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Ableton is pleased to announce Able10 - a season of special offers and giveaways to celebrate 10 years of Ableton.

To mark the occasion, and as a special thank you, Ableton has put together a package of special offers, new products and birthday handouts. There's something for everyone, so join the party :

• Free Live Packs

For Live 8 and Suite 8 users: Ableton is giving away 10 free Live Packs from Ableton artists - songs and sounds from 10 truly innovative artists including Múm, Apparat, Thavius Beck, Swayzak and Junie Morrison (formerly of the Ohio Players). These Live Packs are a rare opportunity to delve inside real songs by real artists and see how these guys work their Live mojo.

• 20% off Live 8 and Suite 8, including upgrades

During Able10, Ableton Live 8 ...

Live INTRO is the starter-version of Ableton Live and the succeeder of Live 7 LE - but still an extremely powerful product with all the essential features of Ableton Live at an unbelievable low price with more features and loads of content!

The new Live INTRO has all the essential basic features as Ableton Live at a lower price and comes including a huge Library of Sounds from Hip Hop, Rock, Soul, Techno - Including 7 GB of Sampled Instruments, Drum Loops, Beats and Breaks, 200 Audio and MIDI Racks and Effects and 500 Instruments and Drum Kits from the Ableton Live SUITE library! Also included a Getting Started Manual, Integrated Step By Step Tutorials and Practical Song Templates.

Key-Features :

● Studio Quality Recording up to 32 bit / 192 kHz
● Full REWIRE Support ...

Brainworx has announced the release of a new free plug-in, bx_cleansweep.

bx_cleansweep features a lo-pass and hi-pass filter - introducing BX's "anti-crush" 6 dB lp-filter, taken from bx_digital V2.

It is available for Windows and Mac OS X in VST, AU and RTAS effect plug-in formats.

EZdrummer 1.2.0 is now available. This update is recommended for all EZdrummer users. It adds essential support for the latest generation of EZX-s.

New features :

• new Drumkit presets pull down menu including user preset saving facility
• new Mixer channel LEDs indicates the presence of signal pre-fader
• drag and drop install of Toontrack MIDI packs supported
• various adjustments to support the upcoming Electronic EZX
• knob circular modes are now always relative
• EZX library version info is now available from the Help menu
• several bug fixes

TC Electronic presents a new bundle for PowerCore Users. Here what they say about it :

We're all searching for effects and signal processors that can give our sound that distinctive edge. But if you're also looking for great value for money then you'll want to check out the latest plug-in bundle that's now available to all PowerCore users.

We've bundled the Tube-Tech inspired CL 1B compressor/limiter plug-in with the Tap Factory multi-tap delay/reverb hybrid plug-in to bring you a great value package that puts the fundamentals of music production right at your fingertips.

With these two plug-ins you'll be adding the finest in vintage analog dynamics control and the ultimate creative multi-tap delay/reverb hybrid to your sonic armory – and all for an incredible low price.

And if you already own the Tube-Tech CL 1B plug-in then there's even more good news - you get to upgrade to this new plug-in bundle for free. If you own only Tap Factory you can not upgrade for free.

Available now for $449/€349. For more details, please visit :

For the month of November, McDSP offers a never before seen special, allowing all customers to purchase anything and everything for up to 30% off! That's right, we're starting off this Holiday Season with great savings on all bundles, individual products and upgrades.


The McDSP HD product line supports TDM, RTAS and AudioSuite formats, and operates on Pro Tools HD, LE and M-Powered, and the McDSP Native product line supports RTAS and Audiosuite formats, and operate on Pro Tools HD, LE and M-Powered.

Hurry and make your purchase today, this offer ends November 30, 2009.