor's timing function that closely resembles the S-curve on both attack and release stages. S-curve timing function also helps compressor to sound "warm" and "clean" at most settings.

While at high attack settings Deft Compressor can be used to emphasize audio transients, it can also be used to "smash" audio signal if you use attack settings as low as 0.1 millisecond.

Deft Compre ...