Sinevibes is pleased to announce major updates to its Diffusion monophonic synthesizer and Turbulence waveshape modeler AudioUnit plugins. Both of them receive totally new interfaces with much sharper graphics, better color contrast and enlarged control areas for more convenient operation.

Diffusion 1.3.0 features the following enhancements:

‒ Completely redesigned user interface with larger control elements, improved colors, shapes, and contrast.
‒ Oscillator I / II balance can be modulated by the envelope sequencer.
‒ Fixed sound quality issue.
‒ 10 new preset patches.

Turbulence 1.1.0 brings these improvements:

- Completely redesigned user interface with larger control elements, improved colors, shapes, and contrast.
- New input/output balance automation parameter.

Expand your library with a pair of outstanding collections from Puremagnetik: Retro Synths 1980s provides the multi-sampled essence of synthesizer classics from the likes of Yamaha, Roland and Casio while the MachineKits library puts an arsenal of high-quality drum machines at your creative disposal.

Until August 29th, both are available together for just EUR 49 / USD 59 - a savings of around 30%.

Hornet Launches a major update for VU Meter.
You can make your own template with a different VU Meter color for each track for example.

Some new features:

- Useful input gain control
- Selectable bar color for the VU level display.

Updated loudness control and quality control (QC) technology for file-based audio will be featured with the 2.0 release of AudioTools Server(TM), a no-charge upgrade for AudioCare subscribers. An already mature problem solver at national and private facilities worldwide, ATS 2.0 adds load balancing and frame rate conversion plus smart MML/STL processing.

Minnetonka Audio's TruCorrect(TM) smart loudness processing eliminates perceived loudness changes and degraded intelligibility associated with traditional methods of correcting content containing extreme dynamic range.

Permut8 is an effect plug-in that embraces the sounds of primitive digital signal processing hardware. It is programmable to produce a wide range of effects from traditional delays and flangers to beat-repeaters, bit-crushers and yet unheard of circuit bent madness. At its core is a 12-bit digital delay with variable sample rate from 0 to 352 kHz.

The delay is controlled by a programmable processor with an assortment of operators, allowing you to create almost any type of effect you can imagine and many more that you can't. The input and output stages offers virtual analog components for saturation, limiting and filtering. The output can be fed back into the input to create echoes, comb-filter effects and never-ending chaos.
Available on august 13th.