MeldaProduction has released MUtility, a free plug-in which provides many elementary actions often useful by every engineer as well as more scientific features.

This consists of volume, panorama, phase inversion, stereo swapping, DC blocker, delay in samples and milliseconds, RMS and envelope, a few mathematical functions, expression evaluator and mono-stereo (de)encoder.

Features :

• Up to 8 channels surround processing.
• Easy-to-use user interface. You can easily change all values, fine-tune each control in multiple ways. Easy orientation in a standardized GUI, textual editing and smooth visualization with almost unlimited zooming are standard. • Resizable and stylable GUI.
• MIDI controllers with MIDI learn - you can map any parameter to any MIDI controller or MIDI keyboard and control it realtime or record and automate it.
• Optimized for SSE and SSE2 processors.
• Global preset management - using a title button you can save your settings (which are shared on the computer) so you can easily access these in other songs.
• Fully automatable.


The free MUtility plug-in is available now for Mac and PC in VST and AU formats.

Togu Audio Line has released TAL-NoiseMaker which is an improved version of TAL-Elek7ro.

TAL-NoiseMaker has a completely new synth engine and a lot of improvements in sound and usability. The synth also includes a small effect section with a reverb, chorus and a simple bit-crusher effect.

A display shows the knob and slider values. This allows more control over the synth. A ring-modulator and a syncable triangle are also part of this synth. TAL-NoiseMaker includes new filter types as the self resonating 6dB low pass and a notch filter. Its improved amplitude ADSR is very suitable for slow pads as for really fast envelopes.

Free 32- and 64-bit versions are available for Windows and Mac OS X in VST and AU instrument plug-in formats.

Unveiled last month but previously unavailable to purchase, Apple's new Mac Pro are now available.

The 2.8GHz quad-core model ships with 3GB RAM for US$2,499, and the 2.4GHz 8-core and 2.66GHz 12-core models include 6GB RAM for $3,499 and $4,99 respectively.

Flux in collaboration with IRCAM have announced the release of the IRCAM Tools product range.

The IRCAM Tools products express the result of over twenty years of fundamental research within the realms of music related digital signal processing. First out, they present a series of products evolved from two major fields of technology, Acoustic & Cognitive Spaces, and Sound Analysis & Synthesis.

Acoustic and Cognitive Spaces
The research and development activity carried out by the Acoustic and Cognitive Spaces Team (formerly Room Acoustics Team) concentrates on the analysis, reproduction and synthesis of spatially considered sound environments. In other words, the localization of sound in space, and the specific acoustical characteristics of a room or of an environment.

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