Audio Damage updates free Rough Rider compressor

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Audio Damage has updated its free Rough Rider compressor effect plug-in to include 64-bit support for Windows and Mac.

Rough Rider is a modern compressor with a bit of “vintage” style bite and a uniquely warm sound. Perfect for adding compression effects to your drum buss, it also sounds great with synth bass, clean guitar, and backing vocals.

Definitely not an all-purpose compressor, Rough Rider is at its best when used to add pump to rhythmic tracks. Of course, you can use it however you’d like. The Compressor Police aren’t gonna come to your house and give you a citation. Slap it on a track and crank some knobs.

Rough Rider for Windows and Mac (VST/AU) is available as freeware.

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Ueberschall releases Punk Rock

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Ueberschall releases Punk Rock, the first part of the new „Rehearsal Tape Series“. This new series catches the authentic rehearsal room feeling. Live recorded Tracks, rough, dirty & raw. This is not the polished music you might be used to hear from studio recordings. Feel the unleashed dynamics of jam sessions.

All songs are recorded as multitracks and in one single take.

Content

Each instrument is available as single track:

Drum Mix, Bassdrum, Snaredrum, HiHat, Tom, Cymbals, Drum Set Overhead, Bass, Guitar.

For fast prelistening choose the complete mix or the backing of the construction kit. The tempo of the kits is between 136 and 185 BPM. The single loops are 2, 4 or 8 bars long.

Structure

Each kit is splitted into five folders:

- A Part: Keeps the main theme of the kit, including all single lines.

- B Part: Keeps a variation of the kit, including all single lines.

- Break Part: Keeps the break for the complete song.

- Intro and Outro Part: The right ins & outs for each kit.

Navigation

Thanks to Elastik 2 and the 1.5 GB library it is as easy as possible to create your own punk rock songs.

The given structure and features like labeled key signature and tempo information, makes it as easy as possible to find a song or groove that will match your tracking needs and goals. 

Additionally the Elastik Player offers you a lot of DSP functions to adjust the songs to further fit your creations, such as:

+ innovative loopeye functions

+ fast browser features (multiple filter search, tagging)

+ prelisten in sync

+ sequence mode (loads of edtiting features per slice)

+ random sound replacement

+ parameter automation

+ realtime sync to host

+ bounce of original and modified loops

+ resizeable window format

+ mutiple soundbank management

+ timestretch and pitchshift in best quality

1.5 GB, 10 Punk Rock Kits, 610 Loops

Price: EUR 49.00

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TuneSmith – Songwriting companion to fine-tune the creation and management of songs

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TuneSmith is a songwriting companion program to fine-tune the creation and management of songs.

Feed your artistic fire with the essential songwriting companion featuring an advanced lyrics editor, a comprehensive copyright tracker and a versatile pitch journal.

With TuneSmith you can efficiently manage all essential information about your copyright registrations, co-writers and potential cover artists. It will help you pitch your hottest tracks and breathe new life into smoldering classic tunes with a pitch journal capable of emailing accurate copyright and licensing information with a single click.

Demos and album cuts are organized for future reference. TuneSmith allows you to capture memorable melodies with its intuitive audio recorder. Fan the flames of inspiration by running TuneSmith alongside Rhyme Genie software and rekindle emotions of past writing sessions with a complete rhyme clipboard history and trackable lyrics revisions for each song in progress.

Have complete access to your valuable song catalog at any time and run TuneSmith free of charge on as many computers as you like.

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PreSonus ships BlueTube DP V2 and TubePre V2 tube preamps

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Enjoy solid-state clarity or tube warmth with the BlueTube DP V2 dual-path mic/instrument preamp. The solid-state path feeds PreSonus’ Class A XMAX™ mic preamplifier with 80 dB of variable gain—an upgrade from the original BlueTube DP. The tube path features a 12AX7 tube that operates on voltages double that of other preamplifiers in its class, producing lots of headroom and big tone. The Tube Drive enables you to achieve anything from gentle warmth to edgy distortion. You also get 48V phantom power, an 80 Hz high-pass filter, -20 dB pad, and polarity reverse.

With two combo mic/instrument inputs, the half-rackspace BlueTube DP V2 is a great choice for guitars as well as vocals. Singer-songwriters can run their vocal through one channel and their guitar through the other, feeding both to the P.A.—no guitar amp needed. It also serves as a DI box, thanks to balanced XLR and unbalanced ¼” outputs, and is housed in a new, rugged, 1/2U case. Try the BlueTube DP V2 as a front end for a DAW, too. The BlueTube DP V2 is available immediately; MAP/street price is expected to be USD 229.95.

The single-channel TubePre V2 tube preamp is an affordable way to add high quality tube warmth and character to your sound. This new version provides an even wider palette of sound options, and a much more focused tube saturation, than the original TubePre. It has been upgraded to employ PreSonus’ popular XMAX Class A solid-state preamp, which is followed in the signal path by a 12AX7 vacuum-tube stage with Tube Drive tube-saturation control.

Housed in a rugged, 1/3-rackspace case, the TubePre V2 rear panel sports separate unbalanced, ¼” instrument and balanced, XLR mic inputs and unbalanced ¼” and balanced XLR line outputs. The front panel offers controls for gain, 48V phantom power, 80 Hz high-pass filter, and polarity-reverse, as well as a mic/instrument input switch. A lighted VU meter and a clip LED help you keep an eye on your levels. The TubePre V2 is available immediately; MAP/street price is expected to be USD 129.95.

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Zenhiser Presents Organic Techno Toppers For Instant Techno Grooves!

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Breezing through this Zenhiser collection of techno kick free drum loops and groove loops is like a breath of fresh air, with 200 brand new techno fuelled rhythms this sample pack delivers instant inspiration to drive your latest techno tracks and creates a starting point when writer’s block sets in. Hand crafted from the ground up these techno rhythms are perfect addition for techno, minimal techno, minimal tech and tech house tracks. Every techno rhythm in this sample pack has been recorded in 24 bit goodness, mastered to perfection and looped perfectly (with bpm info enclosed in the filename).

“Organic Techno Toppers” has been influenced by both the classic techno sound and today’s hypnotic minimal techno goodness. By merging these two styles something completely new and exciting has been created, diving further into the sonically bent realms of techno. We’ve supplied all loops without kicks and two variations of each which means use is even more appealing and quicker to develop with your techno tracks, so if you’re in the need for gritty tops, mesmerising filler beats, industrial rhythms and all round techno groove goodness then this pack is definitely for you.

Price: AUD 19.99

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