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AudioWarrior has released Studio Drums for HALion 3. This library includes 30 hard hitting multi-velocity professional kits from authentic acoustic kits to contemporary electronic collections and ethnic percussion from around the world.

Studio Drums is available now for Mac OS X and Windows XP | Vista, it costs $49. Note that HALion 3 is required.

Once again, Ueberschall announces the release of a new sample library : Analog Attack.

With more than 1450 diverse Patterns and Sequences for 1.6GB of contents, this new product works well with Electronic Methods such as Minimal, Techno, House Hardstyle, Breakbeat, Techhouse, Progressive and Trance. Analog Attack was developed with analog synth and signal processing gear of today and yesterday. The instruments used for this production include: Minimoog, Moog Voyager, Prophet 5, Prophet 600, Andromeda, Se-1x, Omega 8, Arp 2600, Yamaha CS 80, Juno 106, SH 101, Matrix 6, etc... As usual all this material is supported by the elastik audio instrument.

Analog Attack is available now for Mac OS X and Windows in VST, AU and RTAS formats at a retail price of $119/€99/£69. For more information, please visit the link below :

De la Mancha has released unstable, an effect plug-in that likes to mess around with your audio pitch, with 3 subtle pitch modulation modes to simulate the unpredictable but lovable pitch instability of an old tape machine or analogue equipment. It doesn't only do subtle though, you can also put it in 'insane' mode if you'd rather just f**k things up.

features :

- 3 modes of continuously random pitch modulation

. buzz – rapid, fuzzy modulation
. wobble – medium, jerky modulation
. drift – slow, gentle modulation

- adjustable frequency and level for each modulation mode
- master level mode to adjust overall subtlety of effect
- wet / dry mix level control
- insane mode – removes all subtlety and smacks your pitch up
- all controls mapped to midi CC values

unstable is available now for Windows as a VST plug-in at a very reasonable price of $8. Note that audio examples and a demo version are also available.

Gallo Engineering has just released Studio Devil Virtual Guitar Amp, a new guitar tube amplifier modeling designed to emulate 18 distinct vacuum tube guitar amplifiers.

Features :

- Three Amplifier Styles: CLASSIC, BRITISH, and MODERN.
- Three Amplifier Channels for each style: CLEAN, CRUNCH, and LEAD.
- BOOST switch that "hot rods" each channel for higher gain.
- 12AX7A vacuum tube preamplifier stage emulation with GAIN control.
- BASS, MIDS, TREBLE, and PRESENCE TONE controls based on real "tone stack" circuit models.
- Push-pull tube power amplifier model with DRIVE control.
- Built-in "4x12" and "Combo" Mode Cabinet Speaker Simulation FIR Filters.
- "Direct Box" Mode for compatibility with your favorite cabinet impulse modeling plug-ins.
- Built-In NOISE GATE with threshold and bypass switch.
- 4X Up-Sampling Engine with 64-bit Internal Floating-Point Precision
- 44.1kHz, 48kHz, 88.2kHz, 96kHz, 176.4kHz, and 196kHz sampling rate support.
- Compatible with VST, Audio Units, and RTAS audio hosts for Windows or Mac OSX

Studio Devil Virtual Guitar Amp is available now at a price of $79.

Christian Knufinke Software has announced the release of SIR2 v2.3 for both Mac OS X (VST/AU) and Windows (VST).

New in Version 2.3 :

- Initial mac release.
- Internal convolution engine redesigned.
- If you have two mono files, one with "L" and one with "R" at the end of the file name, you can click with right mouse button on one of these files to create a stereo file.
- GUI now remembers that the time-line is in "Beat-Scale"-mode.
- When ever you convert a wav-file (or aif) to a sir-file, you will asked if you want to store it into the default impulse file directory or at the current location.
- Fixed a CPU-glitch when play a loop in ableton live arrangement-view.

This update is free for all registered users. Prices start at $189 / €125 for new customers.

Ueberschall has just announced the availability of Reggae Fundamentals, a specialized sample compilation which includes 33 construction kits and 12 Drumkits sheltered in 2 GB of ready to work content offering authoritative most current Reggae environments.

The kits are jam packed with everything you need to give your production the finishing touch: bass-, synth-, drum- and padlines also vocals, FX and atmospheres. All patterns, shots, and riffs have been molded with state of the art techniques, tricks and tools. This set has a colossal variety of styles from different periods of reggae history: Roots, modern Roots, Rub-a-Dub, Dancehall, Modern Reggae, Caribbean and Dub.

Also included are hundreds of drum and percussion samples and loops. Providing a wide radius of reggae concentrated mix tools. All this material is supported by the elastik audio instrument, so you can expect organization and easy tweaking straight from the get go.

Reggae Fundamentals is available now for Mac OS X and Windows in VST, AU and RTAS formats at a retail price of $119/€99/£69. For more information, please visit the link below :