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Developed for traditional and contemporary blues projects, Drum Werks XXIII offers a wide variety of classic blues drum loops and delivers a variety of authentic shuffle and 12/8 groove feels. This collection of blues drums will inspire your music, whether you are looking for traditional blues styles or more contemporary ones.

Get the grooves that defines all the blues greats. Whether you're inspired by traditional blues stylings of Robert Johnson, Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, B. B. King or go for a more rock-infused Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eric Clapton or Joe Bonamassa vibe, these greasy pocket grooves will build the the foundation of your next blues project and inspire you with a feel that can only be played by a veteran bluesman.

CrX4 mixes up your samples in realtime like no other instrument. If you start with a kick sample you may end up with getting a fascinating pad from it, and you should not be astonished to get some punchy drums just from your vocal samples.

Its CrX4, samples are only food for its versatile and unique engines, featuring 3 different specialized sample processing generators, an oscillator, a sophisticated noise generator and all the filters and modulations you expect from a fully fledged synthesizer.

Native Instruments today announced the availability of TRAKTOR PRO 2.5.


This latest version introduces the innovative Remix Decks , giving access to a powerful loop suite made up of 64 slots, each able to hold loops, one-shot samples or even tracks. DJs can control up to four Remix Decks at once and save their work as an entire Remix Set .

To help DJs get started with the new technology, Native Instruments are giving away a selection of Remix Sets , many of which were prepared by renowned artists. The free content, which amounts to 1.4 GB in total and covers a diverse selection of genres, is available to all users once they register TRAKTOR PRO 2.5.

Blues Colors, Ueberschall's latest library release brings handmade music and pure blues-feeling into your DAW.

The library is ideally suited for fast authentic blues productions in advertisement, TV- and movie dubbing, multimedia- and games applications. Of course, Blues Colors also serves as inspirational source for producer and songwriters.

As the name of FM OVERDRIVE implies this 50 patch library is full of basic Synth Leads & Pads, Dubstep Leads & Bass, SFX- and Bass Sounds with a high portion of overdrive. This overdrive gives your tracks the right "dirt" to let them sound rough and powerful. Discover that in FM OVERDRIVE even an unspectacular sound mutates to a roaring thunder when the overdrive fx of FM8 get involved!

All patches have been developed by 9VOLT MEDIA with lot of detail and deepness in synth programming.The patches are tagged with specific attributes to find them easily in the soundbrowser and show intense use of the morph controls which are available for each patch.

Daft PlastiCZ Sounds is a collection of highly original and refreshing digital sounds for reFX PlastiCZ. reFX PlastiCZ is a phase distortion synthesizer, the same type of synthesis found in the renown Casio CZ synth series. With this soundset we did NOT tried to reproduce vintage old sounds, instead we tried to bring to the table fresh digital and modern sounds with a little bit of emotional touch.

Daft PlastiCZ Sounds Features:

- 102 outstanding presets in FXP and FXB format for reFX PlastiCZ
- Each preset features velocity and modulation wheel information for more control over the sounds
- All future minor updates with fixes and new sounds are free.