After the release of the long-awaited version 4 of Reason this week, Propellerhead have added video's at YouTube for us to get a closer look at its main new features :

- Thor
- RPG-8
- ReGroove
- New Sequencer

Enjoy ;-)

FXpansion has released just a few screenshots on their official forum... and nothing else except those words :

"BFD2 is more CPU efficient, depending on how you use it. We've added a lot of new features and unfortunately things like component modelled compressors and EQ's do tend to be quite CPU heavy. We are doing everything to make this more acceptable. As a rough guide to CPU usage, on my macbook pro it currently runs at about 15% of CPU with a 32 piece kit, song timeline running in the groove engine, multiple effects in the mixer as well as several concurrent busses running. (which for comparison is about the same as running 30+ tracks in cubase, plus maybe 10 fx)."

No release date for now but we will keep you informed.

Image-Line has just released version 2.0 of the PoiZone synth plugin. This new version features a refreshed interface and is now available as a standalone application, native FL Studio plugin and AudioUnit plugin, in addition to the existing VSTi plugin version.

Features :

- 2 oscillators with adjustable pulse width.
- Noise generator.
- Ring modulation
- Sync modulation
- 16 voice polyphony
- 4 voice UNISON with user-adjustable stereo panning and 'Octaver'.
- 2 ADSR envelope generators. One for traditional envelope duties, the other can be user assigned
- 3 FILTER modes - low pass, band pass and high pass.
- Keyboard and Velocity tracking for the filter
- Multi-mode Arpeggiator
- Noise Gate with an adjustable 16 step pattern. The gate features smoothness control and the ab ...

A-Designs Audio has released the HM2EQ, a new vacuum tube-equipped EQ better known as the HAMMER. Housed in a 2U metal chassis with an aluminum faceplate and beefy toroidal power transformer under the hood, the HAMMER is a dual mono channel, three band, analog equalizer engineered with an ingenious filtering system that allows the even harmonics to flow through its 12AT Philips tubes filtering out unwanted noise. Each channel features identical controls, including switches for bypass, high cut and low cut, as well as six large aluminum rotaries for the EQ section – knobs for the LF (30/50/100/200/300/400), MF (250/500/1.2k/1.6k/2k) and HF (2.5k/3.5k/5k/7.5k/10k/15k) bands, plus accompanying knobs offering ±13dB of boost/cut for each frequency range. Connections to and from the product are accomplished on the rear panel via a pair of balanced Neutrik XLR input jacks and pair of balanced XLR output jacks.

Available now, the HAMMER carries a US list price of $2,695.00.

At the coming AES, TL Audio will unveil their new Fat Track Tube Production Suite, which is described as a complete solution for tracking, summing and monitoring.

Main Features :

- Mic, Line and Instrument inputs
- 3 band swept EQ on input channels
- 2 tube stages
- Balanced insert points on channels and master
- Effects send / return
- Phantom power, 30db pad, phase reverse.
- 4 stereo returns (DAW / tape returns) switchable +4 / -10
- 2 Headphone outputs with independent level control
- Alternative loudspeaker mode
- Main volume large knob control
- Balanced I/O +4 / -10
- Compatible with DO-8 ADAT interface