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Zero-G and Xfonic present ANIMATO String & Flute FX for Cinema 4.5Gb of 24bit cinematic audio sounds! Animato contains 3000 samples and 139 separate Kontakt instruments each with its own custom GUI created especially for this project.

Featuring world-class instrumentalists from the renowned Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Animato is a expressive and playable Orchestral Effects library. With a wide sonic range from chaotic, tense effects to pads. Distant pianissimo sirens can shift seamlessly to fortissimo ungodly screeches all at the simple command of your Mod Wheel.
Formats supported include:
- Acid WAV
- Kontakt

RRP: £89.95 / €109.00

Snapper is the on-screen waveform that appears as soon as you select a sound file in the Mac Finder. You can extract audio from video, normalize, fade, or shoot the selection up to the cursor of your Pro Tools, Nuendo, Cubase or Logic.
All without ever leaving the Mac Finder.

Some features:
- Much improved integration with Snow Leopard.
- Spot-to-cursor supports Nuendo, Cubase, Logic and ProTools
- Drag selections anywhere, into tracks of any DAW, video editor or even iChat or mail.
- Even smaller cpu footprint
- Better looking waveforms that build up quicker, and zoom smoother
- Loop playback
- 64 bit file support
- New edit features such as a trim tool, fades and normalizing
- Varispeed playback without pitch shift
- Recent files tab
- Level meters
- and dozens of other features.

Snapper 2 costs 59 EUR or 79 USD, and upgrades cost 39 EUR or 49 USD.

Camel Audio announces a new Alchemy Sound Library : Electronic Bass.
This new Sound Library works as standalone instrument when used with the included Alchemy Player
Alchemy Sound Libraries offer all the benefits of sample libraries plus you can tweak sounds to fit your music using the perform controls and remix pad. Suitable for a wide range of genres from dubstep to techno, Electronic Bass also introduces over fifty new sampled bass sounds, and has been carefully sorted in to folder categories so you can quickly find the most suitable candidate for your project.

Costs just 59USD / 39GBP / 49EUR.

Aura Flux is a totally unique and interactive ambient music maker that will have you creating complex, evolving melodies with just a few taps of the touchscreen.
Chains of notes are created quickly and easily by visually connecting nodes using the multi-touch interface. These nodes can be customised by setting the pitch, trigger rate, volume, decay and adding additional 'chord' notes. By layering these chain reactions together the user can easily produce lush sounding ambient melodies and with the option to randomise many of the settings can introduce elements of generative music into their creations.

StepPolyArp is a MIDI step polyphonic arpeggiator. The arpeggiator does not play any sound itself, it transmits midi notes to a Mac or a PC to be used in combination with any sequencer, virtual instrument (VSTi, Audio Unit) or midi synthesizer.

Some features:

- 32 steps programmable matrix
- 11 configurable transposition lines
- Features copy and paste
- 8 octaves virtual keyboard
- Velocity, modulation, pan, volume, aftertouch and pitch - bend step controller
- The apeggiator and keyboard fit the selected scale
- 6 arpeggiator modes
- 1 chord mode
- Unlimited number of saves...

Voxengo is pleased to announce the release of Soniformer version 3, a
spectral mastering dynamics processor plug-in for professional music
production applications, available in AudioUnit and VST plugin
formats, for Mac OS X (v.10.4.11 and later) and Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) computers. Every parameter in Soniformer is defined by means of a graphic
envelope which is freely-modifiable and which may contain unlimited number of control points. Beside usual threshold, attack, release and compression/expander ratio parameters Soniformer offers you control over "stereo width" and "panning" parameters making Soniformer
an effective tool for stereo field adjustments.