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Electro takes the best of techno, Dutch, jackin' and classic French disco, bending all the rules and mashing every genre along the way to deliver a sizzling multiformat collection of pumping bass, jackin' beats, twisted synths, wired filth, acid grime, FX, and washed-out seqs.

Do you use Stylus RMX? Electro is a multi-format title which includes Rex2 loops that are optimised for Stylus RMX so you can drop them straight into Stylus and get using them in no time at all!

Weighing in at a hefty 750+MB of 24-bit, 44.1Khz key and tempo-labeled Wavs (1.8GB+ multiformat material), the majority of loops come in industry standard 128bpm, ensuring dancefloor smashes are just a few clicks away.

But that's not all...

To celebrate their 20th release, Sample Magic have created a limited edition pack which not only includes the sample DVD but also integrates a bonus 'Behind the Scenes at Sample Magic' film, 700MB additional samples from other Sample Magic titles PLUS a 36-page extended hints and tips booklet.

Hmmm... how's that for a great Christmas gift idea?!

Shipping 13th December 2010 – pre-order now!

RRP: £54.95 / €65.95

VSL has released updates for Vienna Ensemble, Vienna Ensemble Pro, Vienna Instruments, Vienna Instruments Pro, Vienna Imperial and Vienna Suite.

About Vienna Ensemble v4.1.7349, for example:

- Fixed unclear naming in Pro Tools 9 insert slots.
- Removed Download Manager from installation.
- Added more loading and saving progress indicators.
- RTAS / AU: Improved saving times significantly.
- RTAS: Fixed crashes in Server Interface when using more than 48 outputs.
- RTAS: Limited MIDI ports to 16 because Pro Tools crashes with more.
- OS X: Fixed some problems with file associations.
- OS X: Fixed inability to start both VE Service and Standalone of the same architecture.
- OS X: Fixed 64bit applications being installed on a system with 32bit CPU.
- OS X: Fixed icon bouncing in Dock during save/load…

DarkWave Studio is a free, open source, Digital Audio Workstation for Windows. Featuring a modular Virtual Studio, Pattern Editor, Sequence Editor and Multitrack Hard Disk Recorder. It has support for VST/VSTi instrument and effect plugins. The virtual studio has a modular design allowing machines to be connected in an ad-hoc fashion. The pattern editor enables the quick creation and modification of patterns by clicking to add or delete notes and dragging notes to move or resize them.

Changes:

- Fixed ES QuadDelay property value strings in default editor.
- Added Null (Silent) wave output driver.
- Fixed problems with Windows Wave and ASIO output drivers when no sound card present.

Wavelight is the series of pure Fairlight disks sampled in 44,1 khz / 16 bit fidelity. These are the same samples used in our refill 'Bitley Supersonic / Fairlight CMI Legacy II'.
Please note: The original Fairlight sounds were 8 bit samples. Therefore, 16 bits is fully sufficient to completely copy the Fairlight IIx sound for any sound source, be it an old hardware sampler or any music software application.
Wavelight 3 contains 60 Mb's of brass instruments taken from Fairlight IIx. Thanks to the full flexibility of high quality audio files, it is now possible to use any sampler instrument, whether hard or software, to get a hold of Bitley's Fairlight sound banks.
Sounds include:
Brass Ens 1, Brass Ens 2, Bright Tone, Chorus Brass, Clarinet Hi1, Clarinet Lo 1, Clarinet Lo 2, Clarinet Lo 3, CMI Baryton Sax, CMI Bassoon, CMI Horn Ensemble, CMI Matrix Bass, CMI Matrix Bass 2, CMI Old Horn, CMI Sine Horn, CMI Solo Trumpet 1 — 2, Elephant Warning, Mid Trombones 1 — 2, Mid Trumpets 1 — 2, Sax 1 — 5, Sax Section 1 — 5, Short Trumpet 1 — 2, Slow Trumpet, Soprano Sax, TenorSax, Trumpet Fall, Trumpet Tone 1 — 2.

Native Instruments today launched a special 50% discount on all KOMPLETE Instruments and Effects, available in their Online Shop only. For a period of five days a total of 70 individual products will be exclusively available at this rate.

With products ranging from classics such as ABSYNTH, GUITAR RIG and REAKTOR to recent releases like THE MOUTH, RAMMFIRE and GEORGE DUKE SOUL TREASURES, everyone can add a myriad of top-notch products to their set-up, at unbelievable prices.

This offer also includes the GUITAR RIG 4 KONTROL edition as well as KORE 2 with included hardware controller, but does not comprise KOMPLETE 7, KOMPLETE 7 ELEMENTS or any update, upgrade and crossgrade versions.

The special pricing is available from November 25th to 29th at the NI Online Shop only.

Avalaible for IPAD, IPHONE & IPOD TOUCH.

Some specs:
- Realtime workflow experience with sixteen pads and five different modes:
Pad, Pitch, Velocity, Erase, Mute/Solo
- Exclusive and electro oriented sound library, with hundreds of samples including Bass Drum, Snare, Clap, Rimshot, Cymbal, Hi-Hat, Open Hi-Hats, Acoustic Percussion, Electronic Percussion, FX, Bass, Chords, Leads, Instruments, Vox...
- Two sound generators : sample playback and synthesis oscillator
- Dozens of ready to use drum and construction kits
- Hundreds of patterns to use with the drum kits.
- Note Repeat in multiple resolutions.
- Dynamically change the quantize/repeat resolution while recording : the key to build beats very fast.
- Default quantization for instant gratification
- Save and share your tra ...