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Following the launch at Superbooth 2022, Eventide has revealed more about Misha, its unusual interval-based Eurorack instrument and sequencer.

Can it tip the musical scales in your favour?

It offers an intriguingly different approach to music making – each key enables you to move either up or down the selected scale by a specified interval; – each key is labelled accordingly. This method is inspired by the twelve-tone composition technique, which places equal importance on all twelve notes of a chromatic scale, preventing emphasis on any one single note.

Misha is designed to encourage and reward spontaneity, features more than 100 factory scales, including Western and microtonal options, and space for 100 user/custom scales, along with support for the Scala standard.

Additionally, a flexible sequencer is included, while MIDI, gate/CV and waveform outputs give you plenty of flexibility when it comes to connectivity. There are external control templates for MIDI and QWERTY keyboards, as well.

Features:

• Make sound three ways via MIDI, control voltage (with three independent gate/cv pairs) or outputting waveforms via the audio jack
• External control templates for MIDI and QWERTY keyboards
• 100 factory scales and additional slots for up to 100 user/custom scales (Scala support)
• Tone row based sequencer inspired by the classic compositional technique used in serial music
• Comprehensive control of sequence playback to easily manipulate and expand upon your musical ideas
• Create rhythmic variations using clock division
• Four user-assignable buttons
• 18 user presets
• CV inputs for external trigger/control sources
• Clock input for syncing to external sources. User configurable PPQ settings
• Audio output for internal oscillator
• Polyphony via 3 CV outputs or MIDI
• Micro-USB for easy firmware updates using Eventide Device Manager
• Micro-SD card for saving/loading scales and settings

An in-depth demo from loopop’s Ziv Eliraz:

Eventide Misha

Watch the video above to see it in action. Misha is available now priced at $599.

Find out more on the Eventide website.

Waves promises “instant vocal harmonies” from its new Harmony plugin, which can generate up to eight additional voices when given just one.

Likewise, you can adjust the pitch, formant, panning, delay, filtering and modulation (via drag-and-drop) for each voice individually, so it is possible to have both ‘male’ and ‘female’ backup simultaneously.

Additionally, there are Quick-harmony chord presets; designed for people who do not know music theory, these can help you generate voicings that you might not otherwise have considered.

Harmony is a time-saver when you are working on complete vocal arrangements – voices can simply be drawn in and automated snapshots can move with the song.

Harmony is designed to be used in real-time, so it could potentially be employed to create backing vocals when you are performing live.

The plugin works in three modes: Automatic will instantly create harmonies based on your choice of chord preset; Playable MIDI enables you to create harmonies by playing notes or chords in real-time on your MIDI keyboard – set the key and scale and the pitching should never go away; and Graphical mode can be called on when you want to draw and tweak harmonies on the visual display.

In addition, Harmony can also be used as a creative effect for doubling, layering and more.

In the video below, Waves show you how to use Harmony to create five vocal effects in no time at all.

Harmony runs on PC and Mac in VST/AU/AAX formats. It is available now for the introductory price of $40, regular price is $149.

Find out more and download a demo on the Waves website.

If your compressor is failing, this offer comes at the correct timing, and you will struggle to refuse because all that’s required is an IK account and a few minutes of your time.

IK Multimedia is currently giving away its T-RackS Comprexxor plugin that is worth $130, for free – providing you are willing to answer a few questions about studio monitors, that it.

Inspired by Empirical Labs’ Distressor – a supremely flexible and creative analogue hardware unit that’s also been emulated by Slate Digital, Universal Audio and Softube.  Comprexxor offers eight selectable curves, selectable second or third order harmonic saturation, high-pass/band-pass filters on the sidechain path and more.

Comprexxor is described by IK as “The Swiss Army Knife of compressors,”. It runs both as a standalone plugin or within the T-RackS 5 shell. If you do not own the paid version, you can download and install the free T-RackS 5 CS version.

If you want to qualify for a free download of Comprexxor, you will need to have an IK Multimedia account and to complete the brief survey. The offer runs until 20 September 2022.