Sinevibes announces a new line of sound expansion libraries for the Roland Fantom-G workstations. The GX Series covers a wide range of instruments, from drums to synth.

A total of 8 titles are planned with prices ranging from $29/€23 to $39/€29. You can pre-order the first 4 expansion libraries now, including Drums, Synth, Bass and Atmospheres, as well as a bundle for $79/€59 (37% off). The libraries will begin shipping starting from 20th June. Note that audio examples are available.

TL Audio unveils their latest offering in the new Ebony Series during the highly anticipated first annual London International Music Show (LIMS).

The latest product is a Discrete Class A 16:2 Summing Mixer, housed in a 2U rack unit and with an additional switchable and variable tube stage on the master output. Combining Balanced I/O on XLR and D-Sub connectors with analogue VU metering and balanced insert points, the beautifully named Ebony Summer is sure to impress.

More information on this product coming soon.

AudioWarrior has just announced the release of the Studio Drums Plugin, a collection of 24-bit stereo precision tuned and expertly programmed drums and percussion in a plugin that works in everything including a standalone version that requires no host sequencer.

Expensive hardwood acoustic kits, cheap trashy low-fi street kits, electronic kits, and world percussion sounds from Nepal, Africa, India, and Ireland in an affordable 32-bit studio quality state of the art plugin with built in effects, stereo to 5.1 surround output, and 256 voice polyphony.

Studio Drums Plugin is available now for Mac OS X and Windows in VST, AU and Standalone versions for a fee of $49.

Allen & Heath unveils the ZED-R16 which combines an analogue recording mixer with a FireWire soundcard, MIDI controls and 'home-studio' routing so you can build tracks in the studio, record live gigs, mix-down and remix.

The ZED-R16 can be employed as a standard analogue mixer while recording multi-track via FireWire or ADAT, a traditional inline mixer recording with send and return per channel via FireWire, or as a MIDI controller via switchable channel faders. It features 16 mono inputs, 2 stereo inputs, a high quality dual mic pre-amp, 4-band fully-parametric EQ, 4 auxes, a stereo bus, 2 stereo returns, and 18+18 FireWire I/O and 8+8 ADAT I/O.

The ZED-R16 can be employed as a standard analogue mixer while recording multi-track via FireWire or ADAT, a traditional inline mixer recor ...

DUY has just announced the release of DUY Silence which is a a new noise reduction plug-in for Mac OS X.

With DUY Silence you'll be able to collect information about your noise using an analysis method, by capturing the track or portion of a track that you'd like to work on. You can visualize the noise on the user interface, in order to edit it according to your needs and criteria, using a complete and intuitive set of tools.

If you've ever tried to clean a track by removing unwanted noise, you'll know how complex and time-consuming it can be. An interview with unwanted noise, an old recorded track... With DUY Silence, simply analyse the noise on your track for a few seconds, set the attack, release and threshold values, and you're done. For further control, you can go into the "Advanced" mode, which will let you change the noise gate settings for each one of the over 1000 frequency bands created within DUY Silence.

DUY Silence is available now for Mac OS X in VST, AU, RTAS and MAS formats. It can be purchased individually or as part of any of the available native packages offered by DUY. Registered users of any of DUY's native plug-ins are entitled to purchase this plug-in at a reduced price. DUY Silence has an MSRP of €399 but is available for the introductory price of €299 until the end of June 2008.