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The eagerly-awaited Live 9 introduces new dimensions of creative possibilities with Session View automation, inspiring Audio to MIDI tools, curved automation envelopes, new and improved studio effects, an enhanced browser, and much more.

What's new in 9?

The newest invention is Push - the instrument designed to let you make music completely from scratch and without having to look at your computer. Push gives you hands-on control of melody and harmony, beats, sounds, and song structure.{P]

Picking up where UA's legacy LA-2A plug-in left off, the new LA-2A plug-in collection provides unrivaled emulations of three distinct Teletronix hardware units, right down to their transformers, amplifiers, and aged luminescent panels.

The original LA-2A hardware — still hand-built at UA headquarters in Scotts Valley, California — is an audio industry icon, bringing smooth, warm compression to anything it touches, especially vocals. With the new LA-2A Classic Leveler Plug-In Collection, Universal Audio modeled the entire electronic path of three highly coveted hardware units — "Silver," "Gray," and the original LA-2 model — providing the most authentic plug-in emulations available of this iconic compressor.

Quake-inducing subs, portamento electro leads, quirky bleeps, unorthodox FX and poppin' 808-style hits: get your crunk on with this system-smashing collection of trap patches for NI's Massive.

In perhaps our most comprehensive patches pack to date, we've gone all out to deliver the ultimate trap producer's toolkit, putting everything you need to make a block-rocking trap anthem at your fingertips.

Taking inspiration from the genre's leading lights, we've crammed in 101 patches of frenzied arps, booming sub basses, screeching and searing stabs, Rhodes-style keys, windrush FX, ominous pads, plus a slew of ultra-crisp drum patches for those trademark deep south inspired beats.

Apogee Electronics announces the availability of iPad, iPhone and iPod touch compatibility for Quartet, a 4 input, 8 output USB audio interface.

Maestro, Apogee's control software for Quartet, is now a free download from the app store and the 30-pin cable for connecting Quartet to any compatible iOS device is available on the Apogee website. A simple firmware update is also required.

An upgrade of the step sequencer "Lauflicht" for the Novation Launchpad to the version 3 has been released. The plugin for Renoise is a moving light, multitrack and multitimbral step sequencer with 8, 16 or 32 steps, turning your Launchpad(s) into a hardware step sequencer. It was especially designed for editing beats, melodies and patterns without the mouse in order to allow an intuitive workflow in the studio or an excellent possibility to perform live.

The version 3 has two new core features: multiple Launchpads support and a new pattern load and mix mode in real time.
If more than one Launchpad is connected to the computer, the plugin will detect all Launchpads automatically and cascade them to one big hardware step sequencer. Two Launchpads will result into a hardware 16 step sequencer and four Launchpads will result into a hardware 32 step sequencer. With the different note resolution modes and unlimited tracks this setup leads to a huge level of granularity and in-depth step sequencing.

FISOUND has announced the immediate availability of 'Universal 120 V2 Bonus Pack' for Cakewalk's Rapture synthesizer.

The Bonus Pack is available as a free download for Universal 120 V2 customers. The U120V2 Bonus Pack includes 225 new Rapture programs that expand on the U120V2 sample and wavetable library.

Included Sound Categories:
- Basses
- Keys
- Leads
- Pads
- Sequences
- Textures
Universal 120 v2.0 is available from FISOUND for $39. FISOUND has partnered with Cakewalk to co-market and distribute its Rapture Expansion products. Universal 120 v2.0 and the Bonus Pack are available now at the Cakewalk webstore.