Pluggo 3.0 Released for RTAS, MAS, and VST

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Cycling '74 today released pluggo 3.0, a new version of its popular native audio processing plug-in software for VST, MAS, and RTAS audio applications. Pluggo 3 is now available for download and purchase on the Cycling '74 web site at www.cycling74.com.

Pluggo offers over 100 creative and unusual real-time audio effects and virtual instruments. In addition, users will be able to create their own custom plug-ins using Max/MSP, Cycling '74's award-winning companion authoring software.

Pluggo 3 makes full use of the new and improved award-winning Max4/MSP2 audio programming environment, and includes the Essential Instruments collection, a set of elegant and immediately effective instruments initially developed by eowave, the developers of the iSynth.

Pluggo effects include filtering, delay effects, distortion, granular synthesis, audio routing, sampling and synthesis, reverb, and sound localization. In addition, pluggo offers modulation, synchronization, and audio and control routing capabilities between plug-ins.

The 19+ synths and samplers in the Essential Instruments collection range from the characteristically midwestern self-effacement of the Pretty Good Synth, to additive synths, analog-modeling drum and percussion synths, sampling, granular synthesis, FM synthesis, wavetable synthesis, and waveshaping modules. Users can seamlessly combine these exciting new instruments with pluggo effects and modulators for an inexhaustible world of sonic possibilities. For the first time, pluggo 3 allows Max4/MSP2 users to host pluggo plug-ins and virtual instruments in their Max/MSP patches and Max/MSP-built standalone applications. Pluggo 3 also adds support for the Digidesign Real Time Audio Suite (RTAS) format, allowing Pro Tools users to join the pluggo excitement already in progress.

Pluggo 3 users who want to build their own plug-ins entirely from scratch can create them using Cycling '74's Max/MSP software. Support for effects automation, parameter management, presets, host synchronization, and undo is provided in the development environment. Pluggo 3 is the only way to develop a single plug-in that works in RTAS, VST, and MAS environments. New for this version is the ability to distribute plug-ins non-commercially without the need for recipients to purchase the Pluggo package. A free runtime plug-in environment installer can be downloaded from the Cycling '74 web site.

The list price of pluggo 3.0 is $199. Pluggo 3 is available to registered owners of pluggo2.1 (and earlier) and Max/MSP users for an upgrade price of $59.

Max4/MSP2 is available now from Cycling '74 for $495. Demo versions, purchases and upgrades are available online.

For more information, visit their web site at www.cycling74.com.