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Toontrack Music announces the Electronic EZX, their first electronic drum collection.

"Until now, it's been 100% acoustic. We felt it was time to plug-in, flip the switch and begin sampling electronic drums.

It is with great excitement that we introduce the Electronic EZX. A modern collection of classic, circuit bent and resampled electronic drum sounds suited for any of genre imaginable.

D16 Group announces the upcoming release of Shioitor, a new virtual synth described as following :

"Shioitor is a revolution in sound within the plugin market. Its authentic analogue character and extensive software features will fulfil the needs of the most demanding musicians and sound designers who use synthesisers in their work.

Since it uses a layered architecture, Shioitor has endless sound shaping possibilities. Each layer can be freely

Plughugger unveils Large Bass Expander, a new soundset for Waldorf's Largo synthesizer.

Large Bass Expander is a collection of 128 bass sounds where the focus lies on modern dance music, rather than classic analogue reproductions. The download package contains the soundset as an FXB bank as well as all sounds in FXP preset format.

Large Bass Expander is priced at €5.90.

Found on Digidesign website :

"On September 23rd, Avid is set to unveil a revolutionary new solution designed specifically for guitar players. Years of research and development is about to culminate in one killer product."

Let the speculation begin !

Audio-Technica unveils the AT4047MP Multi-Pattern Condenser Microphone, developed in direct response to end users requesting a multi-pattern version of the AT4047/SV.

The AT4047MP delivers vintage sound in a multi-pattern design with selectable omnidirectional, cardioid, and figure-of-eight polar patterns. The microphone's transformer-coupled output and specially tuned element provide sonic characteristics reminiscent of early F.E.T. studio microphone designs. With a wide dynamic range, incredibly low self-noise and high SPL capability, this versatile microphone excels on vocals, strings, acoustic guitar, instrument ensembles, small vocal groups and voiceovers.

Features :

• Three switchable polar patterns: cardioid, omnidirectional, figure-of-eight
• Engineered to meet ...

Cycling '74 has just updated its Max/MSP media development tools to version 5.0.8.

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