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When we heard how electro producer, DJ and remixer Charles Feelgood (Diddy, Lady Gaga, Ashlee Simpson, Billie Holiday) had tweaked the New York Studios Vol. 2 SDX for Superior Drummer 2.0® to almost beyond recognition in his ingenious productions, we had no option but to have him design a unique set of presets so he could share his incomparable brand of electro, house and disco with the world.

Charles' presets will introduce a whole new level to what is possible with the sounds and tools in Superior Drummer 2.0 and prove that the sky is literally the limit.

IK Multimedia launches the iRig Recorder App for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch on the App Store. The app offers professional audio recording that is convenient and easy to use. The iRig Recorder App is an intuitive recording tool featuring editing functions and various export options to fit your audio needs. The app captures podcasts and interviews with the ability to record sounds anywhere.

iRig Recorder organizes your recordings by date and time and also tags them with a geographic location for easy and reliable file management of your recordings. Export your files via email, Wi-Fi, FTP and iTunes File Sharing in a variety of sizes and formats (including CD-Quality uncompressed audio - 16-bit / 44.1 kHz).

TC-Helicon oday announces the new version of VoiceJam – a powerful iPhone, iPod and iPad app for creating music whilst on the move. With an In-app purchase feature of the infamous HardTune pitch correction effect, and new core features including 'Input meters' and 'Shots mode', VoiceJam 1.2 is set to allow vocalists to loop, layer and record more exciting and more professional recordings.


New Features include:
- 'In-app' purchase – enables vocalists to buy pro-quality vocal effects from TC-Helicon's stompbox effect pedals range, starting with the C1 HardTune pitch correction effect.
- 'Input metering' – Singers can be sure they're singing at ideal volume levels by watching the colour of the input waveform.
- 'Shots mode' – allows a vocalist to instantly re-trigger loops like samples on a drum pad.
- 'Live Performance Flyover' – includes the new loop mixer to non-destructively tweak the level of each loop, and offers other controls designed to aid customers during live performances.

- 'SoundCloud' – a new uncompressed SoundCloud option allows for high quality uncompressed recordings to be instantly uploaded and shared.

- 'Share an idea' – a link that gives vocalists the opportunity to share new feature ideas directly with TC-Helicon's development team.

Discovery's architecture provides maximum flexibility when programming your own sounds. Start by selecting from the two oscillators, and then add one of the several types of filters, and then program the appropriate ADSR envelope for the sound.

32 and 64-bit, 8 oscillators Audio Units and VST Virtual Analog Synthesizer featuring 4 layers, 2X oversampling/undersampling, built-in arpeggiator, sync, FM, 8 filter types, unison edit, panning modulation, stereo delay and gate effects.

Imports Nord Lead 2 SysEx data.

Alchemy Player 1.20 is a major update to Camel Audio's
popular SFZ and Alchemy sound playback engine, and what's
more it's now completely free.

Alchemy Player now allows you to load and play any SFZ file,
and comes with 150 presets (1200 variations) plus an extra
50 sounds if you register, with a total of 1 GB of samples.
You can extend your sound palette with Camel Audio's
extensive Alchemy Sound Library range. Alchemy Player
supports all major formats on both Windows and Mac including
VST, AU and RTAS in 32-bit and 64-bit flavours.

Just a quick reminder that the McDSP Storewide sale will be ending in 4 days! And if these super low prices aren't good enough already, if you make a minimum $100 purchase from now through April 30th we'll give you an additional $25 off! Just use coupon code NL25OFF.

Again, select HD plug-ins and bundles are discounted up to 60% off, Native plug-ins and bundles at up to 50% off, and LE to Native upgrades are available at up to 30% off! That's some crazy talk right there, so act now before it's too late