New Gear Alert: Waves’ Content Creator Bundle, CrushStation by Eventide, Sabre Guitar from Ernie Ball & More

Waves is now shipping the Content Creator Audio Toolkit bundle.

Aimed at live stream content creators, Waves releases a crucial bundle featuring the new Playlist Rider plugin.

The Waves Content Creator Audio Toolkit is a new bundle for podcasters, YouTubers, and creators of live-streamed content. The bundle includes four easy-to-use plugins, including the new Playlist Rider plugin.

Audio quality is known to be one of the main reasons viewers and listeners engage with—or abandon—videos, podcasts, and live streams. With this new bundle, you can quickly bring superior sound quality to your content, with pro-level tools that are incredibly intuitive even for content creators who are not audio professionals.

The bundle includes the following plugins that tackle the most common challenges facing content creators today: NS1 Automatic Noise Suppressor for removing distracting background noise; Greg Wells VoiceCentric, an intuitive tool that combines EQ, compression, and de-essing into one smart control; Playlist Rider for automatically smoothing out the levels of multiple audio sources (host, guest, music, etc.); WLM Plus Loudness Meter to deliver the right loudness levels for YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and other major platforms.

Check out an introductory video to Playlist Rider here.

The Waves Content Creator Audio Toolkit Bundle is available now at a special introductory promo price of $165 (currently $99 w/ coupon; reg. $299).

Eventide unleashes the CrushStation overdrive & distortion plugin.

Eventide adds some grit to their H9 plugin series with the new CrushStation.

CrushStation’s controls can drive your tone from creamy saturation to a brutal sonic assault. But distortion is just the starting point. CrushStation brings multi-effects to the mix by adding a three-band EQ, compression, octave mix, and Eventide’s unique take on failing hardware, the Sag control. Use the Mix control to blend your dry signal with CrushStation to create parallel compression, distortion, and other creative effects.

The plugin comes loaded with 35 factory presets capable of adding spice, flair, and crunch to suit a variety of production styles. Get guitars, bass, and synths to sit perfectly in the mix by dialing in warmth and depth with the “PunkRock Lobster” preset. The Grit control in “Fat n Snappy” adds preamp-style distortion that can help bring out kicks in the mix with. “Big Pop Octaves” adds subtle distortion and lower octaves for unique pitch blending vocal effects.

Check out a demo video of CrushStation here.

CrushStation is available now at a special introductory promo price of $39 (reg. $99).

Ernie Ball Music Man debuts the Sabre guitar.

Available in four attractive finishes, Ernie Ball Music Man debuts the Sabre guitar.

The Sabre guitar features a lightweight okoume body, thick carved maple top, and custom Ernie Ball Music Man humbucking pickups, delivering lively, dynamic sound with striking clarity and sustain. The Sabre features a book-matched premium top adorned with natural binding, which elegantly highlights the beauty of the figured maple wood grain.

Crafted with a slender, contoured body and slightly wider nut width, the Sabre guitar provides unmatched comfort and playability. It also comes equipped with a roasted figured maple neck, and a choice of rosewood, ebony, or maple fingerboard, Schaller locking tuners, a 5-way switch, and Ernie Ball Music Man’s super smooth modern tremolo system.

The Sabre is available in four finishes including Cobra, Boujee Burst, Honeysuckle, and Blue Moonstone.

The Sabre is available now, priced at $3,199.

Novation introduces the Wavetable Editor for Peak & Summit.

Novation broadens the scope of Peak & Summit with the new Wavetable Editor.

The Wavetable Editor, which operates on the Novation Components browser-based platform, features drawing tools and a Live Edit mode, so oscillator shapes can be drawn by hand and previewed in real time. The audio import feature lets audio be imported and used as the oscillator waveform, for inspirational and creative results.

Built into the Wavetable Editor is a curated selection of space-themed audio from the NASA sound library, including waveforms from recordings of human space exploration and otherworldly environments. Also included is exclusive content from production giants Noisia, who have created a preset pack to get you started on your journey of wavetable exploration.

The Wavetable Editor is free to use, and is accessed on the Novation Components platform when Peak or Summit is connected via USB to a computer. To access Novation Components, click here.

Softube and Vermona release the Random Rhythm plugin.

Softube & Vermona join forces to create the Random Rhythm dual-channel sequencer.

Random Rhythm is built for performance, with a soul for invention. The plugin is a random-based, dual-channel, trigger sequencer with an uncommon concept at its core. Modeled to Softube’s exacting standards, Random Rhythm makes it possible to experiment with probability while maintaining full control. Whether used as the sole rhythm base or as an invaluable addition to other sequencers, Random Rhythm is a magnifying glass for creativity.

Softube and Vermona’s Random Rhythm is a blast to play with, with its two rhythm sections housing four sliders apiece that can influence the probability of what will appear in the generated pattern. A formerly arduous process—creating complex, previously undiscoverable rhythms—is now not just simple, but also a thoroughly imaginative endeavor.

Random Rhythm is on sale now for $29 (reg. $39).

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