BOSS announces VE-500 Vocal Performer Pedal

BOSS has announced the VE-500 Vocal Performer, a unique and powerful vocal harmony/multi-effects processor pedal.

BOSS VE-500

The VE-500 is a high-performance vocal toolkit with automatic harmony/pitch correction, a vocoder, and deep effects options that allow users to process their voice any way they like, from subtle sweetening to the dramatic, over-the-top effects heard on many modern records.

It’s the perfect addition to the pedalboard of any singing guitarist, providing top-flight vocal processing right alongside standard guitar effects pedals.

The VE-500’s streamlined stompbox configuration makes it simple to integrate with any pedalboard setup. Plugging a guitar into the instrument input drives the harmony, pitch, and vocoder functions, while the Thru output provides an unprocessed signal to feed regular pedals. Three assignable footswitches offer versatile real-time performance control, and stereo XLR outputs enable processed vocal sounds to be sent directly to a PA mixer, stage monitor, or recording device.

Powered by advanced BOSS processing, the VE-500’s automatic harmony engine detects the chords and key played with a guitar to generate smooth and natural two- and three-part harmonies in real time as the user sings. Selectable harmony modes provide further options for refining the harmonies to suit songs that have more complex key structures. The harmony engine can alternately be driven via MIDI (through either the VE-500’s MIDI or USB inputs), enabling users to generate pitch-perfect live harmonies with a MIDI keyboard or DAW-based backing tracks.

BOSS VE-500 Vocal Performer

VE-500 features:

• Advanced vocal multi-effects stompbox for singing guitarists.
• Automatic vocal harmony/pitch correction powered by newly enhanced BOSS algorithms for natural sound with smooth tracking.
• Class-leading sound quality and high-powered BOSS DSP engine for processing vocals with up to nine effects at once.
• Extensive selection of effects specially tuned for vocals; Enhance section for shaping core tone, plus reverb, delay, modulation, distortion, EQ, filter, and many other types for further processing.
• Versatile and creative vocoder effect for generating electronic voice and talk box sounds based on guitar input.
• Flexible effect routing options for processing live and harmonized vocals together or separately.
• Dedicated looper.
• XLR mic input with adjustable sensitivity and available phantom power.
• Guitar input for harmony, pitch, and vocoder processing; Thru output for sending unprocessed signal to guitar pedals.
• Stereo XLR outputs for sending vocal sounds to a PA mixer or recorder.
• Three assignable footswitches for real-time performance control, plus support for up to two external footswitches or an expression pedal.
• 99 user memories for storing patch setups.
• Three assignable knobs for quick access to essential parameters while performing.
• MIDI input and USB-MIDI for guiding harmony/pitch engine from an external MIDI keyboard or DAW backing tracks.
• Editor/librarian software (Mac/Windows) for sound editing and patch management via USB.
• The VE-500 is priced at $399.99 USD.

More information: https://www.boss.info/us/products/ve-500/

1000 releases MCS6 multiband compressor & saturator plugin for Windows (FREE)

J1000 has announced the release of MCS6, an advanced freeware plugin that offers multi-band compression and saturation.

J1000 MCS6

MCS6 is a highly versatile audio processor. It is designed for users who already have decent knowledge about compression and saturation. If you are still getting accustomed with them it’s better that you avoid relatively complex processing, because you can easily degrade sound quality instead of improve it.

That being said, if you know what you’re doing and hear differences between dry and wet sound (including unwanted side effects), MCS6 can be very helpful and powerful audio tool, both for full mixes and individual tracks.

MCS6 features:

• Six serial stages for compression and saturation.
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• Full range, low-pass, high-pass, band-pass and notch filtering.
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• PeakScope display showing I/O peaks and gain reduction.
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• Smooth compression envelope with automatic soft-knee response curve.
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• Subtle biased (asymmetric) saturation dependent on compression.
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• Stereo width and gain control for each stage.
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• Main pair of low-cut and high-cut filters with adjustable resonance.
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• MCS6 is available as a free 32-bit VST plugin for Windows.

More information: http://www.jovaniljadica.com/j1000/mcs6.rar

Multitrack recorder Multitrack Studio updates to v9.0

Bremmers Audio Design has updated Multitrack recorder Multitrack Studio Lite to v9.0.

