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Hollywood hotshot sound designers Larry Hopkins (The Following, Vampire Diaries, Revenge), Alan Howarth (Poltergeist, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Back To The Future II), and Mark Mangini (Die Hard, Star Trek, The Fifth Element) have pooled their considerable creative resources to create Hollywood Essentials.

As such, it features an attractive library of 30 earcatching kits with 480 instruments and 960 patterns ranging from field recordings made in the likes of auto body shops and dentists to ethereal sci-fi soundscapes and action sequence percussion ensembles fit for any adventurous blockbusting Hollywood motion picture!

IK Multimedia announces that iGrand Piano for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, and iLectric Piano for iPad is now Audiobus compatible, allowing players to use these apps with their other Audiobus-compatible music apps like AmpliTube and GarageBand.

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Dirty Razor has arrived.

Grimy, dirty and aggressive is what this bank is all about. With almost no banks out on market for this amazing reaktor synth from NI; sound designer/remixer/producer Mike Heymans sought out to harness the power of this forward sounding synth while telegraphing the best analog synths of yesteryear.

Mostly centered around Dirty Electro and Dubstep genres, these 64 patches are also immediately useable for Complextro, Trapstep and Electro Productions.

Bank info: 64 .NKRT patches compatible with Reaktor 5/Reaktor Player.

When you need tech house sounds to deliver powerful groove ideas, deep intrinsic basslines, rich and sexy synth lines and sprinkling of shiny fx then this is the deep tech house preset pack for you.

Yielding 109 presets in total you know you're not going to be running out of dedicated tech house presets for a very long time, and with the Zenhiser seal of quality you know these presets will be the best you can find. There is such a great collection of new inspiring sounds in Massive Deep Tech House that we are sure you'll be stoked with the collection. We even think the pack needs an honourable mention for it's outstanding subby basslines and incredible synth stab like presets, they really do take this preset pack to a whole new level.

Italian electronic instrument manufacturer Studiologic announced that a free firmware update is available for their popular Sledge analog modeling synthesizer ($1599 MAP).

The upgrade, which effectively doubles the instrument's polyphony from 8 voices to 16, is already in all new units, and is available for units already in the field as of spring 2013.

Scarlett 6i6 is a 6 in / 6 out audio interface that connects to your PC, Mac or iPad via USB 2.0. It has two award winning Focusrite microphone preamplifiers, which deliver superb quality recordings from microphones and instruments, straight into your computer or iPad (Apple Camera Connection Kit required with iPad).

The new Focusrite Scarlett 18i8 18-in/8-out interface extends the Scarlett range of USB 2.0 interfaces from Focusrite, each of which offers a series of high-quality inputs and outputs for different recording requirements. With four Focusrite mic pres, Scarlett 18i8 is designed for producers and recording artists or bands who require the ability to record a significant number of sources at the same time including multiple mics/instruments, with expansion capability enabling it to handle multiple studio recording requirements. Scarlett 18i8 works on Mac, PC and iPad (Apple Camera Connection Kit required for iPad).