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Focusrite Forte is a professional 2 in, 4 out portable USB audio interface for Mac and Windows, designed to deliver analogue sources to your DAW at the highest possible quality.

It features two remote-controlled mic preamps with the unrivalled sound quality you would expect from Focusrite. Forte partners these with superb digital conversion at up to 24-bit/192kHz resolution.

Commercial Drum & Bass Vol 1 is the first volume in this awesome new series from Producer Loops and it includes FIVE stunning, high energy, commercial DnB Construction Kits guaranteed to breathe life and a commercial feel into your DnB mixes.

This phenomenal pack delivers an incredibly up-front and commercial DnB sound. Check out the demo and hear for yourself. Includes vocals, MIDI files, one-shot drums and much more...

ITrack Solo is the Focusrite interface for your iPad. It has a single Focusrite mic-pre - as featured in the Scarlett and Saffire ranges - an instrument input, speaker and headphone outputs, a direct monitor selector (for latency free monitoring) and switchable phantom power. It also functions as a full USB audio interface on mac and PC.

Some features:
- 2 in / 2 out USB audio interface
- 96 KHz, 24-bit conversion
- 1 Focusrite microphone preamplifier
- Silver "soft-touch" aluminium unibody chassis

This 950 MB library consists of ten construction kits with a total amount of 721 loops. Each kit contains five subfolders with a main kit that unites all loops and sounds of the main theme. In addition, there are variations of the main kit. In fact, a couple of variations are so different; you may use them to start a brand new track.

Like in other Ueberschall products, the drums are available as a complete sub mix and as single tracks for kick, snare, hi-hat, claps, cymbals and synthesized percussions. The latter allow building individual mixes and being able to select and exchange sounds across multiple kits. This system even allows easy combination of drum elements across different Elastik-libraries.

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 is designed to work seamlessly with the existing sections of the Hollywood Orchestral series - Hollywood Strings, Hollywood Brass and the upcoming Hollywood Orchestral Percussion - for the ultimate in virtual Hollywood scoring.

Apogee Quartet is a professional USB audio interface designed to deliver the ultimate desktop recording experience to the Mac-based studio. Featuring 4 inputs and 8 outputs of Apogee's industry-leading AD/DA conversion technology as well as 4 world-class mic preamps, Quartet bridges the gap between the 2-channel Apogee Duet and the 8-channel Apogee Ensemble.

Some features:
- 4 Analog Inputs with world-class mic preamps
- Monitor control - up to 3 speaker sets
- USB 2.0 High-speed Mac audio interface
- ADAT/SMUX digital Inputs
- MIDI input (USB-A type connector)
- 8 Analog Outputs:
- 6 Balanced line outputs, +20 dBu maximum output level
- 1 Independent 1/4" stereo headphone output
- 2 top panel high-resolution OLED displays
- Controller knob
- 6 touchpads for direct selection of inputs and outputs
- 3 assignable touchpads
- Quartet works with any Core Audio compatible application including: Logic, Pro Tools 9 and 10, Final Cut. Ableton Live.