Digidesign Eleven Plug-In Now Available For Purchase

Nov 20, 2007

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Digidesign's eagerly anticipated Eleven™ guitar amp emulation plug-in for Pro Tools®, Avid®, and Digidesign® VENUE systems is now available for purchase. Providing access to a connoisseur's collection of vintage and modern amp sounds, Eleven sets a new standard in sound quality and tone-shaping flexibility for recording and live guitar amp sounds.

Digidesign Eleven offers a carefully selected emulations of modern amplifiers and speaker cabinets based on amps and cabinets from Vox®, Fender®, Marshall®, Mesa/Boogie®, and Soldano*, as well as several custom Digidesign creations inspired by the most revered amplifier designs in the world. In order to achieve an unprecedented level of realism, Digidesign developed an innovative new approach to amp modeling, as well as consulted with some of the industry's leading guitar players, recording engineers, and music facilities.

"Eleven really captures those subtle, yet immensely important nuances that make the guitar amp combos we cloned sound like the real thing," cites Dusty DiMercurio, marketing manager for Eleven. "Our Eleven team really went the extra mile with this plug-in by including non-linear characteristics often overlooked in other amp-modeling solutions—things like power amp sag, speaker cone breakup, cabinet resonance, and ghost notes."

"The convolution-based speaker cabinets and mics, combined with innovative modeling techniques, really help give the plug-in its true-to-life sounds: we not only captured the cabinet resonance that's unique to each amp and speaker combination, we also managed to model the speaker load and coupling with the power amp, and the natural cabinet resonance that happens when driving a speaker at different volumes. Eleven's response to each player's individual style and playing techniques is pretty amazing—it's uncanny how much it feels like you're playing through a real amp with this plug-in."

Eleven comes preloaded with a broad selection of great-sounding and easily accessible amp model configurations, and allows independent selection and bypass of the amp and mic'd cabinet models, enabling users to create a near-limitless palette of their own unique signature sounds.

Eleven is available in two versions—Eleven and Eleven LE. Eleven supports TDM, RTAS®, and AudioSuite™ plug-in formats for use with Pro Tools|HD®, ICON, and VENUE systems. Eleven LE supports RTAS and AudioSuite plug-in formats for use with Pro Tools LE® and Pro Tools M-Powered™ systems. Both Eleven ($595 US) and Eleven LE ($395 US) are available through authorized Digidesign dealers and through the DigiStore.

*Digidesign Eleven is not connected with, or approved or endorsed by, the owners of the Fender, VOX, Marshall, Mesa/Boogie, and Soldano names. These names are used solely to identify the guitar amplifiers emulated by the Digidesign Eleven plug-in.

For more information, visit their web site at www.digidesign.com.