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Samplr For iPad.. it's like an OP-1!
With an interface designed for live performance, Samplr gives the musician quick and precise access to all the instrument functionality at any time.
Unlike other apps that try to recreate real life instruments or interaction concepts from traditional computers Samplr was designed for Multi-Touch devices from the very beginning.

5 sound effects, 6 simultaneous samples (with 6 voices each) and 7 different ways to interact with the sound. All modes are Multi-Touch ready.

All material was played by Matt Halpern. Being the drummer in Periphery, one of the hottest and brightest shining acts in today's American metal scene, he has in just a few years gone from relatively unknown to being "the talk of drum town", as Modern Drummer put it in the story on him that graced their July 2012 issue.
The second you call up a groove and Halpern starts pounding away, you'll be the first to attest to the fact that yes, he has indeed taken polyrhythmic and "Djent" drumming to a completely new level of sophistication.

- Organized in songs, each one with approximately 15 grooves and 15 fills
- More than 400 individually played files

180 brand spanking dubstep beats, bass and fx that will twist, warp, attack and destroy any sound system! If you've already bought Dubstep Mayhem 1 then this is a no brainer but if you haven't, then you've just stumbled across the most manic dubstep beats and basslines known to man, these are simply huge.

- Dubstep Riffs - 60 loops
- Dubstep Beats - 90 loops
- Dubstep FX - 30 sounds.

IZotope, Inc. has announced Trash 2, the ultimate audio mangling and distortion device.

Key Features
- Distort in ways you never dreamed with the Trash module's 60+ distortion algorithms, perfect for transforming your sound into something never before heard.
- Design your own unique distortions, from massive to mild and everything in between, with a new, customizable, multiband Waveshaper.
- Let your tracks inhabit any space or object with the new Convolve module. Choose from over 100 impulse responses, or load your own to put your bass in a washing machine or your keys in a cave.
- Find a new voice: make your audio speak and growl with two redesigned Filters, each one featuring new vowel formant filters, screaming peaks, node modulations, and more.

Pulse contains two folders of presets for a total of 240 presets for Diva (U-he virtual synth) for Mac and PC.

- Pulse Main" folder contains 128 presets.
- Pulse Variation" folder contains 112 variation presets, created from the original 128 "Main" Soundset.

All sounds have modulations set to the Modulation Wheel.
About 90% of all sounds have modulations set to Aftertouch.
There are tweaking suggestions written into the text field of the 128 "Pulse Main" presets.

McDSP offers 40% off Classic Pack HD and Native as well as all Classic Pack upgrades from November 19-30.

McDSP's legendary emulations of vintage equalizers, compressors, tape machines and channel amplifiers are available together as Classic Pack v5.