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During July Sibelius community said: "The world's leading music scoring software, Sibelius®, winner of the Queen's Innovation Award and OBE's for its creators the Finn brothers, is in crisis: this will be of real concern to all Sibelius users. This site aims to do something about it."

On month later, The UK office shut down after few months of a big internal crisis. Avid seems not innocent because As with ProTools, Avid's strategy is to send the coding and maintenance work offshore... What do you think about this very bad news and do you have some experience with this very nice software?

Gladiator 2 gives you a groundbreaking approach to sound generation, while supporting an extensive list of
synthesis methods including Tone2's award winning Harmonic Content Morphing (HCM) HCM uses a large,
expandable collection of standard and resynthesized waves, these waves can be modified in real time, altering
their harmonic structure.

Some new features:
- 64 Bit VST & AU versions for Mac (requires OSX 10.5 or higher to be installed)
- 64 Bit standalone version for PC
- PDF manual can now be be viewed from within the plugin (Mac)
- More comfortable registration processing
- Smart installer for PC which automatically detects the plugin directory.

Hollywood Orchestral Woodwinds includes Alto Flute, Bass Clarinet, Bass Flute, Bassoon, Clarinet, Contra Bass Clarinet, Contra Bassoon, Eb Clarinet, English Horn, Flute, Flute 2, Oboe, Piccolo Flute, with unprecedented sound quality and expression, true legato plus 5 user-controllable microphone positions (Diamond Edition only);

Hollywood Orchestral Woodwinds Diamond Edition is now available for $995 MSRP ($795 introductory offer) and Hollywood Orchestral Woodwinds Gold Edition will be available for $595 MSRP ($475 introductory offer).

M3VE takes monitoring to a whole new level with a significant upgrade from its predecessor - the renowned M3A 3-way monitor.

To top it off, the speakers are powered by a four-channel Lab.gruppen PLM10000Q amplifier, using the integrated, active crossover between LF and MF by Lake, while passively filtering the MF/HF cross-over point.

Numark announces availability for 4TRAK, a four-deck digital DJ controller with four-channel mixer and effects controls. In addition to a vast array of tactile controls, 4TRAK includes Traktor Numark 4TRAK Edition software.

4TRAK's built-in four-channel mixer allows turntables, microphones, MP3 players and more to be added into the mix. And its high-resolution platters, exclusive Strip Search needle-drop technology, and 12-knob FX Kommand Console allow for more precise control over Traktor than ever before.

Acousticsamples launches its 2012 summer sale.
This sale gives you a 25% discount on everything but the Ircam Prepared Piano. The sale ends August 31.
If you "like" them Facebook you can get an additional 5% discount.

They also made the Ircam Prepared Piano available since they worked closely with UVI and the Ircam to develop it.