Week of April 9, 2006 Monday, April 10 2006 | dmac Line 6 Announces Free Refills For Reason Users Line 6, Inc. announced today they will be giving away a free ReFill each month to users of Propellerhead Reason music production software. By visiting line6.com/freerefills, users can create an account that grants them access to a free downloadable Refill each month through the end of the year. ReFills provide a turnkey approach to one-step loading of customizable instruments, samples, synths, drum loops, and effect setups. "We're thrilled to provide users with the ability to freely expand and extend the instruments and sound libraries available to them within Reason," said Erik Tarkiainen, director of market development, Line 6. "This promotion provides an opportunity to introduce musicians to the world class sound designers that are continually developing products for the Reason community." Distributed in the US by Line 6, Reason is an enormously popular software title for both Windows and Mac OS that emulates the functionality of various recording studio equipment. By leveraging the power of modern computers, Reason provides a virtual music production studio in software, including electronic synthesizers, samplers, drum machines and mixing equipment. With Reason, a musician can compose and produce music in much the same fashion as working in a recording studio, but at much less cost without the need for a specialized physical space and lots of hardware. For more information, visit their web site at line6.com. Monday, April 10 2006 | dmac ANWIDA Soft Releases Audio Unit And DirectX Versions Of Numerous Plug-Ins ANWIDA Soft has released the Audio Unit and DirectX versions of CX1V, L1V, GEQ15V, GEQ31V and PEQ1V. They are now available as AU, VST, DX and SAWStudio plugins both for Mac OS X and Windows based systems. - CX1X: compressor/expander plug-in - L1V: limiter/maximizer plug-in - GEQ15V: 15 band - 2/3 octave graphic equalizer plug-in - GEQ31V: 31 band - 1/3 octave graphic equalizer plug-in - PEQ1V: parametric equalizer plug-in CX1V, L1V, GEQ15V, GEQ31V and PEQ1V are also included in the Equo Pack which allows to save up to $191 off the regular price. CX1V - compressor/expander Great simplicity of use, and several features not commonly available in compressors (look ahead, hard/soft knee, above threshold easy monitoring). The CX1V compressor/expander offers an extremely transparent action with a natural and smooth response. L1V - limiter/maximizer Its transparent action allows it to be used both to control the dynamics of single tracks and to maximize the level of the final mix. Particular care has been taken in creating an algorithm that assures high precision limiting action. GEQ15V, GEQ31V - constant Q graphic equalizers 12 dB of boost or cut at any of, respectively, 15 or 31 bands centered around International Standards Organization (ISO) 2/3 or 1/3 octave frequencies from 20Hz to 20KHz. The warmth of classic analog devices with the clarity and the accuracy of the digital domain processing. PEQ1V - parametric equalizer An intuitive interface that drives a powerful constant Q, minimum phase equalization algorithm. The tool of choice to control the equalizations of vocal parts, instruments or complex mixes. For more information, visit their web site at anwida.com.