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MuTools announces that a pre-release version of Mu.Lab 3 is now available for download for Windows and Mac OS X.

Mu.Lab is an alternative, state of the art software application for OSX and Windows, transforming your computer into a rich virtual music studio.

New features :

• Function shortcuts: Map a key or MIDI event to almost any function.
• Step Recorder.
• Integrated virtual MIDI keyboard.
• Compressor Module.
• Sub Tracks.
• MIDI Clock Out.
• Relative audio file paths - easy to move sessions to another system.
• "Open Recent".
• Line tool for velocity beams.
• Improved sequence loop system.
• New comfortable editor zooming & scrolling system.
• New mouse tool system.

Supreme Styles by Ueberschall is a library of urban music focusing on guitars for a range of styles such as HipHop, R&B, Club and Dancehall, as well as other surrounding genres.

Each of the 30 Construction Kits delivers a composed track, (including a main part, variation, intro/outro), which consist besides its instrument and drum and percussion loops, of several guitar loops. With a range of 58 bpm to 127 bpm, you'll find unique tracks, which have their own tension, feeling and style.

The 4GB package has more than 1600 loops and samples. Since the main focus of this library was set on guitars, there is a range of acoustic and amped guitars, such as rock guitars with and without distortion, flamenco guitars, classical nylon guitars, also guitars with wah-wah effect and more.

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Universal Audio today announced the release of the highly anticipated Manley Massive Passive EQ plug-in.

Working with Manley Labs, Universal Audio's Massive Passive EQ plug-in represents their most ambitious hardware EQ modeling project to date, bringing UAD-2 users both the standard and mastering versions of this world-renowned EQ in one package. Specifically, the two-channel, four-band Manley Massive Passive EQ utilizes design strengths from choice console, graphic, parametric and Pultec EQs — delivering a fundamentally different EQ that's beyond compare. The Massive Passive's natural treatment of a signal lends itself to both radical tonal shaping as well as delicate vocal shading or subtle mastering enhancement.

FXpansion is proud to present the second instalment of Yamaha artist signature snares for your BFD2 library. With the usual high levels of detail, multiple channels and multiple articulations, BFD Signature Snares Vol.2 is ready for you to sequence and mix using BFD 2.1's powerful software interface.

The snares are captured in the same room as previous Yamaha expansion kits and the Jazz & Funk, Percussion and B.O.M.B expansion packs, in Omega Studios, Rockville, MD, USA. The tight, precise and very playable sound makes them sound great when combined with any kit-pieces in the BFD library.

BFD v2.1's support for custom articulations allows these snares to offer 'rim clicks' in addition to the standard snare articulations, as well as positional sensing when used with electronic drums. ...

XILS-lab is proud to announce its new product : the polyKB. The polyKB is a recreation of a very rare, very powerful polyphonic synthesizer released in the 80's by a french company. It is a polyphonic substractive synthesizer based on two waveform morphing, aliasing free oscillators and a self oscilating 4 poles low pass filter.

One of its features, never heard on other analog synthesizers, was the continuously modulated waveform, sort of a modulated waveform morphing. Recreating this feature in the digital domain, without aliasing was a very big challenge.

Features :

• two aliasing-free morphing oscillators: from triangle to pulse, through saw.
• one 4 poles low pass self oscillating filter
• two envelope generators (ADSR)
• two MIDI synced LFO
• one MIDI synced Sample and Hold
• one 128 steps polyphonic sequencer
• one arpeggiator
• chorus and delay effects
• mono/unison/poly playing mode with up to 16 voices of polyphony
• all parameters are MIDI controllable

The polyKB will be released soon for Windows and Mac OS X in VST, AU and RTAS instrument plug-in formats. Pricing is not yet announced.

Waldorf has released the TechnoTrance Soundset for Largo.

Designed by Rob Lee, this soundset contains128 brand new presets and consists of Arps, fat basses, House and Techno chords, searing leads, evolving pads and more, thus giving you all the tools you need to start producing quality Techno and Trance music. The download package contains the soundset as FXB bank as well as all single sounds in FXP format.

Available now for €30.