plugins

The Calf team have just announced the release of version 0.0.60 of the very popular Calf Studio Gear plugins.

There are many bug fixes, new plugins as well as new features.

There are 16 new plugins included in this release, bringing the total number of Calf plugins up to 45. The new plugins are as follows -

Version 0.9.5 of Giada Loop Machine has been released. This version, codename 'Nabla Symbols', has a number of refinements, as well as permanent MIDI mapping.

Carla has just seen it's fourth beta release. This release is mostly focused on bug-fixing but there are some interesting new features.

The highlights are:

• Updated plugin skins
• New experimental plugins
• MOD GUI Support

Also of note is a new MIDI sequencer plugin. This is experimental and in it's early stages but it is an interesting addition all the same.

Guitarix developer, Hermann Meyer has just announced a new LV2 plugin for the Guitarix LV2 plugin suite, Gxjcm800pre, a JCM800 simulation.

This simulation had previously been available within the Guitarix standalone program but is now also available as an LV2 plugin. The LV2 plugin includes tone, presence and master controls so that the full JCM800 is simulated.

The DrumGizmo developers have just pushed out a hot fix release, version 0.9.8.1. This fixes a rather serious bug in the resampling code that would cause sample skewing over the channels when resampling was enabled.

The latest version can be downloaded at drumgizmo.org

Don't forget you can visit the official DrumGizmo IRC channel at the Freenode network.

A new beta of EQ10Q V2, a powerful and flexible parametric EQ, has been released. Beta7 has many new features and improvements, including an updated user interface and an FFT visualization tool.

Alongside the parametric EQ you will also find a noise gate (GT10Q), compressor (CS10Q) and a bass enhancement plugin called Bassup. There are detailed overviews of each of the included plugins on the projects website.

Rui Nuno Capela has announced a fourth beta of his Vee One Suite of plugins, which includes an old school polyphonic synthesizer (synthv1), a polyphonic sampler (samplv1) and a drum-kit sampler (drumkv1).

The changelog for this release is as follows -

The 2.5.0 Release of ZynAddSubFX is now available.

This release is mainly focused on fixing some of the core architectural flaws that have historically existed. As a result this release should behave much better under jack and interfacing with the realtime side of things is much easier now.

For full details, check out fundamental's post over at linuxmusicians.com

Due to a recent call from the Guitarix devs for a graphic designer, Markus Schmidt from Calf Studio Gear has got in touch with them and taken on the task. For those who don't know who Markus is, he has not only created a lot of the Calf plugins but is also the guy responsible for their graphical interfaces.

Drumgizmo v0.9.8 has just been released. Beside the usual minor bug fixes, there has also been a lot of work done on the command line version of Drumgizmo.