waveTracing has announced the release of SP950, an audio effect plugin that accurately emulates the legendary sound of the E-mu SP1200 sampler and Akai S950 low-pass filter. If you are familiar with the E-mu SP-1200 workflow, you know the way the device is typically used is with a pitched-up source such as a turntable playing […]

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Plugin Boutique has announced an exclusive sale on NOVO Essentials by Heavyocity, offering 50% off on the curated selection of core orchestral strings content from NOVO: Modern Strings. Featuring deeply-sampled organic strings recorded at the famous Eastwood Scoring Stage at Warner Bros. Studios, NOVO ESSENTIALS contains the same three-engine functionality of the full NOVO instrument […]

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Plugin Boutique has announced an exclusive offer on the TDR Limiter 6 GE compressor and limiter effect plugin. TDR Limiter 6 GE is a modern dynamics compression and limiting toolkit featuring six specialized modules that can be arranged in variable order. Together, they cover a remarkable range of applications from delicate loudness control, to brutal […]

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W.A. Production has launched a limited time offer on the Savage Bass House Bundle, a collection of sound packs, DAW templates and audio tutorial course at 95% off the regular price. You don’t have to go for broke to make great bass house. Our Savage Bass House Bundle comes complete with all the tools you […]

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Plugin Boutique has launched an exclusive sale on PhoenixVerb Stereo, the reverb effect plugin by Exponential Audio that brings clear, lifelike dimension to your mixes. Create natural, authentic depth for your music by crafting spaces from scratch or using one of over 900 presets included in PhoenixVerb, including room, plate, hall, chamber, and more. The […]

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IK Multimedia has announced the launch of the All-in on Analog Sale, offering discounts of up to 60% off on analog-modeled plugins. Are you craving that analog sound for your music production projects? Real analog gear can cost a bundle, be difficult to maintain, and can heavy (as in loud and literally hard on your […]

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Synchro Arts celebrates its 2020 Queen’s Award for Innovation with a sale on its award-winning Revoice Pro 4 and VocALign Pro 4 products through May. Whether you’re in a big studio or working at home, Synchro Arts products not only help achieve polished and radio-ready vocals, they’ll save you countless hours of tedious manual editing […]

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VST Buzz is offering a free download of the Sibilance plugin by Waves Audio, a clever, fast, powerful de-esser specifically designed for vocals and voiceovers. Sibilance allows precise identification of unwanted sibilant sounds such as ‘s’ and ‘sh’ with exceptional quality, allowing you to make your vocals brighter without harshness. Powered by Waves’ innovative Organic […]

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Ghosthack has launched an introductory sale on Analog Wavetables Vol. 2, offering a 67% discount on the collection of wavetables for the Serum synthesizer by Xfer Records. It is a hard task to create analog sounds in a digital environment. With the support of “Analog Wavetables for Serum Volume 2” it got much easier! As […]

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Plugin Boutique has launched a sale on the Organetta Kontakt library by AudioThing, featuring the sounds of a small portable reed organ made in the late 50s by the German company Hohner. The sound is generated by an electric fan that blows air into a set of brass reeds hence the sound is reminiscent of […]

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Reason Studios has announced the release of version 11.3 of Reason, bringing the famed Reason Rack as a native AAX plugin to Avid Pro Tools music software. The announcement was made by Mattias Häggström Gerdt, Reason Product Manager, and underscores the company’s ongoing commitment to the Reason platform of instruments, plugins and music production software. […]

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Plugin Boutique has launched a sale on the VirtualCZ software synthesizer, offering a 40% discount on the plugin that recreates the unique synthesis engine of the Casio CZ synths. The CZ series are digital synths that use a technique known as Phase Distortion – a close relative of Frequency Modulation (FM) made popular by Yamaha’s […]

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Plugin Boutique has launched an exclusive sale on the SplineEQ linear phase equalizer plugin by Photosounder. SplineEQ is a linear phase equalizer plugin. Designed to be simple and flexible, SplineEQ allows you to create filters using Bézier splines, the best known way to design curves. SplineEQ features Linear phase equalizer. Spline-based filter design. Up to […]

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VST Buzz has announced a sale on the Palmary Collection by NoiseAsh, a bundle of 10 audio plugins providing endless possibilities for achieving the highest sound quality in your productions. “Palmary Collection” is an elite production tool series for producers / musicians / mixing & mastering engineers. With 10 outstanding plugins covering a wide variety […]

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Audio Plugin Deals is offering a discount of 80% on the Cinematic Keys sample library by Sample Logic for a limited time. Weighing in at over 8 GBs, CINEMATIC KEYS is a complete collection of 850+ traditional and mutilated Instruments & Multis derived entirely from recordings of keyboard instruments powered by Kontakt Player. CINEMATIC KEYS […]

