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AudioWarrior has released "The Mighty Wurlitzer Theatre Organ" instrument collection for Kontakt. This 3 instrument collection includes the legendary Wurly Theatre Organ considered by some as the first live performance sampler instrument with built in sound effects like sleigh bells, drum roll, church chimes, and real traps [drums] inside the actual body along with tuned-pipe simulated violin, tuba, voices, oboe, cello, etc. "The Mighty Wurlitzer" theatre organ was designed, originally by Robert Hope-Jones, as a "one man orchestra" to accompany silent movies. In all, Wurlitzer built over 2,200 pipe organs.

The Music Hall instrument is actually a concert instrument, capable of playing classical as well as non-classical repertoire. It was the only Wurlitzer installation still in use that has dual identical, but independent consoles. Smaller instruments in the UK exist in their original installations, such as the Gaumont State Cinema, Kilburn and the Blackpool Tower Ballroom in the UK. These instruments are still being played several times a week. The B3 organ uses an AudioWarrior secret sampling/sweetening formula that "brings out the rich swirling harmonic resonance characteristics of this fantastic band instrument". The Church Organ uses the same formulas as above to bring out the huge cave-like reverb and pipe attack of a massive Notre Dame style Cathedral Pipe Organ.

Requires Kontakt 2 or higher. Mac OS X/Windows XP/Vista.
Price: $49

BTE Audio has extended its line of Equalization Algorithms with the AEQ3, a high performance digital equalization algorithm that simulates the sound and feel of the world-renowned American Mixing Consoles of the late 1960s. With its proprietary topology, the AEQ3 algorithm simultaneously achieves both absolute sonic accuracy and extremely high processing efficiency. Targeted at desktop and embedded professional audio applications, the AEQ3 algorithm will enable quality-conscious third-parties to incorporate the highly revered American EQ sound into their products.

The M-16DX is a breakthrough all-digital mixer and audio interface. Unlike analog mixers, the 24-bit/96kHz M-16DX offers powerful features such as high-resolution EQ, scene memories, and EDIROL's Room Acoustic Control. Roland has released version 2 software for the M-16DX.

The free v2 software includes Cakewalk SONAR and Apple Logic modes that enable these powerful DAWs to be controlled out of the box with the knobs on the hardware assigning to their equivalent software controllers, all at the touch of a button. In Logic, for example, the hardware M-16DX appears in the software's list of compatible controllers and the equivalent controls are tied together automatically once it's selected. The new v2 software can, of course, be used to control all other software that has a MIDI learn fac ...

PreSonus will be hosting a recording and video editing workshop at B&H Photo and Video, 420 9th Avenue, in NYC at 7 p.m. on Thursday, November 29th.

Learn how to multi-track record your music, mix and edit your audio and produce your own video using the PreSonus MegaStudio Producer. The clinic will feature special musical guest, The Unlucky, and giveaways of the PreSonus MegaStudio Artist and PreSonus FaderPort.

Click the link below to register :

Precisionsound has announced the release of Monzter Bazz library, the perfect companion to Monzter Guitars, recorded with the same goal to give you a produced and ready to play killer sound suited for Nu Metal and heavy contemporary music in general.

The articulations :

- Long sustained notes in 4 velocity layers
- Release samples for the long notes in 4 velocity layers
- Hard staccato notes in 4 velocity layers
- Soft staccato notes in 4 velocity layers
- Slide Up notes in 2 velocity layers
- Slide Down notes in 2 velocity layers
- Slide FX and noises

The range of the Bass is B1 to B3 recorded in 3 ways parallel, Line (LI), Clean (CL) and Overdrive (OD). The SampleSet contains 1 361 24bit mono WAV samples mapped in 39 programs for HALion and Kontakt.

Monzter Bazz costs $69 (+$11 if you want it on CD).

KeyToSound Audio Technology has updated NexSyn for Apple and PC platforms. This program update brings NexSyn and NexSyn LE to version 1.1r12, and includes fixes with relation to NexSyn's error reporting system and interactivity, as well as various other program functions.

The new updates are recommended for all users of NexSyn and NexSyn LE.