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The 4030 Retro Compressor is a new dynamic range control topology coupled with a wet/dry mix control to balance compressed and uncompressed signals. An active attack and release design allows aggressive compression settings with minimal artifact generation.
All Retro plug-ins use a McDSP designed output stage topology to eliminate digital clipping at any output level and produce a smoother distortion characteristic. This feature is in addition to the analog saturation modeling that has made McDSP famous over the last decade.
Retro plug-ins are a line of ‘classics’ that can live up to their own name without emulating something else.
Features
Unique original algorithms with transparent yet vintage sound
• Mix control
• Side chain support
• Anti-Clip Output Stage Topology
• Analog Saturation Modeling
• Double Precision Processing
• Ultra Low Latency
• Mono and Stereo versions
Formats
• HD v6: AAX DSP/Native, AU, VST
The 4020 Retro EQ is a four-band EQ and complimentary filter set. The HF and LF bands are shelving EQ, with two additional parametric EQs at the HMF and LMF bands. All EQ bands operate on a unique gain dependent variable slope/Q system for a vintage smooth sound and increased boost/cut frequency selectivity high gains. The HPF and LPF filters use a unique split-octave design giving a 12 dB/Oct slope near the selected frequency, and a maximum slope of 24 dB/Oct.
All Retro plug-ins use a McDSP designed output stage topology to eliminate digital clipping at any output level and produce a smoother distortion characteristic. This feature is in addition to the analog saturation modeling that has made McDSP famous over the last decade.
Features
Unique original algorithms with transparent yet vintage sound
• Variable slope filtering
• Variable Q/slope Shelving and Parametric EQ
• Anti-Clip Output Stage Topology
• Analog Saturation Modeling
• Double Precision Processing
• Ultra Low Latency
• Mono and Stereo versions
Formats
• HD v7: AAX DSP/Native, AU, VST
Simple additive monster vocals. For when you need more.
Teenage kids processed as zombie voices. Because who doesn’t need more zombie voices.
The Audio Medical collection features 52 professionally recorded sound effects, ready for use in your productions. Included in this library are heart monitors, respirators, hospital beds, blood pressure meters, MRI machines and much more! These sounds are all hand-picked from the Sound Ideas General HD and Series 6000 libraries.
Packed with over 750 high-quality recordings, the Useful Interface sound library delivers a diverse collection of tastefully crafted user interface sound effects for your UI needs. Featuring menu actions, expressive gestures, beeps, whooshes, transitions loops and more, this library covers all the bases with subtlety and style. Boost the interactive user experience your game or app UI with practical, satisfying tones. Enhance your films with a unique synthetic edge for sci-fi projects and beyond.
The Useful Interface library was recorded and produced by Jason Strawley and Andrew Garraway, employing both synthesized and organic sounds to create their ideal UI toolset:
Flame whooshes, musical instruments and 8-bit chip sounds are among the tools utilized to create the source recordings. They were then ripped apart, layered and modulated, resulting in a wide variety of textures and moods. Additionally, all sounds have been play-tested in Wwise to ensure responsiveness and usability. With 12 expressions in each set, Useful Interface contains no shortage of workable options to bolster your UI and enhance the experience of your project. Useful Interface is also included in Pro Sound Effects’ CORE: Standard.
Key Features:
Ankers Audio presents a collection of stereo ambiences recorded during a 12 month travel around Spain. Recorded in 9 different parts of the country and featuring everything from busy city life to tranquil mountain ranges. Includes church bells, fireworks displays from Las Fallas festival, cafes, nature and several tracks of protests with large crowds. All tracks were recorded in 24Bit/48kHz with a Tascam DR100MKII.
Ready to use and filled with metadata.
Generic walla present in most tracks will be in Spanish (Castilian)
The Sound Barr “Tennis SFX Library” is professionally recorded with professional tennis players. From tennis hits, impacts, wooshes and efforts it has 213 variations in 24 files. It’s been recorded at 2 different locations. Both tennis courts are hardcourt and outdoors.
In „DEFECT“ you’ll find a lot of analog noises, electro-magnetic field recordings, and digital
glitches. The sound of malfunction and error. Carefully selected and edited for instant use.