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Loopmasters has released its new sample pack Techno Oscillations, a collection of loops and samples by esteemed Techno guru Michal Jablonski. Filled to the brim with menacing audio tools, this collection is designed to build tension and cause sheer devastation in the dance. Michal has provided over 700MB worth of his freshest and most lethal […]

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Spitfire Audio has announced the release of BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover, a universal starting point to explore and create with 35 instruments impeccably performed by the world-famous BBC Symphony Orchestra, brought to life inside a beautifully designed, easy-to-use plugin. A whole orchestra of the highest quality at your fingertips. Designed to make orchestral scoring accessible […]

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Plugin Boutique has launched a sale on Inphonik, offering discounts of up to 50% off on its plugins for a limited time only. The RX950 Classic AD/DA Converter effect plugin is designed to perfectly mimic the whole AD/DA conversion process of the Akai S950 in order to give your music this vintage, warm and crunchy […]

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Plugin Boutique has announced an exclusive sale on the Mosaic Voices instrument library by Heavyocity, offering a 50% discount for few days only. The Mosaic Series was conceived to keep composers creative: Each instrument features a unique set of foundational elements, designed to be combined and layered into lush, cinematic textures. Mosaic Voices is a […]

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The workforce problems at two ITC food plants - one in Pune in the western state of Maharashtra and another in the southern state of Karnataka - show how labour issues weigh on Indian firms after a nationwide coronavirus lockdown forced thousands of workers to go back to their villages.

Billed as a roundtable of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Wednesday's hearing included some of the nation’s most prominent dissenters on mainstream measures like business closures, stay-at-home orders and calls for widespread testing.

Two web designers say they were fired by Amazon for organizing a virtual town hall to hear from the company’s low-paid warehouse staff.

How to keep customers’ cravings alive has become a challenge for restaurants.

Watch the latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic, including regular White House briefings.

You might be asking when it will be safe to use a public pool or water slide. Here's what an expert said about coronavirus transmission in water.

Leander, through video conference, told the hosts about the rally at the Capitol where she stood, arms crossed, amid rally attendees.

Irish people are repaying Natives peoples for their help during the 19th-century potato famine by contributing to a GoFundMe for COVID-19 relief.

Arizona cases of COVID-19 now exceed 10,500, with 517 known deaths, according to numbers from the Arizona Department of Health Services on Friday.

High rates of COVID-19 infections include areas near Indian reservations and in metro Phoenix and Tucson.

So far, 10,526 cases of the new coronavirus have been reported in Arizona. Here's what we know about the people who have contracted it.

Gov. Doug Ducey this week extended what had already been a month-long shutdown of nonessential services, but some small businesses have attempted to reopen on May 1.

Arizona's daily death toll increased this week. Lagging death data and previously overlooked COVID-19 deaths are at least partially the reason.

Navajo Nation officials talked Friday about how federal aid related to the coronavirus pandemic could help with pressing needs like water and housing.

The latest coronavirus updates from around Arizona, including COVID-19 deaths and health restrictions.

Arizona cases of COVID-19 now exceed 10,900, with 532 known deaths, according to numbers from the Arizona Department of Health Services on Saturday.

A look at how Arizona is handling the spread of COVID-19, a highly contagious virus impacting the world.

The book of poetry “Martin Rising: Requiem for a King” beautifully illustrates events in the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. It’s written with a middle school audience in mind, but this collection can be enjoyed by everyone. Each of poet Andrea Davis Pinkney’s poems is accompanied by a beautiful watercolor, gouache, and india ink illustration by Brian Pinkney. The poems about King’s life are labeled with the date of each event’s occurrence and in some cases the time. The book is divided into three sections: Daylight, Darkness and Dawn. Henny Penny, who listeners will remember as the folklore character who declares that “The Sky Is Falling” introduces, predicts, and is an all-knowing narrator of the past, present, and future. In the Daylight section of the book, poems about King’s joyous birth, growth to manhood, and family life are juxtaposed with poems about his work as a scholar, preacher, and champion for basic civil rights and equality. He inspires hope as he arrives in Memphis to

“It was as black in the closet as old blood. They had shoved me in and locked the door. I breathed heavily through my nose, fighting desperately to remain calm.” So begins “Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie,” the first book in the “Flavia de Luce” murder mystery series by Alan Bradley. What appears to be a rather violent kidnapping is actually just the latest episode in a running battle between 11-year-old Flavia and her two older sisters, 13-year-old Daphne and 17-year-old Ophelia. Fortunately, Flavia turns out to be quite capable of holding her own against her sisters by using her love of chemistry to inflict the odd rash or occasional bout of indigestion on them. Set in rural England in the early 1950s, the series follows Flavia as she travels the countryside seeking adventure on Gladys, her trusty two-wheeled steed and partner in all adventures. In many ways, Flavia is a youthful reincarnation of Don Quixote. Her ability to imagine all kinds of possibilities in ordinary situations

