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Musikmesse in Frankfurt (Germany) is the world's most international fair for musical instruments, sheet music, music production and marketing, and has been the foremost meeting place for the musical-instrument industry for over 25 years.

Here, you will find a complete range of products with everything required for making music, not to mention innumerable workshops, concerts, demonstrations and discussion events.

Each year, around end of march, MusikMesse represents the biggest music fair in Europe. During the most important economical crisis since 1929, and after the terrifying tsunami in Japan last year, we have seen at NAMM that industry doesn't really make money anymore and stopped development... So new products are launched, but is it really new products or not?
Once and for all, Goodbye!

Academy and Grammy Award winning composer, musician and producer Trent Reznor, founder of the group Nine Inch Nails (NIN), has upgraded his private studio with a Solid State Logic Duality SE console.

Reznor chose the Duality on advice from producer/engineer Alan Moulder while they were mixing the soundtrack for the film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. They used the Duality to complete mixing the tracks that Trent composed with Atticus Ross, as well as the soundtrack's two cover songs – Led Zeppelin's 'Immigrant Song,' featuring Karen O from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Bryan Ferry's 'Is Your Love Strong Enough?' by Reznor and Ross' side-project How to Destroy Angels.

Supalife Dynamite: Dirty South Vol 1' from DJ Khalid and Supalife Records brings you TEN deeply dark and dirty essential Construction Kits designed to give your Dirty South and Hip Hop productions all of the elements you need to create hot, club-smashing hits. These multi-format Kits are recorded at 80 BPM, include MIDI for all melodic parts and are Royalty-Free, ready to drop into your productions.

including:

- Bass lines
- Drum and percussion loops
- Piano/keyboard phrases
- Synth and pad loops
- Strings
- Brass

Hypersynth Updates Ion Alesis Editor to V2.2.

V2.2 Additions & Fixes:

-Added MIDI learn and default CC assignment for most of the parameters.
-Added new MIDI controller input port.
-Added support for Nintendo Wii Remote as a MIDI controller.
-Added Latch button (Micron Mode).
-Fixed problem in rename sysex function that overridden fx2 values.
-Fixed rare issue in saving MIDI In/out when the device number was greater than 9.
-Fixed problem that caused mismatch between standalone and VST MIDI In device.
-Now editor's M1 and M2 wheel respond to changes visually in block mode (echo off) too.
-Updated documentation: (Added CC tables and step by step tutorials).

Retro Action Score links a wide variety of elements from rock, jazz and soul together with distorted organs and rhodes, distortion fx and fat drumbeats as well as upright and electric bass to an inspiring vintage sound.

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3.8 GB library Retro Action Score in 20 construction kits includes a big selection of clean and distorted electric and acoustic guitars, groovy electric and double basses, rhodes, pianos, synths and organs. Fat drumbeats, various percussion elements, atmospheric guitar- and drum fx provide the fitting rhythmic basement. The tempo of the kits varies between 66 and 180 bpm.
1853 loops from two to eight bars are mixed with enough headroom to enable you to modify the sounds according to your demands.

With the MasterBay S it is easy to manage up to four stereo processors comfortably. Its flexible switching matrix and unique listening comparison possibilities make it easier to get the best results out of the available equipment.

In order to streamline the workflow, the user can set freely selectable intervals for automatic A/B comparisons. And it is also possible to compensate for loudness disparities to be able to compare only the actual sound differences, while the Parallel Mix function determines the balance between the dry input and the processed signal. The MasterBay S features Trim potentiometers to fine adjust all input and output levels plus a central knob that serves to adjust the record signal's dynamic fading.