The sources that were used to make this sound effect library include:
Categorized into 3 Folders (01_Glitches, 02_Noise_and_broken_circuits, 03_EMF) you will find about 225 wav files.
These sounds are made for total sonic mayhem, idea for glitchy video editing and for broken transmission simulation. Video editors, Game Designers and of course Sounddesigners and experimental Musicians will find a lot of useful sounds in „DEFECT“
All Files are provided in 48kHz/24bit
This is an extended and re-mastered source part of more advanced Radiomorph library.
Shortwave radio is a strange, noisy and constantly changing soundscape, but it can pick up lots of interesting things: whine, fading stations, atmospheric noises, heterodyne, voices in foreign languages from distant broadcasts.
Time of day, location, weather, solar activity, ionosphere – all these things have huge impact to what receiver can pick up.
This affordable library is a great way to add unique, squelchy, noisy, unpredictable LoFi sounds to your arsenal!
Equipment used: Evaton RF Nomad eurorack module, Sound Devices MixPre 6
KEY POINTS:
– 75 sound effects made from eurorack shortwave radio receiver module
– 96khz/24bit quality
– Perfect source of dark, gritty and noisy radio textures for SFX production
– Universal Catalog System (UCS) compliant
– Contains BWF metadata for search engines
“The Shoe Collection: Soft Hardwood- Leather Dress Shoe“ by Periscope Post & Audio, provides 22 high quality footsteps files on soft hardwood floors with the leather dress shoe. The audio files are recorded at 24bit, 192k with mono and stereo recordings. The Sennheiser MKH-60 was used for the mono files with a slightly more distant mic placement than the stereo files, which were recorded with the Sennheiser MKH8050 and the Sennheiser MKH-30 near the shoe. From different walking speeds, to jogging, sprinting, jumping, hard stops, scuffs, and more! There are several performances with each file to fit the right action you need. That’s a whopping 448 footsteps between the mono and stereo files!
These sound files are also UCS metadata tagged
The Tool Pack 01: Drops contains over 90 minutes ( 350 files) of a variety of tools and decorating items drops, impacts, rolls & slides, allowing for a huge array of custom variations to be created.
The assets have been designed for use with computer game media that demands high asset variations, however this pack is suited for all forms of audio media.
The included basic construction kit / original recordings enables further custom asset details to be created for more granular focus.
All assets have been recorded & produced at 96kHz/24bit.
Included in this pack:
This SFX collection has 104 individual voice lines of “Dark Voice”.
“Character: Dark Voice” is a sound pack that includes 312 files and 104 unique sound effects. In this pack you will find various voice phrases which will be perfect for your music, film or gaming production. This frightening voice is specially designed for games in the RGP genre but it can be used for all kinds of projects.
All phrases:
All sounds were recorded and edited at 192kHz / 24it.
Naturescape is a high quality stereo library recorded at 96khz/24bit featuring 100 files and more than 4 hours of immersive nature soundscapes. Most of the library has been recorded in Tuscany-Italy showing the best sound of the countryside, hills, woodlands and forests of this Mediterranean area. There are also some files recorded on the Alps and some exotic soundscapes recorded in South Africa. This library contains the four seasons nature ambiences including a range of quiet and windy forests, woodlands, grass fields, savannah and jungle, a wide selection of various birds chirping and insects soundscapes, snow melting, dogs barking, roosters, deers, monkeys, gibbons and flamingoes
Audience in theatre is a collection of murmurs, talks, cheerings, claps, screams and laughs.
It has been recorded in three different Italian theatres (small, medium and large sized theatres) and in an outdoor arena during a summer jazz festival.
Retro plug-ins are designed for the ultimate vintage vibe using new and original designs based on McDSP’s decades of industry experience.
Retro Pack plug-ins are a line of ‘classics’ that can live up to their own name without emulating something else. Retro Pack is packaged with three plug-ins – the 4020 Retro EQ, the 4030 Retro Compressor and the 4040 Retro Limiter. These plug-ins provide the fundamental tone shaping tools required for any production, with a unique tone that is all their own.
