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Gangsta Beats 3 brings you another set of 10 fine construction kits designed to give Urban and Hip Hop producers all the elements they need to create club smashing hit tracks, including MIDI for all melodic parts. These multi-format construction kits are royalty free, and ready to drop into your productions.
Mix and match these slick kits in any number of ways to create fresh new productions. All of the instrumentation you'd expect to find in Urban dance floor fillers is here, including:
- Bass lines
- Drum and percussion loops
- Piano/keyboard phrases
- Synth and pad loops
- Strings
- Brass
Formats:
- ACID WAV, Apple Loops/AIFF, MIDI, REX, ReFill for Reason 4.0+

Little Endian today announced the "Happy Holidays" sale, where they will be offering SpectrumWorx spectral processing VST plug-in for Mac OS X and Windows, as well as OS Bundle and OS Upgrade versions, at 40% off of the regular price.

The sale starts on December 25th and ends on January 9th.
The discounted versions will be available for purchase at Little Endian's web shop www.littleendian.com/shop, as early as December 24th at 10 a.m., time-zone GMT+1.

Just a little news (it's not really a news) to say to you: Merry Christmas!

All MacMusic staff join me to wish you all the best for this evening. We hope Santa Klaus will offer you many musical gifts as you like!

Now that Waldorf have released the magnificent PPG Wave 3.00, it has been decided to discontinue the Hollow Sun 'Definitive PPG' library as it makes no sense to be in competition with 'the real thing', so to speak.

But before that happens, here's an opportunity to grab it for a measly $1! That's about 64p in real money or roughly €0.75!!
his offer is valid until the twelfth day of Christmas on January 5th, 2011, at which point, she will be gracefully and lovingly retired with thanks for services beyond the call of duty. So if you have Kontakt and fancy a taste of these iconic sounds, grab it while you can!

Applied Acoustics Systems announces the release of the free Swatches sound bank compilation for the AAS Player plug-in.

Swatches is a free compilation of high quality sounds carefully picked from the Analog Essentials, Ultra FX, Starlight, Journeys, and Entangled Species sound banks. Swatches currently ships with 40 presets and AAS intends to add more with new sound bank releases. Swatches is a great source of inspiring sounds as well as a fun and easy way to test drive AAS' sound bank titles.
The Swatches sounds bank is available now for free.

Free Samples!
Six samples: two snares, two toms, two kick drums. ZIP file, 26,2 MB.

MoReVoX' DriveDrums Library for the DrumXchanger contains more than 800 samples. All based upon outstanding acoustic recordings, they were treated with finest tube and tape distortion effects from subtle to sick.
An exclusive feature is the "Drive-Control" with the DrumXchanger's RIM function for further sample sound variations.