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Detunized's lead sound designer Stephan Marche picked out the best presets from his releases "Casiopeia", "Binaries", "Phase Facets", "fTable", "Composite Keys" and "4op".
Alltogether they form a palette of Live Packs that feature such gear like a TX81z, a WSA-1, a Rapman, an OPL-3 FM chip and both of the famous Hohner sampler/synth devices.
All Digitals is built around a 3.1 Gig sample pool that consists of nearly 5000 samples. Each of the 222 included Live Racks has fine-tuned Macro controls and is ready to play right out of the box.

All Digitals is currently available for an introductory price of 15.00 Euro, regular price will be 39.00 Euro.

Ohm Force has announced its 21st Ohm Studio Collab Friday taking place on December 7.

This time, speed is key: each participant will be required to contribute to 4 projects at least, spending no more than 15 minutes for each. Given the collaborative nature of Ohm Studio projects, this should be enough time to quickly build (many) song ideas.

All you have to do is download and install it, create an account and log in between 8 PM (GMT) and at least 2 AM. Then contact Red_Force or Jamie57lp on the channel.

Native Instruments today introduced ABBEY ROAD VINTAGE DRUMMER, a new KONTAKT instrument that features the sound of two vintage drum kits from the 1940s.

Both kits were recorded with a combination of state-of-the-art equipment and period microphones at Abbey Road Studios in London, providing a natural, open sound suitable for contemporary productions. For the first time in Native Instruments' successful ABBEY ROAD Series, VINTAGE DRUMMER includes brush articulations especially recorded to provide the authentic sound and style of the swing/big band era.

Its Here! 64 electro, complextro and big room patches delivered in sylenth .FXB format.
Cutting edge leads, basses, synths, and fx modeled after Zedd, Deadmau5, Wolfgang Gartner, Lazy Rich, Porter Robinson, Alesso, Avicci

This bank includes the demo midi file, abelton session file and patchname list.
Product is delivered via download link upon product purchase.

Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH today released Cubase 7 and Cubase Artist 7, two new versions of the highly acclaimed Cubase music production system for recording, editing, mixing and producing music to the highest standards.

The new mixing facilities feature the MixConsole including full-screen mode and scalability plus Channel Zones, A/B comparison, global bypass on effects and plug-in search for a high level of user customization...

Audio hardware developer Doepfer announces availability of its new Dark Energy II Analog Synthesizer, a redesigned version of the original Dark Energy, a standalone monophonic analogue synthesizer with inbuilt USB/MIDI interfacing and CV connectivity released to much critical acclaim in 2010.

the Dark Energy II features a sawtooth-based VCO core (compared to the Dark Energy's triangle-based one), which, as implied, outputs a sawtooth waveform, with a waveform Shape switch for selecting sawtooth, off, or clipped/inverted sawtooth...