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Native Instruments has just started the "Summer of Sound", a two-month special offer season that brings discounts of up to 50% across the complete product range. This also includes the introduction of the new CLASSIC KEYS bundle as well as two competitive crossgrade offers, and a price cut on all product updates.

All Summer of Sound offers are valid from July 2nd to August 31st 2007. For more information, please visit the link below :

Applied Acoustics Systems releases Ultra FX for Ultra Analog VA-1, the third title in its Sound Bank Series. This 128-preset add-on is a must-have complement of highly customizable sound ideas, room tones, and sound effects perfect for sound designers working on films, animations, or video games. It's also pure analog synthesis fun!

Pricing and Availability

The Ultra FX sound bank for Ultra Analog VA-1 is available now from the AAS Store for $39. For more information and a preview of Ultra FX, please visit

Native Instruments recently launched its DJ Hardware Guide, an extensive online resource that provides DJs with practical information about how to best choose, set up and operate the components of a computer-based DJ setup. Of course, this guide ties in with the recently announced "TRAKTOR Ready" compatibility label, and includes a comprehensive buyers' guide with detailed information on all controllers that are guaranteed to provide full compatibility with NI products.

Following a very successful public beta program, Digidesign is pleased to announce that Structure, its professional sampler workstationn, is now shipping. Structure is the latest RTAS virtual instrument plug-in developed by the acclaimed Advanced Instrument Research (A.I.R.) group.

Main features :

- 128-level multitimbral universal sound engine
- support for an unlimited number of nestable patches and up to 8-channel interleaved samples
- supports all standard bit depths, sample rates, and surround formats (up to 24-bit/192 kHz/7.1 surround)
- integrated file browser, sample editor and multi-effects processing engine including convolution reverb
- samples can be played back via disk streaming or solely from RAM
- support for importing SampleCell, EXS24, and Kontakt 1 and 2 sampl ...

IK Multimedia is pleased to announce that the 2x1 FX Madness Promotion is now in effect! From July 1st to August 31st, customers who purchase and register any of IK's effect plug-ins can get another IK effect absolutely free!

Customers can choose from the following :

- AmpliTube 2 - The highly popular guitar amp and effects modelling software that raised the standard to an unprecedented level of high-quality emulation and extreme flexibility, for crafting the ultimate guitar tone.

- Ampeg SVX - The world's first dedicated bass amp plug-in with the real signature sound of Ampeg®, the historic brand that invented bass amplification

- Classik Studio Reverb - The award-winning suite of four high-end studio-quality reverbs modelled after popular outboard ...

Sugar Bytes has announced version 2 of their multi-effect Artillery.

Features :

- Effects still handled with MIDI notes.
- 28 effects included.
- Universal modulator per parameter.
- Unlimited FX chaining.
- Innovative effects like step looper, turntable, tonal resonator, reverse...

Artillery 2 is expected to be released on July 20, 2007, priced at €149. It will be available for Mac OS X (UB) and Windows in VST and AU formats.