New Gear Alert: Sennheiser IE 40 Pro In-Ears, Free Positive Grid Plugin via Focusrite, Spitfire’s Studio Strings & More

Sennheiser announces a new series of in-ears, beginning with the IE 40 Pro.

Sennheiser’s IE 40 Pro is the first in their forthcoming line of new, professional in-ears.

The IE 40 Pro ensures impeccable audio reproduction with warmth, great detail, and clarity—thus improving the artist’s focus and performance control, even in difficult stage situations. This meticulous audio performance is complemented by a well thought-out mechanical design that includes a patent-pending, break-proof cable ducting.

At the heart of the IE 40 Pro is a high-quality Sennheiser driver, which delivers a naturally rich and powerful sound. Distortion is at a very low level with 0.1% at 1kHz and 94dB. The bass and low mids can not only be heard but also felt—a delight for bass players, guitarists and drummers. Powerful Neodymium magnets provide the necessary punch with an SPL of up to 115dB. This clear and natural sound has the added benefit of reducing acoustic stress for the user, who will be able to set the monitors at a lower level.

The IE 40 Pro will be available at the end of September 2018, priced at $99.95. In early 2019, the IE 40 Pro will be joined by the IE 400 Pro and the top-of-the-range IE 500 Pro.

Focusrite offers free Positive Grid BIAS AMP 2 plugin and $20 discount.

A free version of Positive Grid’s BIAS AMP 2 is the newest offering in Focusrite’s Plug-In Collective.

Focusrite has unveiled a new offering for their Plug-in Collective community from September 6th to November 1st. The availability of free Positive Grid plugin BIAS AMP 2 LE coincides with a $20 discount off Positive Grid’s BIAS AMP 2 Std or BIAS AMP 2 Pro. Registered Focusrite hardware customers can access the free plugin and discount from their Focusrite accounts.

BIAS AMP 2 LE gives you a taste of the fully-fledged BIAS AMP 2 Elite, Positive Grid’s flagship guitar amp designer. BIAS AMP 2 authentically recreates the tone and feel of real tube amplifiers, while allowing you to mix and match components to create your ideal amp. It provides the tools to take your ultimate guitar tone with you anywhere, from the studio to the stage and back again.

Visit the Focusrite Plug-in Collective here.

Spitfire Audio announces an all-new orchestral library range with Studio Strings.

Studio Strings and Studio Strings Professional are the first in a brand new orchestral range from Spitfire Audio.

Spitfire’s new Studio Strings library is available in two versions: Spitfire Studio Strings, and Spitfire Studio Strings Professional.

Recorded at Air Studio One, a smaller, more controllable space than the opulent Lyndhurst Hall, Spitfire offers composers a string library with depth, detail, and focus all at once. Apply the reverb of your choice for even more flexibility. It’s a fit for quirky indie and crisp pop, epic film and games scores alike.

Spitfire Studio Strings is on sale now for $199 ($249 reg.); Spitfire Studio Strings Professional is on sale now for $399 (reg. $499).

New Loops releases free U-he Colour Copy presets.

New Loops is now offering 15 free presets for download, made for U-he’s Colour Copy bucket-brigade delay.

New Loops’ 15 exclusive presets for U-he’s Colour Copy delay plugin include dub delays, choruses, flangers, stereo delays, and more.

Colour Copy is a virtual analog effect inspired by classic bucket-brigade delays (BBD), but extended with modern features. Colour Copy can deliver the kind of colouration musicians still love in classic BBD units, but with a wider variety of colours.

Download the free New Loops Colour Copy presets here.

Meet PARALLAX, a new Kontakt bass engine.

Curated by Drumsound & Bassline Smith specifically for use with Kontakt, PARALLAX is a powerful and feature-packed bass engine.

Drumsound & Bassline Smith proudly presents PARALLAX, a brand new bass engine for use with Native Instruments Kontakt v5.7.

PARALLAX has the name “Drumsound & Bassline Smith” on the packaging because this project was personally conceived, coded, and crafted by the drum n’ bass vets themselves. Having previously worked on plugins and presets for Sugar Bytes, Waves, and Loopmasters, creating something from the ground up was the next step. And with more than two decades at the top table of bass-heavy music production, Kontakt users can now benefit from their hard-won experience.

PARALLAX’s features include (but are not limited to): a powerful three-oscillator synth with 24 filters and 9 LFO settings, a flexible XY pad on each oscillator, a comprehensive toolbox of 8 insert effects and 5 send effects, and a “Quick Envelope” feature to let you free-draw and edit custom envelopes.

Check out an introductory video to PARALLAX here.

PARALLAX is available here at a special introductory price of $65 (reg. $99).

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