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Non-standard Upright Pianos

4 Pianos Bundle introduces an interesting collection of non-standard, hard-mangled and abnormal recorded pianos.
Included are the legendary Rolfing Laid Back (Volume 1 & 2), a collection of prepared piano sounds captured from a rotten piano that once was pulled out of an abandoned backyard building.
Also included is the Day Time Traffic Piano which is an upright that was recorded in an apartment at a major street in Berlin during rush hour. The windows of the apartment were kept open so that a proper portion of traffic noise made its way into these sounds.
At least there is another Upright Piano that is hosted in a little club right beside a car repair shop. This Piano has undergone numerous Jazz & Blues sessions throughout the decades.

specifications
- Format: Ableton Live Pack
- Compatibility: PC/Mac, Live 8/9
- Instruments: 27
- No. of samples: 782
- Disk space: 1.6 GB

4 Pianos Bundle is available to purchase as download for 29.00 Euro.

Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH today announced the UR44 audio interface, a six-in, four-out audio interface that will be available in January 2014, further extending the UR range of USB 2.0 interfaces.

With up to 192 kHz and 24-bit audio quality, MIDI input/output, Class-A D-PRE microphone preamps and its class-compliant mode for iPad use, the UR44 is a portable production studio with ample connectivity choices.

ChordPolyPad updated to 1.1

New features:

- Audiobus support
- Velocity detection for pads
- Chords edit
- Hold mode
- Fixed value for real time velocity mode
- Recording chords from Midi
- Virtual Midi ports simplified
- Longer strumming.

Electrified and Pure Acoustic Special Edition Guitar Libraries are now 1/3 off for a limited time.

Arturia announces Holiday season deals throughout November and December 2013
GRENOBLE, FRANCE: music software and hardware company Arturia is pleased to announce
HOLIDAY SEASON DEALS, two special promotions allowing you to get awesome free gifts!

Purchase a Minibrute get 2 software instrument for free - Buy our revolutionary, often awarded and 100 % analog synthesizer and you will be able to choose 2 software instruments in a list of 12 instruments (To be delivered to you through download.)
Purchase a SparkLE Drum machine get 4 expansion packs for free - Buy our latest SparkLE hybrid
drum machine combining the amazing sounds, work flow and creative tools of the Spark Engine software, with the high quality SparkLE controller and you will get 4 expansion packs that are add-ons loading extra kits into your SparkLE software. In the end it will allow you to use 120 high quality new kits & 1920 new great sounding instruments (To be delivered to you through download.).

Driven by iZotope’s award-winning visual selection technology, iZotope Iris is a groundbreaking sample-based synthesizer that harnesses the power of both your eyes and your ears.
Key Features of Iris

Discover what’s inside any sound: Load audio into Iris™ and explore spectral details that a regular waveform locks away.

Highlight what intrigues you: Extract and isolate the most interesting sonic components with a full suite of visual selection tools.

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Stay musical: Rely on automatic root note detection to help shape musical material from noise, ambient textures, soundscapes…even mistakes!

Enhance and invigorate your sound: Apply world-class iZotope reverbs, distortions and delays, then take advantage of extended synth features like amp envelopes and LFOs

Get amazing sounds immediately: Spark your imagination with over 500 patches by world-class sound designers, or design your own with Iris’s 4 GB library of diverse sound samples

Throughout November, Iris is available for the special 20% off price of £119.00 / €139.00.