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Glass Harp sample library features the sound of chromatically tuned wine glasses.
For this latest Detunized project more than 80 wine glasses where collected on flea markets and junk shops. After carefully separating the wheat form the chaff instrument maker Sergey Karamyshev ended up with 39 glasses that got tuned by filling each one with a certain amount of water. This way a lovely sounding instrument with a range of 3 octaves (D3 to E6) came up.
It has a lively timbre and produces rich sounds with strong overtone content.
For Glass Harp library the complete instrument got sampled both in stereo and close-miked mono, each time with a legato and a staccato pass.For the sake of an even more realistic feel an additional release sound layer was edited.

Glass Harp Live Pack contains 2 main instrument racks - Glass Harp True Stereo & Glass Harp Mono Pick Up. Both racks consist of 3 layers (legato, staccato, release) plus 8 carefully mapped macros.
As bonus 9 handcrafted alterations and extracted single modules of the main racks offer an easy-to-go starting point for individual tweaks.

Specifications
- Ableton Live Pack, compatible with Live 8/9
- 200 MB Sample content (234 samples, , true stereo and close-miked mono)
- 9.00 Euro (download)

Glass Harp Universal features the same sample content and includes 10 pre-edited patches. With these patches in unified formats Glass Harp is compatible with various software samplers DAWs.

Specifications
- Formats: SFZ, NKI, SXT, EXS, FXP
- Patches: Legato, Staccato, Release, LegStac, LegStacRel
- 200 MB Sample content (234 samples, true stereo and close-miked mono)
- 9.00 Euro (download).

Audio Mind Project has released Ultimate Expansion Vol. 1: Analogy. The soundset contains 168 sounds for LuSH-101.

The first volume shows a softer and calmer, more analog-like side of LuSH-101. A variety of deep, dreamy, dark and beautiful pads, both lush and calm orchestral sounds, a selection of keys, inspiring synths, gentle arps, as well as useful lead and bass sounds are included.

Even more timbres available thanks to extensive modwheel assignments. These carefully designed sounds will be usable in a number of genres, including pop, ambient, chillout, jazz and others.

http://soundcloud.com/audio-mind-project/ultimate-expansion-vol-1

The soundset is available in an intro offer until July 10th, 2013 for only $19.99 which is 20% off the regular price ($24.99).

The Vienna Symphonic Library team announces a one-month limited time offer featuring free Single Instruments.

Users who purchase any Vienna Instruments Collection (Standard Library) between July 1 and July 31, 2013 will receive a Single Instrument product of their choice for free.

Applied Acoustics Systems is announcing an exceptional promotion to mark its 15th anniversary.

Until July 31th, Applied Acoustics Systems is offering a 50% discount on its Lounge Lizard EP-4 electric piano, Chromaphone creative percussion synthesizer, and Ultra Analog VA-1 virtual analog synthesizer plug-ins. The 15th Anniversary Bundle, comprising these three unique instruments, is also offered at the price of $269.

Swedish Pop Vol 3 is the third in the stunning series bringing you a huge collection of powerful Pop, Dance and Swedish-House infused Construction Kits, created and produced exclusively for Producer Loops by Simon Rudd of "The Fliptones". This fresh new product combines razor-sharp modern production with catchy progressions and radio-ready melodic hooks, perfect for your next production.

Inside you'll find five pumping kits, all expertly mixed and mastered to the highest standard. Buzzing highs, rumbling lows and powerful rises and drops are all set against a steady pulse of percussion and side-chained elements. Ranging from commercial and radio-ready to dark and edgy, you're sure to find inspiration in this pack.

Native Instruments today introduced the latest installment of their DISCOVERY SERIES – the range of KONTAKT Instruments based around specific musically vibrant locations. DISCOVERY SERIES – CUBA celebrates the sounds of the master musicians of Havana – rich, varied, and joyful music that encompasses the melodic and rhythmic traits of son, rumba, salsa and merengue. KONTAKT users can now add the special flavor of Cuba to almost any production style – from house and techno to pop, indie, and world styles.

DISCOVERY SERIES – CUBA delivers a host of meticulously-sampled instruments arranged into melodic and percussive ensembles. Its eight melodic and nine percussive ensembles are organized into authentic instrument combinations, expertly compiled to reflect the varied styles of Cuba's musical landscape – suitable for traditional projects as well as contemporary pop and dance productions.

CUBA offers a library of rhythmic patterns and harmonic progressions – all easily tweakable to fit specific productions using the powerful, built-in sequencer. A more human feel can be applied via the Groove and Feel knobs. Users can also adjust microtiming at the instrument level for an added level of rhythmic nuance. The Intensity knob adjusts the overall velocity of the performance, and 6/8 or 4/4 timings can be selected depending on the production style.

Also included is a mixer section featuring studio quality effects, including Solid EQ, convolution reverb, tape saturation and compression.

DISCOVERY SERIES – CUBA is available now for $99 / 99 € / 9800 YEN at the NI Online Shop.