Digidesign, who distributes it, announces that Echo Farm goes to version 2.2. This effect plugin for Pro Tools TDM (HD Accel, HD, Mix) on mac OS X adds these new features : support for Pro Tools|HD Accel, tempo Lock feature allowing Echo Farm to automatically lock to the tempo of the Pro Tools session, support for D-Control, internal clip detection, support for Stereo 96 kHz sampling rate (HD Accel required) and support for 192k Hz sampling rate (HD Accel required).

Echo Farm 2.2 is a free update.

3 EQs are coming to complete URS's A and N series, and URS presents the S serie :
A 10 : digitally recreates the sound of API's 550B vintage 4 band equalizer ;

N12 : digitally recreates the classic sound of Neve's 1073 vintage equalizer as a 12 band graphic ;

S Serie : a six band equalizer with four bands of EQ and low and high pass filters. Each band offers overlapping frequencies panning 4 to 5 octaves.

The S serie invention allows URS to update all plugins : I/O Plasma style VU metering, completely variable Cut/Boost to 0.1db increments, completely variable Input trim to 0.1db increments, numeric display/entry Windows for 0.1db increments.

All the series make the URS EQ Bundle 2.0.

With AudioUnits and hosts multiplying practically daily, users with growing collections of both soon want to be able to specify subsets of AudioUnits to be loaded with particular hosts. AudioUnit Manager comes on 1.0 version and provides a simple way to organize AudioUnits into sets so users can load just the AudioUnits they need for a particular application.

Audiounit Manager 1.0 is a donationware.

Steinberg anounce the interface "Phase 88" from Terratec Producer, this audio digital PCI and rack interface include eight analog input/outputs (converter 24 bits/96khz), a 20 channel console, one coaxial input/output S/PDIF, AC3 or DTS compatible and 16 MIDI channels input/outputs.

Available for Mac OS 9.1 and Mac OS X core audio, Phase 88 is listed at 420 euros.

In this second part of our article "The Equalization", we will talk about mixing: how our ears react to the combinations of sounds, the various representations and spectrum analysis, and if it is necessary to add or remove frequencies.... What a task!
(Translated by Dominique Zbiegel.)