TL Audio has announced the release of their latest offering in the new Ebony Series : the Ebony A4.

The A4 is a 16:2 summing mixer housed in a 2U unit and features 16 balanced inputs on TRS and D-Sub with individual pan controls. All inputs are also switchable between +4 and -10 for greater flexibility.

Features :

- Discrete Class A Electronics
- Dual Triode ECC83 tube stage in master section
- Variable drive control
- Ability to switch tube in and out of circuit path
- 16 Balanced inputs on TRS / D-Sub
- 16 individual pan control
- Inputs switchable +4/-10
- Balanced inserts on master bus
- Balanced outputs
- Analogue VU metering with Peak LED's
- Sleek design and smooth precise sound
- Rackmountable (2U)
- Hand Made In England

The Ebony A4 is available at an estimated street price of €1200.

Voxengo is pleased to release a major version 3 update for their mastering limiter, Elephant. Version 3.0 features a lot of enhancements over the previous version: multi-platform support, multi-channel operation, wider selection of limiter modes, preset manager, and others.

Elephant 3.0 is available now for Mac OS X in VST / AU formats and for Windows as a VST plug-in. One-month introductory price of $69.95 is now effective, which is 20% off the regular price. Upgrading from the previous version costs $44.95 if previous version was purchased earlier than 90 days from now, otherwise upgrade is free during this grace period.

EASTWEST is offering its users a unique opportunity to double the amount of the company's new PLAY-powered products in their audio toolkit at a greatly reduced rate.

Users visiting the EASTWEST website from now until October 31, 2008 will be able to purchase one PLAY product and receive a collection of equal to or lesser value for free. The offer is also available at participating domestic and international retailers using a mail in rebate. There is no limit to the amount of virtual instruments that can be purchased where a user receives one free (except the free product cannot be the same as the purchased product), and users have the entire line of PLAY-powered products to choose from.

IMSTA is proud to announce that its long awaited Piracy Survey is now ready. This is the chance end-users have been waiting for to say what is on their minds to the music software companies.

The survey will run until December 31, 2008 and is open to music software users from all around the world.

If you have any questions or comments about this survey, please post it in IMSTA's Official Forum hosted by DontCrac[k]

Camel Audio unveils Alchemy, a new virtual synth which they've been working hard on for the last four years.

Described as the ultimate sample manipulation synthesizer, Alchemy features additive, spectral and granular synthesis and resynthesis, sampling, and a very capable virtual analog engine with unison and PWM. You can morph or crossfade between sources. You can import your own samples from SFZ, WAV or AIFF files. A wide range of analog modelled filters are included, in addition to a flexible rack of effects which includes all those from CamelPhat and CamelSpace as well as many new effects such as a high quality reverb. The innovative modulation system is extremely flexible, yet easy to use. Alchemy also features a powerful arpeggiator with the ability to import the groove from any MIDI file for immediate synchronization to a beat.

Alchemy ships with over 2GB of samples and analysed content from in-house designers Tim Conrardy and Biomechanoid, as well as designers such as Ian Boddy, Robert Rich, Scott Solida and Nucleus SoundLab. A library of 300 excellent presets from many of the world's top sound designers is included, arranged into categories for rapid access to the sound you require. A variety of expansion sound banks are in development.

Alchemy will be released this Autumn.