New Gear Alert: Vocal Production Suite by Waves, Avantone’s Gauss 7 Monitors, Novation Updates Circuit Tracks & More

Waves unleashes the Vocal Production Suite.

Featuring 15 of their most powerful vocal sculpting tools, Waves debuts the Vocal Production Suite.

With Waves Vocal Production, you get the best sounding tools to produce your vocal tracks. Tune, pitch-shift, bend, synthesize, fix, mix, and add effects to achieve your best vocal sounds, with the same plugins used to produce artists from Beyoncé to Drake to Billie Eilish.

The Vocal Production suite includes 15 of the music industry’s most popular vocal plugins, to help you produce and mix studio-quality vocals that sound modern, professional, creative and polished: Waves Tune Real-Time; OVox Vocal ReSynthesis; Vocal Bender; Vocal Rider; R-Vox; Waves Tune, Sibilance< Renaissance DeEsser, and DeBreath; and 5 more classic reverb, delay, EQ and compression plugins to complete your pro-quality vocal production and mixing abilities.

The Waves Vocal Production Suite is on sale now for a special introductory promo price of $349 (75% off; reg. $1,350).

Avantone introduces Gauss – a tribute to greatness.

Avantone pays homage to the revered Gauss Speaker Company with the Gauss 7 nearfield monitors.

Decades after the disappearance of the Gauss Speaker Company, the line has returned with a proper (low-end) bang. Gauss 7 mixes the old-school snap of vintage near-field monitors with the bandwidth and frequency response of new-school monitors.

The Gauss 7’s GAU-AMT tweeter provides ultra-smooth response, with an impressive stereo-field, making hours of listening time only feel like minutes. The folded AMT driver can only be described as transparent and accurate, with detailed transients. The Gauss 7 system delivers a super-wide “sweet spot”, precise imaging, and an impressive, natural, and accurate mid-range response.

Gauss 7 also features simple, yet very powerful acoustic-tuning controls. That, paired with the vertical dispersion of the GAU-AMT, means clean acoustic response in any room environment.

The Gauss 7 monitors are available now, priced at $799/pair.

Novation releases Circuit Tracks v1.1.5.

Novation provides crucial improvements in this new firmware update for Circuit Tracks.

Designed for flexible music-making, Circuit Tracks’ fast and instinctive performance now goes on for longer with increased sample time capabilities. With the firmware update v1.1.5, Circuit Tracks owners will now have 3 minutes (196.6 seconds, to be exact) worth of sample time, instead of 60 seconds, providing more freedom to find the groove. Work your samples into evolving melodies with two powerful synth engines and four drum tracks.

Circuit Tracks’ high-quality compact build, built-in rechargeable battery, expandable storage with a microSD card slot, and now extended sample time makes it the perfect portable partner. No need to cut creativity short.

All existing Circuit Tracks owners will be able to update their device to the new sample time capabilities through Components. You can further customize your groovebox with unique Ampify soundpacks to expand your palette. Make the most of your recording sessions with more time to create with Circuit Tracks.

For downloads and further information, click here.

M-Audio furthers the Oxygen Series with three new models.

M-Audio continues to push the Oxygen Series into new territory with these three updated models.

M-Audio has introduced three new models to the Oxygen Series, offering innovative advancements in hardware control and enabling producers and performers the ability to create their own cutting-edge signature sounds on stage or in the studio.

Available in 25-key, 49-key, and 61-key versions, the new Oxygen Series (MKV) are USB-powered and all feature Smart Chord and Smart Scale technology, Auto-mapping, a built-in Arpeggiator and Note Repeat, offering powerful features for modern music production. The Oxygen Series keyboard controllers feature eight backlit velocity-sensitive pads, nine assignable faders (one assignable fader on the Oxygen 25), eight assignable knobs, and full Velocity Control of keys and pads to open worlds of precise music creation.

Check out an introductory video to the Oxygen MKV series here.

The Oxygen MKV series controllers are available now, priced at: Oxygen 25 – $129; Oxygen 49 – $179; Oxygen 61 – $229.

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