New Gear Alert: Avid Pro Tools | Carbon, Steinberg Cubase 11, UAD v9.13 & More

Avid unveils the Pro Tools | Carbon hybrid audio production system.

Avid’s Pro Tools | Carbon takes an exciting new hybrid approach to capturing audio with pristine clarity.

Pro Tools | Carbon is a new generation audiovisual interface that empowers artists, bands, engineers, and producers to record every detail of every performance with the utmost clarity and precision.

Built to capture brilliance, this hybrid audio production system features incredible sound quality and intelligent Pro Tools integration that combines the power of your native CPU with the unparalleled performance of HDX DSP acceleration. The result is the smoothest, most inspiring tracking experience Avid has ever designed.

Pro Tools | Carbon is available now at local resellers, starting at $3,999, which includes a one-year Pro Tools subscription and highly respected partner plugins from Arturia, McDSP, Plugin Alliance, UVI, Native Instruments, and Embody—at no additional cost.

Steinberg unleashes Cubase 11.

Steinberg continues to push Cubase to new frontiers with version 11.

Steinberg returns with a major Cubase release that encompasses all three editions: Pro, Artist, and Elements. Cubase 11 boasts a sheer endless number of new features and enhancements to its studio-grade audio and MIDI tools for composing, recording, editing, and mixing.

The Cubase 11 editions are available from resellers and through the Steinberg Online Shop. Various downloadable updates and upgrades, crossgrades, and education versions are exclusively available through the Steinberg Online Shop and the Steinberg website.

Customers who have activated Cubase Pro 10.5, Cubase Artist 10.5, and Cubase Elements 10.5 or earlier versions since October 14, 2020, are eligible for a free, downloadable Grace Period update to the latest version, respectively.

For pricing on the various tiers of Cubase 11, along with further information, click here.

Universal Audio releases UAD Software v9.13 and LUNA v1.1.1.

Universal Audio debuts the Neve Dynamics Collection and API Summing LUNA Extension with their crucial new software updates.

With UAD Software v9.13 and LUNA v1.1.1, Universal Audio brings all-new products from Neve and API, along with feature updates to the UAD 1176 Classic Limiter Collection plugin, and more.

The Neve Dynamics Collection features the all-new Neve 2254/E Limiter and Compressor, and updated Neve 33609/C Compressor plugins—two legendary British dynamics processors powering decades of Neve sound.

Developed in partnership with API exclusively for the LUNA Recording System, the API Summing LUNA Extension emulates the 2520 op-amp and custom output transformer-based summing amps found in popular API consoles of the past 50 years. Built into LUNA’s mixer, the extension brings streamlined workflows by eliminating the need to manage multiple plugin windows.

The Neve Dynamics Collection and API Summing LUNA Extension are both priced at $299.

Townsend Labs releases Sphere 1.5.

Townsend Labs furthers the Sphere software which accompanies their powerful L22 microphone modeling system.

Townsend Labs is proud to announce the latest update to Sphere, the software component in the award-winning and best-in-class Sphere L22 microphone modeling system. Version 1.5 adds new features for voice-over artists and music producers seeking better recordings under challenging conditions. New models of four classic microphones, each with a proud history of vocal/voice-over use, have been added to Sphere’s ever-growing mic locker, and version 1.5 introduces IsoSphere, a patented new technology that helps combat the unwanted effects of poor room acoustics.

Sphere 1.5 is available in all major native plugin formats, as well as Universal UAD-2/Apollo and Avid AAX—and like all Sphere upgrades to date, it’s free of charge.

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