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Native Instruments announces give-away of a trip to Sónar festival to meet Mostly Robot.

Native Instruments is offering a chance to win a trip for two people to witness the debut performance of Mostly Robot on June 14th at Sónar Barcelona. The lottery is open to everyone, and the winners will enjoy a four day break in Barcelona - featuring flights, accommodation, two full festival passes and a tapas meal with the band.

Mostly Robot is a band conceived by Native Instruments, featuring five exceptional musicians who each represent a different area of the company's musical expertise. The artists - Jamie Lidell, Tim Exile, Jeremy Ellis, Mr Jimmy and DJ Shiftee - will perform in a truly 'live' format, with each musician playing independently of the other, synced only by the human element. The music will be accompanied by an inventive visual concept from Berlin's design collective Pfadfinderei.

IK Multimedia announces that iRig MIX, the first ultra-compact DJ and audio mixer for the iPad, iPhone, and the iPod touch is now shipping. When used with an iPad, iPhone or iPod touch, IK's included* DJ Rig FREE app and other DJ apps, it is a complete, highly portable DJ system for practising, rehearsing, performing and recording.

With its unique miniaturized form factor and exclusive features, designed to be used with the entire range of portable iOS devices, iRig MIX brings a new meaning to the concept of mobile DJ-ing.

Ableton and SoundCloud's collaboration enters a new stage with Beat the Clock, a contest that's all in the timing. Atmospheric pop specialist M83, indie electronic stars Junior Boys and eclectic Los Angeles beat maker Nosaj Thing have contributed a Live Pack of samples and sounds to be used to create an original piece of music. Participants can combine the sounds from the Live Pack with their own sounds, plug-ins and instruments.

The catch: participants must work against the clock and submit their entries within 24 hours after downloading the Live Pack. SoundCloud and Live users will vote for their favorites entries, with the top 25 then judged by the three artists who will pick the ultimate winner.

Winners of Beat the Clock will take home substantial prizes, including a trip to Berlin, lifetime upgrades to Ableton Suite, 5 years of a SoundCloud Pro Plus account, and more.

Crysonic today released the first details about their upcoming product INPRESSA.

Providing Zero Latency, Stereo & Mono compatibility together with a unique proprietary Technology provides flexibility and total creative freedom. Transcending other similar plugins of it's type, INPRESSA is set to achieve Vintage and Modern sounding professional results on individual busses and the final Master Mix. INPRESSA has full Double Precision Processing natively which employ very Steep 24 dB/Oct crossover filters virtually eliminating leakage into adjacent compression bands.

All available parameters are variable supporting full automation with extreme precision control. INPRESSA, amongst other unique features automatically chooses the most appropriate peak detection circuit depending on the audio material being worked on previously impossible to do unless you have a countless number and flavor of 'expensive' compressors.

Keeping all the widely popular features and content from EZmix intact and working in EZmix 2, but adding guitar amp and speaker simulation, new effects and ready made effect chain content as well as introducing a completely new and redesigned interface.

EZmix 2 is a one-stop monster for making professional mixes easy, efficiently and, above all, great sounding!

Since 2010, MaximalSound.com offers an online audio optimization service. Based on a proprietary algorithm, this service allows indie productions, labels and musicians to release their tracks complying with the highest industry standard. This processing uses the same pattern as the human hearing. It supports every music genres from metal to hip-hop, from classical to dubstep.

- The online algorithm is updated to version 3. This latest development provides an improvement in the low frequencies through a refined psychoacoustic model for this part of the spectrum.
- Audio files in 32 bit float are now supported in order to eliminate any risk of saturation during mixing in this format.
- The free preview duration is increased by 50%
- The upload page is simplified.
- The site now includes a customer page