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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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

Tech 21 SansAmp XDI  Jun 1, 2002, 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...

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