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Roland is proud to introduce the Lucina AX-09, a compact shoulder synthesizer designed to fit all musicians — even kids.

Features :

• Stylish, lightweight, compact design
• Easy-to-use, intuitive user interface
• 150 high-quality sounds that cover a wide stylistic range
• 37-note velocity-sensitive keyboard, 128-voice polyphony
• External-In Jack and USB-Memory Audio Player Function
• Runs on AC or battery power

The Lucina AX-09 is scheduled to ship in May with a suggested retail price of $699.

Toontrack Music announces a new product line for its drum sampler Superior Drummer 2.0 - S2.0 Producer Presets. To launch its first ever release under the new line, Toontrack has collaborated with allenmorganaudio to create a versatile presets package designed by acclaimed producer/mixer/re-mixer himself, Allen Morgan.

Allen Morgan has worked with a diverse range of artists spanning from country giants such as Taylor Swift, Dolly Parton and Reba McIntire to pop acts like NSYNC and rock acts such as Nine Inch Nails and Stevie Nicks. Allen is known for his innovative mixing and his ability to create unique, expansive soundscapes and being able to lend a contemporary touch to all his work without ever losing track of the organic feel. Aside from traditional mixing and producing, he is also ...

AudioSpillage has announced the release of DrumSpillage, a new virtual drum synth for Mac OS X (AU). Inspired by early analog and digital drum machines but expanding on the original blue print DrumSpillage is equipped with a unique and modern feature set designed for today's electronic musicians and producers.

Key Features:

• Future proof model-driven architecture.
• 13 exclusive drum synthesis algorithms with extensive editing facilities.
• 16 part/64 note polyphonic percussion synthesizer.
• Pad based real-time control/mixing surface.
• Fast slider based GUI.
• Dynamic velocity accent control.
• Flexible modulation possibilities.
• Full MIDI key mapping and pad layering.
• 9 mono/stereo outputs.
• High resolution 64-bit DSP engine.

Full retail price is £99 / €119 / $159 with a special introductory 25% off discount price for the first 10 customers.

Line 6 has released POD Farm 2 and POD Farm 2 Platinum software plug-ins. The pair of AU/RTAS/VST plug-ins builds upon the foundations set by their predecessors to deliver extensive model counts, a simple yet powerful workflow and POD tone for any digital audio workstation. These new versions offer enhanced routing with flexible DSP, POD Farm Elements, and full MIDI support.

The enhanced routing with flexible DSP (digital signal processing) inspires creativity and allows for a broad range of tones. Users can build Dual Tones, which are dual signal chains that can be played separately or simultaneously. Dual Tones can include up to twenty effect models of any type placed in any order within the signal chain.

Included with both POD Farm 2 and POD Farm 2 Platinum, POD Farm Elements are ...

AcousticsampleS releases Elektron, an electro acoustic nylon guitar library with new strumming script.

Features :

• The Elektron library is a Godin Multiac electro-acoustic guitar with nylon strings.
• 2,06Go of samples recorded at 24 bits, 44.1kHz.
• 5 play modes: (Normal, Legato, Hammers, Slides, Strumming).
• The strumming mode features a new guitar strumming engine and an harmonization feature to produce guitar-like chords.
• 10 downstroke velocity layers and 10 upstroke (20 samples per note) played alternativey.
• 16 release samples per note.
• Hammers samples, ghost notes and various fretnoises.
• Strumming script that helps you play chords, hammers, legato like on a real guitar.
• Fender Frontman 212R cabinet simulation.
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Modartt has announced the release of version 3.6 of Pianoteq which includes a new K1 Grand Piano.

The K1 grand piano is the latest piano creation of Modartt virtual piano factory. According to them, this new instrument combines stunning dynamics, sharp attacks and powerful fortissimos with a very nice woody percussive quality. The result is an amazing musical instrument that invites you to improvise straight away. Its many qualities make it suitable to all styles of music and work beautifully in recording. A new tone colour and a fresh sound: you will enjoy playing it.

The K1 grand piano is free to all Pianoteq customers by being included in the latest version 3.6. Besides including the K1 Grand Piano, version 3.6 lets you decide where to store your add-ons and fxp file settings. It also changes the way it names plug-in files in order to avoid future upgrade problems.