Includes:
• 4020 Retro EQ
• 4030 Retro Compressor
• 4040 Retro Limiter
Formats
• Native v7: AAX DSP/Native, AU, VST
Retro plug-ins are designed for the ultimate vintage vibe using new and original designs based on McDSP’s decades of industry experience.
Retro Pack plug-ins are a line of ‘classics’ that can live up to their own name without emulating something else. Retro Pack is packaged with three plug-ins – the 4020 Retro EQ, the 4030 Retro Compressor and the 4040 Retro Limiter. These plug-ins provide the fundamental tone shaping tools required for any production, with a unique tone that is all their own.
Includes:
• 4020 Retro EQ
• 4030 Retro Compressor
• 4040 Retro Limiter
Formats
• HD v7: AAX DSP/Native, AU, VST
McDSP brings its award winning plug-in arsenal from the studio to the stage with the Live Pack II bundle.
McDSP plug-ins ultra low latency, great sonic flexibility, and seamless integration on the Avid VENUE S6L live sound system make Live Pack II a must-have for any FOH or monitoring engineer.
The McDSP Live Pack II plug-ins can also operate in Pro Tools as an AAX DSP or AAX Native plug-in, or as an AU, VST, or VST3 plug-in on other DAWs for both Mac OS and Windows.
Includes:
• Channel G
• AE600 Active EQ
• 6050 Ultimate Channel Strip
• ML8000 Advanced Limiter
• ML4000 Mastering Limiter
• NF575 Noise Filter
• NR800 Noise Reduction
• EC-300 Echo Collection
• 6034 Multi-Band Compressor
• DE555
• FutzBox
• SA-2 Dialog Processor
Formats
• HD v6: AAX DSP/Native, AU, VST
For those who need to have it all, Everything Pack is the ticket.
All McDSP’s channel strips, compressors, equalizers, virtual tape machines, multi-band dynamic processors, reverbs, de-essers, mastering limiters, noise filters, and ‘futz’ tools are included.
Everything Pack contains all the plug-ins from Emerald Pack, Retro Pack, Classic Pack, plus all the latest McDSP plug-ins including the 6060 Ultimate Module Collection, NR800 Noise Reduction Processor, the 6034 Ultimate Multi-band, and the Emmy Award winning SA-2 Dialog Processor.
The Everything Pack is the complete bundle for the user who needs powerful plug-ins to make their production sound its very best.
Includes:
• 6020 Ultimate EQ
• 6030 Ultimate Compressor
• 6034 Multi-Band Compressor
• 6050 Ultimate Channel Strip
• 6060 Ultimate Module Collection
• 4020 Retro EQ
• 4030 Retro Compressor
• 4040 Retro Limiter
• AE400 Active EQ
• AE600 Active EQ
• Analog Channel
• Channel G
• Channel G Compact
• CompressorBank
• DE555
• EC-300 Echo Collection
• FilterBank
• FutzBox
• MC2000 Multi-Band Compressor
• ML4000 Mastering Limiter
• ML8000 Advanced Limiter
• NF575 Noise Filter
• NR800 Noise Reduction
• Revolver Convolution Reverb
• SPC2000 Serial/Parallel Processor
• SA-2 Dialog Processor
Formats
• Native v6: AAX Native, AU, VST
For those who need to have it all, Everything Pack is the ticket.
All McDSP’s channel strips, compressors, equalizers, virtual tape machines, multi-band dynamic processors, reverbs, de-essers, mastering limiters, noise filters, and ‘futz’ tools are included.
Everything Pack contains all the plug-ins from Emerald Pack, Retro Pack, Classic Pack, plus all the latest McDSP plug-ins including the 6060 Ultimate Module Collection, NR800 Noise Reduction Processor, the 6034 Ultimate Multi-band, and the Emmy Award winning SA-2 Dialog Processor.
The Everything Pack is the complete bundle for the user who needs powerful plug-ins to make their production sound its very best.
