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JZ Microphones is now shipping its new LDC Vintage 12 condenser microphone. Following in the footsteps of the hugely successful Vintage 47 & Vintage 67 microphones which were inspired by the classic Neumann originals, JZ Microphones now offers their version of the legendary AKG C12.
The Vintage 12 incorporates the best qualities of the original C12 and enhances them with features unique to JZ such as the Golden Drop Technology which provides a more detailed and transparent capsule response. The replacement of the original C12 tubes with high quality transistor technology provides equivalent frequency response with fewer maintenance and care issues.

SwarGroove is a new VST/AU/RTAS multi-tracks Indian drums plugin that lets you add Indian drums ensembles to your compositions and live performances.

It comes with various traditional/folk styles from different parts of India like Garba, Qawwali, Ghazal, Bhangra, etc...

- VST/AudioUnit/RTAS plugin
- Synchronizes with host time or plays on its own timing
- Uses up to 40 of SwarPlug's high quality Indian drums
- Includes 16 default grooves (more to come for registered users)
- Hundreds of loops/fills for unlimited possibilities (more can be added through SwarShala)
- 100% MIDI. Speed and pitch can be fully adapted to perfectly match your needs
- Multi-layers per velocity on certain drums for better dynamics
- Full track playback customization, including audio effects
- Export to MIDI for very specific changes
- Trigger specific loops through MIDI keys for live performances.

SwarGroove requires SwarPlug ML installed on your system to run.

The new Band On Demand Song Construction Kit features 1100 guitar loops, bass loops, piano loops, synth loops, drum loops, percussion loops, open strums and more so you can write and arrange your own songs using the riffs and chords patterns of your choice.

Even if you already play and instrument, you'll find Band On Demand ($59.95) an inspiring songwriting and production tool with nearly 1.5 gigs of loops, hits and open strums. Start with a riff and build your song out from there. It's like having a group of on-call studio musicians in your computer. Whether you're writing a song or producing background music, just drag and drop the chords you want into your recording software program or DAW to build an awesome track. It's that easy.

From the respected makers of Drums On Demand®, th ...

— Today, Eventide announced the availability of the PowerFactor power supply.

Co-developed with Cioks in Denmark, a leading designer of high quality power supplies for over 20 years, the PowerFactor is a high quality regulated isolated power supply which can power up to three Eventide Stompboxes simultaneously while powering up to 4 9VDC additional stompboxes. PowerFactor comes with a 5 year warranty and is available from your local Eventide Stompbox dealer or from eventidestore.com.

Freshtone Samples features the work of producer musicians Matthew Corbett and Mike Wilkie who are best known in the world of samples for their work with Zero-G, including 'Sounds of the Seventies', 'Vocal Forge' and 'Vocal Foundry' which were all released to critical acclaim.

43 Funk and Soul construction kits, all recorded to tape using only mics, instruments and equipment from the sixties and seventies

Lost Tapes Volume 1 resonates with the textural sensations of an age, with that human touch – spontaneous and exciting. 43 choice cuts featuring the instruments, and the playing style of the era, with the gestures of soul, pure and funky, and sounds of the ghosts of pop's past.

In WAV, Aiff, Acid WAV and Rex 2 format, Lost Tapes was recorded in a unique environment. The tracks were played on a wide range of sixties instruments from legendary manufacturers such as Burns, Baldwin and Dan Electro into vintage Selmer and Vox amplification.
RRP: £39.95 / €47.95 / $63.95

Blue Cat Audio has released new versions of two of its flagship audio analysis plug-ins: this update mainly brings to Blue Cat's FreqAnalyst Multi and Blue Cat's StereoScope Multi the ability to save difference curves in order to perform comparisons between measurements:

the plug-ins are able to compute differences between measurements taken in multiple locations in a digital audio workstation, and it is now possible to save and compare them.