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NOISE Busters 

By Gary S. Hall and Oliver Masciarotte

A great many audio restoration products are available at nearly every price point, running native on Macs and PCs as well as on high-powered custom hardware....

DESTROY FX 

By Len Sasso

Destroy FX (DFX) offers an impressive collection of effects plug-ins by programmers Marc Poirier and Tom Murphy. All DFX plug-ins are free, but donations...

reFX VSTi Plug-Ins (Mac/Win) 

By Len Sasso

offers a number of sharewhare VSTi soft synths that use subtractive synthesis techniques as well as newer techniques, such as physical modeling and wave shaping. The instruments include the the JunoX2 , Beast, QuadraSID, PlastiCZ, and Slayer....

WAVEMACHINE LABS 

By Daniel Keller

Some products make our lives easier simply by doing one thing and doing it right. Wavemachine Labs' Drumagog 3.0 ($269) is just such a product. It's a...

CYCLING'74 PLUGGO 3.0.2 (MAC) 

By Doug Geers

Since its release in 1999, Cycling '74's Pluggo has become a popular tool in music recording and production studios around the world. This is due in large...

Rev Up 

By Marty Cutler

Izotope Ozone (Win, $199; upgrade, $49) is a 64-bit DirectX mastering plug-in. Version 2 adds more than 30 new features, including 5 different noise-shaped...

CDP COMPOSERS DESKTOP PROJECT 4.5 (WIN) 

By Peter Hamlin

CDP's Composers Desktop Project 4.5 (CDP) is a huge sound-processing library that has been in development for personal computers since 1986. CDP includes...

NOMAD FACTORY 

By Barry Rudolph

Nomad Factory's Blue Tubes VST Bundle 1.01 ($156; available for download at www.nomadfactory.com) is a collection of six commonly used processors for...

PSPAUDIOWARE.COM 

By Gary S. Hall

Polish developer Professional Sound Projects (PSP) has introduced a plug-in emulation of Lexicon's PCM 42 hardware, and it bears investigation. But first,...

MACKIE DESIGNS UAD-1 POWERED PLUG-INS 2.2.2 (MAC/WIN) 

By Erik Hawkins

Going head-to-head with TC Works' PowerCore system (reviewed in the April 2002 EM), Mackie has introduced the UAD-1 Powered Plug-Ins bundle, another option...

Download of the Month: BeatBurner 

By Len Sasso

BeatBurner (Win; $50; www.beatburner.com) is an addictive VST plug-in that can be used to lightly touch up or completely revamp a loop in real time. BeatBurner...

PSPaudioware.com VintageWarmer 

By Len Sasso

PSPaudioware.com's VintageWarmer ($149) is a plug-in emulation of an analog multiband compressor. It is available in VST and DXi formats for the PC as...

Celemony Melodyne 

By John Duesenberry

Imagine using a sample editor to change a vocal melody from major to minor or to accent the third beat of every measure using an amplitude boost. Sound...

Waves Native Restoration 

By Rob Shrock

Waves is renowned for its high-quality software plug-ins and hardware processors. I use Waves tools almost every day. However, when I heard that Waves...

The Max Factor 

By Gary S. Hall

In the early 1980s, I had the pleasure of conceiving and designing a true classic, the Lexicon PCM42 digital delay. At that time, I was interested in...

Tech 21 SansAmp XDI 

By Barry Cleveland

Tech 21 designed the SansAmp XDI ($95) primarily as an interface for its PSA-1 Pro Tools plug-in the software version of the company's popular PSA-1 guitar...

Audio Ease Altiverb 1.4 Reverb Plug-in 

By Larry the O

Dutch developer Audio Ease recently broke new ground with Altiverb, the first real-time reverb plug-in that bases its presets on sampled acoustics. As...

Ohm Force Ohmboyz 1.20 and Predatohm 1.10 Effects Plug-ins 

By Len Sasso

Ohm Force's multiplatform effects plug-ins OhmBoyz 1.20 and Predatohm 1.10 deliver some unusual twists to two common digital signal processing (DSP) effects:...

TC Works Powercore 1.5 

By Len Sasso

TC Works' PowerCore is a PCI card incorporating a Motorola PowerPC CPU and four Motorola 56362 digital signal processors. The PowerCore hardware comes...

RME Hammerfall DSP 

By Brian Smithers

German manufacturer RME attracted a lot of attention a couple of years ago when it released the Project Hammerfall audio interface, a PCI card that combined...

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