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Waldorf announces the release of Waldorf Largo V1.5.0.

This free update for all Largo customers comes with a completely new Browse page for easy sound administration, a new 6-stage Chorus effect, new parameters in the Oscillator section and in the Arpeggiator. Furthermore it fixes several bugs reported by beta testers and customers and Largo now runs in Pro Tools with the FXpansion VST2RTAS Wrapper. Included are more than 450 new sounds from highly acclaimed sound programmers.

MusicLab has released RealLPC, a new virtual guitar instrument plug-in which aims to bring the Les Paul Custom Guitar sound to your studio, virtually.

RealLPC is a sample-based virtual instrument with an innovative approach to guitar sound modeling and guitar techniques emulating on a standard MIDI keyboard. It provides incredible playability based on the unique performance modes and easy-to-use keyboard layout as well as the advanced key/pedal/velocity switch system allowing a keyboardist to perform guitar parts with a whole new level of realistic expression. RealLPC covers practically all sounds, articulations, and techniques a professional guitarist can produce on their Les Paul, including mute, bridge mute, harmonics, pinch harmonics, unison bend, strumming, picking, chord chopping, ...

Now you can get all Soundprovocation products for the discounted price - up to 50 %.

Also, Soundprovocation wants to return the favor to all customers of this year, and offers a FREE download of "Holiday Gift Pack", which contains five previously unreleased EXS24 and KONTAKT instruments/patches.

If you have already purchased any product from Soundprovocation this year, you'll get the e-mail message with download instructions soon.

Every new buyers until 2010 January 15, besides discounted prices, will also get the "Holiday gift pack" for FREE!

The "Holiday Gift Pack" contents :

1. "Flux" - pad synth.
2. "Ruler Bass" - inspiring bass synth.
3. "Rusty Violin" - fat and charismatic instrument.
4. "Drums of life" - drum set, made of living room sounds.
5. "Ancient Freshness" - one more unique synth.

Sample format: 24 bit 44100 Hz .aiff

Package size: 93 MB

You can listen how it sounds here :

QuikQuak has released the third version of Pitchwheel, their real-time pitch changing plug-in.

Changes :

• A new pro quality pitch shifter. After months of research, Pitchwheel gets a new engine.
• Superior pitch shifting - great frequency stability and transient accuracy, with low latency and CPU usage.
• 'Fixed Envelope' option that preserves formant shapes. Useful for changing pitch without the usual 'chipmunks' sound. Allowing natural vocal changes, with glides, vibrato and harmonies.
• 46ms (at 44k) latency - very fast response time for a high quality wide-band pitch shifter.
• New option to only output sound when playing through MIDI, allowing 8 note harmonies to be played very easily.
• Sample accurate pitch changes.
• 96 semitone pitch range.

All registered users can upgrade for free; new customers can purchase Pitchwheel 3 for £50.

Arturia announces the release of Hip-Hop Producer, a complete, ready-to-go solution that will get you started in Hip-Hop music production.

Hip-Hop Producer includes four products bundled in one box :

• Live Lite 8 Arturia Edition is based on the reference software environment for writing, producing and performing music.
• Analog Factory Hip Hop Edition brings to you 250 high quality synthesizer patches dedicated to Hip Hop (including Minimoog and ARP 2600 classic sounds).
• Lounge Lizard Session delivers 4 electric pianos (including Wurlitzer and Rhodes) with outstanding sound quality, action and feel.
• The ModernBeats Hip Hop bank comes with more than 1200 samples and more than 30 MIDI loops, all dedicated to Hip Hop and made by Los Angeles based Hip Hop masters.

Priced at $129 / €129, Hip-Hop Producer is available now for Windows (XP/Vista) and Mac OS X (10.4+) Universal Binary.

Cableguys has released version 2.0 of VolumeShaper, adding a free-running option for its LFO and a refined user interface.

VolumeShaper is an innovative VST plug-in that lets you automate the volume of any signal in a flexible way, yet very precise and easy to use.
The plug-in allows you to easily draw your own waveforms with precision and ease. Using the waveform drawing tool, you can construct your own modulation curves in an intuitive manner.

Accurate and hard-synced cuts to your audio signal can be done just as well as long evolving transitions.

Small corrections, modifying the volume shape of any input signal, such as isolating, fading or muting a piece from a drumloop, can all be done in a second. VolumeShaper 2 also makes an excellent tremolo unit, or can provide the typi ...