Digidesign announced on Thursday the release of MassivePack 3, a bundle of third party plug-ins for Pro Tools that includes Echo Farm, a collection of echo effects; FilterBank, which emulates a wide variety of equalizers; H949 Harmonizer, a Harmonizer effects processor; MC2000, a high-end multi-band compressor; MDW High-Res Parametric EQ, a high-resolution digital equalizer; Oxford OXF-R3 EQ, which is the equalizer found on Sony’s flagship console; Slightly Rude Compressor, a plug-in designed for “warming digital mixes;” Smack!, a new compressor/limiter plug-in created by Digidesign; SoundBlender, which collects a variety of time, pitch, filter and modulation effects; Speed, a tempo and pitch modification plug-in; and TL Space, Trillium Lane Labs’ TDM convolution reverb.
The US$1,195 collection is also available in a $3,495 Pro version that includes all 11 plug-ins and one of Digidesign’s HD Accel cards, which offer Pro Tools|HD systems increased DSP power. Digidesign noted, however, that both bundles are available only through Sept. 30.