New Gear Alert: Antares Auto-Tune Pro, HD9 Headphones by PreSonus, Sonarworks Reference 4 Update & More

Antares announces Auto-Tune Pro is now shipping.

Antares Auto-Tune Pro boasts a redesigned user interface, along with scores of new features for added efficiency and performance.

With Auto-Tune Pro, Antares has incorporated its most advanced engineering innovations, along with feedback from the user community to develop a flagship application aimed at raising the bar for music production in the studio and onstage.

Auto-Tune Pro features a sleek, intuitive interface that has been redesigned from the ground up for streamlined workflow, offering new modes optimized to help users work smarter and faster, whether they’re novices or seasoned pros. The update adds ARA (Audio Random Access) support and incorporates user-requested features such as Classic Mode for creating the legendary Auto-Tune 5 sound.

Other new features of Auto-Tune Pro include (but are not limited to): updated interface modes, automatic key detection, improved graphical mode, HiDPI support, MIDI CC control for parameters, a redesigned settings menu, and much more.

Auto-Tune Pro is available for $399; customers who purchased Auto-Tune 8 on or after January 1, 2018 will receive a free upgrade to Auto-Tune Pro. Users of any previous version can upgrade for $129.

PreSonus is now shipping the HD9 headphones.

The new HD9 headphones by PreSonus offer a wide frequency response, along with extreme comfort and isolation for extended mixing and critical listening sessions.

PreSonus’ new HD9 headphones feature a closed-back acoustic design that provides superior listening isolation and reduces headphone bleed, so you hear nothing but music. The HD9’s 45mm dynamic, neodymium drivers and high power handling (900 mW per channel into 40Ω) deliver loud, clear, clean audio, minimizing listening fatigue. The HD9’s tailored frequency response extends all the way from 10Hz to 26kHz (±3dB), with accurate bass response, enabling precise mixes.

The HD9 is lightweight and features an adjustable headband, cups that rotate 180° on two axes, and comfortable, durable ear pads. Its straight, ten-foot cable unobtrusively drops down on one side and comes complete with a gold-plated, 1/8 inch-to-1/4 inch adapter, and a storage bag.

The PreSonus HD9 headphones are available now for an anticipated MRSP of $79.95.

Sonarworks Reference 4 software adds 26 new headphone calibration profiles.

Sonarworks’ popular Reference 4 monitoring software now offers 150 headphone profiles.

Sonarworks’ Reference 4 software has added 26 new headphone calibration profiles, supporting additional models from AKG, Audio-Technica, Beyerdynamic, Bose, HyperX, Master & Dynamics, Philips, Plantronics, Sennheiser, and Sony.

Reference 4—which is able to deliver a true reference standard almost anywhere—is compatible with both Mac and PC platforms, and can run either as a DAW plugin (supporting AU, AAX Native, RTAS and VST formats) or as a Systemwide app at the OS level, calibrating all outgoing audio.

Reference 4 Headphone Edition is available for $99; Studio Edition is available for $249; the Premium Bundle is available for $699.

Krotos Audio announces the all-new Reformer Pro.

Reformer Pro by Krotos Audio offers a cutting-edge, unique approach to creating new sounds and samples.

In addition to a variety of significant new features and improvements, Reformer Pro now utilizes the world’s first Dynamic Input technology, taking procedural, sample-based audio processing to new heights.

Reformer Pro uses artificial intelligence and advanced signal analysis to allow you to perform sound effects with your voice or any other audio input. The software profiles the input sound in real-time, and then drawing from a palette of user-selected library sounds, uses that profile to sculpt a new sound effect.

Check out a walkthrough video of Reformer Pro here, and a video of it in action here.

Reformer Pro has a suggested MSRP of $399, and you can download a free 10-day trial license (iLok-based) on the Reformer Pro product page.

Pro Sound Effects releases The Odyssey Collection: Expanded.

Tap into a wealth of big-budget film and TV sound effects with The Odyssey Collection: Expanded by Pro Sound Effects.

The Odyssey Collection: Expanded is the newest exclusive library from Pro Sound Effects’ partnership with Academy Award-winning sound editors, Mark Mangini and Richard L. Anderson.

Odyssey Expanded (OX) is a general library featuring over 32,000 world-class sound effects carefully curated from Mangini and Anderson’s personal collection of big-budget and rare recordings captured while creating the sound for over 250 Hollywood feature films and television shows.

Odyssey Expanded is meticulously crafted to be the cornerstone of your sonic arsenal, with over 10,000 hours of selecting, editing, cataloging, and mastering invested by Pro Sound Effects to make the library as intuitive and useful as possible. As the second library in The Odyssey Collection following Odyssey Essentials (OE), OX includes all of OE and robustly expands Odyssey’s celebrated depth, breadth, professional quality, and awe-inspiring character.

Check out an introductory video of Odyssey Expanded here.

Odyssey Expanded is available for special intro pricing until May 10, 2018. 1-user perpetual licenses are priced at $1,795 (reg. $2,795); multi-user annual license pricing starts at $1,095/year.

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