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The update sees a whole host of new features including a new interactive interface called 'The Orb' which offers stunning real-time synthesis manipulation capabilities. Spectrasonics describe 'Orb' as a 'Circular Controller' which allows the user the move the Orb cursor around to morph between automatically generated parameter scenes in 'a highly intelligent and musical manner'.

The update also includes deeply expanded additions to the synthesis engine and user interface plus many important user-requested features such as the new 5-Column Browser view and support for polyphonic aftertouch. The new version also includes a significant update to the factory patch library - 780 brand new patches which take advantage of all the new sound design capabilities and brings the total number of included sounds to over 8,000.
v1.5 is available free to registered users from the Spectrasonics website.

The ES-3 is a Eurorack format module which converts eight channels of ADAT Lightpipe input to DC coupled outputs on 3.5mm jacks, for the ultimate convenience in connection of a DAW directly to analogue synthesizers.

The outputs can be used as control voltages (CVs), for example with software such as Expert Sleepers Silent Way, and can also be used as audio outputs at high, modular synth-compatible levels.

With the ES-3, a single optical cable is all that is need to bring direct CV control from your DAW right into the heart of a modular system.

Producer Jeff Rhodes is back with the second installment in the Dance Glitch series. Using some of the same production techniques employed in our acclaimed Ambient Glitch series, 'Dance Glitch Vol 2' presents you with hundreds of small but useable building blocks suitable for a wide range of electronic music.

As with Dance Glitch Vol 1 the range of sounds encompasses conventional electronic sounds as well as more experimental and niché textures. Arpeggios, basslines, tribal percussion and warped effects provide you with more than enough material to let your imagination run wild.
This product includes loops that will work within the following genres: Dance, Glitch, Electro, Tech House, Trip Hop, Dubstep, Drum and Bass, Grime, Industrial, Techno and more.

This brand new sample pack has a wide panel of loops and samples as the reversed kicks, distorted kicks, Hardcore drum samples, basslines, kick and Bass Loops, hardstyle drum loops, sound FX, synth sounds and many more.

Hardstyle Loops and Hardcore Samples Contents:
- Kick Loops
- No Kick Loops
- Percussion Loops
- Bass Loops
- Sound Effects
- Pads / Layers / Atmospheres
- Drum Hits / One-Shots
- Synth Sounds

Sporting the pure Fender tones that millions of guitarists know and love, AmpliTube Fender offers the same famous tones for your iPhone and iPad, developed in close cooperation with the tone gurus at Fender to ensure the authenticity of the sounds. Using technology from the award-winning desktop version of IK Multimedia's AmpliTube Fender for Mac/PC, the AmpliTube Fender apps for iPhone and iPad each offer 5 Fender amp models - the '65 Deluxe Reverb, the Super-Sonic, the '65 Twin Reverb, the '59 Bassman LTD and the Pro Junior, and 6 Fender stompbox models - Tape Delay, Compressor, the Fender Blender, Phaser, Overdrive and Noise Filter.

FXpansion presents BFD Remix, a Geist Expander that provides affordable, high-quality acoustic drum samples, kits, engines and patterns ready to use in Geist, the next-generation sampling beatbox.

BFD Remix combines pristine acoustic sounds with fat-sounding FX treatments within Geist to provide a versatile set of drum sounds that range from subtle kits to cutting edge, aggressive sounds that tear through a mix.
The samples in BFD Remix can also be used in any software that supports WAV and REX2 format samples.