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Native Instruments has launched its Cyber Season holiday sale, offering deep discounts on its hardware and software instruments and effects.

The NI Cyber Season discounts include:

• 50% off instruments, effects, and sound packs – From songwriting essentials like Acoustic Sunburst Deluxe and Upright Bass to the lush piano tones of Noire and Alicia’s Electric Keys, save on a huge range of virtual instruments. Expand your orchestral palette with Cremona Quartet and the Action Suite, or discover beatmaking favorites like Glaze 2 and Bouquet. Pick and choose from genre-based Expansion sound packs, as well as studio and creative effects like Guitar Rig 7 Pro.
• Up to 60% off on iZotope mixing, mastering, and repair tools – Get 40% off the award-winning RX 11 Audio Repair suite, perfect for flawless mixes and masters. Or take up to 60% off the acclaimed Ozone 11 mastering suite to level-up your sound. For creative tools, get iZotope’s Neoverb, VocalSynth 2, Trash, and Stutter Edit 2 for only $29 each.
• Huge discounts on hardware – Kit out your studio with up to $200 off Maschine grooveboxes, loaded with the brand-new Maschine 3 software. Plus, pick up an M32 keyboard and get the Komplete 15 Select plugin bundle totally free.
• $199 for Reaktor 6 and friends – Whether you’re building custom synths, designing effects, or exploring experimental soundscapes, Reaktor 6 lets you craft sounds your way. For only $199 you’ll get 11 synths including Razor, Form, and Super 8, bundled in for free!
• Buy Session Percussionist and get Rudiments free – From simple solo beats to intricate ensembles, Session Percussionist delivers instant organic rhythms, with a wide collection of drum patterns, rolls, and one-shots. Get it half-price and you’ll get the bread-and-butter hip hop beats of Rudiments for free.
• Traktor deals – Traktor Pro 4 software is now 30% off and there are even more savings for updaters. If you’re in North or South America, you’ll save $50 on Traktor X1 MK3, the portable controller for effects, loops, and mixing. And if you’re in Europe, you’ll get a free modular bag.

Visit the Native Instruments site for details on all of their Cyber Season deals.

AudioThing & Hainbach have introduced Arguments, a vintage-style test equipment plugin for tone generation and dual audio processing.

Arguments takes two signals and combines them, using math derived from analog nuclear research processors. Since each part of Arguments can run independently, it also works as a sonically rich test tone generator, as a complex distortion unit, or as a multimode filter.

“Its core idea comes from multiplication modules in the Nuclear Instrumentation format NIM BIN,” explains Hainbach. “I have used these for a long to time turn simple signals into heavy beats and basses. With Arguments, you can combine any two signals and lock them in a dance for headroom. Or you can use the integrated tone generator for lush 1960s sounding waveforms and pseudo-random noise. Or do both at same time. Arguments is meant to inspire you in your search for the sounds in between.”

The official Arguments intro video:

Arguments is available for Linux, macOS and Windows with an intro price of $39 (normally $69). It’s also available, as AUv3 and Standalone, in the App Store for iOS and iPadOS for $12.99.

Tiptop Audio & Buchla USA have released the Frequency Shifter Model 285t, a Eurorack format reissue of the original 200 series module from 1971.

The Model 285t combines two functions in one module, frequency shifting and ring modulation. It’s the latest in Tiptop Audio’s Euro format reissues of classic Buchla 200 Series modules.

Here’s what they have to say about the 285t:

“The theory of shifting frequencies using analog multipliers was first invented in the early 1900s. However, in 1971, Don Buchla took this concept and explored how it could interact with the audio signals of his modular synthesizer.

By combining it with a balanced modulator into a single module, he likely created one of the world’s first analog audio effect processor modules.”

Tiptop Audio & Buchla Frequency Shifter Model 285t Video Demo, via Stazma:

The Buchla & Tiptop Audio Frequency Shifter Model 285t is available now to pre-order.