Ableton has just announced the release of Live 8 and Ableton Suite 8.

New in Ableton Live 8:

- New groove engine: new groove library, extract grooves from audio or MIDI, real-time groove quantize. Includes grooves from the legendary Akai MPC and E-mu SP-1200 machines
- New warping engine: warp audio events by adjusting the events on the timeline, updated Beats Warp Mode, new Complex Warp Mode, slice audio files to MIDI tracks based on transients
- Looper: classic sound-on-sound looping without the limitations of a hardware device. Record, overdub, undo and more without touching the computer. "First loop sync," simple loop management

Arturia announces that Minimoog V 2.0 will be shipping from April 20. This new version of the Minimoog synthesizer emulation includes :

- Advanced automation mode
- A revolutionary preset navigation system called the SoundMap
- New formant-analysis-based FX called the Vocal Filter
- Various improvements to the sound structure
- A fresh bunch of presets
- Bug fixes.

The upgrade is free for all registered users.

Zplane has announced the release of Elastique Pitch, a real time pitch shifting plug-in powered by zplane's élastique Pro v2.1 pitch shifting engine.

With a plug-in interface designed to allow quick and easy interaction with all parameters, Elastique Pitch is designed to be the optimal plug-in for pitch shifting in film and audio conversion applications, for sound design and for adjusting pitch in recording and rehearsal sessions.

Key features :

- Multi-channel : support for synchronous pitching of up to 8 audio channels.
- Real time : no offline pre-analysis required.
- Program independence : high pitch shifting quality for all types of audio (speech, monophonic, classical music, mixes, etc.).
- Phase coherence : absolute phase stability between all channels.
- MIDI pitch control.
- Formant shifting : moving of formants independent from pitch.
- Factory presets : typical film pull-up/pull-down settings.

Elastique Pitch is available now for both Mac OS X and Windows in RTAS format, it has an MSRP of $499/€449.

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On the software side of its product range, SPL has announced the availability of the first bundle of Analog Code plug-ins. Transient Designer, TwinTube Processor, Bass Ranger, Vox Ranger and Full Ranger are now available in a package for Mac OS X and Windows in all major formats (TDM, RTAS, VST and AU).

Pricing : €479 +VAT