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BLEASS has introduced Voices, a new effect for iOS, MacOS and Windows that they describe as “The Ultimate Vocal Harmonizer”.

Bleass Voices is an audio plugin dedicated to pitching, transforming, doubling and harmonizing vocals and other monophonic sources. It offers a total of 12 pitch-shifted voices, each providing detailed control over pitch, formant, tone, width and placement.

Four of Voices’ harmonized voices can be transposed independently by up to an octave higher or lower, or can be flattened to a chosen pitch. The remaining eight voices are triggered via MIDI, transposing the input signal to match the incoming MIDI notes. Coupled with BLEASS Voices’ deep implementation of MPE, this lets you play vocal chords, and vocal solos with realistic glides, trills and embellishments.

All voices have access to the plugin’s intelligent pitch correction algorithm that forces the voices into a selected key and scale. Additionally, as well as feeding into the master output, each voice has its own independent output buss allowing you to mix and add effects to those voices as though they were standalone recordings.

And, Bleass Voices works with fundamental frequencies ranging from 66Hz (approximately C1) to 5.2kHz (approximately E7), so you can use it for tuning, doubling and harmonizing not only vocal parts, but other monophonic instrument parts.

BLEASS Voices Tutorial:

Bleass Voices is available now, with an intro price of $49.00 (normally $69) for desktop and $14.99 for iOS.

Sample Logic has introduced Drum Fury Motion, a new virtual instrument that they describe as “a tooled-up groove machine that fuses percussive instruments and animated motion.”

Features:

• 1,813 Instruments & Presets
• 6+ GB Sample Content (21,000+ audio files)
• Constructed entirely from multi-sampled acoustic, digital, world, vocal and sound design percussion
• Dual-core audio engine with Step & FX Animators
• Dynamic tag-based preset browser
• Randomize presets, sounds and parameters for instant and infinite inspiration
• Hot-swappable effects chain technology

Drum Fury Motion Audio Demos:

Drum Fury Motion is available now, with an intro price of $199.99 (normally $299.99).

Behringer has shared an update on their plans to manufacture a copy of the RSF Kobol, a dual oscillator monophonic synth from 1978 that’s been described as ‘the French Minimoog’.

RSF was a French synth maker, founded by Ruben and Serge Fernandez. The RSF Kobol offered some unique features for its day, including patch memory and a built-in step sequencer. It’s very rare, with less than 200 thought to have been made.

Behringer had previously announced plans for a Kobol knockoff, along with a Euro version of the Kobol Expander synthesizer module, calling them #hardvaporware, because they had no plans to move the designs into production at that time.

What they say about the Behringer Kobol:

“The Kobol synthesizer is a true legendary synthesizer, designed by the long extinct company RSF. It’s so addictive that you’ll never want to put it down. It has amazing morphing features, but also full patch memory.

The Kobol is now fully developed and scheduled for production. “