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Freshtone Samples features the work of producer musicians Matthew Corbett and Mike Wilkie who are best known in the world of samples for their work with Zero-G, including 'Sounds of the Seventies', 'Vocal Forge' and 'Vocal Foundry' which were all released to critical acclaim.

43 Funk and Soul construction kits, all recorded to tape using only mics, instruments and equipment from the sixties and seventies

Lost Tapes Volume 1 resonates with the textural sensations of an age, with that human touch – spontaneous and exciting. 43 choice cuts featuring the instruments, and the playing style of the era, with the gestures of soul, pure and funky, and sounds of the ghosts of pop's past.

In WAV, Aiff, Acid WAV and Rex 2 format, Lost Tapes was recorded in a unique environment. The tracks were played on a wide range of sixties instruments from legendary manufacturers such as Burns, Baldwin and Dan Electro into vintage Selmer and Vox amplification.
RRP: £39.95 / €47.95 / $63.95

Blue Cat Audio has released new versions of two of its flagship audio analysis plug-ins: this update mainly brings to Blue Cat's FreqAnalyst Multi and Blue Cat's StereoScope Multi the ability to save difference curves in order to perform comparisons between measurements:

the plug-ins are able to compute differences between measurements taken in multiple locations in a digital audio workstation, and it is now possible to save and compare them.

Feeltune releases V 1.5.7 for their Rhizome Groove Box.
In addition to this update, Rizhome goes with Blue Cat Audio plug in suite (Chorus, Flanger, Phaser, FreqAnalysis, Gain Suite).


Some new features about Sampler:
- Sampler normalise
- Sampler trim
- Sampler cut
- Sampler Fade in
- Sampler Fade out

Blues Masters 1.0 for iPad is an encyclopedia for all those eager to learn the basics of blues guitar and who want to discover how the legends build their solos. Learn from 115+ authentic riffs from 16 masters of the blues guitar, including Clapton, Vaughan, B.B. King, Haynes and many more.

This app is with loads of fun features, teaching videos, lessons on the legends themselves. Build your own 12 bar blues session using authentic tracks from these legendary blues players.

The ASPlayer is now compatible with 64bits and fixes a few bugs.

- Olyx is a 3 1/2 octave xylophone,
- Recorded at 88.2khz 24bits, downsampled to 44.1khz 24bits,
- 138Mb sample bank, no loops, 370 samples,
- 8 velocity layers per note,
- The kontakt version features a manual tuning table to allow you to tune it your way,
- Available for kontakt 2,3 and 4, exs, SFZ and our free ASPlayer (AU,VST, windows and mac),

You can buy it for 19€.

From May 20-23, 2011, McDSP offers huge savings on all LE to Native upgrades! Existing LE customers can upgrade LE versions of Analog Channel, Chrome Tone, CompressorBank, FilterBank, ML4000, Revolver and Synthesizer One for just $49 each!

The LE to Native upgrades not only add full feature functionality, but also additional plug-ins - a total of 27 plug-ins across all 7 LE to Native upgrades! Audio Unit (AU) support is also available in most McDSP Native plug-ins for use with Logic, Digital Performer, and other AU compatible DAWs.