Includes:
• 6020 Ultimate EQ
• 6030 Ultimate Compressor
• 6034 Multi-Band Compressor
• 6050 Ultimate Channel Strip
• 6060 Ultimate Module Collection
• 4020 Retro EQ
• 4030 Retro Compressor
• 4040 Retro Limiter
• AE400 Active EQ
• AE600 Active EQ
• Analog Channel
• Channel G
• Channel G Compact
• CompressorBank
• DE555
• EC-300 Echo Collection
• FilterBank
• FutzBox
• MC2000 Multi-Band Compressor
• ML4000 Mastering Limiter
• ML8000 Advanced Limiter
• NF575 Noise Filter
• NR800 Noise Reduction
• Revolver Convolution Reverb
• SPC2000 Serial/Parallel Processor
• SA-2 Dialog Processor
Formats
• HD v6: AAX DSP/Native, AU, VST
McDSP’s world-renowned equalizers, compressors, tape machine and analog signal path emulators, mastering limiters, multi-band dynamics processors, convolution reverbs, de-essers, noise filters, and ‘futz’ tools are available together as the McDSP Emerald Pack v5.
Includes:
• 6030 Ultimate Compressor Native v5
• Analog Channel Native v5
• Channel G Native v5
• Channel G Compact Native v5
• CompressorBank Native v5
• DE555 Native v5
• FilterBank Native v5
• FutzBox Native v5
• MC2000 Native v5
• ML4000 Native v5
• NF575 v5
• Revolver Native v5
Formats
• Native v6: AAX Native, AU, VST
McDSP’s world-renowned equalizers, compressors, tape machine and analog signal path emulators, mastering limiters, multi-band dynamics processors, convolution reverbs, de-essers, noise filters, and ‘futz’ tools are available together as the McDSP Emerald Pack v5.
Includes:
• 6030 Ultimate Compressor HD v5
• Analog Channel HD v5
• Channel G HD v5
• Channel G Compact HD v5
• CompressorBank HD v5
• DE555 HD v5
• FilterBank HD v5
• FutzBox HD v5
• MC2000 HD v5
• ML4000 HD v5
• NF575 v5
• Revolver Native v5
Formats
• HD v6: AAX DSP/Native, AU, VST
McDSP’s legendary emulations of vintage equalizers, compressors, tape machines and channel amplifiers are available together as McDSP Classic Pack v5.
Includes:
• Analog Channel Native v5
• CompressorBank Native v5
• FilterBank Native v5
• MC2000 Native v5
Formats
• Native v6: AAX Native, AU, VST
The SPC2000 Compressor features multiple parallel and serial compression combinations.
SPC2000 is 3 plug-ins:
• SPC202 – two-band configuration
• SPC303 – three-band configuration
• SPC404 – four-band configuration
Each compression in the SPC2000 uses the award winning McDSP CompressorBank algorithms and controls giving the user complete control of dynamic compression. Common controls such as Output (make-up gain), Threshold, Compression (Ratio), Attack, and Release are provided as well as non-standard Knee and Bite controls which allow the articulation of compression characteristics in unique and exciting ways. Multiple peak detection circuit types provide flexibility previously achieved only by owning different compression units.
Features
• Multiple parallel and serial compression combinations
• Compression curve modeling
• Multiple peak detection circuits
• Multi-compressor control linking
• Analog Saturation Modeling
• Double precision processing
• Ultra Low Latency
Formats
• Native v6: AAX Native, AU, VST
The SPC2000 Compressor features multiple parallel and serial compression combinations.
SPC2000 is 3 plug-ins:
• SPC202 – two-band configuration
• SPC303 – three-band configuration
• SPC404 – four-band configuration
Each compression in the SPC2000 uses the award winning McDSP CompressorBank algorithms and controls giving the user complete control of dynamic compression. Common controls such as Output (make-up gain), Threshold, Compression (Ratio), Attack, and Release are provided as well as non-standard Knee and Bite controls which allow the articulation of compression characteristics in unique and exciting ways. Multiple peak detection circuit types provide flexibility previously achieved only by owning different compression units.
Features
• Multiple parallel and serial compression combinations
• Compression curve modeling
• Multiple peak detection circuits
• Multi-compressor control linking
• Analog Saturation Modeling
• Double precision processing
• Ultra Low Latency
Formats
• HD v6: AAX DSP/Native, AU, VST
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