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AKVIS Sketch 8.6 is a simple to use, yet sophisticated plugin for conversion of photos into pencil sketches and watercolor drawings. Now you do not need to handle a pencil to feel like an artist. All you need to create your original work of art is good taste and AKVIS Sketch.

Major Features:

1. The efficient method allows creating realistic color and B&W drawings that imitate the technique of graphite and color pencil, charcoal and watercolor painting.
2. In contrast to the similar standard filters (like the built-in filters in Photoshop or PSP) that offer an approximate sketch, AKVIS Sketch provides a convincing result; it comes very close to hand-drawn works of a human artist. Getting a similar result with the standard tools would require expertise in image editing and extensive manipulation with layers, masks, brushes and applying filters.
3. AKVIS Sketch has a neat interface with a few sliders. At first you can process the image with the default settings and then touch up the photo adding color, or trying different techniques - from pencil to charcoal or watercolor. You can make the hatching denser or finer and change the pitch angle of strokes.
4. Home users will be delighted by the neat result of the photo-to-sketch conversion. AKVIS Sketch can bring a lot of fun: a pencil portrait can be a good present for your relatives and friends, a watercolor drawing obtained from your last nature shooting can decorate your room, you can convert any photo to an original drawing to print on a T-Shirt.
5. The Photoshop batch mode support introduced in version 2.0 allows you to automatically convert a series of images. Just create an Action in Photoshop and apply the plug-in with the same settings to a folder full of images. You can even create comics from home videos in this way!
6. The program can be helpful to designers who need to quickly bring images to one style for a web-site or an advertisement booklet.

Phrazer 2.0.1 is a rather praiseworthy program that combines multitrack audio playback with automatic pitch and tempo mapping, providing a powerful solution for mixing and matching audio loops and phrases on the fly.

Phrazer is designed for layering different loops in real-time. Users can import standard digital audio files, ACID? files from Sonic Foundry's ACID software, or Unity DS-1 samples from the BitHeadz Unity DS-1 Digital Sampler. Phrazer automatically pitch shifts and time stretches audio material, so complex arrangements can be created in minutes without having to worry about matching tempos or key. Audio can be played back from RAM or from the hard disk, and volume and panning automation can be assigned per track along with multiple DSP effects for attaining the perfect mix.

Phrazer also offers unique performance oriented features. Different tracks can be triggered from the computer keyboard, or from a MIDI keyboard, enabling the user to start and stop phrases with their MIDI setup. A sample editor is provided for fine tuning audio files and loop points, and support for external MIDI sync is included for remote control. Phrazer will also provide an additional mix window that displays tracks vertically, similar to a mixing console. Once a mix has been perfected, Phrazer can high-speed render it's output as a disk file for use with other applications.

Transcribe! 7.51 brings you a very useful editor tool which is designed for working out a piece of music from a recording. The usual technique is to copy the music to cassette and then listen repeatedly to each bit, using your ear and your brain to work out what is happening. You would also need a piano or a guitar handy to check out which note is which.

Transcribe! effectively replaces the cassette machine and the piano. Transcribe! offers many features aimed at making the transcription job smoother and easier, including the ability to slow down the music without changing its pitch, and to analyse chords and show you what notes are present.

hD Audio Unit 1.2 is a great implement that meets all your needs of a distortion effect with harmonic generators.

It can generate two pitch-shifted copies of up to two octaves above the input signal. It also has a sub-octave generator. hD's design uses its harmonic generators to enhance the distortion. The two harmonic voices are mixed into the signal before the distortion stage. hD can also be used to generate 12-string guitar effects and as a note doubler.