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The Machine" has all the CR78 drum sounds you'll need, recorded perfectly from the original machine and supplied in both flat and outboard tweaked versions.

On top of that why have a sample pack that just supplies the drum sounds, what about the beats! Well "CR78 - The Machine" also delivers two very different collections of drum beats, "The Classic Folder" delivering the essential drum beats that the CR78 are so famously known for, and "The Modern Folder", a perfect collection of today's beats created solely using the CR78 drum sounds and supplied with multiple takes including with kick, without kick and stripped own versions. All the classic and modern drum beats also include bpm information within the file name for fast use.

MOOG Music announced today the release of a free software VST controller plug-in for their popular MF-105M MIDI MuRF pedal.

The MIDI MuRF (Multiple Resonance Filter Array) is an advanced combination of two legendary MOOG pedals: the MF-105 MuRF and the MF-105B Bass MuRF.It utilizes an 8 band array of resonant filters with a pre-programmed animation section to create unlimited unique sequenced filter effects.

MuRF_Controller is an exciting addition for any Midi MuRF owner wanting to easily control and expand its' power and capabilities from within their DAW.

Tone2 Audiosoftware has announced the release of the Morphing soundset for ElectraX.
Morphing is a captivating collection of 200 presets for ElectraX programmed by a team of professional sound designers.


The Morphing soundset focuses on ElectraX' extensive capabilities to morph oscillator shapes and wavetables to deliver a wide palette of complex soundscapes, warped arps,
evolving pads, powerful basses and massive synth sounds.

Beat Producer Solo! Beat Producer itself was only released a few weeks ago and we're already getting great feedback from users. Although it's an incredible deal at only $49 as it is, we wanted even more people to be able use our software and also have the opportunity to access our huge, superb value, native Beat Producer libraries without having to buy any software to do so.

This is exactly what Beat Producer Solo offers. It's FREE and allows you to load Apple Loops, reading their tags and allowing you to edit them to your heart's content.

Avid releases Sibelius 7, Notation software

Combining a deep, sophisticated feature set with an all new task-oriented user interface — putting all of the software's features at the user's fingertips — Sibelius® 7 enhances music writing through intuitive and flexible workflows and improved tools for increased collaboration.

- New and exclusive professional-quality sound library
- Completely redesigned task-oriented user interface
- Full MusicXML interchange
- Powerful text, graphic and sharing options

Upgrade for $149 USD

With Punch, Rob Papen delivers a brand new speaker busting, body rattling software instrument. Punch delivers synthesized drums in the finest audio quality and with breathtaking features for the contemporary producer.

Some features for V1.02:

- Mac version update for making compatible with OS-X 10.7 (Lion).
- Option to change HD location user samples.
- Mute & Solo for drum pad via mixer screen.
- Sample pitch & amp decay curve.
- Pattern folder command.
- Better memory usage.
- 32 bit float wav support.
- Other small bug fixes.
- A few more presets and drumpresets.