(March 18th 2021, Mainz, Germany) – After last year’s big success, Dynamedion, Europe’s largest game audio production company, and their label Sonuscore, developer of high-quality software instruments, are again offering their composer customers and online communities a Donation Sale to raise money for international Coronavirus funds.
Magic Spring Donation Sale to Fight Coronavirus and Support Artists
The Donation Flash Sale in 2020 was an inspiring success with Dynamedion/Sonuscore and its international artist collective donated $16,110.70 of their profits to WHO and CARITAS International. “While it seems that the situation is now rapidly getting better in the richer countries, there are many places in the world where people are still struggling very hard,” Managing Director Pierre Langer states. That’s why now they hope to top that with the Magic Spring Donation Sale. For 10 days starting on 18th March 2021, Sonuscore is offering a bundle of five software products for €9.90 instead of €217, which translates to a 95% discount. The deal includes their brand-new ha•pi – Concert Harp virtual instrument. Like with last year, the sale is initiated on the one hand to support artists currently struggling with terminated contracts and on the other to raise money for a good cause. Find out more at the Spring Donation Sale website.
The Coronavirus Funds
The Donations will be sent to regions that are currently being hit particularly hard by the Coronavirus pandemic. The organizations that they will support are:
• World Health Organization
• Save The Children
Customer Quotes from last year’s Donation Sale:
“This has to be the biggest no brainer deal of all no brainer deals!
5 great looking little libraries for 10 dollars and it goes to charity.”
“Great deal for a good cause, what more can you ask for?”
“Amazing library from an equally amazing and generous developer. Thanks @Sonuscore!”
About Dynamedion/Sonuscore
Dynamedion was founded in 2000 in Mainz, Germany by Pierre Langer and Tilman Sillescu, two composers with university degrees in music. Since then, Dynamedion has become the award-winning European leader in music composition, sound design, source sound recordings, live orchestra production and audio integration services for international game audio, with over 2,000 released games, TV series, trailers, films, and movies.
Sonuscore was founded in 2012 as a label of Dynamedion and was created by the same team that founded the highly acclaimed BOOM Library. The three founders have combined their vast experience in orchestral music production, high-end sound quality claims, and their cutting-edge approach to perfectly balanced usability to shape some of the most renowned virtual software instruments!
After last year’s StayHome campaign, Black Rooster Audio are hosting another sale that gives back – with 20% of the profits going towards Music Health Alliance, who provide free access to healthcare to the music community.
For a limited time only, the entire collection of plugins (worth $908) is available for only $149. There are 15 world-class plug-ins (AAX/VST/AU) in the bundle, including the latest releases – RO-140 vintage plate reverb and KH-COMP1 Koen Heldens signature compressor.
I make that to be about an 85% discount for a brilliant collection of plugins which are also available individually for a 70% discount. I’ve previously reviewed a number of Black Rooster Audio plugins including Magnetite, VLA-2A and more. They are superb sounding plugins including EQs, compressors and filters – this is an offer not to be missed!
Black Rooster Audio are donating 20% of the profits of this sale to Music Health Alliance. This organization has provided free healthcare advocacy and support to more than 13,000 music industry members and saved the music community more than $65,000,000 nationwide by providing advocacy and access to lifesaving transplants, medicine, mental health resources, end of life care and many other necessary services. Entirely funded through grants and individual and corporate donations, financial support from the music community is critical to continue Music Health Alliance’s (MHA) advocacy and free services.
For every $1 donation, MHA is able to provide $30 in life-saving healthcare resources to Heal The Music.
About Black Rooster Audio
We are a premium audio software company from Germany, best known for our beautifully designed vintage gear emulation plug-ins for producing, mixing, and mastering audio.We are passionate about combining the finest of vintage analogue sound and modern technology to help you take your sound to the next level. Our processors can be used in the most popular host applications such as Steinberg Cubase, Apple Logic, Ableton Live, Avid ProTools and many others supporting the AAX, VST and Audio Units formats.
Haydock based company aims to inspire people of all ages to find their instrument and begin a lifelong journey of creativity through positivity whilst embracing the wider music community.
Haydock, UK – As most retailers can attest to, the past 12 months or more have been incredibly challenging. However, this long-standing musical instrument retailer retains an air of optimism for the future and wishes to share their enthusiasm for musical creativity and lifelong learning through their ongoing ‘Pick Up & Play’ initiative.
