New Gear Alert: Novation x Yum Audio, Synchro Arts Revoice Pro 4.3, AlgoRhythms by Modal & More

Novation and Yum Audio join forces for attractive Sound Collective offerings.

The most recent collaboration for Novation’s Sound Collective features this vibey tape error tool by Yum Audio.

Yum Audio’s LoFi Pitch Dropout is a fascinating effects plugin emulation that imitates tape errors. Imagine a tape in an old playback system getting stuck and then speeding up again. The sound produced by this error introduces a nice subtle flux to the pitch of the signal and adds oodles of character. LoFi Pitch Dropout allows you to add this “error”, and has six different modes to simulate a variety of dropout behaviors.

Members of Novation’s Sound Collective community can download Yum Audio’s LoFi Pitch Dropout (worth $90) for free, and get a 25% discount code to redeem against any products in the Yum Audio range. This offer is available until October 7th, 2021. Click here to find out more.

Synchro Arts releases Revoice Pro 4.3 with new SmartAlign technology.

Revoice Pro version 4.3 is a powerful update led by the introduction of SmartAlign.

The first big enhancement in Revoice Pro 4.3 is SmartAlign, a groundbreaking new technology that automatically detects which sections to match in your guide and dub tracks. This is a huge timesaver as you can now transfer whole vocal arrangements into Revoice Pro, and SmartAlign will calculate which parts of the guide track your dubs should be aligned with—no more tedious pre-editing is needed.

ARA is the audio plugin extension that enables unprecedented instant communication between ARA-enabled plugins and DAWs. Revoice Pro 4.3 introduces ARA2 compatibility between Revoice Pro and Logic Pro. First, capture multiple vocal layers with a single mouse click, then all your processed audio is always instantly returned to Logic so you can align whole vocal stacks in seconds. Using Revoice Pro 4 with Logic Pro has never been easier, faster, or more intuitive.

To celebrate this release, Synchro Arts is offering savings of up to 50% off Revoice Pro 4 and all upgrades until August 31st.

Modal Electronics announces AlgoRhythms and firmware update for COBALT Series synths.

Don’t miss this crucial firmware update for Modal’s COBALT synths, featuring the AlgoRhythms library.

AlgoRhythms by Modal Electronics is an expansive production- and performance-ready free sound library. It is comprised of 30 unique sounds, 20 sequences, 25 rhythmic sounds, and 5 uber-expressive performance centric patches for the COBALT Series.

Complete with aftertouch, an expensive mod-matrix, and 3-clock syncable LFOs (2 polyphonic and 1 global), there’s no denying the COBALT Series’ rhythmic presets scattered throughout the factory preset banks separate from the pack. Building on this legacy, Modal Electronics set their sound design team a challenge. Arm the Modal Community with a preset pack brimming with pulsating textures, reactive to the subtle inflection of a truly expressive performance, and mapped for tactile control to switch their sound up on the fly. The result: AlgoRhythms.

Building on the tradition of iconic, warm, and punchy analog-style synth sounds, the COBALT Series unlocks the full creative potential of analog waveforms. This family of powerful, inspiring instruments reinvent the aesthetics of analog sound, inviting musicians, producers, and sound designers to explore a new era of virtual-analog synthesizer textures —far beyond the limits of their analog contemporaries.

Zero-G releases Impromptu Electric Guitars for Kontakt.

Impromptu Electric Guitars runs on the same innovative engine found in Zero-G’s popular Impromptu Textural Percussions module for Kontakt.

Developed by the same producer behind Zero-G’s popular Impromptu Textural Percussions, this new library features three exceptional guitars and the “Impromptu Engine”, a system that utilizes loops of improvised, un-synced snippets combined with a granular synthesizer.

Zero-G recorded improvised performances in three different intensity layers that you can crossfade between using the central knob which is mapped to the mod-wheel by default. Playing a note with the mod-wheel completely down will trigger a sparse improvised loop on that pitch; start moving the mod-wheel up to gradually crossfade to the medium and finally, to the dense layer.

The layers were also sampled playing the instrument in different ways: the “sparse” layer was recorded playing the guitar with fingers, the “medium” layer was recorded using a soft, smooth, wooden pick, while the “dense” layer was recorded using a thick, hard plastic pick.

Impromptu Electric Guitars is available now for a special introductory promo price of $43.95 (reg. $54.95).

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