Changes:

- Content Panes

- VST3 support

- MIDI Effects

- MIDI articulations and Multi Instrument

- Cycle button

- Other

-- All MIDI Instruments now have an option to specify note names (these names appear in the drum editor).

-- Rewind/Fast Forward now try to move to 'nice' position if counter is showing bar:beat.

-- EQ spectrum display: 'Full Scale" box goes to lower value if 'dB/div' is set to 10.

-- Note Editor window: you can now type semitone offset in Note box (for example: if it's C5 and you type -2 it becomes Bb4).

-- Pianoroll/Score/Drum editors: a series of notes can be selected by clicking one, and then clicking another while pressing the Shift key.

-- MultitrackStudio Instruments synths: attack is now linear rather than exponential, in order to avoid the synths being noticably 'late'.

-- Level meters no longer have 'LED' segments.

-- The MultitrackStudio Remote iPad app has been updated. You need to reload the preset in the Remote Control window.

-- Fixed: "Revert to Version" menu didn't always list versions in chronological order.

-- Fixed: Running an audio track in practice mode no longer clears the track editor undo history.

-- Fixed (Windows touchscreen): automatic horizontal scrolling while resizing selected part on the right hand side didn't work reliably.

-- Fixed (Mac): some windows other than the main window would go full-screen if the main window was full screen.

-- Several other improvements and fixes.

Audio/MIDI multitrack recording software for Windows and Mac.

Download Multitrack Studio Lite for Windows here (32bit) or here (64bit).

You can try MultitrackStudio Lite for free. Its main limitation is that it can't handle more than 3 tracks.

Visit: multitrackstudio.com

Full Bucket Music releases ModulAir free plugin synth for Windows and macOS

Full Bucket Music has released a beta version of ModulAir, a free modular polyphonic software synthesizer for Windows and macOS.

ModulAir is a modular polyphonic software synthesizer for Microsoft Windows (VST) and Apple macOS (VST/AU) written in native C++ code for high performance and low CPU consumption.

WARNING!

ModulAir is a work in progress, unfinished, buggy, as of now with only a few quirky presets. Expect horrible things to happen. It is a clumsy unhandy complicated piece of software. I cannot even guarantee that the next version of ModulAir mpatible to any version you may download in the future or might already have downloaded.

You have been warned!

Anyway, ModulAir is currently in Beta stage. I am not sure if it ever reaches the General Availability stage since I am constantly adding modules and stuff to it. :-)

Visit: ModulAir 

https://www.fullbucket.de/music/modulair.html

Ghosthack releases free Cinematic Sound FX

Ghosthack has released free Cinematic Sound FX, a collection of 50 free cinematic samples.

Our "Cinematic Sound FX" soundbank, that was released a few weeks ago, was a huge success, so we decided to give you some additional free cinematic samples! Expect some high-quality foley hits, abstract layered impacts, heavy bass sound fx and outstanding sequences. No matter if you're looking for some nice cinematic sounds for your next movie, youtube or music production, this awesome free soundkit will enrich your current sample library.

All 24bit .wav files are royalty free as usual, ideal for your commercial and non-commercial productions in music, movies, media and games. The whole pack has an unpacked size of 70MB and includes a total of 50 sounds.

Visit: free-cinematic-sound-fx

Cinematique Instruments releases Landscape free Kontakt instrument

Cinematique Instruments has released Landscape, free Kontakt instrument that easily creates deeply woven, dynamic ambiances and drones.

LANDSCAPE is an instrument that easily creates deeply woven, dynamic ambiances and drones. Equipped with seven layered sounds and eight effects LANDSCAPE can be used either as self-running drone generator or as a playable instrument

The Concept

LANDSCAPE is based around seven sound slots, which can be loaded with various sounds. Five of these slots feature an assortment of waveforms (sine waves, flirring sound, warmness and fragile sax), one is dedicated to noise and rumbling, and the last one can generate waterdrops or atomic blips using random intervals.

Each of them is quipped with an individual type of filter as well as a speed adjustable automation to ensure that you get endless sounding ambiances that never repeat themselves.

For shaping the overall sound LANDSCAPE provides six insert effects (tone color, rotary speaker, lowpass and multi filter, drive and glass/space convolution models) and two send effects (reverb and delay).

Visit: https://cinematique-instruments.com/inst_landscape.php