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During December Flux offers a "Pure Holiday" Winter Promotion offering the Pure Series plug-ins, including Epure II EQ (NATIVE/TDM), as well as the Pure Pack bundle at a 50% discount.

Flux also offers the Mastering Pack and the Recording Pack at a 30% discount.

The last day of this promotion is the 31st December, to take advantage of the promotion you can either purchase direct via download through the Flux online shop, or through our partner DontCrack.com.

From the synthesizer arsenal of Richard Lainhart comes the second volume in Puremagnetik's Buchla 200e series. B-System: Basses & Leads includes a richly programmed library of instruments and looped clips recorded from Lainhart's Buchla 200e/Haken Continuum system, all expertly edited and formatted for maximum playability and expression.

B-System Basses & Leads for Ableton Live contains a collection of 20 advanced multisample Instrument Racks and over 30 looped Live Clips of preprogrammed material, each one expertly tailored with effects and advanced Macro controls.

The Kontakt and Logic versions of B-System Basses & Leads comes with 20 multisampled 200e instruments and a collection of Apple Loops that easily integrate and tempo-sync to the host. For Kontakt users, each instrument ha ...

Christmas is approaching and for this reason Modartt will give away 60 rebate coupons with values from €50 to €100 each. Just answer a few questions to participate in the lottery.

The coupons can be used for purchase of any of our products on Modartt's site.

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AcousticsampleS has announced the release of "The Dulcet".

Highlights :

• The Dulcet is a little English scholar Glockenspiel recorded at 24bits
44.1khz in stereo.
• 310Mo sample bank, no loops.
• 1 + 3/4 octave (4 + 3/4 with duplication)
• Duplicated mapping for a big metallophone or bell effect (listen to the
chords in the demos).
• Up to 9 velocity layers.
• Both Original (out of tune) and corrected tunings.
• Optional full resonant or faded sustains.
• Build in vibraphone type Motor emulation (in the 3d demo).
• Sensivity control.
• Kontakt 2 and 3 format. Easy to use Kontakt interface.

Available now at a price of €14.

Cochleor has released Harmony Improvisator which is an advanced harmonic composition tool for your DAW.

Features :

• Perfect harmonic improvisation.
• Composing with the rules of classical harmonic theory - no professional knowledge required.
• Complex cadences suitable for all styles of music.
• Unique concept of harmonic pattern sequencing.
• Automatic calculation of exciting harmonic suggestions.
• Critical time advantage for creating harmonic frames of songs, soundtracks, and arrangements.

Priced at €99 (incl. 19% tax) / $129, Harmony Improvisator is available now for Windows and Mac OS X (Intel) in the VST effect format.

SPL has announced that the Vitalizer MK2-T plug-in is now shipping.

The Vitalizer is a unique and comprehensive tool to add character and life to any music production. All different models together, the hardware version was sold more than 30,000 times. Now we have transferred this legendary, patented filter technology for sound optimizing to the digital domain. Using the latest component modeling methods, the unique Analog Code sound quality is simply amazing.

Special Features :

• Patented technology for automatic sound optimizing
• Very easy to use
• Bass, mid and top end processing
• Unmasking of overlapping sounds
• Adjustable soft and tight low frequency sounds
• Ideal sounds patterns for electronic sounds/genres
• Mono, stereo or multi ...