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For musicians & performers, interactive installations, museums, or meta-instruments, Eobody3 USB Sensorbox is a plug&play versatile solution to use new controls, to trigger and modulate sounds and videos, to create new sensor-based instruments with no computer programming background.
The version with a MIDI output enables to control MIDI hardware devices with sensors with no computer. Its internal signal processing has been especially developped for music and video applications. And if you want to go further into the signal processing control, a PC, Mac compatible Eobody3 Editor enables to adjust internal process parameters and shape the outcoming signal waveform (status/analogue zoom/digital zoom & offset/inverse/lag processor/gate/ note on/off/new waveshaper). These settings can be stored in Sensorbox non-volatile memory! It's now possible to store an entire installation or performance setup inside a Sensorbox and save it for a future use. High-speed USB enables to reduce significantly the latency. A 32-bit resolution avoids 'scale effects' and allows a nearly linear conversion curve. Sensorboxes can be plugged directly to the USB in of your computer or thru a USB hub if you want to plug more.
Eobody3 has a more powerful 32-bits IC, which enables more pre-processings and more pre-mappings.

Loopmasters and Hospital Records are proud to present Drum & Bass Vol. 5 from the well respected duo of Paul Greenhalgh and Paul Smith aka Total Science.

Their tunes are constantly supported around the world by the biggest name DJs and attract vocal support from the likes of Hype, Fabio, Goldie, and Zane Lowe. Total Science have focused their full attention on creating a huge collection of inspirational samples, sounds and beats for the modern DnB, Dubstep and Breaks producer who is looking for the future sound of Drum and Bass.

TWISTED TOOLS have released a brand effects processor and sound generator based on feedback, called Scapes. Scapes uses six independent granular delays, extensive modulation options, a gate sequencer and familiar synth style controls to dynamically manipulate the sound. With Scapes you can create high quality and unique soundscapes, rhythms and sound effects perfectly suited for use in music, film and game audio.

Scapes Features:
- 6 independent delays in one interface
- Independent controls and granular controls per delay
- Sources: External, Impulse, Noise, Saw, Self-Osc. Sine, Square, Tri)
- Playable via MIDI with familiar synth style controls
- 35 scale settings for oscillators, delay time and grain pitch
- 6-voice gate sequencer
- Over 190 presets
- 220mb sample library
- Kore and Maschine Templates
Etc.

Price: $49.

Detunized has reelased DTS024 - Phase Facets, a comprehensive Live Pack featuring the German Hohner HS2/E synthesizer from 1988. The Hohner HS2/E and it's Japanese original, the Casio VZ10m, are the last hardware synths working with „interactive Phase Distortion" synthesis. The iPD was meant as an effort to deliver sounds comparable to those of FM synthesis while its results are easier to predict. IPD is capable of producing wonderful „non-filter" and „non-substractive" tones with sharp attacks and digital precision.
The 650 MB Live Pack „Phase Facets" contains a diversified collection of such iPD sounds that must be categorized far beyond the standard Bass and Lead libraries. With their rich harmonic content and agile brightness the 30 included Live Instruments enrich each Live Library with some 80s retro charme.

Pricing and specifications:
DTS024 – Phase Facets Live Pack (30 instruments / 650 MB / 842 samples) is available as instant download for 6.98 Euro.
Subscribers can purchase DTS024 + DTS023 - Curetronic Modular Vol. 2 for 4.98 Euro only

On Valentine's Day, TC-Helicon launched a competition for singers using TC-Helicon products.The TC-Helicon Love Song Competition gives vocalists a chance to win TC-Helicon prize packages for recording love songs that feature any TC-Helicon product from VoiceLive 2 to the new VoiceTone Singles range.

Winners of the competition can win a Grand Prize of either a VoiceLive Touch or VoiceLive 2 and a MP-75 Modern Performance Vocal Microphone with Mic Control. Four runners-up will have their choice of any VoiceTone Singles stompbox for singers.

The competition runs from February 14 to March 31, 2011. Winners will be voted on by TC-Helicon staff based on quality, creativity, arrangement, talent and use of their TC-Helicon product.
All a musician has to do is record a video of a love song using a TC-Helicon product, post the video on YouTube and submit their entry at tc-helicon.com/love-songs

Orchestral Disorder is a collection of presets for Apple Logic Pro inspired by orchestras. The concept behind the sound set was not to closely emulate acoustic instruments, but rather to explore the possibilities of orchestral timbres without human limitations or purist biases. Featuring three main components, the multi-format product includes files for the Sculpture and ES2 synthesizers, as well as Channel Strips.

The 2 MB download includes 150 .pst files and 25 .cst files.
Orchestral Disorder is available now for $39.99
The partial downloads for the Sculpture and ES2 components are available for $24.99 and $14.99 respectively.