New Gear Alert: Focal Trio11 Be Monitors, Heritage Successor Bus Compressor, Free Plugin from Novation & More

Focal Professional unveils the Trio11 Be monitors.

Focal employs their most powerful technologies into their new flagship monitor, the Trio11 Be.

Focal’s new flagship Trio11 Be monitors feature a 5″ midrange and 10″ subwoofer, and Focal’s signature pure Beryllium inverted dome tweeter.

TMD (Tuned Mass Damper) technology surrounding the 5” driver offers more control and less distortion; NIC (Neutral Inductance Circuit) technology creates a stabilized magnetic flux, and optimized vents promote dynamic control and perfect bass definition. The high excursion gives the speaker driver even more linearity, and thanks to these technologies, Focal has managed to combine powerful amplifiers with high-efficiency and high-power handling speaker drivers while ensuring the absence of noise, reproduction of the tiniest details, and the precision of the stereo image.

Set for March 2019 availability, the Trio11 Be monitors are priced at $3,999 each.

Heritage Audio announces the Successor stereo bus compressor.

From your drum bus to your mix bus, Heritage Audio’s Successor adds warmth and punch to your productions with its vintage diode bridge design.

A fully Carnhill transformer coupled input and output unit, the new Successor is a true stereo diode bridge based bus compressor with advanced sidechain filtering and built-in parallel processing capabilities, sharing the class A ´73 type output stage that Heritage Audio is famous for.

Based on legendary vintage diode bridge designs, it keeps the sonic character of such units, but the added features make it a new beast on its own, and will make your mixes shine in modern production environments. Ultra-fast attack and releases allow for larger-than-life drum bus compression sounds, while the complex sidechain filter lets you tailor your mix in ways not previously available.

From FET-like all-buttons-in drum sounds (now in stereo!) to VCA-style mix bus with added warmth and fatness that only transformers can bring, the Heritage Audio Successor is designed to stay hooked up to your mix bus and make your mixes shine through.

The Successor will be available by the end of Q1 2019, priced at $1,499.

Novation offers free Tracktion BioTek plugin and 30% discount off BioTek 2.

New to the Sound Collective, registered Novation users can now take advantage of steep BioTek 2 discounts and a free BioTek plugin.

Novation has revealed the latest offer for members of the Sound Collective community: the availability of Tracktion’s BioTek for free, and a 30% discount off BioTek 2. BioTek will be available for download from January 31st to April 4th, and the 30% discount off BioTek 2 runs from January 31st to May 4th.

BioTek is a powerful, innovative virtual instrument that combines synthesis and sample playback across four morphable layers, within an intuitive single-screen interface. Get straight to the point with preset-specific macros, or go deep in the full-on Edit mode—BioTek’s empowering workflow lets the adventurous sound designer find their own path.

BioTek 2 builds on the foundations laid by its predecessor, adding a host of features that take it to new heights in terms of versatility and sound, including new oscillator and filter types, a dedicated browser page, and 100 presets by electronic music legend Richard Devine.

To join Novation’s Sound Collective, simply register any Novation product, then look out for a new offer every couple of months.

Softube releases Valley People Dyna-mite, Slam & Gate plugins.

Softube distills Valley People’s Dyna-mite dynamics processor down into a super-practical, modern plugin package with the addition of the Slam and Gate modules.

A secret weapon to some, a hidden treasure to the rest, the Valley People Dyna-mite is a Swiss Army knife limiter/expander design with incredible sound and unique character that has inspired engineers to be inventive with their dynamics processing for decades. That said, it’s always been a bit of a pain to deal with, as its design is anything but user-friendly—genius, but impossible.

Now it’s more versatile and easier to use than ever. Adding two hyper-focused plugins based on the same sound, Softube has boiled it down into a simple, modern package. Meet Dyna-mite Slam, and Dyna-mite Gate.

Check out an introductory video to Dyna-mite here.

Dyna-mite is priced at $149, but is currently on sale at a special introductory price of $99 until March 5th.

Harrison introduces the AVA Multiband Compressor.

Harrison implements the algorithm seen in their world-class analog consoles into the new AVA Multiband Compressor plugin.

The AVA Multiband Compressor is the latest implementation of Harrison’s renowned Multiband Compression algorithm, as used in ultra high-end post & film facilities worldwide. Now in the fourth generation, the Harrison Multiband Compression algorithm has been continuously tweaked by engineers in high-end music, film, broadcast, and video-post production.

Harrison’s reputation for “True Analog In-The-Box” sound is due to their unique development heritage: they first created an analog console processor, and then converted the processor to digital while retaining the sound and character of the original analog console.

The AVA Multiband Compressor is available now at a special introductory price of $49 through the end of February (reg. $89).

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