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Indianapolis based Blue Prophet today announces Shakie Percussion 1.2, an update to its musical instrument app for iOS.

Shakie is a new type of instrument made possible with an iPhone or iPod touch's palm sized, motion sensing display. It uses a realistic physics engine to model and animate pellets to simulate maracas, bells, shakers, tambourines and more. Version 1.2 brings the ability to change the shape of the pellet container, volume sensitivity, richness and nuance of the sound and more.

The ShelTone 226 is a cool electric reed organ built into a tolex suitcase. It makes its sounds by using an electric fan to drive air over reeds, much in the style of a harmonium or accordion.

The Bass Note buttons have been incorporated seamlessly into the keyboard samples so you get a full key range instead of just three octaves. If you want to play with those Major and Minor chord buttons, simply click the Bass Chords switch to swap from a full key range to a split keyboard: single notes on the right, and two octaves of Major and Minor chords under your left hand.

The Polychrome is high on the aquisition lists of most analogue synth lovers because it is regarded as one of those beautiful odditys that seldom gets heard in music because of the rarity of the synth.

They sampled every section of the Polychrome (Percussion/Strings/Ensemble and Vocal/Choral) and added lots of new features-such as the ability to play more than one choral/vocal section at any time and a dedicated effects section for each synth section and a master effects section.
For Mac and PC, Kontakt 4.2.4 and higher.

17th Annual USA Songwriting Competition is now accepting entries! Winning songs will receive radio airplay in United States and Canada along with great prizes such as a Top Prize of over $50,000.

Sponsors of the 17th Annual Competition are: New Music Weekly, AirplayAccess.com, Loggins Promotion, Sony, Audio-Technica, IK Multimedia, D'Addario Strings, Presonus, Acoustica, Sonoma Wireworks, Intellitouch Tuners, Acoustic Café Radio Program, LivewireMusician.com, Reverbnation, Broadjam, Sirius XM Radio, Sonicbids.com, Soundcloud.com, etc.

California based Pulse Code today announces Rhythm Studio 1.06, an update to their premier universal electronic music making app for iOS devices.


Update Features Include:
- WIST sync
- Bluetooth song sharing
- Background audio support
- Phoenix supersaw synth

Example Minimum Requirements:
- iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad
- iOS 4.0 or later
- 19 MB.

If you work with Pro Tools 10 (Native) or pro Tools HDX, Avid says that is better to use AAX (Avid Audio eXtension) plug in format... Few months after the launch of this new version of Pro Tools (software & Hardware), are the third parties AAX-compatible plug-ins ready?

A part of the answer is on our 440Software files, with over 100 AAX Plug In listed. From Bias to Waves arts, a lot of editors goes to AAX. But what about Waves, and some others (Ok, Waves 8 is Pro Tools 10-compatible but not really AAX...)? Waves 9 will arrive around march, with a 64bit version of their plug in, but what does they think about AAX?

So, is it a real progress (for Pro Tools Users, of course) or a very strong marketing campaign? That the question... We ask today to Pro Tools 10 users if they have registred a real Progrees with AAX Plug in or not?

AAX DSP requires a Pro Tools|HDX card for processing. AAX Native can be used with any Pro Tools 10 or Pro Tools HD 10 system or software, and relies on the power from your host computer.