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Percussa has released Progressions, a new sound pack for Ableton Live 7 and the AudioCubes. The pack contains an exhaustive collection of progressive house loops, breaks and samples, over 120Mb of content, light pattern preset clips and FX racks.

Progressions has been designed to give the AudioCubes enthusiast some authentic content and some awesome control patches designed specifically to work within Ableton Live.

The included audio loops are in WAV file format, which means the sounds work with most audio software, such as Apple's Logic, Steinberg's Cubase, Sony's ACID Pro, etc.

Progressions is available now and is priced at €14.95.

CME has announced a special edition vibrant pink version of their 49 note U-Key controller keyboard.

Already available in White and Blue, the CME U-Key Mobiletone keyboard has ultra-slim, full-action semi-weighted keys with a built-in, 64-polyphony high-quality sound module, and an internal high-fidelity speaker driven by a digital amplifier. It comes with more than 20 user-defined controllers, including a joystick, trigger pads, an encoder for data entry, and pedals. All controllers are fully-programmable and each function can be easily set up and saved for later loading by pressing certain keys. USB powered and compatible with both Windows XP/Vista and Mac OSX.

According to CME : "The pink U-key will be focus on female customers, no matter she is a professional keyboard player or a music fans, the Pink U-key is fits all needs and the distinguished the color will make her be noticed." Sweet, isn't it ?

Pricing : $209.00 US MSRP

Stanton is thrilled to announce the first issue of their new hybrid magazine/lifestyle catalog, "For Life"!

This new e-zine will be issued periodically to bring DJs interesting articles, all the latest gear, and even a special "city guide" that focuses on a different city each issue and highlights all the favorite spots. They are excited about this new venture, and hope that you enjoy reading it as much as STanton enjoyed creating it! This issue features the new SCS.3d controller, artist Richard Devine, an insider guide to Seattle, and more!

Following the announcement of Nomad Factory's new "British" Plug-ins ; the MCL-2269 (Master Compressor Limiter modeled from the legendary 2254 compressor) and the NEQ-1972 (A Four-Band equalizer modeled from the classic-vintage 1081 EQ module), Nomad Factory has decided to partner with DontCrac[k] to make this product launch-out event, a once in a lifetime promotion via an exclusive 26 Plug-ins bundle offer called the "Ultimate Producer Pack". This incredible bundle will be sold exclusively at DontCrac[k] for a 15 days period and will cost only $499 USD!

The "Ultimate Producer Pack" contains nothing less than 26 hot plug-ins issued from the famous "Blue Tubes" - "Liquid" - "Analog Signature - Mastering Tools" - "Essential" - "Retrology" series, and of course, the brand new MCL-2269 and NEQ-1972 "British Bundle". The "Producer Pack" therefore contains everything a song writer/producer will ever need to produce professional sounding audio tracks at an unbeatable price...

Sold separately, all of these 26 plugins would cost over $3000 but DontCrac[k] made them available for a 15 days period at only $499 USD. Note that the "British Bundle" alone, will sale at $299 which makes all 24 other plug-ins available for only $200 USD...

Nomad Factory plug-ins are in fact used everyday by famous artists such as Stanley Clarke, Tony MacAlpine, Barry Rudolph, Jason Jeremy Freese, Eric Persing and so many more. Talking of Eric Persing, it should be mentioned that Nomad Factory has developed, most of the effects included in Spectrasonics "Stylus RMX" effect rack as well as the incredible "Omnisphere". Bernie Torelli, head engineer at Nomad Factory is also the Software Product Manager at BBE Sound Inc. in charge of all BBE Sound software development...

But watch out... This incredible bundle offer will only be available for 15 days and will be exclusively sold at DontCrac[k]. It will not be sold anywhere else afterwards... It is a one shot DontCrac[k] exclusivity!

More information and visuals about this incredible bundle offer can be found from the following URL :

GenoQs Machines has just announced the Octopus Vampire, a special 'Halloween' limited edition of their midi sequencer Octopus.

Vampire limited edition details :

- Bordeaux lacquered wood frame
- Anodized black front panel
- Aluminum-gray anodized lettering
- Blue-yellow-purple tri-color LEDs
- Production strictly limited to 25 machines total

You can pre-order now for a fee of €2699. Delivery starts December 1st, 2008.

In response to ghost stories of economic doom and gloom SSL invites you to celebrate the festival of witches and ghouls with a bit of fun. SSL is proud to offer you 'X-Orcism', a free Halloween VST/AU format plug-in. Feed in your voice and you will be transformed into the voice of Halloween itself… be afraid, be very afraid !

X-Orcism is a fun, free plug-in which transforms vocals into scary Halloween noises from the crypt. Its processes include pitch shifting, vibrato, reverb, echo and wind-noise.

Also check out the SSL Halloween Special Offers : for 1 month only you can get your hands on the legendary sound of the SSL 4000 E OR latest generation SSL SuperAnalogue console EQ & Dynamics processing at up to 30% off list price.