Back in March 2010 Flux:: announced a partnership with IRCAM (Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics and Music) in Paris, France.

Well at last its out. this is from their first press release….

IRCAM is one of the world’s leading public research institutes within the fields of musical expression, musical research, sound, and acoustics. The first result of this partnership collaboration is the software audio plug-in suite, IRCAM Tools and is released to the public today! Read more about the IRCAM Tools here.

This is the specs….

IRCAM Tools, as all Flux:: plug-ins, provide

  • Up to 8 channels Input/Output.
  • 64-bits internal floating point processing.
  • Sampling rate up to 384 kHz DXD (Pyramix DSP based).
  • Sampling rate up to 384 kHz for native (AU/RTAS/VST).

All major native formats are supported

  • Windows – XP, Vista, 7 all in both 32 and 64 bits.
    • VST (2.4)
    • RTAS*

  • Mac OS X – 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 in 32 bits.
    • VST (2.4)
    • AU
    • RTAS*

*The RTAS version requires ProTools 7 or later.

I cannot wait to get my hands on them and see how good they are.