Week of December 26, 2004 Tuesday, December 28 2004 | dmac CreamWare Introduces New Sonic Restoration Package osirisXP New from CreamWare is REstore, a new sonic restoration package that consists of the new osirisXP restoration plugin bundle, a SCOPE home DSP card, the PSY-Q Psycho Acoustic Processor and tripleLE, the light edition of CreamWare's new generation digital audio editor. The new osirisXP restoration bundle, which was developed in colaboration with the restoration experts from Algorithmix includes DeClicker, DeCrackler and DeNoiser, is a toolkit for reducing or eliminating all kinds of unwanted sonic disturbances. The DeClicker features five different algorithms for removal of clicks. The DeNoiser can be trained to adjust to specific noise profiles, also effectively reducing or removing hum, buzz and other background noise. The PSY-Q plugin supplied with REstore can be used to add liveliness, presence and contour to the restored signal, both in the high and the bottom end of the signal. tripleLE provides facilities to record, edit and mix audio material, also supporting the popular MP3 format. In combination with an installation of Ahead Nero Version 6 software, red book compatible audio CDs can be written directly from the arranger window. For more information, visit their web site at creamware.com. Tuesday, December 28 2004 | dmac New Guitar Sample Library from Precisionsound Precisionsound has released Monzter Guitars, a new collection of sounds for GigaStudio, HALion & Kontakt. The goal of Monzter Guitars is to give you a recorded "wall of guitar" sound ready to play from your keyboard. The Monzter guitars SampleSet contains: Two programs for each format, Gigastudio, HALion & Kontakt. Fifths sampled both as long notes and staccatos. The long notes is un-looped and in 2 velocity layers for the notes and 2 velocity layers for the release notes. The staccato samples are in 4 velocity layers. Every note from B1 to E3 has been sampled for both articulations. A separate program for scrapes & slides in different speeds and direction. A total of 192 stereo samples in 24-bit format (HALion/Kontakt) The Gigastudio version is in 16-bit format. Monzter Guitars was produced by music producer, mastering technician and guitar player Thomas Johansson who has over 50 CD productions unde his belt. The sounds were created using a Gibson 1994 Explorer, Engl Fireball (modified), Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier, and Peavey 5150 MK1. The collection is available now direct from Precisionsound for 300 SEK (about US$45). For more information, visit their web site at precisionsound.net.