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Musicrow updates golden Ensembles to v2.35. All the ensembles are now fully compatible with Reaktor 5.5.
The new update for Golden Ensembles also includes a new reaktor ensemble: DigiFreak.
DigiFreak is a unique synthesizer that takes the Lo-Fi sound to new extremes! This powerful synthesizer combines digital wave-shaping, special sound degradation processes, granular synthesis techniques, and advanced Lo-Fi effects to produce crumble, corrupted and disintegrated beautiful sounds - with an emphasized digital character.

DigiFreak Main Features:
- A library with more than 100 disintegrated beautiful sounds.
- Fresh digital flavor.
- Extreme digital wave-shaping.
- Special sound degradation tools.
- Integrated granular synthesis techniques.
- Advanced Lo-Fi effects.
- Six envelopes and many modulation paths.
- Special feedback-loop effect

Inside you'll find 50 in-depth, step-by-step MPC5000 tutorials that will teach you hundreds of creative and practical beat making skills: drum manipulation & layering techniques
- advanced sample editing and looping
- multisampling with both sample and keygroup programs
building your own drum kits and breaks
- chop shop and patched phrase techniques
- experimentation with synth, filters, and Q-Link
- advanced sequencing tricks
- integration of your MPC5000 with the rest of your studio
Specifications:
- PDF ebook & 700 MPC5000 format samples, sequences and project files
- Written for MPC5000 OS v2.0
- 50 tutorials, 417 pages in total
- 300 additional drum loops and samples in WAV format
- Download size: 90MB

Superior Vocal Tone

The proprietary Lismer capsule design uses a patented neodymium magnet structure for high output and uniform performance. The placement of the super-cardioid capsule provides best in class off-axis noise rejection and feedback suppression. In addition, a dual material diaphragm with light and rigid sections produces optimal high frequency response. If you're making use of the latest in vocal processing, this microphone can help give your sound that studio-produced edge.

The DM7 USB Kit has a total of eight, natural-feeling, velocity-sensitive drum and cymbal pads. Drummers will immediately appreciate the DM7 USB Kit's large snare pad, which has three zones, enabling head, rimshot and cross-stick triggering. Drummers will also notice the crash cymbal, which enables them to stop or "choke" the sound by grabbing the pad with their hand. The DM7's responsive rubber pads are also both quiet and resilient for all-day and all-night music making without disturbing neighbors.
The heart of the DM7 USB Kit is its DM7 sound module. The DM7 provides drummers with a library of more than 400 drum, cymbal and percussion instruments in 80 kits. Drummers can play the 50 preset kits for extensive sonic flexibility, and they can custom-create 30 of their own. Drummers will also like the DM7's intuitive, easy-to-use controls adjusting instruments' pitch, panning and reverb level. The DM7 drum module provides drummers with valuable tools such as practice exercises, a metronome, 52 play-along songs and a 1/4-inch mix input for playing along with external music sources.

Starting in 2004, Korg introduced software creations of their most coveted synthesizers, as various titles of their Legacy Collection series. Now, each of those titles is available as a separate download at a considerable savings. With access to the original circuit diagrams and sound programming, Korg has recreated these coveted classics in a way that is completely faithful to the original model.

Each soft synth utilizes Korgs proprietary CMT (Component Modeling Technology) to perfectly reproduce the sound and response of the original. CMT also reproduces the character and response curve of each parameter, for results that are completely faithful to the original model.

Now available for download are software recreations of the following classic Korg synths:
- M1 Music Workstation
- Mono/Poly
- Wavestation
- Polysix
- MS-20 - http://www.korg.com/LegacyMS20

In addition to being powered by Kontakt 4 player, Broadway Lites uses the same groundbreaking midi-processing technologies as well as a select portion of instruments and audio content used in Fable Sounds' award winning and critically acclaimed Broadway Big Band.

Broadway Lites is a virtual instrument with an attitude. A fusion of sound, music and technology. It features 15GB of multi-sample content, with over 20,000 unique samples of saxophones, trumpets, trombone and clarinet. Price: 449€