Geist is a fast, intuitive software drum machine designed to create evolved beats and grooves, freeing you from the limits of pre-packaged loops and over-complicated DAWs. Geist fuses creative sample-sculpting tools with fast pattern step-sequencing and arrangement. Browse through sounds with lightning speed, slice and assign loops to pads with a single click; sample, resample and build beats in a slick unified environment.

Some new features:

- 64-bit support for MacOSX and Windows. When running a 64-bit host on a 64-bit operating system, Geist now appears as a native plugin so it is no longer necessary to use bit-bridges in such systems.
- Guru import improved – envelopes and tuning settings should be a lot closer now.
- Multiple spitters in a project should work correctly now.
- Dragging patterns out as midi should now give accurate results in so far as the graphs to CC's behaviour.
- Reverse and looping/gated modes now functioning correctly – with or without timestretch.

MOTU, a leading developer of video and audio I/O products, announced today that it is working closely with Apple and Intel to develop future products that take full advantage of Thunderbolt , the new, very high-bandwidth, low-latency connectivity standard developed by Intel® and deployed by Apple® to worldwide markets on their latest generation MacBook Pro laptop computers.

"MOTU has often been the first to adopt new connectivity standards, such as FireWire, in our video and audio I/O products," said Jim Cooper, MOTU Director of Marketing. "We're excited about Thunderbolt because it clearly represents the future of professional I/O. MOTU's strong partnership with Apple and Intel lays the groundwork for exciting new possibilities for Thunderbolt-equipped MOTU products in the near future."

Rotten Ghetto Attack is a patch library full razorblade sharp leads and sequencer sounds, deep distorted basses and urban percussions. It is the swissknife for producers of Urban and Industrial tracks.

Rotten Ghetto Attack contains 75 patches for Native Instruments Massive. All patches are provided with attributes which can easily be found by the soundbrowser of Massive and also make excessive use of the six macro knobs where different parameters of Massive can easily be influenced.

Patchbanks & Sound Co. presents a sensational selection of 100 acoustic guitar loops for producers in search of sexy r&b/pop melodies. The sounds contain superb quality recordings of live steel and nylon guitars that were recorded in various ways—mic'd, pick-up and amplified to provide a better selection of beautiful tones. In addition, many of the loops have been layered with harmonies and over-dubs for more musical performance and sound quality. It's simply the sweetest collection we've ever released!

- Quantity: 100 Loops
- File Type: Wav
- Range: 60-92 Bpm
- Music Styles: R&B, Pop, Soul, Hip Hop

Urban MIDI Piano Melodies features 30 melodic piano loops in MIDI format for creating the melodic foundations for a wide variety of modern Urban music styles like Hip Hop, Crunk, Dirty South, RnB, etc…

As these piano melodies are supplied in MIDI format, they will provide you with as much flexibility as possible. You can edit and transpose them, assign any sound you want and get your own and original melodic lines. The editing possibilities are endless as you can play the performances at any tempo or pitch without artefacts.
they are 100% royalty free.

Metric Halo is happy to announce a special celebration of the 13th anniversary of its ChannelStrip plug-in by offering a 50% discount on new purchases of the GarageBand, Native, and TDM versions of the plug-in until June 20, 2011.

ChannelStrip was the first console-style channel strip plug-in launched on the market, combining gate, compressor and EQ modules in one efficient package. It was also the first to offer double-precision operation for the highest quality audio. With over one hundred presets, ChannelStrip allows the user to quickly hone in on the sound they're looking for. For thirteen years, top engineers have been using ChannelStrip to quickly and easily deliver the results their clients demand. Regardless of the
genre, they all feel the same way about ChannelStrip.