New Gear Alert: Focusrite’s bx_console, Plugin Alliance Goes Subscription, Neve GenesysControl & More

Introducing Brainworx bx_console Focusrite.

An exciting new collaboration between Focusrite and Brainworx produces bx_console Focusrite, a powerful emulation of a classic tool.

Designed and coded by the DSP team at Brainworx, the new bx_console Focusrite VST/AU/AAX plugin for Mac and PC faithfully captures the sound, feel, and styling of Focusrite’s original iconic hardware—and it’s included for free with every Clarett and Red audio interface.

Accurately modeling the full signal paths of the ISA 110 and ISA 130, bx_console Focusrite brings all the analog character and coloration of the Focusrite Studio Console to your DAW-based productions. Offering four bands of parametric and shelving EQ, high- and low-pass filters, compression/limiting, gating/expansion, and de-essing, it’s as powerful a sound-shaping tool today as it ever was. It improves on the capabilities of the original with modifications including continuously variable THD and Gain controls. And with Brainworx’s Tolerance Modelling Technology providing 72 selectable modeled circuits, you can even recreate the subtle timbral variations between channels that you’d get with the real console.

With bx_console Focusrite retailing separately for $349, its inclusion for free with all Clarett and Red interfaces is key. To download the plugin, simply register your Clarett or Red audio interface online, then log into your Customer Portal page, where you’ll see bx_console Focusrite listed in the My Software page among your registered products.

Plugin Alliance goes SUBSCRIPTION.

Plugin Alliance offers attractive early deals on their new MEGA Bundle subscription model.

Plugin Alliance is proud to announce the availability of the new MEGA Bundle Subscription Services. The MEGA Bundle offers an impressive collection of 100+ plugins from 28 Alliance brands including SSL, Ampeg, Brainworx, Focusrite, and many more.

From Q4 on, the MEGA Bundle will be available for $24.99 per month. But as of today, prepaid annual plans (1 Year Auto-Renewal) are being offered for $249.99 per year—a 17% saving over the month-to-month price.

Introducing the Neve GenesysControl plugin.

Neve offers deeper levels of digital/analog integration with the new GenesysControl plugin.

GenesysControl provides the final link to total integration between the Neve Genesys Black and modern DAW workflows, as well as extends the feature set of the Genesys Black, allowing a new era of hybrid mix possibilities.

The GenesysControl plugin can be applied in the DAW to a mono, stereo, or master track, and can be assigned to control selected channels on the console, allowing powerful automation without sacrificing the instant recall of in-the-box workflows. This enables you to mix traditionally using the console, to work ITB, or a unique combination of both approaches, to get the power and speed of working digitally, yet still have the sonic benefits of using a real Neve analog console.

The elements which can be controlled and automated include: all EQ and Dynamics parameters and in/out switching, Aux in/out switching, Channel path faders and cuts, Monitor path faders and Cuts, Channel Insert in/out switching, Reverb Return levels and in/out switching, Aux Master in/out switching, Main mix fader and cut/insert in/out switching, IMR (Insert Mix Return/parallel processing) in/out switching, and 8-Track faders/cuts/insert in/out switching.

A 30-day free trial version of GenesysControl is available here, and a license to continue to use the plugin after the trial period is priced at $695/£495.

Eventide releases three crucial effects for iPhone and iPad.

Eventide brings three of their most popular effects to iPhone and iPad.

Eventide is proud to release three new iOS music creation and live performance effects apps from their catalogue of studio hardware and software: Blackhole Reverb, UltraTap Delay, and MicroPitch.

Blackhole Reverb is Eventide’s wildly popular reverberation effect, used for sound design and creating out-of-this-world ambiance on instruments and vocals. UltraTap Delay is a rhythmic audio effect for applying stylistic glitchy delays to drums, pads, vocals and guitars, while also offering on-board modulation for all styles of music and performance. MicroPitch is a comprehensive pitch shifter capable of deep pitch dives, slap-backs, and unparalleled detuned delays.

Check out an introductory video to Blackhole for iOS here, and for UltraTap Delay and MicroPitch here.

These three powerful effects are all available now as standalone apps, as well as AUv3 plugins, for use in popular iOS DAWs, ready for download from the App Store. Blackhole is priced at $19.99; UltraTap Delay is priced at $14.99; MicroPitch is priced at $9.99.

BOSS unveils the SY-1 Synthesizer pedal.

BOSS integrates powerful synthesis technology from the SY-300 into the new SY-1 stompbox pedal.

With the SY-1 Synthesizer, BOSS brings their latest guitar synth technology to the iconic compact pedal lineup. Equipped with a powerful polyphonic engine, the SY-1 delivers 121 ultra-responsive synth sounds, all ready to play with no programming knowledge needed. Offering easy connectivity via a standard 1/4-inch cable, this versatile pedal makes it simple for any guitarist or bassist to incorporate an authentic BOSS synth into their music.

Backed by advanced tech first developed for the SY-300, the SY-1 packs a wide range of analog-style synth sounds in a pedalboard-friendly size. Leads, pads, organs, basses, and more are included, plus a variety of sound effects and rhythmic synth patterns. Sounds are organized into 11 different types, with 11 variations in each.

The BOSS SY-1 Synthesizer is priced at $199.99.

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