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AudioThing has released Toy Marimba for NI Kontakt.

Toy Marimba features a small tuned percussion instrument made of rosewood and rope. It was sampled with wood and bamboo mallets, with 3 Round Robin repetitions and 3 velocity layers for the main hits. Slides and glissandos (up/down with 3 speeds) are also included along with slowed down samples crafted for wooden and airy textures.

Details:
- 6 Kontakt Instruments (.nki)
- 4 Kontakt Multis (.nkm)
- Up to 3 Round Robin
- Up to 3 Velocity layers
- Glissandos Up/Down with 3 speeds
- 291 Samples (44.1kHz / 24Bit)
- 7 Custom Reverb IRs
- Formats: Kontakt and WAV
- Sample sets including: wood hit, bamboo hit, slides
- Native Instruments Kontakt 4.2.4+ full version required

Toy Marimba is available for the introductory price of €8 until October 13.
Full price: €10.

MASSIVE HAS A SOFT SIDE
This landmark set for Massive contains 105 of the most lush sounds you have ever heard Massive make. Perfect for those breakdowns in EDM with vocals or even doing cinematic compositions, these sounds will work with multiple genres like dubstep, house, trance, progressive, chill out and even filmscore.

Here is a break down of what you get:
• 4 Atmospheres
• 10 Basses
• 19 Leads
• 72 Pads
• All 8 Macros assigned on every preset


It is currently on sale for only $17. The sale expires on October 15th, at which point MLV1 will go up to its regular price of $25.

ProdMod is a new Ableton instrument library with sounds derived from a customized Moog Prodigy. The Prodigy that was sampled has got a breakout connection with a handmade patchbay attached to it. This allows to interrupt and split the synth's internal wirings and therefore offers much more sonic possibilities that go far beyond the off-the-shelf version.
ProdMod Live Pack contains 30 multi-sample instruments in Abletons Live's Rack format that transfer the sound of this vintage mono synth into today's music production environments.
The library delivers diversified material as the source for fat basslines, lively synth and keyboard sounds, warm pads or idiosyncratic oddities.

specifications
• Format: Ableton Live Pack, Live 8/9
• Instruments: 30
• Samples: 497
• Disk space: 200 MB
ProdMod Live Pack is available to purchase as download for 9.00 Euro.

BFD3 is the third generation of FXpansion's flagship software acoustic drum studio: new levels of realism and ground-breaking features in an intuitive redesigned engine.

With stunning new kits with mix-ready presets and modelling technology for tom resonance and cymbal swells, BFD3's audio engine delivers uncompromising detail. The revamped interface has a new mixer and sound browser for the easiest BFD experience yet.

BFD3's all-new library is recorded in two fantastic rooms by engineers including Andrew Scheps, Rail Jon Rogut and John Emrich, giving you a diverse palette of drum tones out of the box. The sounds include a brushed kit and processed drum presets for fast custom kit-building. BFD3 also contains a powerful built-in environment for pattern creation and editing, complete with a range of performances by legendary drummers for effortless production of drum tracks indistinguishable from the real thing.

- 7 new kits recorded in 2 world-class studios
- Includes rock, metal, jazz and brush kits
- Tom resonance and cymbal swell modeling
- New effects and Groove construction tools
- More efficient engine with streamlined workflow
- VST 2.4, AU, RTAS, AAX64 and standalone application for Mac OSX 10.6.8 or later & Windows 7 or later.
Price: $349.00, €269.00, £229.00.

Eowave crew is proud to announce the release of the Spatiolab Capsule TITAN, also available in individual modules. Because Titan has a thick atmosphere able to carry sound waves, the moon is a noisy place…
For a long time, we’ve imagined the music of the space to be a sweet song of gods, crystalline magical sounds. And we thought that the space was a silent place, cold and empty. Since 2004, the Cassini-Huygens mission has recorded some sounds of the space, different from everything we’d imagined before, shock of particles launched in the space at a prodigious speed, a deep chaos, unexpected, which the ESA/NASA has sometimes called « alien sounds »… The Cassini-Huygens mission started the exploration of Titan in 2007.

Since 2000, Eowave designs instruments for electronic music. The Titan Capsule is a fascinating and immersive experimentation mixing space mysteries and music. It will make you explore sound dimensions that are still unknown.

Titan has a very thick atmosphere able to carry sound waves. With the Capsule TITAN, we’ll get onboard to explore how the sound goes across Titan orange thick atmosphere. In a way, the Capsule Titan is a simulation station able to reproduce the journey of the sound waves crossing Titan’s atmosphere and offer the possibility to modulate parameters like the thickness of the haze, the ionisation of the magnetosphere, Titan’s magnetic glow, or low frequency zones.
Price : 699 euros incl VAT / 549 euros (without case, no MIDI interface, no patch cables, no PSU).

The library Shred Guitar is the 14th release of Ueberschalls successful Instrument Series. It contains Shred Guitar Loops from Genres like Rock & Metal. Shred Guitars shines with its expertly played guitar licks. Faster, louder, higher!


Content
The guitar loops in Shred Guitar have a length of 4 to 16 bars. The tempo varies between 100 BPM (Double Time), 120 BPM and 160 BPM.
Each loop is available in three versions:

- Distorted
- Clean Amp
- Clean Line Signal.

The clean signal can be edited with additional effects.
All guitars licks were played on Gibson, Ibanez or Fender Guitars.