Toontrack Sneaks Unexciting BeatStation Plug-In

Toontrack has announced BeatStation, a new plug-in that creates a customized percussion environment. Toontrack claims it plays percussion pads, lead instruments and melodic basses and can accommodate MIDI grooves, REX files and samples. The video on the designated BeatStation website doesn’t tell you anything, so we’re not even going to embed it, but that may be due to the fact they want to attempt to create a big splash...

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A Designs Releases NAIL Compressor

A Designs Audio, Inc. has released the HM2 NAIL Compressor, a Feedback, Diode baised design combined with tubes, which contains three defining features Hard Threshold, Filter and Mix. One feature that A Designs notes that is missing from the NAIL is the Ratio setting control. It has been replaced with a “Variable Ratio.” This means that the ratio will change as the settings of the Threshold and Hard Threshold are changed along with...

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