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Native Instruments just launched "Holiday Values", a series of time-limited special offers for many of its products for producers and guitarists. Offers include a substantial discount and additional software package for the popular Guitar Rig 3 Kontrol Edition, a free copy of Absynth 4, FM8, Massive or Pro-53 on top of every purchase of the Audio Kontrol 1 audio interface, and a half-price discount on the update versions of all NI software instruments including the Komplete bundle.

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Vienna Symphonic Library (VSL) announces the Vienna Suite, a new effects bundle that includes eight advanced, yet easy to use, plug-ins for mixing and mastering. For highest precision, they offer full 64-bit audio processing on all major 64-bit and 32-bit host platforms.

The Vienna Suite includes :

- Equalizer for smooth highs and deep and powerful lows – includes an integrated 120 band spectrum analyzer. Extremely low CPU usage.
- Master Equalizer provides 3 filter types on 5 bands and additional high and low shelf filters with 2 filter types. The use of 4x oversampling makes internal calculations even more precise. Ideal for delicate sonic mastering tasks.
- Limiter with real-time input/output waveform display and auto-mode for transparent maximization.
- Compressor – featuring modern and vintage algorithms and a real-time input/output waveform display.
- Multiband Limiter – offering 4 bands with transparent crossover filters and an additional full-range brickwall limiter at the final output stage.
- PowerPan for powerful stage positioning of instruments, featuring real-time audio angular analysis.
- Exciter – offering 4x oversampling, tone-color sliders for mixing odd and even harmonics, and a high frequency FFT spectrum analyzer.
- Analyzer – featuring a 120 band analog modeled spectrum analyzer, fast and accurate display of bass frequencies, auto mode for automatic range management, and loudest frequency note display.

Priced at €395, the Vienna Suite will be available "soon" for Windows XP/Vista 32 and 64 bit versions and Mac OS X 10.4 or higher in VST (OS X, Win), AU (OS X) and RTAS (OS X) plug-in formats.

TC Electronic announces that PowerCore 6000, the latest addition to the PowerCore platform, is now shipping. According to TC, by combining System 6000 algorithms with PowerCore platform users now get the ultimate studio tool for their DAWs.

PowerCore 6000 features eight FreeScale DSP engines, the same DSPs used in System 6000, and it has an SRAM memory design that supports high performance reverbs and delays. This enables users to run famous reverbs and delay-algorithms from System 6000 with popular DAWs like Logic Pro, as well as with any other VST- and Audio Units-compatible host.

PowerCore 6000 includes 7 pristine plug-in algorithms, which are ported 1:1 from System 6000 : VSS3 Stereo Source Reverb, Nonlin2, DVR 2 Digital Vintage Reverb MD3 Stereo Mastering, Brickwall Limiter, UnWrap stereo to 5.1 conversion and TapFactory.

PowerCore 6000 ships with PowerCore software 3.2 and is compatible with the latest Mac OS and Windows XP/Vista 32.

Suggested retail price : €2999

NanoSeries, the new USB powered slim-line controllers launched by Korg earlier this year will soon be available in black from december 2008. The range features three compact products: nanoKEY, nanoPAD and nanoKONTROL.

nanoKEY : 25 velocity-sensitive keys, transmitting either as MIDI notes or (via a separate mode) Control Change (CC) messages. Octave shift (natch). Pitch, modulation.

nanoPAD : 12 trigger pads and an X/Y touch pad with roll and flam mode.

nanoKONTROL : 9 faders, 9 knobs, 18 switches, transport controls, MIDI notes, 168 CC messages. There are even attack and decay times for the switches, allowing them to work as faders, filter controls, effects settings, etc...

After getting their Royal seal of approval, Novation release a limited edition keyboard that looks out of this world…

Novation are celebrating the success of the ReMOTE SL series by releasing a special limited edition ReMOTE SL37. The ReMOTE SL was the first MIDI controller to feature Novation's Automap software.

To mark this extraordinary achievement, Novation have produced a run of 999 new SL37s which bring you all of the advantages of Automap technology and package it all into a keyboard that looks as futuristic as the concept that it delivers. Not only does the keyboard offer features that are simply unheard of elsewhere, it also looks out of this world too! The eight faders and 16 rotary controllers are divided into 16 boxes, with the transport, octave and data/select sections also demarcated with green, light-reactive lines – it's a distinctive fluorescent green design that positively glows in a UV club environment.

The new limited edition ReMOTE 37SL is available now at a selection of pro audio retailers around the world. Contact your local distributor for further details.

McDSP offers customers a limited time bundle for the months of November and December – the Winter Special bundle. The Winter Special HD bundle will be offered for $1695 and the Winter Special Native bundle will be offered for $895.

This bundle includes Analog Channel, Chrome Tone, CompressorBank, DE555, FilterBank, ML4000 and Revolver.

On top of that, McDSP continues to celebrate its 10 year Anniversary by extending its special on the HD and Native Classic Pack Bundle. Classic Pack HD will be offered for $995 and Classic Pack Native will be offered for $495. The Classic Pack Bundle includes Analog Channel, CompressorBank, FilterBank and MC2000.

The McDSP HD line supports TDM, RTAS and AudioSuite formats and the Native line supports RTAS and Audiosuite formats. Both versions of the Winter Special bundle operate on Pro Tools HD, LE and M-Powered. Special available only via electronic delivery.