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Applied Acoustics Systems announces the release of the Analog Essentials, Ultra FX and Starlight sound banks, which now includes the free AAS Player plug-in.

Following its initial release with the inclusion of the String Studio VS-1 string modeling synthesizer engine, the AAS Player now embeds the Ultra Analog VA-1 analog synthesizer engine allowing one to play and use sounds from the Analog Essentials, Ultra FX, and Starlight sound banks in AAS' simplest and most affordable plug-in to date.

The AAS Player focuses on immediacy, ease of use, and sound quality to provide a truly immersive sonic experience.

AcousticsampleS presents its 2010 Xmas sale:

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This sale gives you 30% off everything.

The discount may be combined with the quantity discount that is already going on, so you save :
- 30% and then 5% off the discounted total for 2 items
- 30% and then 10% off the discounted total for 4 items
- 30% and then 15% off the discounted total for 6 items
- 30% and then 20% off the discounted total for 8 items
- 30% and then 25% off the discounted total for 10 items or more

The offer is available until 25 December 2010.

Vengeance Sound has released Vengeance Producer Suite - Philta XL, a new filterbank plug-in for Windows & Mac OS X.
Some features:

- Over 75 presets.
- 2 high quality filter (12dB, 24dB, 48dB, 96dB).
- Variable filter resonance width.
- Band pass & notch mode (phaser).
- 2 tempo-synced LFOs with 5 LFO shapes.
- 2 envelope followers with variable source frequency.
- Filter saturation / Distortion (pre or post Filter).
- Rate reducer / bitcrusher (pre or post filter) linkable to cutoff frequency.
- High quality output limiter (limiter taken from Multiband Compressor).
- All parameters can be automated with the host.

Vengeance Producer Suite - Philta XL: €49.99 / $65 Windows and Mac OS X (Intel) in VST and AU effect plug-in formats.

Blue Cat Audio has released an update of its all-in-one multiband dynamics processing plug-in, Blue Cat's MB-5 Dynamix. The new version brings better crossover filters as well as user interface enhancements. Blue Cat's MB-5 Dynamix is an all-in-one multiband dynamics processor that can act as a multiband compressor, limiter, expander, gate or waveshaper. It offers up to 5 separate bands and all types of effects can be combined together. The bands can also interact with each other thanks to cross-band side chain capabilities.

The plug-in can be purchased alone or within several bundles. It is available in VST, Audio Unit, RTAS or DirectX formats for both Mac and PC.

For this occasion and to celebrate the holiday season, Blue Cat Audio also launches winter special offers (20% discount) on their entire audio plug-ins catalog, until December 31th.