Yellow Tools announces an update to version 1.0.6 for Independence. This new version adds a new insert filter: 2D filter, two new insert effects: Doubler and Filter Delay, and the "autoload" feature is now available for all Independence insert filters and effects. This updated version also fixes several bugs. Independence is a plug-in sampler-workstation. It includes a "Flexible Modifier" (you could load sound libraries of recorded instruments into hardware and play them with a MIDI controller, tempo sync LFOs), a Mixer with unlimited number of busses, a performance tool to "humanize" your samples (with Legato mode, 53 presets), a Mapping tool, and surround support. Independence also includes a 18 Gb sample library.

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The first Freedom update to version 1.0.1 is now available for all registered users in the Yellow Tools web site. The update mainly contains improvements of the automation, stability and the basic performance for the interfaces VST, RTAS and AudioUnits (Mac OS X only).

The free update is recommended to all Freedom users.

Wavemachine Labs has updated its Drumagog to version 4.0.5 in order to add a new samples page layout and features, an 'add fromTrack' feature, and to fix several bugs. Drumagog is a plug-in that automatically replaces drum tracks with a vast array of other samples. Engineers and producers worldwide use Drumagog to fix and enhance existing drum tracks. Drumagog is extremely easy to use. Just insert it onto a drum track and select your favorite sample. Drumagog does the rest. For advanced drum replacing, Drumagog is packed with powerful features for the ultimate in control. Drumagog comes complete with a drum sample collection containing hundreds of samples to get you going.

As a happy owner of the new Digidesign Mbox2 Audio and MIDI interface, I am very happy to publish in our 'Articles' section a short article, not really a review or a benchtest, but nothing more than my very first impressions after using the Mbox2 for two weeks.

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