New Gear Alert: Oxygen Pro Series Controllers by M-Audio, Eventide’s H-9 Plugin Series Bundle, DrumSynth by AKAI & More

M-Audio unleashes the Oxygen Pro Series.

M-Audio’s new Oxygen Pro Series features four powerful models to suit any application.

M-Audio’s new Oxygen Pro Series keyboard controllers have been made for music producers everywhere that want professional grade features, maximum control of their virtual instruments, and precision playing options on a fun and easy to use controller. The M-Audio Oxygen Pro Series controllers are the ultimate studio and live performance tools, allowing you to keep your focus on creating music—not programming your software.

Available in 25, 49, 61, and Mini key versions, the entire Oxygen Pro Series controllers are USB powered and all feature an OLED screen, smart chord and smart scale technology, auto-mapping, a built-in arpeggiator and note repeat—all essential to modern music production. The Oxygen Pro 25, 49, and 61 all have 16 RGB backlit velocity-sensitive pads, nine assignable faders (excluding the Pro 25), eight assignable knobs, 5-pin MIDI output, and an incredibly smooth-feeling keyboard bed that provides maximum control of your software. The Oxygen Pro Mini packs eight performance pads, four knobs, and four faders into a more compact design.

The Oxygen Pro series controllers are available now, at the following pricing: Oxygen Pro Mini – $119; Oxygen Pro 25 – $199; Oxygen Pro 49 – $249; Oxygen Pro 61 – $299.

Eventide announces the H9 Plugin Series Bundle.

Offering top-tier effects for miles, Eventide bundles their eleven H9 Series Plugins together.

Eventide Audio has introduced the H9 Plugin Series Bundle, bringing DAW users a powerful collection of iconic effects from the H9 Harmonizer Effects Processor.

Individually, each of the effects in the H9 Plugin Series Bundle offers a vast range of sonic options around specialized functions. Combined, the H9 Bundle is a complete toolkit for sonic expression and manipulation. Blackhole offers expansive control to exploit ambient reverb as a creative effect. Classic hardware effects are replicated and expanded far beyond mere emulation with the spring reverb tank reborn in Spring, and the full range of control and sounds expected from a physical Leslie cabinet and more in Rotary Mod.

ShimmerVerb packages the production technique of paired pitch-shift and reverb with effect-optimized control parameters. Also combined-effect plugins, MangledVerb feeds a tailored stereo reverb into a distortion algorithm, while TriceraChorus pairs classic bucket-brigade-delay style chorusing with Eventide’s MicroPitch detuning. Undulator adds sustain, shape and motion with the combination of two multi-tap delays, two detuned voices, and an FM modulated tremolo.

CrushStation offers a huge range of distortion effects by building on stereo overdrive/distortion with the addition of three-band EQ, compression, upper and lower octave mixing and the sound signature of failing vintage analog hardware. UltraTap is a uniquely versatile multi-tap delay effect, MicroPitch allows fine-tuning of left and right delay channels (and doubles as a mainstay delay), and Crystals combines twin reverse pitch shifters with reverse delays and reverb.

The H9 Plugin Series Bundle for OS X and Windows supports VST, AAX, and AU plugin protocols for compatibility with every DAW. Valued at over $1,100 if purchased separately, this collection of choice Eventide effects is available for immediate download at a special introductory price of $299 through January 4th, 2021, and $499 thereafter. The H9 Plugin Series Bundle is free for registered H9 Max owners through the end of 2020. Upgrades and crossgrades from the Eventide Anthology XI are also available.

AKAI Professional announces the DrumSynth virtual instrument.

AKAI adds the DrumSynth virtual instrument to the included software for their popular MPC and FORCE lines.

AKAI adds DrumSynth to their MPC and FORCE lines of music production tools with MPC 2.9 and FORCE 3.0.6 firmware updates, joining the unparalleled power of the existing virtual instruments already included in MPC and FORCE.

At the heart of DrumSynth is a multi-synth sound generation architecture. Powered by FM synthesis, physical and analog modeling, and sample-based algorithms, DrumSynth propels the FORCE and MPC user into unrivaled dimensions of standalone sound design. This revolutionary plugin features eight individual instances (Kick, Snare, Clap, Toms, Percussion, Hi-Hat, Crash, and Ride), each with its own unique sound generator combination to deliver dynamic drum and percussion sounds.

With DrumSynth, you can quickly tweak any of the eight engines for an unprecedented degree of sonic manipulation. Fine tune synthesized drum sounds with a selection of effects and processors, including Transient Shaping, Tuning, EQ, Compression, Reverb, and Delay. Add more character with multiple processing textures within each sound engine. You can even access all eight engines in multi-mode where sounds can be mixed and balanced against each other and saved as a custom user preset.

DrumSynth is available for free via firmware update 3.0.6 for FORCE, firmware update 2.9 for MPC One, Live, Live II, and X, as well as software update 2.9 for MPC2 users.

Focusrite gifts Plug-in Collective members D16’s Devastor 2.

Focusrite and D16 join forces on the next attractive offer for members of the Plug-in Collective.

Plug-in Collective members can now download D16 Group’s acclaimed Devastor 2—normally retailing for €49—for free, and claim a 50% discount on everything in the D16 online store.

Devastor 2 brings together analog-style dynamics processing, distortion, and filtering to serve up an endless continuum of sonic flavors, from gentle frequency-targeted saturation to full-on decimation. Dial in punch with the one-knob compressor, drive the diode clipper emulation into any of six shapable distortion transfer curves, and choose one of nine preset topologies to define the signal flow through the clipper and a trio of multimode filters, for a wide range of transformative routings.

Supremely easy to use and so convincingly “analog” it hurts, Devastor 2 is a versatile and characterful effects processor for sound design and mixing. From adding bite and weight to drums and basses, to enhancing, distorting, and mangling guitars and synths, to taking vocals in all sorts of colorful new directions, it’s a plugin that you’ll turn to time and time again.

This offer is available from November 19th to January 14th. Over the same period, Plug-in Collective members can also take advantage of a 50% discount on everything in D16’s online store, automatically activated when they redeem their Devastor 2 download code.

Critical Tune releases Moscow: a hybrid between synth and organ.

Fusing synth and organ, Critical Tune unleashes the Moscow virtual instrument.

Critical Tune has designed Moscow, a synth organ keyboard inspired by the famous organs that have made music history. Its pure and warm sounds have been sampled with the highest quality and processed to obtain excellent sounds. Each layer in Moscow covers up to seven octaves, making the instrument a complete keyboard.

Though Moscow is also suitable for modern styles, it works particularly well with genres such as jazz, gospel, progressive, and rock. The sound of the organ and its expressive envelope make Moscow the best candidate for your production with its unique lo-fi flavor.

Moscow is available now, priced at €39.90; you can download a free demo here.

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