New Gear Alert: Eventide’s Elevate Bundle Expanded, Iconica Strings by Steinberg, V-Type IRs from Celestion & More

Eventide and Newfangled Audio announce two new plugins for the Elevate Bundle 1.5.

In partnership with Newfangled Audio, Eventide expands the Elevate Bundle with the Saturate and Punctuate plugins, along with other key updates.

Eventide and Newfangled Audio’s Elevate Bundle 1.5 adds two new plugins, Saturate and Punctuate, as well as crucial improvements to EQuivocate and Elevate.

Saturate is a spectral clipper plugin, useful for mixing or mastering. It adds up to 24dB of drive with a variable Clipper Shape parameter that moves from a soft curve to full hard clipping. Saturate automatically compensates output level based on the Drive control or, alternatively, allows this to be controlled manually.

Punctuate, a transient emphasis plugin, offers up to 26 auditory bands of transient emphasis or suppression while its unique Adaptime Transient and Adaptive Length controls allow algorithms to tailor each band’s transient shaper to what you want to hear.

EQuivocate benefits from a new “Range” feature, allowing you to scale or invert the total dB range for the EQ in order to change the total amount of EQ applied after setting the individual bands. Elevate adds true peak limiting, preventing final masters from clipping during reproduction and ensuring compatibility with all broadcast standards.

The Elevate Bundle 1.5 (including Elevate, EQuivocate, Punctuate, and Saturate) is available at an introductory promo price of $139 through September 5th (reg. $199). Owners of EQuivocate can upgrade to the Elevate Bundle 1.5 for $99 through September 5th (reg. $149), and owners of Elevate can upgrade to the Elevate Bundle 1.5 for free at any time.

Steinberg launches Iconica Sections & Players orchestral sample library.

The Iconica Sections & Players VI from Steinberg features a whopping 150GB of meticulously recorded samples at Berlin’s Funkhaus.

Comprised of all the single instruments and instrumental sections of a symphonic orchestra, Iconica Sections & Players comes with five string sections (Violins I, Violins II, Violas, Celli, and Basses), a selection of woodwind instruments, solo and ensemble brass, as well as orchestral percussion and a harp.

Iconica includes more than 150GB of exclusive orchestral samples recorded by 76 musicians at the legendary Funkhaus in Berlin. The orchestra is made up of four large sections, each comprised of several instruments for strings, percussion, woodwinds, and brass.

Suggested retail price for Iconica Sections & Players is $799.99. An introductory price of $699.99 is offered until July 11th. There will be a 30-day trial version available from the Steinberg website shortly.

Celestion introduces the V-Type impulse responses.

Celestion expands their line of impulse responses with the V-Type series, a collection of their most iconic speakers.

The V-Type impulse responses are the latest addition to Celestion’s acclaimed line of IRs. The new V-Type speakers offer a balanced character that imparts a real vintage musicality—built with the modern player in mind.

The V-Type has a vintage pedigree, combining elements of Celestion’s most classic speakers, particularly the G12H Creamback and the G12M Greenback, to deliver well-balanced tone across the entire frequency range. Highs are open and airy, but never shrill or brittle, complemented by full-bodied lows and a well-balanced midrange. The speaker’s distinctive percussiveness is sure to bring joy to rhythm players, with a lower midrange that gets agreeably punchy when played dirty. Clean sounds sparkle and glimmer, but there’s still plenty of raunch on tap when it’s time to rock out.

The V-Type IRs, as well as the rest of the collection of genuine Celestion IRs, are available for audition and download at CelestionPlus. The V-Type collection is available for $29.99; individual V-Type IRs are priced at $11.99.

AAX support for Pro Tools is now offered on the Roland Cloud.

The Roland Cloud now offers AAX support for Pro Tools, enabling integration with a wealth of Roland’s virtual instruments.

Roland Cloud, the fast-growing, on-demand virtual musical instrument service, now offers native AAX plugin support for its entire catalog of virtual instruments, allowing seamless integration with Avid Pro Tools.

With AAX plugin support offered for all Roland Cloud virtual instruments, users of Pro Tools and Pro Tools Ultimate can further ignite their creativity with virtual replicas of legendary synthesizers, including the highly sought-after Roland JUPITER-8, JUNO-106, SH-101, TR-808 and TR-909 Software Rhythm Composers, the iconic D-50, and more.

To learn more, click here.

Digital Audio Denmark announces the SPQ speaker processing card is now shipping.

The SPQ speaker processing card by Digital Audio Denmark offers over 1,000 EQ profiles and flexible Bass Management processing.

The DAD SPQ speaker processing card allows for adding up to 1,024 EQ filters across 128 channels at 48kHz. A maximum of 16 filters may be used on each channel until the 1,024 limit has been reached. For users who work at higher resolutions, the system supports 96kHz (64 channels), 192kHz (32 channels), and 384kHz (16 channels). Filters for all sample rates are available natively on the SPQ card when sample rates are changed.

SPQ also adds full control and Bass Management processing over up to 8 sub channels, and both the Bass Management and speaker channels offer a wealth of different filter types to choose from in order to tailor any speaker system to suit any acoustic environment.

For pricing, contact DAD’s North American dealer here.

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