PC and Music News

Good news for those eagerly awaiting Max for Live - Ableton has announced that it will be released on November 23, 2009. Beta testing has started, details are available on the Ableton website.

Max for Live will be available at the Ableton web shop. Pricing will be around USD 299/EUR 249 for Ableton Live 8 users, additional discounts will be available for users who also own Max/MSP 5.

Vienna Ensemble PRO and Vienna Suite are the new "dynamic duo" for producing, mixing and mastering.

Now, the Vienna Symphonic Library team is pleased to announce a special offer for users who purchase and register both of these software products between October 13 and November 30, 2009. These customers will receive any free Single Instrument Download they choose from Vienna's list of more than 50 downloadable solo instruments and ensembles.

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Ableton is pleased to announce Able10 - a season of special offers and giveaways to celebrate 10 years of Ableton.

To mark the occasion, and as a special thank you, Ableton has put together a package of special offers, new products and birthday handouts. There's something for everyone, so join the party :

• Free Live Packs

For Live 8 and Suite 8 users: Ableton is giving away 10 free Live Packs from Ableton artists - songs and sounds from 10 truly innovative artists including Múm, Apparat, Thavius Beck, Swayzak and Junie Morrison (formerly of the Ohio Players). These Live Packs are a rare opportunity to delve inside real songs by real artists and see how these guys work their Live mojo.

• 20% off Live 8 and Suite 8, including upgrades

During Able10, Ableton Live 8 ...

Live INTRO is the starter-version of Ableton Live and the succeeder of Live 7 LE - but still an extremely powerful product with all the essential features of Ableton Live at an unbelievable low price with more features and loads of content!

The new Live INTRO has all the essential basic features as Ableton Live at a lower price and comes including a huge Library of Sounds from Hip Hop, Rock, Soul, Techno - Including 7 GB of Sampled Instruments, Drum Loops, Beats and Breaks, 200 Audio and MIDI Racks and Effects and 500 Instruments and Drum Kits from the Ableton Live SUITE library! Also included a Getting Started Manual, Integrated Step By Step Tutorials and Practical Song Templates.

Key-Features :

● Studio Quality Recording up to 32 bit / 192 kHz
● Full REWIRE Support ...

Brainworx has announced the release of a new free plug-in, bx_cleansweep.

bx_cleansweep features a lo-pass and hi-pass filter - introducing BX's "anti-crush" 6 dB lp-filter, taken from bx_digital V2.

It is available for Windows and Mac OS X in VST, AU and RTAS effect plug-in formats.

EZdrummer 1.2.0 is now available. This update is recommended for all EZdrummer users. It adds essential support for the latest generation of EZX-s.

New features :

• new Drumkit presets pull down menu including user preset saving facility
• new Mixer channel LEDs indicates the presence of signal pre-fader
• drag and drop install of Toontrack MIDI packs supported
• various adjustments to support the upcoming Electronic EZX
• knob circular modes are now always relative
• EZX library version info is now available from the Help menu
• several bug fixes