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Athmoscapes. A machine featuring probably the easiest way for stunning spacey soundscapes and athmospheres either let it play in LazyPlay mode or via triggering i.e. switching waves by MIDI keys or MIDI CC. This plug in is for Windows but you can work also on Mac (under Windows/BootCamp...) it's not a hard work for a Mac (except if you need to work under a DAW with many virtual instruments...).
So this plugin is also very suited to be used with trigger pads.

X32 is a 32-Channel 16-Bus Digital Total Recall Live/Recording Mixing Console.
Some Specs:

- Total recall
- 32 channels with inserts
- 16 mix busses with inserts
- 6 aux sends and returns
- 8 stereo FX returns
- 6 matrix mixers with inserts
- 6 mute groups
- 8 DCA groups
- Full-recording / multi-channel networking via FW/USB expansion cards*
- 48-channel "digital snake" via ultra-low latency AES-50 ports*
- Fully programmable, high-end mic preamps
- 25 low-noise 100mm motorized faders
- High-resolution 7" colour TFT display
- Individual LCD displays per channel, DCA and Bus

Electro takes the best of techno, Dutch, jackin' and classic French disco, bending all the rules and mashing every genre along the way to deliver a sizzling multiformat collection of pumping bass, jackin' beats, twisted synths, wired filth, acid grime, FX, and washed-out seqs.

Do you use Stylus RMX? Electro is a multi-format title which includes Rex2 loops that are optimised for Stylus RMX so you can drop them straight into Stylus and get using them in no time at all!

Weighing in at a hefty 750+MB of 24-bit, 44.1Khz key and tempo-labeled Wavs (1.8GB+ multiformat material), the majority of loops come in industry standard 128bpm, ensuring dancefloor smashes are just a few clicks away.

But that's not all...

To celebrate their 20th release, Sample Magic have created a limited edition pack which not only includes the sample DVD but also integrates a bonus 'Behind the Scenes at Sample Magic' film, 700MB additional samples from other Sample Magic titles PLUS a 36-page extended hints and tips booklet.

Hmmm... how's that for a great Christmas gift idea?!

Shipping 13th December 2010 – pre-order now!

RRP: £54.95 / €65.95

VSL has released updates for Vienna Ensemble, Vienna Ensemble Pro, Vienna Instruments, Vienna Instruments Pro, Vienna Imperial and Vienna Suite.

About Vienna Ensemble v4.1.7349, for example:

- Fixed unclear naming in Pro Tools 9 insert slots.
- Removed Download Manager from installation.
- Added more loading and saving progress indicators.
- RTAS / AU: Improved saving times significantly.
- RTAS: Fixed crashes in Server Interface when using more than 48 outputs.
- RTAS: Limited MIDI ports to 16 because Pro Tools crashes with more.
- OS X: Fixed some problems with file associations.
- OS X: Fixed inability to start both VE Service and Standalone of the same architecture.
- OS X: Fixed 64bit applications being installed on a system with 32bit CPU.
- OS X: Fixed icon bouncing in Dock during save/load…

DarkWave Studio is a free, open source, Digital Audio Workstation for Windows. Featuring a modular Virtual Studio, Pattern Editor, Sequence Editor and Multitrack Hard Disk Recorder. It has support for VST/VSTi instrument and effect plugins. The virtual studio has a modular design allowing machines to be connected in an ad-hoc fashion. The pattern editor enables the quick creation and modification of patterns by clicking to add or delete notes and dragging notes to move or resize them.

Changes:

- Fixed ES QuadDelay property value strings in default editor.
- Added Null (Silent) wave output driver.
- Fixed problems with Windows Wave and ASIO output drivers when no sound card present.

Wavelight is the series of pure Fairlight disks sampled in 44,1 khz / 16 bit fidelity. These are the same samples used in our refill 'Bitley Supersonic / Fairlight CMI Legacy II'.
Please note: The original Fairlight sounds were 8 bit samples. Therefore, 16 bits is fully sufficient to completely copy the Fairlight IIx sound for any sound source, be it an old hardware sampler or any music software application.
Wavelight 3 contains 60 Mb's of brass instruments taken from Fairlight IIx. Thanks to the full flexibility of high quality audio files, it is now possible to use any sampler instrument, whether hard or software, to get a hold of Bitley's Fairlight sound banks.
Sounds include:
Brass Ens 1, Brass Ens 2, Bright Tone, Chorus Brass, Clarinet Hi1, Clarinet Lo 1, Clarinet Lo 2, Clarinet Lo 3, CMI Baryton Sax, CMI Bassoon, CMI Horn Ensemble, CMI Matrix Bass, CMI Matrix Bass 2, CMI Old Horn, CMI Sine Horn, CMI Solo Trumpet 1 — 2, Elephant Warning, Mid Trombones 1 — 2, Mid Trumpets 1 — 2, Sax 1 — 5, Sax Section 1 — 5, Short Trumpet 1 — 2, Slow Trumpet, Soprano Sax, TenorSax, Trumpet Fall, Trumpet Tone 1 — 2.