Rusty Trombone has released Erectifier, a free plug-ins that works as a doubler, demented phaser or exciter. It is designed to widen and phatten your sound, although it is capable of being a very demented beast as well.

You have an LFO that controls how long back an echo is. You can set the length and speed of this LFO. Then there is a filter that can be LowPass, HighPass or Allpass, and a cut Hz so that you can control where the cut is. The distortion is to "gritt" up the sound a little, or a lot, it's not the world's best distortion. Then you can amplify the signal, if you want to. The filter can cut away a lot of the volume, that's why we have it. Then finally there is a on/off. There are two to the left side and two on the right side. And finally one dry through parameter. So if you'd like to test one of your settings, turn the other three off (via on/off parameter) and then tweak away. There are a few presets (plus a random-function).

Erectifier was programmed for Rusty Trombone by Shuriken.se.

Erectifier is available for Windows and Mac OS X as a VST effect plug-in and it is free.

Event Electronics is proud to announce the re-launch of its website, focusing on the revolutionary new Opal and led by a challenge to other speaker manufacturers from Event President Peter Freedman.

President of Event Electronics, Peter Freedman, is so confident that the Opal is the most accurate, lowest distortion monitor available on the market at any price, that he has thrown down a challenge to any other speaker manufacturer to prove him wrong.

"The Event Opal is the most accurate, lowest distortion monitor on the planet, and I challenge every other manufacturer in the world to prove me wrong".

Visit this web page and watch Peter put his professional reputation on the line as he personally guarantees that the Opal is the most superior studio monitor available today, regardless of configuration or cost.

The 'Prove Me Wrong' challenge is reinforced by a series of videos on the new eventelectronics.com that explain the innovative technology that enables the Opal to offer levels of clarity and performance previously unimaginable in a two-way nearfield monitor.

After watching the videos and investigating Peter's claims, any attempt to prove him wrong can be submitted to provemewrong@eventelectronics.com.

Additionally, Opal owners can register their speakers for warranty and to receive their StudioEQ precision calibration software and microphone.

The Event Opal is now available at selected dealers worldwide.

MFB unveils the MFB-522, a drumcomputer with a fully analogue sound engine that offers plenty of editing capabilities. It includes a step-sequencer with popular TR-style running-light-programming.

Features :

- 9 analogue instruments
- step-sequencer with 16 steps
- 25 controls for attack, decay, tone etc.
- Bass drum programmable in two lengths
- Tom/Conga programmable in three pitches
- memory locations for 72 patterns and 8 songs


The MFB-522 is available now with an MSRP of €280 (plus €10 shipping/COD costs).

Monocircuit Audio proudly presents Electro Drum Kit 1 : rusty and raw electro drums that stay on the analog side of our machinery, featuring Korg PolySix, SID, Waldorf Attack and Yamaha DX7. This small kit consists of 71 .wav samples that will electrify you in no time !

Best of all, it's completely free ! You just have to register to Monocircuit Audio's forum.

Modartt has updated Pianoteq to v3.0.1.

Changes :

- Performance improvements for G5 CPUs.
- Fixed bug with MIDI mapping presets (saving / loading / etc.).
- Various small bug fixes.