For over 120-years, musicians ranging from absolute beginners to touring professionals have relied on the expert advice of Dawsons Music & Sound Ltd, not only when making instrument purchasing decisions, but also through music lessons, instrument repairs, gigging advice, etc. From Accounts to Warehousing, Dawsons Music & Sound Ltd is more a family of musicians who, between them, play virtually every instrument imaginable and have equally eclectic musical tastes. They all share a common desire to ‘Pick Up & Play’, whether it is to chill out and unwind, challenge themselves, or flex their creative muscles.
The idea behind the ‘Pick Up & Play’ initiative is to encourage everyone to begin their musical journey. Beginners benefit from carefully curated instrument packs filled with everything needed to hit the ground running, as well as offering outstanding value. Intermediate and those with more experience are presented with logical next-steps in our ‘Level-Up’ packs.
Reinforcing the Dawsons Music & Sound Ltd brand commitment to provide authoritative, informative, and transparent advice to customers and the wider music community, articles and guides from their growing Studio D platform will feature prominently on the ‘Pick Up & Play’ page and in Newsletter shoutouts, offering advice, hints, and tips. Alongside regularly updated content their growing community across Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter will be encouraged to share their progress through weekly challenges with support from the team every step of the way.
Dawn Hayward, Head of Education & Marketing, stated:
“At Dawsons Music & Sound Ltd we want to help those who are starting on their musical journey, want to progress to the next level, or seeking a completely fresh musical experience – in short, we want to help everyone achieve their full potential. Whether they hope of headlining the main stage at Glastonbury, performing all Summer long in Ibiza, making ground-breaking, Grammy-nominated records, or simply chilling out at home after a long day in school or the office – we want them to trust us to make their dream a reality. That is what ‘Pick Up & Play’ is all about, inspiring everyone to make music a lifelong passion.“
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About Dawsons Music & Sound Ltd
Dawsons Music & Sound Ltd is a leading retailer of acoustic and electronic musical instruments, including keyboards and synthesizers, guitar products, electronic percussion, digital recording equipment, amplifiers, audio processors, and multimedia products. With more than 120 years of musical instrument retail experience, Dawsons Music & Sound Ltd set the standard in customer service for others to follow. For more information, visit https://www.dawsons.co.uk.
Eventide Audio celebrates its 50th anniversary with the introduction of the Eventide Clockworks Bundle, bringing DAW users a virtual rack full of the groundbreaking effects processors that propelled Eventide to success. Each of the eight processors in the Windows and Mac OS X bundle represents a creativity-unleashing milestone in audio technology.
The Eventide Clockworks Bundle for OS X and Windows supports VST, AAX, and AU plug-in protocols for compatibility with every DAW. Valued at over $1000 if purchased separately, this collection of legacy Eventide processors is available for immediate download at a special introductory MSRP of $299 through June 30, 2021, and $499 thereafter.
In 1971, in a New York City basement, Eventide Clockworks revolutionized the audio industry by creating the world’s first studio effects processor – the Instant Phaser – and pro audio’s first digital device, the Digital Delay Line. Over the course of the following decade, Eventide continued to introduce new processing paradigms – the world’s first Harmonizer®, the H910, followed by the Omnipressor®, Instant Flanger, H949, and the SP2016. Meticulously modeled to accurately produce these legacy effects – with dual versions of the H910 & H949 – the Eventide Clockworks bundle of plug-ins also includes sonic and DAW-friendly features even beyond the hardware’s capabilities.
The Instant Phaser was the world’s first studio phaser and the first-ever rack-mount effects unit. Originally intended to make the painstaking task of tape flanging quick and easy, engineers and producers found the Instant Phaser could also produce a smooth, transparent modulation and pleasing stereo decorrelation. The Instant Phaser’s analog all-pass filters could mimic the effect achieved by time delay, resulting in a modulation effect all its own. The Instant Phaser Mk II plugin brings that iconic sound to the desktop and additionally lets users dial in “Age” to their taste, emulating the spectrum of effects from component aging.
The Omnipressor, released in 1974, set the stage as the first dynamics effects processor, introducing the concepts of infinite compression, dynamic reversal, and side-chaining. The flexible Omnipressor plugin offers options to control all aspects of dynamics modification.
