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For a limited time, simply purchase any Digidesign Pro Tools LE FireWire-based system plus an M-Audio Axiom Pro 49 or Axiom Pro 61 MIDI controller and receive a Digidesign Virtual Instruments Box Set for free.

The Digidesign Virtual Instruments Box Set features five RTAS instruments : Hybrid, Strike, Structure, Velvet, and Xpand!

This offer is available until 17th June.

Future Audio Workshop, a.k.a. FAW, today announces the availability of new tutorials for their semi-modular software synthesizer Circle.

Mo Volans, a regular contributor to EQ, Remix and Music Tech Magazine, has devised a series of step by step tutorials for designing sounds with Circle.

Tutorials 1 to 4 are available now, with more being added in the coming weeks.

Overloud has updated its TH1 Triode to version 1.1.

Light version of TH1, TH1 triode features 3 amplifiers, 6 amp channel, 12 amp modes, 9 cabinets, 22 effects, 6 microphones.

Priced at €69 (+VAT) / $99, TH1 Triode is available now in RTAS, AU, VST and Standalone formats for Mac OS X (Universal) and RTAS, VST and Standalone formats for Windows. This update is free for all regisered users.

MoReVoX has released the third version of its RetroVerb reverb impulse response library.

What's New ?

• 4 New Classic Drive Sub-Categories : Chambers , RoomyPlates, Sounding Venues, Sustained .
• 200 NEW IRs
• The Free edition now include 10 full working IRs

RetroVerb is designed for TLSpace but is full compatible with all convolution reverb plugins like Altiverb, Space Designer and other.

Prices:

• Free Edition: Free (Includes 10 Full Working IRs)
• Commercial Edition: $99.00
• Upgrade 2.x to 3.0 : $ 29.00
• Upgrade 1.x to 3.0: $59.00

Note that RetroVerb v3.0 is also available in the MoReVoX Pack 2 bundle.

Air by 9 Soundware is an instrument in EXS24 format. The concept behind the sound set was to use sounds generated by air to create a transparent-sounding percussive instrument. Functionally similar to a hi-hat, the instrument was designed to add rhythmic movement to arrangements, but in a subtler manner.

The samples are of quick blasts of air created with a gas duster, a flyswatter, and a clothesline. The wind sounds, which are delicate and difficult to control, were painstakingly recorded, edited, and programmed into an EXS24 instrument with a high level of sonic detail. While minimalist in approach, the sound set features a wide range of timbres, with many variations on simple bursts to complex sounds that capture the motion of the objects.

Air includes 84 sounds (sampled at 2-21 velocities for a total of 402 samples) that are mapped across a 7 octave range in an EXS24 instrument.

The 28 MB download includes 1 .EXS file and 402 WAV files (24-bit/44.1 kHz).

Air is available now for $29.99 at :

MakeMusic has released Finale 2010, the new version of their famous music notation software. Vast areas of Finale have been updated for 2010. From Percussion Notation and Chord Entry to Rehearsal Marks and Measure Numbering, common tasks have been automated and simplified to save you time and to easily make your music perfect.

Finale 2010 costs $600 for new customers and from $99.95 for existing customers (limited time pre-order pricing).