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Too Much Good Stuff - Windows 

Aug 1, 2003,

By Dennis Miller

We’ve scoured the Web for the past few months, checking out all sorts of freeware and shareware that creative programmers have made available for little or no money. We’ll focus primarily on newer software, though a few of our old favorites have received major facelifts recently, and we’ll include them as well....

Too Much Good Stuff - Mac 

Aug 1, 2003,

By Gregory D. Moore

We’ve scoured the Web for the past few months, checking out all sorts of freeware and shareware that creative programmers have made available for little or no money. We’ll focus primarily on newer software, though a few of our old favorites have received major facelifts recently, and we’ll include them as well....

ANTARES Tube (MAC/WIN) 

Aug 1, 2003,

By Michael Cooper

Antares Tube is an inexpensive cross-platform plug-in designed to add the sonic characteristics of analog tube preamps to DAW tracks....

WAVES MASTERS BUNDLE V4 (MAC/WIN) 

Jul 1, 2003,

By Michael Cooper

Waves, one of the planet's most highly regarded purveyors of plug-ins, has created the Masters Bundle for pristine audio production....

IK Multimedia AmpliTube (Mac/Win) 

Jul 1, 2003,

By Steve Broderson

A review of AmpliTube, from IK Multimedia, an effects plug-in that models guitar amplifiers, speaker cabinets, and effects processors. It supports VST, HTDM, RTAS, and DX formats....

NOISE Busters 

Jul 1, 2003,

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 

May 1, 2003,

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) 

Apr 1, 2003,

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 

Mar 1, 2003,

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) 

Jan 1, 2003,

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 

Jan 1, 2003,

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) 

Dec 1, 2002,

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 

Dec 1, 2002,

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 

Dec 1, 2002,

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) 

Nov 1, 2002,

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 

Oct 1, 2002,

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 

Aug 1, 2002,

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 

Jul 1, 2002,

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 

Jul 1, 2002,

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 

Jun 1, 2002,

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...

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