The H910 Harmonizer was the world’s first digital effects unit. With its unique combinations of pitch shifting, feedback, modulation and delay, it earned a home in the racks of studios worldwide. Thickening tracks is the H910s forte, with radical effects from robot sounds to gritty octaves also on tap.
The Instant Flanger utilized the then-newfangled bucket brigade ICs for swept delay, resulting in a time-based emulation of tape flanging true to the physical effect. Whereas the Instant Phaser offered several methods of controlling modulation, the Instant Flanger allowed engineers to combine these controls. The result: more control layers and less predictable sweeps.
In 1977, Eventide released the H949, standing on the shoulders of the H910 as the second in Eventide’s family of Harmonizers. It introduced a formal micro pitch-shifting mode, which became a mainstay for lead guitar processing. The H949 also had the first Reverse delays and introduced advanced autocorrelation techniques and also a Random pitch mode adopted to produce an automatic double-tracks for guitars and vocals.
In 1981, the SP2016 was released – the world’s first programmable effects processor featuring ROM chips that “plugged in” under the hood, making it possible to add new effects in the field and introducing the concept of the plug-in. While it was not a Clockworks-branded effects unit, the SP2016 earned its spot on this roster, as it marks the opening chapter of modern Eventide effects processors, beginning the progression through to today’s flagship H9000 networked multi-effects processor. The SP2016 Reverb plug-in includes modern and vintage versions of its signature Stereo Room, Room, and Hi-Density Plate.
H910 — original Harmonizer® and first digital effects processor
The H910 was the first ever digital effects processor introduced in 1975. It was so revolutionary because it wasn’t possible to produce these effects before it was released. You can tell how awesome its introduction must have been by the fact that producers such as Tony Visconti and Shelly Yakus used it on records by artists such as John Lennon, Patti Smith Group, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Suzanne Vega, AC/DC and many, many more.
When you start using this effect you see exactly why it was so revered. It can thicken and double any input source such as vocals, synths and guitars as well as adding ambience and a subtle delay. Things get more interesting when you use some of the pitch shifting, you can microshift up and down in cents which is brilliant for fine tuning as well as using note intervals such as 2nds, 3rds, 4ths and fifths both up and down. I have to say that using the ‘min7 down’ preset on a drumloop is a revelation. Throw in some modulation and things can get crazy – wobbles, glitches, risers and drops there are some very psychedelic effects possible when you dynamically alter the pitch, envelope and feedback settings.
H910 Dual
Studios would often use two H910s in parallel and the H910 Dual replicates this configuration to give even more creative possibilities.
H949
Built on the legacy of the H910, the H949 introduced de-glitching, micropitch, reverse and random delays and reverse pitch shifting. This is an excellent evolution, it does everything the H910 can do plus a lot more, the reverse sweeps, random delay and flange create some very cool and interesting effects. It has a kind of sample and hold function where you can change settings ready for when you release and dynamically changing controls gives some amazing time mangling effects.
H949 Dual
As with the H910, these were often used in parallel in studios and the dual version replicates this configuration and similarly offers even more creativity.
Omnipressor
This compressor / expander / gate was introduced in the early 1970s. It’s a very versatile effect, capable of subtle compression, expansion and gating. However, it can also be brutal, squeezing the life out of drums, producing glitchy and lo-fi sounds as well as acting as a dynamic reverse gate and also producing very loud sounds.
Instant Phaser
This was the world’s first studio phaser and it sounds excellent. It can handle subtle, slow to more intense sounds.
Instant Flanger
The first faithful simulation of a tape flanger, this can handle slow, subtle and more intense flange effects and again sounds superb. Using it in conjunction with the H910 ‘min 7 down’ preset on a dub drum loop produces a very cool trippy effect.
SP2016 Reverb
I’ve previously reviewed Sp2016 reverb which you can read here. It sounds awesome, is easy to use and is my go to reverb, I use it on pretty much everything. There are effectively 6 reverb effects – Room, Stereo Room and High Density Plate in Modern and Vintage versions and it can do everything from small to massive spaces and is suitable for any instrument. You get the best of both worlds – a faithful recreation of the original unit along with modern touches. It comes with a large range of presets that are suitable for use as they are, can be tailored to your specific requirements or you can just start experimenting and see what happens.
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