Schwa has just released a new plug-in called Oligarc Filter which is described as a sophisticated emulation of a classic analog ladder filter complete with nonlinearity, instability, character, good looks, and danger.

Features :

- Resonant Filter: lowpass (bludgeon) / wide bandpass (cleaver) / narrow bandpass (scalpel).
- Brickwall Limiter: Engages a soft-clipping limiter to protect your delicate organic structures.
- Fully MIDI-controllable.

Oligarc Filter is available now for Mac OS X and Windows in VST and AU formats at a price of $20. Note that all proceeds for this plug-in will be donated to the alliance for climate protection.

Expert Sleepers has released Clocker, a free utility VST and AU plug-in for Mac OS X that sends MIDI clock.

Why would you want a plug-in to do that, when your host app sends MIDI clock perfectly fine? Well, with Clocker you have a separate, adjustable source of MIDI clock. So you can send all kinds of crazy tempo to some of your outboard gear, while the rest of your stuff plays back in time as usual.

Toontrack has released updates for all existing EZdrummer EZXs with more MIDI files and the addition of copy protection on the DFH, Vintage Rock and Latin Percussion EZXs.

The updates also include new mixer presets by Richard Devine. Richard Devine is an Atlanta-based electronic musician. He is recognized for producing a layered and heavily processed sound, combining influences from old and modern electronic music praised for, among other things, a remix of Aphex Twins Come To Daddy. Apart from engineering and performing his own music worldwide Devine has also contributed sound design to a number of hardware and software manufacturers and scored commercials for Nike and Touchstone Pictures.

All the updates are of course free of charge.

Prosoniq has announced that it has released the OrangeVocoder 10th Anniversary Mac OS X AudioUnit Edition.

This new version offers 8 sound modes, 32 voices and over 60 presets. Prosoniq's newly developed proprietary MR filterbank algorithms combined with high-precision digital state-of-the-art modelling of analogue circuitry allow an even more impressive variety of vocoder effects without compromising intelligibility.

OrangeVocoder 10th Anniversary AudioUnit Edition can be purchased for €169. Crossgrades from previous RTAS and VST versions are available for €29. A demo version is available.

Today we are pleased to publisha new article about Speakerphone, the impulse-response based speaker emulator from AudioEase.

"If you are in post for film, video, broadcast, or even a musician looking for a creative tool to put your audio in specific situations, Speakerphone should be at the top of your list of purchases."