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Zenph Sound Innovations today announced the availability of several new iPad applications that give piano players an introductory taste of its award-winning Home Concert Xtreme software.

The new Piano Play-Along apps ($0.99) are single-song versions of Home Concert Xtreme. Choose from holiday songs including "Jingle Bells," "Carol of the Bells," and "Jolly Old St. Nicholas," as well as three apps in the Christmas Piano Play-Along series ($9.99).

Lemur is the original multi-touch controller. Pioneering multi-touch control as long ago as 2004, Lemur completely revolutionised Music Production and Performance. No wonder, then, that you'll find Lemur in the studios of Daft Punk, Deadmau5, Richie Hawtin, Ryuichi Sakamoto,Björk…

The Lemur experience, which once cost over 2000 EUR, is now available on the iTunes App Store for only 49.99 USD / 39.99 EUR / 29.99 GBP.

Off the back of their epic Summer release 'Rumble', Sample Logic has joined forces once again with the DCI World-Champion Blue Devils to release Fanfare – a Kontakt Player virtual instrument combining marching brass with the award-winning sound design skills of the Sample Logic team.

From traditional marching brass to full-blown cinematic soundscapes, Fanfare delivers a marching brass library for educators and arrangers, and a versatile construction toolkit for film, TV, game composers, producers, and electronic musicians.

It sounds like a tongue-twister but there's no doubt that in the right hands, magical musical instruments can create magical musical moments. For example, back in the late 60s when Paul McCartney detuned those Mellotron® MKII Flute tapes for the opening of Strawberry Fields Forever, magic was created and has resonated ever since.

Some features:
- Derived from original EMI tape-stock
- 24 carefully curated sounds for M-Tron Pro
- 35 notes per tape bank
- Exclusively available via download - 600MB

Splurgo Audio announces the release of two new sample packs: Djembe Loops Pack 2 and Udu Loops Pack 2

Djembe Loops Pack 2 – This pack is all about the African goblet drum. It contains 50 loops beatmapped at 100 bpm. All files are available in Acid Pro Wav and Apple Garageband AIFF. Djembe Loops Pack 2 samplepack can be purchased for $ 6.95 USD.
Udu Loops Pack 2 – A simple African clay pot is the main ingredient for this pack. Inside are 54 loops beatmapped at 90 and 110 bpm. All files are available in Acid Pro Wav and Apple Garageband AIFF. The Udu Loops Pack 2 samplepack can be purchased for $ 7.95 USD.

Celemony Software GmbH is pleased to announce the availability of Melodyne editor Version 2. New features include extended timing tools, wide-ranging functions for working with scales, plus Rewire, keyboard shortcuts in the plug-in, and numerous other improvements. The price of Melodyne editor is US$/€ 399; the update costs US$/€ 99.

With Version 2, Melodyne editor has become still more musical, capable of editing in still greater depth, and even more widely compatible. The most important new functions are:

- Extended timing tools
- True Scale & Tuning
- Rewire support.