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ICloud is so much more than a hard drive in the sky. It's the effortless way to access just about everything on all your devices. iCloud stores your content so it's always accessible from your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, or PC.

It gives you instant access to your music, apps, latest photos, and more. And it keeps your email, contacts, and calendars up to date across all your devices. No syncing required. No management required. In fact, no anything required. iCloud does it all for you.

When you update your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to iOS 5, your favorite Apple apps become seamlessly integrated with iCloud. Just like that. So all your content and information is available and up to date, no matter which device you're using.
About Lion: Multi-Touch gestures transform the way you interact with your Mac, making all you do more intuitive and direct. Now an even richer Multi-Touch experience comes to OS X Lion. Enjoy more fluid and realistic gesture responses, including rubber-band scrolling, page and image zoom, and full-screen swiping.

Developed in association with legendary producer/engineer Eddie Kramer, the meticulously modeled HLS Channel and PIE Compressor plug-ins are based on the vintage gear he used in historic sessions at London's acclaimed Olympic Studios.

HLS Channel recreates the original Helios EQs with their sweet saturation, high-end presence, and fat low-frequency boost, as well as the unique behavior, coloration, and drive of the console's preamps.

The PIE Compressor was modeled on the Pye, which was a mainstay in esteemed British studios throughout the classic rock era, and is considered by many to be one of the best buss compressors of all time.
Price : 99$ Native, 149$ TDM for each plug in. Buy both and save 149$ Native and 225$ TDM

Mix and mastering engineers may now audition up to five codecs in real time within a DAW environment.

The Sonnox Fraunhofer Pro-Codec plug-in enables the production of optimized mixes, and provides the option to simultaneously batch encode to multiple formats. All major codecs, including: mp3, mp3 Surround, AAC-LC and HE-AAC are supported, as are such lossless codecs as mp3 HD and HD-AAC.

The Sonnox Fraunhofer Pro-Codec is available now for a price of £295 GBP ($495 USD), and is compatible with most popular DAWs - Pro Tools, Logic, Cubase, Nuendo, Sequoia and Wavelab. Both Mac and Windows are supported.

Voxengo Tube Amp version 2.3 update is now available
for download. Tube Amp is a free audio effect plugin that applies asymmetric tube triode overdrive usually found in single-tube microphone pre-amp boxes.

The sound this plug-in produces varies from a mild "warm" overdrive to a fuzzy distortion. Tube Amp conforms to AudioUnit and VST plugin specifications, and is available for Mac OS X (v.10.4.11 and later) and Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) computers.

Automap is a piece of software that comes with all Novation controllers. It has been designed to make the job of assigning your hardware controls to various software parameters quick and easy.

Some new features and fixed bugs:

- Fixed crash with Plug-In Manager under certain conditions.
- Fixed drumpad calibration issue with Nocturn Keyboard.
- Updated firmware for Remote SL Compact to version 4.2.03.
- Added partial native support for Waves 8 plug-ins (not fully implemented).
- Added notification when trying to wrap Waves 8 plug-ins in Plug-In Manager.
- Fixed some Waves VST3 mono plug-ins not able to be automapped.
- Added and improved some default mappings.
- Added 64 bit plug-in display in Plug-In Manager for Windows 7 64 systems.
- Updated VST3 search paths on Windows 7 64 system in Plug-In Manager.
- Updated Windows Novation USB Driver to 2.1 release version.
- Fixed Digital Performer 7 crash on some systems.
- Improved VST3 wrapper using the latest VST3 SDK.
- Remote SL Compact 4.2.03 release notes: Fixed keyboard sensing on some units.

Fingerlab is proud to announce the release in early July of "DM1 | The Drum Machine", the next generation of drum machines for iPad and iPad2.

Drop your email and we'll let you know when DM1 is out. Watch out for the release promotion.

- 24 vintage and produced drum kits, mastered at in-house Fingerlab Sound Studios
- Mixer page with pitch, length and level rotary controls and individual sound loading per channel
- Super fast drum kit loading
- Playable pattern selection for extra creativity
- Big Drum pads, quantized recording and MPC-like Repeat touch-stripe
- Step Sequencer with multi-touch matrix for unexpected beat creation
- Duo FX Trackpads for real-time sonic destruction and cool multi-FX
- Mode song with intuitive editing
- High-quality export to email or iTunes shared folder.