Rob Papen announces the upcoming release of RP-Verb, a new algorithmic reverb plug-in.

Reverb is a very critical effect when mixing. A bad sounding reverb can break the mix, and your music. Today, in the age of powerful computers, it is possible to run far more complex reverb algorithms than in the past, but it is still down to the algorithms if a reverb sounds great, or not.

In 1981 Rob Papen was recording in the Wisseloord studios. At that time legendary engineer Ronald Prent sent the "electronic" drums, using speakers, into a big recording room, and picked up the sound with microphones to add "room" to the electronic drum sound.

As a young synth player, Rob became fully obsessed with rooms and reverbs.
Together with Jon Ayres, Rob Papen has dived into codes and searched for ne ...

Ableton is offering up to all Sampler owners, old and new, the free Samplification audio package, which offers Construction Kits, Live Sets with drum clips, new Instrument Racks, new lessons, and sounds from Puremagnetik, Cycling '74 and Sonarte's Sound Objects Lite collection. Samplification will kick-start any Live user's sampling skills and demonstrate what Sampler is really capable of.

Samplification is a Live Pack—450 MB download, 950 MB installed. Samplification requires Sampler and Live 8.0.4 or higher.

Samplification is available here :

NuGen Audio has updated the SEQ1 and SEQ2 Linear Phase mixing and mastering equalizers to version 1.2.5.

Changes :

• Several minor GUI fixes to both SEQ1 and SEQ2.
• A Plug-in Delay Compensation (PDC) issue that some users were experiencing with certain host/machine combinations has been fixed.

On top of that, the demo period has been reset for those wishing to re-trial the software.

Ableton is launching a special deal for the summer of 2009. Every customer who buys Ableton Live 8 before August 31st will get Sampler, Ableton's advanced sampling instrument, absolutely free.

Sampler, worth €99/$129, combines traditional sampling features with advanced sound design functions. Although perfectly well suited to handling multi-gigabyte instrument libraries, it's Sampler's sound design capabilities that make the instrument really unique.

For more details, please visit the link below :

EastWest/Quantum Leap announces the debut of its latest release, Hollywood Strings virtual instrument — a collection of string instruments with unprecedented control over sound and performance.

"Hollywood Strings has many groundbreaking features not found in any other virtual strings collection. Finger position is, for the first time, controllable by the user, so they can play as far up the strings as they want, and get a fuller, more romantic, Hollywood sound. Vibrato intensity and extensive dynamics are controllable by the user. Extensive multi-dynamic true legato has been sampled for all sections in three different categories: slurred, portamento, and bow change. This results in unsurpassed legato performance that has never been available in the sample world, says EastWest. Hollywood Strings has five user-controllable microphone positions including main pickup (Decca tree), mid pickup, close pickup, surround pickup, and an alternate vintage circa 1945 RCA ribbon room pickup."

Pricing and Availability TBA.