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For 3 days only, McDSP offers the Project Studio bundle for only $129 (Regular Price $295)! Project Studio is the most comprehensive LE plug-in bundle ever, featuring award winning equalizers, filters, and compressors, plus a sound synthesizer, guitar amp modeler, convolution reverb, mastering limiter, and analog tape machine simulator. The McDSP LE product line supports RTAS and Audiosuite formats, and operates on Pro Tools HD, LE and M-Powered.

This special offer is valid only until June 3, 2010 and available only via electronic delivery

Are you a songwriter, do you program your own MIDI or do you use one or more of the great packs in the Toontrack MIDI Collection? Are you short on some pro-played fills or need a creative booster? If so, look no further! Session veteran and drummer behind the Songwriters Drumpack, Ricard "Huxflux" Nettermalm, is back this time with a really useful and well-played collection of more than 500 1-2 bar fills in different tempos and styles!

- More than 500 individually played fills
- Swing/straight in 4/4 and/or 6/8
- Short fills with lead-ins
- Long fills with lead-ins
- Single fills

It works with EZdrummer, Superior Drummer (optimized for 1 kick, 1 snare, 2 toms, 1 floor-tom, 2 crash-cymbals, 1 ride-cymbal). Songwriters Fillpack is priced 15€ and available now from the ToonTrack website.

Crysonic have extended their No-Brainer Deal of the century sale. Until the 15th of June their CryEverything Bundle comprising of 7 Audio DSP Plug-ins plus two bonus plug-ins with MSRP of $706 for Only $58. Which is a 94% saving.
The CryEverything NO-BRAINER BUNDLE DEAL + 2 Bonus Plug-ins include the following; Spectralive NXT V3.5, SINDO V3.5, nXtasy V3, newB V2, SpectraPhy Pro, SpectraPhy LE, Spectra C1 and two BONUS PLUGINS Cry'Q and Spectra'Q.

Four of the plug-ins in the bundle are available for both PC and Mac (VST and AU), the others are PC Only (Mac OS versions will be free upgrades when they are released). The No-Brainer Deal will end on the 15th of June 2010.

PocketSync is a real-time SMPTE (LTC) generator for IPhone/IPod touch/IPad that outputs the timecode stream through the headphone socket and supports 24/25/29.97/30 drop/non drop frame rate and selectable 44.1/48kHz sample rate output.

Specs:
- real-time Linear (Longitudinal) Time Code generator.
- Selectable 24/25/29.97/30 drop frame/non drop frame rate.
- Selectable 44.1/48kHz sample rate output stream.
- Selectable time offset.
- Output the timecode stream through the headphone socket.

PocketSync is available as a download from the App Store at 15.99 EUR / $19.99 USD.

Getting a vocal performance right means so much more than hitting the right notes at the right time. Sometimes you get that almost perfect performance with perfect feel and presence, but the singer might have missed a few notes. That's when Neptune can save the day. Neptune is an advanced pitch adjuster, audio transposer and voice synth for Record 1.5.

Watch this video to discover the leading effect of your next sumer's hit:

Nuendo 5 represents a new production environment tailored to top-flight production studios in post production, live recording and audio production. The wealth of new features includes an ADR toolset, new sound design features such as the unique Clip Packages system, new plug-ins as well as a range of mixing, routing and automation enhancements. Supporting Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 as well as Windows 7, Vista and XP, Nuendo 5 will be available from authorized Steinberg dealers from June 2010 and will cost €1799.00/£1531.00.