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Ik Multimedia announce the AmpliTube Orange, a complete set of 17 officially certified models of Orange amps and cabinets for AmpliTube 3 (standalone/plug-in).

First introduced during London's "swinging '60s" era, Orange amps are renowned for their warm and luscious tube tone and characteristic crunch. IK is the only company to offer models with Orange's official certification, and every guitarist, engineer and producer will want to own this definitive collection.

The 1.35 updates bring a range of workflow and productivity enhancements.

- Manage your patches and samples with the Integrated File Browser and get your sounds into Granite quicker than ever.
- Navigate and customise Favourite Folders, and preview audio files with In-Place Audition.
- Automate any parameter, including Sample Start and End.
- Assign any parameter for MIDI control with the redesigned Assignment Manager, and store and recall controller setups with the Template feature.
- Sample Loop Recording is now available in addition to Sample Start and the other internal recorders, allowing even more twisted and evolving patches.

Voxengo SPAN version 2.5 update is now available for download.
SPAN is a free real-time "fast Fourier transform" audio spectrum analyzer
plugin for professional music and audio production applications.

List of changes in version 2.5:
- Crash issue reported in Apple Logic Pro fixed.
- If secondary spectrum is active, the delta between primary and
secondary spectrums at cursor position is now displayed.
- A crash related to UI resizing function fixed.

Repetito is a multichannel looper software - with which you can record and add loops on internal channels - resulting in unequaled mixing potential.

Repetito is a real time software which was developed for live music; Repetito can also be used in a studio. Its operation and its user interface are simple and intuitive.
Repetito is operated with MIDI commands. The graphic user interface takes up the whole screen so musicians can control Repetito while playing music.

MusicDevelopments has announced the biggest major update of RapidComposer, the rapid music prototyping software designed for composers, song-writers and musicians of all musical styles.

Improvements:
- rewritten user interface: better usability on small resolutions, still having everything at your fingertips
- chords and progressions can be based on scale degrees, several chord notations offered
- cut/copy/paste works for phrases
- simpler structure editor
- MIDI drag and drop tracks or composition to DAWs
- improved Idea Tool: generate a new composition for pressing a key
- better reliability - the new recovery feature will recover your composition if the program or a plug-in crashes

During the promotion RapidComposer and RapidComposer LE are available at a discounted price (USD 224/USD 89) until the end of March.

Loopseque - music app for iPad - has been updated few day ago with many great features on board.

MIDI (iPad 2 or higher):
- MIDI-out: Clock, Events, CC, Latency.
- MIDI-in: Clock.

New layout for MIDI events:
- MIDI note for each circle: channel, velocity, volume, root key.
- Attack, Release, Start and Length for each note.
- Chord maker presets.
- New layout for MIDI assignable CCs: 4 pads controllers for X/Y parameters, sliders and buttons.