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EarMaster Pro 5 is a software tool for ear training and music theory practice on Windows and Mac. It is available in 23 languages and used by amateur musicians, professionals such as Ralph Santolla (Obituary, ex-Iced Earth, etc.), Mistheria (Bruce Dickinson) or Damien Nolan (Pete Townsend, Skunk Anansie, Katie Melua, etc.), as well as by music students and leading music schools around the globe.

EarMaster Pro 5 is available as a free 7-day trial version for Windows and Mac OSX
The suggested retail price of EarMaster Pro 5 for Windows and Mac OSX has just been lowered from €69.95 incl. VAT to €59.95 incl. VAT.

Introducing the new Vocal Allstar Series, a groundbreaking new series from Prime Loops, which will challenge the concept of how music is made and change the sound library industry forever. For the first time you can buy a 100% royalty free song complete with vocals which can be re-worked and released as your own.

Each Vocal Allstar kit comes with one fully arranged and pre-mastered mix of a song including vocal hooks. Each part of the song also comes as remixable loops, sounds and stems (e.g. separated synth, bass, drum beats, orchestra tracks and more), providing endless creativity and inspiration. Whether you are a music producer, rapper, MC or vocalist you can simply use the pre-made, full-length song with chorus and add you own vocal verses or chose to get creative and start chopping up and remixing sounds to create your own unique track.

AcousticsampleS presents its 2011 Summer Sale:

This sale gives you 30% off everything.

The discount may be combined with the quantity discount, so you save :
- 5% off the discounted total for 2 items
- 10% off the discounted total for 4 items
- 15% off the discounted total for 6 items
- 20% off the discounted total for 8 items
- 25% off the discounted total for 10 items or more

You can get up to a 50% discount!

We also release a new Electric piano library, the Neo soul suitcase. This instrument is produced by GM (Gospel Musicians) and we have been working with them on the interface/scripting as well as the voicing and building of the instrument.
The neo Soul suitcase is available for €65 until the end of august as an introductory price.

TC-Helicon's VoiceJam is the most powerful and creative audio looper for iPhone, and now a jaw-dropping inApp option is available with software version 1.2.50.

Also available is the VoiceTone C1 inApp option that is based in the vocal effects pedal with the same name and number. C1 offers hardtune and gender bending, and combined with the R1 inApp users can take that billboard-top-40 robotic-extreme-pitch-corrected sound over the top!

Voxengo is pleased to announce the release of BMS
version 2.0 bass management system plugin for professional surround sound applications, available in AudioUnit and VST plugin formats, for Mac OS X (v.10.4.11 and later) and Windows (32-bit and 64-bit)
computers.

Some features:
The "Mute LFE Highs" switch added
- The "Bypass" management mode added
- Crossovers are minimum-phase now
- Maximal crossover steepness is -72 dB/oct now
- Zero processing latency
- Multi-platform support
- Undo/redo
- Preset manager
- User interface coloration
- User interface re-scaling
- Plug-in instance naming
- Bypass switch

Ative Instruments today announced STUDIO DRUMMER, a new instrument for the efficient creation of studio-quality acoustic drum tracks. By combining premium sampled drum kits and a comprehensive studio-grade mixing environment with a wide assortment of professional grooves, the KONTAKT-based instrument provides a highly versatile and easy-to-use "virtual drummer" that gives authentic and fast results for pop, rock, metal, jazz and related music styles.

For use with the full KONTAKT version and the free KONTAKT PLAYER, STUDIO DRUMMER makes extensive use of the advanced features of the KONTAKT 5 generation to provide all necessary components for a first-class studio drums production. At the heart of the instrument are three premium drum kits from Pearl, Sonor and Yamaha that have been sampled with painstaking precision in the renowned Teldex Studios in Berlin, using selected outboard gear and an especially sophisticated array of up to 18 microphones. The resulting 17 GB of sample material incorporate up to 25 velocity layers with up to 6 variation samples for individual instruments, and contain over a dozen distinct articulations for snare and hi-hats as well as an alternative snare option for each kit.