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INSTANT EXPERT BY NED SOLTZ SOUND & EFFECTS AUDIO PLUG-INS FOR ALL OCCASIONS ITEM/ CONTACT COMPANY MSRP WHAT IT IS SPECS Master Restoration Suite Wave Arts $499.95 PC (DX/VST/ RTAS); MAC (AU/ VST/MAS/RTAS). www.wavearts.com As the company’s name would indicate, Wave Arts offers a complete suite of plugins for fixing noise, click, hum and gate along with an easily automated master restoration plug-in. Also offered are individual plug-ins for those not requiring the entire suite. Power Suite 5 Wave Arts $599.95 PC (DX/VST/ RTAS); MAC(AU/ VST/MAS/RTAS). www.wavearts.com A complete set of plug-ins for sound design, mixing, tracking and mastering. Included plug-ins are Track Plug, MasterVerb, Final Plug, MultiDynamics and Panorama. Individual plug-ins are also available. Both product suites from Wave Arts are top-notch and make a superb adjunct to any audio workflow. Auto Tune 5 Antares $399 PC/MAC — TDM, VST, RTAS, AU www.antarestech.com I love this one mainly because I have a lousy voice. Auto Tune allows fixing of pitch and note in both vocals and music tracks. It can fix common pitch problems automatically, but for those voices like mine, it can actually allow remapping note-bynote. You can even adjust vibrato or “humanize” the voice to make it sound more natural rather than “too perfect.” Rather than correcting pitch like Auto Tune, the Vocal Toolkit allows creation of voices. One of its most amazing features is harmony creation and choral vocal multiplier. This latter feature allows turning one voice into a chorus of up to 32 distinct individual voices in different octaves, with harmony, etc. Two amazing products from a solid company. AVOX 2 Vocal Toolkit Antares $599 PC (RTAS/VST); Mac (RTAS/ VST/AU). www.antarestech.com Melodyne Studio Celemony Software $699 PC/Mac — VST/AU/RTAS/ DXi. Another superb collection of pitch-changing and correcting plug-ins. Fix vocals even worse than mine. Shift pitch. Shift temo without changing pitch. Remix tracks, reconstruct and rebuild. Versatile, fast, and integrates very well with any supporting format DAW. www.celemony.com Sound Soap BIAS, Inc. Sound Soap 2 $99; Pro version $599 Sound Soap was one of the earliest add-on noise reduction products, and it continues to improve. The $99 version offers far better noise reduction than filters native to many DAWs, while the Pro version provides a complete solution including noise, hum, hiss, crackle, “old vinyl,” and just about any unwanted noise on any track. This is an old favorite which you should not overlook. PC/MAC — RTAS/VST/AU. www.bias-inc.com $7,500 for complete package. Individual plug-ins PC/MAC — available from $150 RTAS/TDM. Mercury Native www.waves.com Waves Every ProTools user either owns Waves plug-ins or aspires to do so. The Mercury package includes virtually every product Waves develops and includes some 90 processors and 250 plug-ins. Waves is virtually one-stop shopping for the ProTools user. Whatever you require, Waves has a plug-in to handle it. Reaktor 5 Native Instruments $449 PC/Mac — RTAS/VST/ AU/DXi. www.native-instruments.com Virtual Instrument Box Set Digidesign $895 Reaktor is among the top instrument creation and synthesis packages. It comes with 63 instruments as well as free online access to some 2,100 additional instruments. Synthesize as you like. And if you don’t like any of those 2,163+ instruments at your disposal, create new ones. Build oscillators or filters. If you are a musician, you probably already own an instrument or two from NI. If you are considering adding instruments, look here first. PC/MAC — RTSAS only. Digidesign offers its own instrument design package to accompany ProTools. The package, protected by the iLock, offers synthesizers, drums, a sample workstation, and Xpand workstaton and vintage electric pianos. www.digidesign.com Isotope has evolved a next-generation technology for signal processing, including plugins for denoise, spectral repair and declipping. IZotope accomplishes this at a reasonable entry-level price. The advanced version adds greater precision and more control options. including greater manual adjustment. Its advanced spectrographic feature allows very detailed visual analysis of sound patterns and is highly touted as a forensic tool. iZotope RX isotope $349 standard; $1149 advanced MAC/PC — RTAS/VST/MAS/ AU/DirectX www.izotope.com 26 dv june 2008 www.dv.com http://www.wavearts.com http://www.wavearts.com http://www.antarestech.com http://www.antarestech.com http://www.celemony.com http://www.bias-inc.com http://www.waves.com http://www.native-instruments.com http://www.digidesign.com http://www.izotope.com http://www.dv.com

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