EVENTIDE'S NEW REVERB AND OCTAVOX PLUG-INS FOR PRO TOOLS NOW SHIPPING

LITTLE FERRY, NJ, February 4, 2004 - Eventide today announced that it has begun shipping its new Reverb and Octavox™ Harmonizer® diatonic pitch shifter plug-ins for Pro Tools HD and Accel for Mac v5.1.3 or greater. Based on the legendary sounds of its flagship product, the Orville™ digital audio effects processor, the launch of the two plug-ins follows the immediate success of the Clockworks Legacy™ plug-ins and are available from authorized Eventide software dealers.

According to Ray Maxwell, Eventide vice president of sales and marketing, the new Eventide plug-ins, introduced at the 115th AES, provide the desktop community with the same flexibility and tone-shaping capability that high-end studios have enjoyed for generations using Eventide's legendary hardware processors, as well as unprecedented creative power and flexibility when working on their projects. "Ever since the release of the Clockworks Legacy plug-ins, people have been clamoring for the same functionality we provide in our hardware processors in plug-in form," Maxwell said. "At Eventide, we continue to push the sonic boundaries with the release of these plug-ins."

Grammy-winning engineer and producer Tal Herzberg was one of the first to use the new plug-ins from Eventide. "The Reverb sounds amazing! It is hands down the best that's available for TDM right now," Herzberg said "It sounds fat and rich, and the controls are superb, especially the compression which puts the effects right in their place. Octavox is equally as impressive and works perfect as a doubler."

Octavox ($595) was created based on the multi-voice pitch shifter from the Orville and is the first ever Eventide Harmonizer eight-voice diatonic pitch shifter plug-in. Octavox allows users to create stacked harmonies and wide choirs locked to the tempo of the session. The graphical user interface contains everything needed to load, edit, and save a preset, and gives access to the pitch shifting capabilities, as well as providing musical control of the pitch and delays using the Notation Grid™.

The Notation Grid presents pitches on a traditional music staff with a quantized beat grid superimposed for placing notes over time. While the standard Pro Tools Save and Recall features are supported, Eventide's unique snapshot feature provides an intuitive way to capture or recall parameter settings with a single mouse click, and can be used to instantly rearrange the entire sequence. Instrument presets quickly and intelligently configure the pitch recognition parameters to be optimized for a given instrument. A randomizer is included, which can be used to simulate the natural character of eight individual sound sources or for more exotic applications.

The Eventide Reverb plug-in ($695) uses the highest quality reverb algorithms from the Orville, including halls, chambers, plates, rooms, ambience and lo-fi effects. Each reverb type offers three-band stereo parametric equalization both before and after the reverb, reverb contour for built-in tone shaping, a pair of delay lines with filters, and a high-quality compressor.

The graphical user interface of Reverb features all of the tools in a single window. Like Octavox, Reverb includes the snapshot function, providing an intuitive way to capture or recall parameter settings with a single mouse click.

Hardware control of the Eventide Reverb and Octavox plug-ins includes support for the Digidesign ProControl and Control24, and the Mackie HUI.

About Eventide Founded in 1971, Eventide is a premier manufacturer of digital audio processing products for recording, broadcast, and live performance. Headquartered in Little Ferry, NJ, Eventide created the very first Harmonizer® brand effects processor in 1975, and the first multi-effects processor, the SP2016, in 1980. Visit Eventide on the Web at www.eventide.com.

Eventide and Harmonizer are registered trademarks; Octavox, Orville, Clockworks Legacy, and Notation Grid are trademarks of Eventide Inc.

Digidesign and Pro Tools are registered trademarks of Avid Technologies.

Mac is a registered trademark of Apple Computer Inc.

Mackie is a registered trademark of Mackie Designs Inc.

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