June2010

10 days left on the Flux half price sale

Hi folks, In case you have missed the ad in the side bar you only have 10 days left to snap up Flux plug-ins at half price. If you want to know what I think of them then take a look at my reviews in Sound on Sound here & here as well as my review of the Epure II plug-in on this blog .

50% off all TC Electronic plug-ins for two weeks!

This is what TC Electronic are saying.... From Tuesday June 1 to Tuesday June 15 (both days included), you can save 50% on all TC Electronic plug-ins for PowerCore and Pro Tools - plus a few additional ones! All PowerCore plug-ins come in VST and Audio Units versions, and the Pro Tools plug-ins are in TDM format. All plug-ins support both PC and Mac. Apart from all TC Electronic plug-ins, including the LM5D Loudness Meter for Pro Tools, you also get a 50% discount on Access Virus and the Tube-Tech CL 1B compressor. You can buy the plug-ins at your local dealer as well as on TC-Now.com. However, the actual campaign prices may vary slightly depending on location, so please visit the websites of your local dealer to get your price. I am very tempted to get the UnWrap plug-in at this price. Any thing tempt you?

Keep Your Headroom

Our Mike Thornton writes the Pro Tools Notes, Techniques and Workshop articles for Sound on Sound as well as reviewing many of the new Pro Tools related products. Note that you will need to be a subscriber to view the recent articles or you can choose to Click & Buy individual ones.   Keep Your Headroom -  Know how to use the Pro Tools master fader properly and you need never suffer clipping in your mixes again.

McDSP announce special offer on the Project Studio Bundle

This is what McDSP say in their latest newsletter.... For 3 days only, McDSP offers the Project Studio bundle for only $129! Project Studio is the most comprehensive LE plug-in bundle ever, featuring award winning equalizers, filters, and compressors, plus a sound synthesizer, guitar amp modeler, convolution reverb, mastering limiter, and analog tape machine simulator. The McDSP LE product line supports RTAS and Audiosuite formats, and operates on Pro Tools HD, LE and M-Powered. Special available only via electronic delivery. This offer is valid only until June 3, 2010. Visit the McDSP Store to make your purchase today! I reviewed this bundle in Sound on Sound and in the conclusion said... There aren't really any comparable bundles on the market, especially in this price bracket. The closest is probably the Waves Native Power Pack, but the good thing about the McDSP Project Studio Bundle is that it is made up mainly of plug-ins that are out of the ordinary. The 'plainest' plug-in in the pack is Filter Bank LE, and this is also too heavily cut down from the full version, in my view, but most of the other plug-ins have no obvious counterparts in rival plug-in bundles. Compressor Bank LE emulates a wide range of analogue compressors, Chrome Tone LE is a guitar amp and speaker modelling plug-in, Revolver LE is a convolution reverb rather than the normal algorithm-based reverb plug-in, and the Synthesizer One LE analogue synth emulation is, to my knowledge, a unique element in this sort of plug-in bundle. ML4000 LE gives most of the single-band mastering limiters on the market a good run for their money, even though some of them cost a lot more than this whole bundle, and Analogue Channel LE's tape-machine emulation is, again, quite unusual. So make hay whilst the sun shines and get this bundle at less than half price

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