“What does a landscape dream of in its unsettled dreams?” Todd Davis’s newest collection of poems, titled “Native Species,” opens with this question. The question is gentle and idle. It’s the kind of thing you ask yourself while half-asleep on a streambank on a hot day. But then there’s that word “unsettled.” The landscape may be “settled.” It may be cultivated into farm and town… but its dreams are unsettled, uneasy, perhaps even wild. As the poem winds through images of a flooded house, the reader becomes unsettled, too. And is reminded that landscapes––including the ones that humans shape––can shift in ways that we do not expect or control. Todd Davis excels at this kind of movement––the kind that starts in streambank idling but ends in a landslide. Or, just as often, the kind that begins in an abstract concept and distills into a single, sparkling image. In “Native Species,” his sixth full-length collection of poetry, Davis returns to themes his readers will find familiar:

“The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life” offers those who usually read novels a chance to enjoy ‘creative non-fiction.’ This book is a well-told narrative about the molecular building blocks of life and how they evolved. David Quammen accepts the challenge of documenting the advancement of evolutionary life science while revealing its significance to all of our lives. Quammen also gives us insight into the vibrant communities of scientists carrying out similar work. Quammen begins by introducing the image of the Tree of Life. He describes how it has evolved from the image of a ladder-to-heaven in ancient and medieval thinking into Darwin’s branching, upward-growing tree. Quammen closes his introduction with his own surprising proposition. He suggests Darwin’s tree image is no longer the precise metaphor for what life is. Quammen introduces each new evolutionary twist and turn until the new Tree of Life ends up looking more like a web than an upwardly-reaching tree with

We will be having two large size format flagship stores, one in Delhi and one in Bombay (price points between INR 100- 10,00,000) whereas THT gifting will have products ranging from INR.1000 – Rs.5000. Our endeavour is that THT Gifting reaches 50 in terms of the number of stores in the next five years--JJ Valaya

According to the statement released by the company, Srivastava, an alumnus of IIM-Ahmedabad, comes with over 15 years of cross-functional business experience. She has also mentored multiple start-ups and turned around their businesses towards better revenues and growth.

“As a socially responsible company, Asian Paints is committed to providing necessary support towards various relief measures announced by the government to combat Covid-19” said K.B.S. Anand, Managing Director & CEO, Asian Paints Limited.

Berger said it has decided against any involuntary furloughs or organisational restructuring that may lead to downsizing of headcount and consequent loss of livelihood during the time of widespread uncertainty. It stated that there will be no impact of the crisis on new recruitment offers.

"To ensure the safety of our customers, we are recalling all TROLIGTVIS travel mugs marked "Made in India". We urge customers to return the product to any of our stores for a full refund. We apologise for any inconvenience this recall may cause," the world's largest furniture retailer said.

A recent study published in the journal Science found the number of birds in North America is plummeting. The bird population dropped by more than a quarter over the past 50 years. Grassland birds, shore birds and songbirds are all affected. WPSU's Anne Danahy spoke with Greg Grove, editor of Pennsylvania Birds, and Doug Wentzel, president of the State College Bird Club, about bird watching and those trends

Matthew Ferrari is an epidemiologist and associate professor of biology at Penn State who studies infectious diseases and how they spread across populations. He uses mathematical and statistical tools to understand patterns of disease incidence. He talked with WPSU's Cheraine Stanford about the new coronavirus, what we know, what we don’t and what it means for our community and our country.

On this Take Note, we talked about public health messaging, specifically how the U.S. government has communicated about and reacted to the coronavirus outbreak. Also, how dealing with a pandemic is different in a democracy than in an authoritarian country. Our guest was Nita Bharti, an assistant professor of biology and the Lloyd Huck Early Career Professor in the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences at Penn State. This interview is from the Democracy Works podcast, a collaboration between WPSU and the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State. TRANSCRIPT: Jenna Spinelle: This is Jenna Spinelle here today with Nita Bharti. Nita, thanks for joining us on Democracy Works. Nita Bharti: It's my pleasure. Thanks Jenna. Spinelle: We are going to talk today in the midst of the corona virus outbreak about the relationship between information, government and the public in the midst of an outbreak. That's a complex topic. We're going to kind of come at it from a couple of different angles

WPSU is traveling to towns across central and northern Pennsylvania to collect oral history recordings. In Lock Haven we paired with a college journalism class and had students find someone interesting to interview. Lock Haven University student Corryn Wallace talks with her boyfriend, Troy Hester, about growing up in a rough neighborhood in West Philadelphia and his transition to Lock Haven.

WPSU is traveling to towns across central and northern Pennsylvania to collect oral history recordings. In Lock Haven we paired with a college journalism class and had students find someone interesting to interview. Lock Haven University student Julia Snyder talked with her grandmother Mary E. George about George’s fond memories of her grandparents who immigrated from the Czech Republic.