New website launched for VST plugins

From January 1st, 2011, all VST plugins are available under a new name and on a dedicated website: toneboosters.com.

Besides the new brand name, all new plugins have basically been re-written from scratch to improve their audio quality and efficiency and to allow 64 bit and mac support. Furthermore, the user interfaces will be more consistent in their visual and user-interaction aspects.

EURASIP best paper award 2005-2008

The paper "Parametric coding of stereo audio" received the 2009 best paper award of the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing for the period 2005-2008.

More information can be found here, a copy of the paper can be downloaded here.

Best free VST plugins ever

Two VST plugins, Omniverb and Timemachine, are awarded by Computer Music as best free plugins ever.

The Computer Music Specials team have spent months on a search-and-test mission to hunt down the best freeware out there right now. Two of our plugins made it into their top-100 list.


Spatial audio processing / MPEG Surround

"Spatial audio processing: MPEG Surround and other applications" provides a comprehensive overview of recent trends in stereo and multi-channel audio compression technology. It brings together information on the processing, acquisition, mixing, playback, and perception of spatial audio, with the latest coding techniques. It also provides detailed information on recent audio compression standards, such as MPEG Surround and aacPlus (Parametric Stereo). More information here.

Order your copy from Wiley or Amazon.