Platinum Samples and John Emrich are pleased to announce the release of the Real Jazz MIDI Groove Pack.

Real Jazz is a Jazz MIDI groove collection featuring both stick and brush grooves. Over 2,100 actual live, jazz grooves were recorded as a real performance on an electronic drum set at specific tempos. It includes 2-beats, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, ballads, and shuffles for both sticks and brushes. Real Jazz even includes some bop and jungle grooves.

This definitive jazz collection features the first real usable set of brush patterns for MIDI. By using the sweep articulations available in drum VST and Core Audio instruments, the Real Jazz grooves replicate the correct sound and feel of playing brushes.

Real Jazz is available now as a download from Platinum Samples' website and includes BFD2 groove palettes, BFD 1.5 groove bundles and GM Standard MIDI files for $35.

Universal Audio today announces a refresh of its UAD-2 Neve Powered Plug-Ins line. The new UAD-2 SOLO, DUO or QUAD Neve packages, formerly known as the "Nevana" packages, include the only plug-ins officially licensed and developed in partnership with Neve UK.

Following is an overview of contents and pricing of the new UAD-2 Neve packages:

• UAD-2 SOLO Neve: Single Analog Devices SHARC processor; includes 88RS Channel Strip and 33609 Compressor plug-ins; MAP price $699.

• UAD-2 DUO Neve: Dual SHARC processors; includes 88RS Channel Strip, 33609 Compressor, 1073 EQ and 1081 EQ plug-ins; MAP price $1499

• UAD-2 QUAD Neve: Four SHARC processors; includes 88RS Channel Strip, 33609 Compressor, 1073 EQ, 1081 EQ, and 31102 EQ plug-ins; MAP price $1,999

Also included with all of the new UAD-2 Neve packages is a $100 Plug-in voucher that allows access to the entire UAD Powered Plug-ins online library.

DiscoDSP has finally released a Mac version of its virtual synth Vertigo.

Vertigo is a 256 oscillators additive synth with resynthesis and sound morphing. It imports WAV audio and PNG images and offers a very accurate recreation of complex musical phrases, drumloops, speech and simple tones. The full version includes 128 presets.

Vertigo is available now in Audio Unit and VST instrument formats for Intel-based Macs only at a price of €75 / $99.

Audio Ease has just released a bunch of outdoor impulse responses for their Altiverb reverb plug-in, with available environments ranging from forests to alleyways to business parks.

Available for free for registered Altiverb 6 users.

Virsyn is happy to announce the release of KLON - The Vocal Designer. The heart of the vocal designer plug-in KLON is a harmonic pitch shifter for natural pitch and formant manipulation of vocal sounds in realtime. KLON takes your voice and adds up to 16 different copies of your voice in realtime.

This lays the ground for an impressive amount of applications like :

• Choir generator
• Harmonizer
• Voice doubler
• Change voice's gender
• Pitch corrector
• Extreme voice manipulation

The 16 pitch shifters inside KLON are divided into 4 groups making it easy to build up large choral parts from a simple, single vocal line. The four separate, switchable groups have their own dedicated set of controls. These controls include an x-y pad for fast, easy co ...