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MiniNova is a compact, super-cool studio and live synth with the same sound engine as its big brother; UltraNova.

It comes with 256 incredible onboard sounds that you can tweak with five knobs, or totally warp with eight 'animate' buttons. It has up to 18 voices with as many as five synth effects on each sound. MiniNova also has an onboard VocalTune effect as well as a classic vocoder so you can recreate iconic vocal sounds from hip hop, urban and electronic music.

Addictive Keys is being released as a 'Studio Collection' bundle which includes the 'Studio Grand', 'Modern Upright' and 'Mark One' instruments.

This bundle will be available worldwide throughout XLN Audio's retail distribution network. Additionally, the individual instruments will be made available in XLN Audio's own webshop with more instruments available in the near future. The Addictive Keys engine is included in all offers.

Absolutely FREE, drum & fx samples from my Roland u-220 rompler module from 1989. It is rack version of Roland U-20 keyboard.

Provided sample pack includes additional latin and fx sounds from expansion card number 2. It contains all drum and fx samples with different pitches, effects off, long decay and relase set. Samples were originally recorded at 24bit 48khz by Motu 2408 mk2 interface, then denoised (removed few db of noise floor) and converted to 16bit.[p]

From August 27th until September 12th, three of Sample Logic's unique sound libraries, Tronix, Acoustix and Metalix, are available as a bundle from the Ableton webshop for just EUR 149 / USD 199 - a savings of over 33%. Each library contains carefully crafted and highly original audio material that blurs the line between music and sound design – making this bundle a perfect toolkit for cinematic productions.

Tronix + Acoustix + Metalix - A universe of unique sounds waiting to be explored .

An upgrade of the step sequencer "Lauflicht" for the Novation Launchpad to the version 2 has been released. The plugin for Renoise is a moving light, multitrack and multitimbral step sequencer with 8, 16 or 32 steps, turning your Launchpad into a Hardware Step Sequencer. It was especially designed for playing live and to be capable of editing beats and patterns without the mouse.
Besides the addition of a lot of smaller features and the implementation of user requests like grouped tracks support and better performance, the new version has two new core features.
Both, the powerful control matrix and the keyboard mode enhance the workflow to produce creative drum patterns, bass lines and melodies.

Stereo by name, stereo by nature, bx_stereomaker is an amazingly useful upmixing tool that allows users to easily add pseudo-spatiality and width to mono source-recorded tracks like guitars, vocals, and room mics, while balancing the centre of the stereo signal and paying particular attention to its frequency range.

Available in 64- and 32-bit versions, Brainworx's bx_stereomaker plug-in can be purchased and downloaded (in all Mac OS X and Windows formats — VST 2.4, VST 3, RTAS, AU, AAX) for an introductory price of $95.00 USD until September 15 (rising to $129.00 USD thereafter).