URS is releasing the M series EQ bundle. It includes the URS Motorcity 7 band Q, the impersonation of the passive 7 band EQ used by the Motown sound engineers at first in 1965. These were the first with proportional Q, small boost/cuts have very broad Q, big boost/cuts the opposite. The second EQ included is the Vintage Cinema Equalizer. This one impersonates the original 6 band passive EQ used in cinema in the 1930's, a seventh band has been added to the plug-in. Both EQs frequencies are overlapping nicely and can be used as a 14 band EQ.

Bitter Sweet II is an improved version of the previous Bitter Sweet. The transient processing doesn't depend anymore of the signal level. Three new parameters have been added to allow a tighter control of the transients. Three transient durations can now be selected and a varying period of integration for transients processing can be accessed and a link function sets the output gain depending of the processing amount.

Here is the October issue of DP Corner by Tim Rumbaugh from audioMIDI.com. A column for great tips, tricks, and other fun stuff related to Digital Performer.

If you have a Digital Performer related question that you would like Tim to take a shot at, please post it here. He will follow-up as quickly as possible.

Sonicccouture has made their popular VA Brush Kit product available for free download. The 150mb Drum kit features mixable direct and ambient microphones, Drum roll emulation via the Roll Control KSP script, multiple velocity layers and articulations. The kit was recorded at Peter Gabriels Real World Studios in Bath, England.

Brush kit is available in Kontakt 2 + 3, Battery 2 + 3 format, and is taken from the larger VA Drums drum library.

X-ISM is a state of the art VST/AU plug-in which can interpret inter-sample peaks, allowing engineers to make informed judgements about the resultant sound quality of the mix.

There is currently a trend in the in the audio industry known euphemistically as 'The loudness war' in which the engineering process is driven to produce a product which is as loud as is technically possible within the constraints of the medium. Debate rages as to whether this produces problems that degrade and distort the audio. One reason for this distortion is often blamed on the presence of 'inter-sample peaks', where signals that are usually missed by the Fs sampling of DAW meters, may actually exceed 0dBfs in reconstruction from digital to analogue domain in some Digital to Analogue Converters (DACs).

X-ISM uses significant processing to provide a combination of up-sampling and filtering that mimics the operation of an oversampling DAC's reconstruction process. The result is a meter that shows inter-sample errors and provides a useful tool that most DAW metering misses.

The plug-in is available in VST, AU and RTAS formats making it compatible with virtually all audio software currently available on both PC and Mac.