Waves Audio announces the latest in its series of educational events, The Waves Logic Studio Tour.

The Tour will feature legendary producer/engineer Eddie Kramer, along with Waves Product Specialists, demonstrating Waves' plug-ins in conjunction with Logic Studio and other Apple professional audio applications. These events, presented in association with Apple Pro Audio Resellers, are free and open to the public. The Waves Logic Studio Tour will take Kramer and the Waves crew to several cities across the U.S. throughout September.

Latest tour date updates and news are available online at the Waves website.

Sonoris Audio Engineering has just announced the release of Sonoris Dither, a professional, high quality audio plugin for mastering purposes.

With this plugin you can quantize audio to a lower bitdepth with dither and/or noiseshaping. The dithertype is selectable between TPDF and High Pass (HP) TPDF. TPDF is short for Triangular Probability Densitity Function, a form of dither that eliminates non-linear distortion during re-quantization and has no signal modulation artifacts.

The noiseshaping can be set to three flavors: Curve A, B and C or "Off". It is also possible to set noiseshaping without dither.

The output bitdepth can be set to 16 and 20 bit or "Off" for no quantization.

Sonoris Dither is available now for both Mac OS X and Windows in VST format and is priced at $75.

Perimeter Sound Arts has released Tone Set #5, a collection of 128 newly created Gearbox patches.

Sorted into 4 categories, 'Alternative', 'Blues', 'Clean', and 'Metal', with a focus on mixing and matching guitar & bass pres and cabs, and bringing out the truer tone of the amps, with fewer effects added and almost no compression used.

Tone Set #5 is available now and is priced at $20. Note that a free no-restrictions-on-use (and no email sign up of any kind required) free demo pack of 16 patches from Tone Set #5 is also available.

McDSP has extended its offer on the "Create Your Own Native Bundle" special for the month of August. You may purchase any one native plug-in for $295, two native plug-ins for $495, three native plug-ins for $695 or four native plug-ins for $795

All McDSP native plug-ins are included in this one-time-deal of creating your own bundle – Analog Channel, Channel G, Chrome Tone, CompressorBank, DE555, FilterBank, FutzBox, MC2000, ML4000, NF575, Revolver and Synthesizer One.

The McDSP Native product line supports RTAS and AudioSuite formats, and operates on Pro Tools HD, LE, and M-Powered. Special available only via electronic delivery. All plug-ins purchased within a bundle must be deposited to the same iLok account. Note that this offer ends August 31, 2008.

Tascam has announced three recording bundles designed to "supply musicians with the tools they need to make great recordings".

The Track Pack T1 combines the US-122L audio interface with a dynamic microphone, headphones and Cubase LE4 recording software. The Track Pack T2 matches the US-144 interface with Tascam's new TM-78 condenser microphone. The Field Pack pairs the DR-1 portable recorder with the TM-ST1 stereo microphone.

Pricing :

- Track Pack T1 sells for $299 MSRP/$179 street.
- Track Pack T2 sells for $369 MSRP/ $199 street
- Field Pack sells for $498 MSRP/$349 street.