Tone2 Audiosoftware releases Firebird 2.0 as freeware for Windows

Tone2 Audiosoftware has updated its Firebird+ plugin to 2.0 and released it as freeware. FireBird features Harmonic Content Morphing (HCM) synthesis.

New features and enhancements:

• Enhanced sound: Less aggressive treble, more smooth.
• Ultra quality is selected by default.
• Lower CPU because of SSE2 support.
• Faster loading and saving of songs.
• Smart installer which automatically detects the correct location.
• Enhanced host compatibility.
• Accidentally visiting the website by clicking on the logos is not longer possible.
• Reworked some graphics.
• First patch was clipping in some hosts.

Changes:

• The product is now freeware (previously $79).
• Keyfile is not longer required.
• Iqm is switched to off by default.

Further notes:

• V2.0 is downward compatible with previous versions.
• CPU can reduced by selecting a lower quality in 'setup'.

More information can be found on the Tone2 website.