The Golden Audio Gate | GAG-1 by Kjaerhus Audio is a versatile gate / expander & ducking plug-in made for such applications as noise-gating, gated reverb, voice-over, de-breathing and many other practical and creative purposes. The side-chain can be fed with either internal or external audio, or controlled by a MIDI key. High-cut and low-cut filters are available in the side chain to narrow the frequency range in which the gate should respond. The envelope is controlled by attack, hold and decay parameters where the hold function has a soft release behavior contributing to the unique character of this gate. Other parameters such as range, ratio and knee are used to control the audio attenuation and help make this gate sound more musical than typical "bi-state" noise gates. Three plug-in variants are available in the package; stereo, stereo with side chain, and mono with side chain. There is no latency, which makes this the ideal tool for real time performance in the studio or on stage. All parameters can be controlled from MIDI controllers.

GAG will ship on August 2nd in VST/Audio Units for $78.

Neyrinck introduces the SoundCode for DTS plug-in suite for Digidesign Pro Tools systems. Tightly integrated with Pro Tools software, the SoundCode for DTS plug-in suite provides mastering-quality workflow tools that enable encoding and decoding of DTS Digital Surround, 96/24, and ES audio directly within Pro Tools HD, Pro Tools LE, and Pro Tools M-Powered systems. The SoundCode for DTS Encoder, which operates as an AudioSuite plug-in, offers a faster-than-real-time way to encode audio from a Pro Tools session – ready for use with DVD audio and video authoring applications. The SoundCode for DTS Decoder functions as a real-time RTAS plug-in or a non-real-time AudioSuite plug-in. The real-time decoder features Sample-Accurate Direct File Decode to decode a DTS file in real-time synchronized to the Pro Tools timeline and video.

SoundCode for DTS for Pro Tools ships for $995.

Karim Morsy, Christoph Teschner and Federico Tessmann are three ingenious students at the Univeristy of Munich in Germany. They released djay 1.1, a new audio software for Mac OS X. It takes full advantage of Apple's latest audio and graphics technologies, and runs natively on both Intel and PowerPC processors. It supports all common file formats, such as mp3, aiff, wav, aac, caf. With djay you can control and mix your whole digital music collection with two realistic virtual, interactive turntables and both record and transmit the audio in real-time over the Bonjour network to other connected djays.

Djay 1.1 is available as a free download on algoriddim.net web site.

No Fritz Lang, city-state, workers and thinkers but just Hip-Hop here : Metropolis is a hip-hop virtual instrument featuring a 8 part multi-timbral Groove Activating Virtual Instrument. Each part comprising one loop channel, additional edit channel and 32 step-time parts so up to 272 fully programmable. It loads Propellerhead Recycle REX and REX2 files & ACIDized loops plus WAV and Aif files. it features a step Sequencer with 32 slots, resonnant filter, MIDI control, VST and Audio Units compatibility, standalone version, and comes with 4GB of hio hop beats.

Metropolis will ship soon for $200 and manual plus demo version are available now.

Arturia released Universal Binary versions for Analog Factory, Prophet V and Brass virtual instruments, and today announces that MacIntel compatible versions of others virtual instruments minimoog V, Moog Modular V, CS-80 V and Arp 2600 V will be available at the end of summer.

These upcoming versions will be available for free.