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December 15, 2001 -- delaydots.com has released a significant update of their Sound Designers plug-in bundle.

The Sound Designers plug-ins contain three DSP plug-ins in both DirectX and VST PC formats, and one little bonus plug-in (Direct X only) for use in applications such as Sound Forge, Sonar, Nuendo, Wavelab, Cubase, Logic Audio and many others. All the Sound Designers plug-ins (excluding the bonus plug-in) support VST plug-in automation.

Featured in this package of audio processing plug-ins is:

• Phat: a subharmonic low frequency synthesizer

• PitchShift multiband: a formant pitch shifter with preserving duration based on phase vocoder algorithm with band selection and independent pitch control for each band.

• daBomb: a distortion machine with 2 modes: clipper+saturator and physical modeled tubescreamer. Tube screamer is modified version of real sonic distortion pedal with two different distortion circuits.

Phat Pro DX is an enhanced version of Phat plug-in features two algorithms for bass extract, fully controllable limiter and variable mix gain designed to provide more flexible controls on low frequency content.

Little bonus plug-in loopsfix: very precise (1-2000 samples) fade in/fade out plug-in (mono only).

Sound Designer's plug-ins offer 32-bit (floating point) only processing.

 Version 2.0 features:
 - Significant DSP core optimizations in the all plug-ins.
 - Fixed Pitch/Phat/Phat Pro cause of some random noise after processing.
 - Alot of GUI fixes/optimizations in DX version of plug-ins.
 - Precise semitones pitch shift mode added (DX only).
 - daBomb VU meter fixed.
 - Memory/Resource leaks removed, increased stability.
 - Added factory presets.

System Requirements: 300Mhz (500Mhz recommended) CPU, 64Mb RAM (128Mb recommended), Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP, DirectX Media Runtime 6.0 (or later suggested) for Direct X media plug-ins and VST2 support host for VST plug-ins.

A demo version is available for download. The Sound Designers plug-ins pack is offered at a price of $55 online ordering only. Also you may order individual plug-ins for $19.99 each (Phat Pro DX separate for $24.99).

For more information, visit their web site at www.delaydots.com.

Also, an exclusive screenshot of Spektral Shaper plugin from upcoming Spektral series is available at
http://www.delaydots.com/snorm.jpg