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To celebrate the New Year we have put together a fresh new sample pack which is absolutely free! JP8 SFX serves up 60 finely crafted sound effects samples courtesy of the legendary Jupiter 8 polyphonic synthesizer!

Expect to find a varied selection of creative sound effects and transitional tools including epic ascents, chaotic impacts, twisted transitions, other-worldly drones, swooshes and much much more...

There are plenty of nice free and commercial VST plugins available only for Win. As probably most of you already know, they might be used in your OS X DAW with Wine (wacvst, VFX).

Or with a virtual machine (VirtualBox, Fusion). Or a networked Win old machine.. Ornamen, a independent developer tried and thoroughly tested every single one of these options only to end in disappointment. However, initially this post was all about painstakingly setting up wacvst.

Time is running out for the free NI holiday gifts. You only have three days left to save $30 / 25 € on software* at the NI Online Shop – your e-voucher expires on December 31.

The five free TRAKTOR Remix Sets will still be free in 2013, but not DRIVER: The screaming filter distortion effect is free only until December 31, 2012. Don't get left out in the cold – redeem your voucher and download DRIVER today.

Your voucher code:
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This is not next classic boring guitar stompbox. If you are bored of classic guitar sound and watching for something new and progressive, try this new effect.
It is difficult to describe sound of this little purple machine. Electric kingdom describe it best.
Twisted, cosmic, funky, electric, doubled, sound perfect for all modern styles like: poprock, neopunk, rock, disco, funk and other jolly music styles.

Top features:

- Twist speed knob (speed of cosmic funky twisting of a sound)
- Emphasis knob (set the resonant shape of sound - Q)
- FX amount (ammount of applied sound effect)
- Output vol.
- Bypass knob

Take 6 iconic vintage synthesizers, carefully restore them, create a massive array of presets and deeply multi-sample them, professionally process and master the sounds, infuse them into the industry proven UVI Engine - giving you endless sound shaping options - then wrap the results in immaculately prepared GUIs and you've got UVI Vintage Legends.

Six brand-new soft synths with the brilliant depth and character of classic hardware.

Special introductory price : $299 instead of $349