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On the day Apple's Mac OS X Lion is available for purchase in the App Store, Apogee is pleased to announce compatibility with this groundbreaking Mac OS update for these Apogee products:

- Duet 2
- GiO
- JAM
- ONE
- Symphony I/O

Apogee engineering is working diligently to test and update software for other products. This will be posted on our website and sent by email to all registered users. Other products scheduled for Lion compatibility are:
- Duet
- Ensemble
- Symphony 64 for X-Series and Rosetta Series converters.

The T-Pain Effect centers on The T-Pain Engine, a self-contained beat-making and vocal recording application for PC and Mac. Aspiring artists can get started immediately by selecting from over 50 professionally crafted song templates comprised of hundreds of T-Pain approved beats. With the backing track in place, users can then sing, rap, or speak on one or two vocal tracks to record a song with ease. Beats and song arrangements can be customized and vocals can be edited, including punch-in recording for retakes. For more vocal flavor, users can add The T-Pain Effect to the vocal tracks, tweaking the hardness and softness controls to dial in just the right sound.

Then, after adjusting the levels of the final mix, the completed song can be exported and shared with friends or published directly to SoundCloud to share with the online world.

'Electric Guitar Chord Kit V2' comprises of 120+ chords including both up and down strums.

'Electric Guitar Chord Kit' plays down strum chords from a guitar on a keyboard. When the keyboard note is released up strum chords are played, recreating a strumming motion.
Play any Major, Minor, Diminished, 7th, 9th Power chords and single notes with both up and down strokes.
Implements interval-based legato sampling. Enables you to play all up-and-down chromatic scale steps up to an octave.

Includes a kontakt script playing up and down strum groups. Electric Guitar Chord Kit V2' has real time control over all expressive factors like dynamics, bend direction/speed, bend type, and vibrato.
All guitar samples are played by Andy Vickery. "one of the most inventive young guitarists around".
Additional programming by Justin Mathews
- 429.4 MB
- 120x Chords
- Interval-Based Legato Sampling
- 12x Guitar Effects & Amps
- All in One Instrument Kontakt 4+

Guitar Mutations features a studio full of classic guitars warped into strange new forms. Explore guitars with four necks whose resonating bodies morph into keyboards, fractal arpeggiations, haunting fingerpicking and creamy overdrive.


Guitar Mutations takes full advantage of the Alchemy Player engine with 2GB of new samples and is perfect for creating ambient guitarscapes or adding an innovative edge to your rock and electronica productions.

Voxengo Crunchessor version 2.7 is now available for
download. Voxengo Crunchessor is a general-purpose track compressor for professional audio production applications. It is available in AudioUnit and VST plug-in formats, for Mac OS X and Windows computers.

Version 2.7 includes the following changes:
- Additional automation parameters added for channel group 2.
- Key signal gain parameter added.
- Plug-in's popup-windows now recover last position after
reopening.
- Mouse backward and forward buttons can be used for parameter value selection.
- The "Min Infrastructure" user interface display mode added.
- The "Flat Level Meters" level meter display mode added.
- Version change history information window added.

Eventide today announced a special discount program for its entire catalog of HD/TDM plug-ins for Pro Tools through July 31, 2011.
TDM Plug-ins for Pro Tools
- Reverb 2016 bundle is now $399 (regularly $699)
- SST-282 Space Station is only $299 (regularly $499)
- Anthology II bundle is now available for $717 (regularly $1195)

Anthology II bundle Upgrades
- Anthology owners may upgrade to Anthology II for only $179 (regularly $299)
- Owners of three or more Eventide plug-ins, or Clockworks Legacy owners may upgrade to Anthology II for only $299 (regularly $499)
- Owners of two or more Eventide plug-ins may upgrade to Anthology II for only $389 (regularly $649)
- Owners of any Eventide plug-in may upgrade to Anthology II for only $479 (regularly $799)
Upgraded plug-ins will be surrendered and MassivePack plug-ins are accepted.