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Helping people help themselves—the Red9 Studio Tools are intended to close gaps in Maya and enable studios that do not have a large R&D department to nevertheless have a good animation pipeline. The project is open source and the code can be found here on GitHub.
And here are the tutorials for the new functions directly:
The Red9 Audio Handlers are new:
Also newly launched: the Advance PoseSaver with Pose Blending: