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Underground Trance Vol 1' brings you a staggering 2.5GB of uncompressed content designed to take your productions to the next level and blow the roof clean off with five superbly produced Construction Kits. You'll find quirky synths, edgy FX, powerful rises and huge drops in this feature rich product.

Across these five kits you'll find a range of infectious phrases, suspenseful filters, rock solid bass and drums and a shimmering spatially expansive top end, all designed to give your next Trance or electronic
production commercial quality with an underground edge.

Sonnox has announced the release of the highly anticipated AAX version of it's acclaimed Oxford Dynamics plug-in.

Based on algorithms from the Dynamics section of the OXF-R3 digital mixing console, the AAX DSP and Native versions boast six individual sections: Compressor, Expander, Limiter, Gate, Side-chain EQ, and Warmth function. Both AAX DSP and AAX Native versions can be used as a surround buss compressor/limiter, previously only possible in the TDM version.

Voxengo GlissEQ version 3.7 update is now available
for download. Voxengo GlissEQ is a dynamic parametric equalizer
plug-in for professional audio and sound production applications.
GlissEQ is available in AudioUnit and VST plug-in formats (including
native 64-bit support), for Mac OS X (v10.5 and later), and Windows
computers.

This version implements the following changes:

- "Wide View Mode" user interface display mode implemented.
- The "Load CSV" and "Save CSV" text file functions added.
- Fixed rare occasional crashes on Mac OS X.
- If secondary spectrum is active, the delta between primary and
secondary spectrums at cursor position is now displayed.

Lounge Lizard announces the EP-4 v4.0.2 Update.

Additions
- Added MIDI control change assignments;
- Added MIDI bank change messages handling;
- Added pitch bend range setting.

Fixes
- Fixed high CPU usage on some presets;
- Fixed MIDI program change messages from all MIDI channels;
- Fixed other minor bugs.

Blue Cat Audio ( http://www.bluecataudio.com ) has released an update for their multi-purpose audio levels meter and envelope generation plug-in, Blue Cat's DP Meter Pro.

What's new in Blue Cat's DP Meter Pro 4.01:
- Changed default preset so that the plug-in fits into small laptop screens when opened.
- Mac-VST: Fixed window resize issues on Cubase and Nuendo (Mac).
- Mac-Audio Unit: Fixed random crashes at startup in some host applications.

IK Multimedia announces the release of SampleTank 1.4, the latest version of its professional-quality sound-and-groove-module app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

The app is now fully optimised to support the larger screen of both iPhone 5 and the new iPod touch while providing eye-catching graphics that showcase amazingly on the Retina display.