Sonomic, the premier provider of sound library management solutions, today announced that its Total Library Server (TLS) now supports Digidesign's Pro Tools 6.0 and Apple's new OS X operating system.

Available Q2 the plug-in suite will be released as a free update for registered users.

TC Electronic release Reverb 4000, a 1U rack with the best reverbs (so they say, I won't argue ;) from System 6000 and M5000, plus some reverb classics. Stereo, 24 bits AD/DA converters, 44.1 to 96 KHz, USB connection to the computer and ICON dedicated Mac/PC editing software, AES/EBU, S/PDIF, TOS-Link and ADAT I/Os.

The main novelty is its capability to process 2 discrete sources in space, or process truly a composite stereo.

Shipping in february

Take 16 real analogue filters, put them into a rack with a control software in your computer and a USB connection to link it and you've got the thing.
Add the Waldorf Rot Analog Filter Step Sequencer, a pattern based step sequencer (for cutoff and resonance along dynamics).
AFB16 versions of the Waldorf PPG wave 2.V and Waldorf D-pole plugins are in developement, so there's some DSP inside too. A good alternative to a real PPG ?

It seems that Waldorf is issuing the filterbank of the Q+ in a 2U rack… As a kind of a big rackable dongle.

16 Low pass filters, 12-24 dB, with self oscillation and overdrive.
Developement kit available free from Waldorf
OS9 and OSX, USB 2.0 (with PCI card then) and 128 Mo of RAM

Blue tubes Bundle V1.5 now available for (RTAS OS 9) and (VST OS 9/OS X/ PC). The Blue Tubes Bundle is a software plug-in that gives you warm and vintage-style EQs / Chorus / Phaser / Compressors / Limiters / Oilcan Echo-Delay / NoiseGate and Tubes Driver l . The Blue Tubes Bundle is dedicated for tracking, mixing and mastering. It recreates the warm sound qualities of classic analog hardware.