New Gear Alert: Crystals by Eventide, Focusrite Adds iPad Support, Waves + Mix With The Masters Partnership, & More

Eventide’s classic Crystals effect is now a plugin.

Inject a unique, pitch shifted sense of space into your productions with Crystals by Eventide, the most recent addition to the H9 Plugin Series.

The Crystals plugin by Eventide combines twin reverse pitch shifters with reverse delays and reverb. This iconic H3000 Harmonizer effect can be used to create out-of-this-world climbing and cascading pitched delays or unique sounding reverbs. It features two reverse granular delays that can be manipulated by length and pitch.

Crystals is also capable of huge-sounding reverbs. Tweak the pitches a full octave down for a quick “drunk vocal” sound. Fit snares in the mix by pitch shifting down an octave. Set really long delay times (up to 4 seconds per voice) with high feedback to use it as an ambient looper. The effect can be made musical by micro-pitching each voice around the 4th (500 cents), 5th (700 cents), or octave (1200 cents). Crystals’ two pitch shifters each offer a four-octave range from two octaves down to two octaves up. Two independent delays of up to four seconds allow smoothing of delay grain, and each delay has independent feedback control. Reverb with up to 100 seconds of decay is built into Crystals.

Check out an introductory video to Crystals here.

Crystals is compatible with Mac and PC, and supports VST, AAX, and AU plugin protocols. It is available for an introductory price of $39 through July 5th (reg. $99). The iOS version, which works as a standalone app, AudioUnit v3 plugin, or Inter-App Audio effect, is priced at $14.99, with a special intro price of $9.99 through June 14th.

Focusirte adds USB-C iPad Pro support for select Scarlett models.

With the addition of USB-C support for iPad Pro, Focusrite makes select Scarlett models more mobile than ever.

Focusrite has announced official support for 3rd generation Scarlett Solo and Scarlett 2i2 interfaces on USB-C iPad Pro. Now, Scarlett interfaces really can go anywhere: wherever you’d take an iPad Pro, Scarlett can follow.

Setup and operation is simple: just plug in, fire up a music-making app, and enjoy the Focusrite sound on your iPad Pro. Scarlett Solo and Scarlett 2i2 devices have been tested extensively with several iOS music applications running on USB-C iPad Pros, including Garageband, Cubasis 2, Auria Pro, Ampify Launchpad, Ampify Groovebox and Ampify Blocs Wave, as well as FL Studio.

Scarlett Solo and Scarlett 2i2 can be used with USB-C iPad Pro devices in fully mobile, bus-powered mode over several hours. However, Focusrite always recommends using a powered connection wherever possible. For powered operation, an appropriate USB-C hub is required.

For more information about using Scarlett Solo and Scarlett 2i2 with USB-C iPad Pros, click here.

Waves and Mix With The Masters collaborate on exclusive offers.

Waves and Mix With The Masters join forces to offer attractive and reciprocative deals on some of the companies’ best offerings.

Waves and Mix With The Masters are offering an exclusive benefit for owners of Waves products covered by the Waves Update Plan. Waves users with the Waves Update Plan coverage will be eligible for a special 35% discount on Mix With The Masters’ all-star lineup of video-on-demand masterclasses, currently featuring Leslie Brathwaite, Jaycen Joshua, Chris Lord-Alge, Tony Maserati, Sylvia Massy, Dave Pensado, Andrew Scheps, and Andy Wallace.

Reciprocally, Mix With The Masters will be offering its subscribers 10% off purchases of any Waves plugin, bundle or upgrade, and 35% off monthly or annual subscriptions to the Waves Music Maker Access subscription plan. (The 35% discount will apply continuously to each monthly or annual subscription payment.)

Apogee announces the Clearmountain’s Spaces reverb plugin is now available standalone.

Apogee makes the Clearmountain’s Spaces module available as a standalone plugin separate from their popular Clearmountain’s Domain suite.

One of the most unique sonic building blocks from Clearmountain’s Domain is now available as a separate plugin via Apogee. The Clearmountain’s Spaces plugin reproduces Bob Clearmountain’s personalized workflow for creating the distinctive, rich spaces where his mixes live.

With the very same echo chamber profiles and processing he’s used on countless hit records, Clearmountain’s Spaces lets you envelop your tracks in unique and cohesive atmospheres that set your mixes apart. The plugin features three customized, Clearmountain Spaces, a set of expert presets, a three-band EQ and De-esser, pre-delay, the real time Spaces Visualizer, and more.

The Clearmountain’s Spaces Reverb plugin is available now, priced at $49.

Softube releases the Amp Room and Marshall Cabinet Collection.

Softube’s Amp Room has everything you need to create the most compelling of digital guitar tones—and now features an officially-endorsed collection of Marshall Cabinets.

Softube Amp Room is a modern platform designed for the discerning professional to be a continuously growing system of everything you need to create high-quality, authentic, and incredibly realistic guitar and bass sounds.

Amp Room comes with 6 amplifiers, 16 cabinets, 10 effects pedals, 3 studio effects (including the American Class A channel strip as 2 modules), 8 utility modules, and 260 presets, covering a wide variety of styles and genres. Not only that, you can also load a selection of Softube plugins, like amps, compressors and equalizers, as modules. Add expansion packs and create your personal digital studio with everything you need to create high-quality, incredibly realistic guitar sounds, exactly the way you want them.

In addition to Amp Room, Softube is also releasing Marshall Cabinet Collection, an Amp Room exclusive collection of 8 classic, rare, and handwired speaker cabinets by Marshall, versatile enough for any style or genre of music from vintage to modern. They were all recorded at Dugout Productions studio by producer Daniel Bergstrand (Behemoth, Meshuggah, In Flames), and each one has 6 single microphone options and 6 mix-ready microphone combinations unique to each cabinet that sound absolutely incredible. This collection is officially licensed and endorsed by Marshall.

For pricing and further information on Softube’s Amp Room, click here; for the Marshall Cabinet Collection, click here.

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