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TASCAM's Portastudio brings 30 years of easy-to-use home recording to your iPad. Based on the PORTA ONE recorder that revolutionized recording in 1984, the Portastudio app records up to four tracks with a vintage vibe.

Record one track at a time using the built-in mic or a headset microphone connection, monitoring on authentic VU meters. A cassette transport with position counter tracks your position while you mix with level, pan and EQ controls. When you're ready to mix, the built-in mixdown function saves your song as a CD-quality WAV file. Your mix appears in iTunes when you're finished, ready to share with friends and bandmates.

Future Loops presents"Total Producer" a limited edition deluxe pack that was specially created for this holiday season : an unbeatable collection that gives you the chance to own the entire Future Loops collection for an extremely reduced price ( save 1.000€ ! ) .

Featuring a massive 85GB and over 65.000 samples (nearly 100.000 audio files!) 100% royalty free, "Total Producer" includes over 40 best-selling sample libraries that cover different genres from Dance , Dub , Hip Hop , Jazz or Funk to Drum & Bass , Dubstep , Trance or Breaks , making it the perfect choice if you need to recharge your studio with some serious sample power !

Hybrid drum kits. Chimera R is a set of patches for the Redrum drum sampler within Propellerhead Reason. The theme of the sound set is hybridism. Its origins are in five previously released 9 Soundware titles.

The drum kits are based on samples from the Heartbeat and Concussion EXS24 sound sets, as well as patches from the Fire Juggler, Vortex, and Ax releases for the Thor, Malström, and Subtractor synthesizers, respectively. Price: 49,99$

In creating this soundset, UK based artist Ben Crosland has used his intricate knowledge of the Virus to provide you with a new, go-to library of dazzling variety - the generous serving of phat basses, classic chip-tune blips, lush digital soundscapes, synapse-tickling leads and grinding arpeggiator grooves, is sure to push your musical creativity into overdrive!

Throughout the set, extensive use is made of the all features that came with TI OS4, so be sure to install the latest OS update to experience this soundset as intended.
For the 3rd Advent weekend, Access gives you
128 fresh patches from a professional sound designer.

The Rhizome is a hybrid in which you install virtual instruments and effects in a VST/VSTi format (For Pc). It seems the first instrument powered by Copperlan...

Some informations
- 102 controllers including 16 dynamic back-lit pads and 32 endless rotary knobs.
- 4 large display (24 bits colors) areas provide information to the user on the functionality, at any given time, of one of the controls, according to the software currently in use.
- Audio interface by RME Audio, for stability and high standard sound quality.
- Various in- and outputs allow for connecting and using screens, mousse, MIDI controllers; hard disk and/or additional audio card.
- Includes software by Feeltune (samplers, drum machine, synthesizers, sound effects, and sequencers), GForce (synthesizers) and Ohm Force (effects).
- Compatible with third-party VST and VSTi software.
- Embedded computer system composed of latest-generation elements. Running on a Microsoft XPE operating system, the device is compatible with 95% of software packages on the market.
- CopperLan communication, a new protocol that above the Midi transcription really revolutionize the communication between audio-video machines. The Rhizome is the first instrument to totally implement CopperLan.
Prices: 3 199,00 € (SE), 3 399,00 € (XE), 3 599,00 € (UXE).

Ueberschall presents the new era of Electropop, the second volume of the premium Vodovoz series. Since 2009 ten of the top fifteen artists stem from the Electropop genre and have had major commercial success worldwide. This production is inspired by their music and packed with high-level Electropop construction kits. All kits are divided into intro, a-part, b-part, c-part, outro.

Electropop is a form of Synthpop characterized by an emphasized electronic sound, catchy hooks and dance beats. In Electropop, songwriting takes priority making it stand apart from more simplistic electronic dance music patterns and formula.