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The new DM6 USB Express Kit will have you up and drumming in no time. A full-sized drumset with six total drum and cymbal pads, the DM6 USB Express Kit gives you a good setup at a good price ! With USB connectivity, you have complete freedom to create and control any sounds on your Mac or PC. So hop on, this ride is non-stop to your drumming destination!

Some features:
- Four-piece, complete electronic drumset with hi-hat and cymbal pads
- DM6 module contains 108 top-notch drum, cymbal, and percussion sounds
- USB-MIDI output for use with drum-module software
- Realistic, natural-feeling playing surfaces
- Velocity sensitive for natural, musical response
- Bass drum pedal included
- 15 programmable drum sets
- Dual-zone snare pad
- Connect your iPod or CD player and mix it in with 1/8" input
- Drumsticks included
- EZ Drummer Lite software included

With Drivedrums v2 MoReVoX introduces Multidrive. Taking advantage of the new Room Sounds feature in Drumagog 5, Drivedrums v2 uniquely substitutes the room sounds for three controlled distortion "colours" through the plugin mixer. It works similarly to an equalizer, but these tone variations were created by splitting the original drum sounds into different frequency bands and then building brand new samples. These new variations were then carefully processed through a variety of distortions, using top-quality analog signal chains, with the aim of providing different distortion colours components that can be mixed with the base samples.

In each GOG file you have three macro tone controls:
- Fatness
- Richness/Attack
- Top Definition

Universal Audio announces the release of the new UAD-2 QUAD Omni (v5.7) DSP Accelerator Package
The UAD-2 QUAD Omni (v5.7) features:

- Flagship quad-processor DSP Accelerator Card for UAD Powered
- Plug-Ins on Mac or PC (four Analog Devices SHARC)
- Access the world's finest emulations of analog classics: Manley, Neve, Roland, BOSS, dbx, Empirical Labs, EMT, Fairchild, Harrison, Helios, Little Labs, Pultec, SPL, Teletronix and more
- Run large, professional mixes in Pro Tools, Logic, Cubase, Nuendo, Performer and more — without taxing host computer CPU

Allen & Heath has unveiled the Xone:DB4, a ground-breaking fully digital, DJ mixer with a unique Quad FX Core DSP engine, providing 4 FX BPM Loop record engines with channel EQ filters. Other key features are multi-channel USB audio with MIDI, analogue and digital I/O, input source matrix, easy to read OLED display screen, and USB for recalling user set ups.

New features include doubled polyphony with extended SVD engine, built in effects, a built in patch browser, a completely new arpeggiator offering 32 modes, chord hold, MIDI learn, extended LFO features and 32 different bend modes.
The synth ships with a built in library of more than 1500 patches including many original eighties hits patches and famous synth emulating banks including Jupiter-8, Prophet-5,Synthex, Matrix-12, OB-X, Minimoog and Polymoog .

Format: VST windows, VFX Mac/PC (Host patch)
Prices:around $180 (Upgrade starting at $35)

Mackie announced the return of the MCU Pro and MCU XT Pro control surfaces.

The MCU Pro now features touch-sensitive, motorized faders designed by the experts at Alps. These robust new faders are belt-driven, with sturdy teeth and gears that execute ridiculously smooth fades (i.e. no "zipper" feeling) and feature a nice 100mm throw.

The "new" MCU Pro also includes a new user-requested feature that lets you re-calibrate the faders to ensure you get the accuracy required for your productions