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Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH announced today the upcoming release of Nuendo 6.

Among the new features presented in Nuendo 6 is the entirely new mixing console with full-screen mode and scalability, including Insert View for displaying activated insert slots, plug-in and channel search and integrated Control Room. Also on board is the brand-new channel strip boasting high-pass and low-pass filters, a noise gate that supports sidechaining, various compressors and a brickwall limiter. Nuendo 6 comes with the newly designed Channel Settings window providing immediate access to channel parameters, MixConvert v6 for individual downmixing in unprecedented quality and Voxengo's 64-band CurveEQ.

It's time for a trance overhaul of the Sylenth synth and this bank of 100 trance presets from Zenhiser is absolutely outstanding. Ranging from massive leads to plucky synths, with rolling bass sounds and everything between this is a Sylenth preset pack that will be in every trance producers collection.

The attention to detail in the programming is second to none which lifts these trance presets sounds to a whole new level. Designed to encompass not only what is happening in the trance arena today but also to deliver some new exciting trance sounds that simply have not been heard before, this is what makes these sylenth trance presets stand out from the rest.

Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH today announced the approaching releases of Cubase 7 and Cubase Artist 7. Coming on December 5, 2012, Steinberg is already presenting the unique solutions and enhancements within the latest incarnations of Cubase, the most advanced music production system today.

With an array of Virtual Studio Technology (VST) instruments and effects plus production tools employed by producers around the world, Cubase 7 and Cubase Artist 7 now include the new MixConsole mixer, the newly developed channel strip, Chord Track, significant workflow improvements and integration, new content and much more.

Catering to the rhythmically distinctive needs of discerning dubstep producers globally,
SPARK DubStep features a comprehensive library of 30 cutting-edge kits/480 instruments created in partnership with London-based leading pro audio loops and samples provider Sample Magic, themselves cited as being "...one of the elite dance sample venders.
Atomic wobble basses, filthy FX, dirty drums... it's all there for the taking!

Released In celebration of their epic Metal Month celebrations, Toontrack gathered four iconic metal guitarists to custom design a collection of EZmix 2 presets focusing on amp and cab simulation for guitar and bass.

The result is a colossal pack which features rhythm, lead and clean sounds plus settings for acoustic guitar and bass, designed by the Metal Guitar Gods...
- Fredrik Thordenal (Meshuggah)
- Mattias IA Eklundh (Freak Kitchen)
- Misha "Bulb" Mansoor (Periphery)
- Devin Townsend (ex-Strapping Young Lad, The Devin Townsend Project).

CHH Pro Complete is the most complete virtual-instrument library of Brass & Woodwind instruments for Jazz, Pop, Big-Band, Funk production but also to spice up your cinematic and orchestral tracks.

With CHH Complete you get 54 Solo- and 32 Section-Instruments, partitioned in four volumes which contain different groups of instruments perfectly matching each other.
All versions are available as downloads or on a 64GB USB Stick, allowing instant installation.