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Delora announces the worldwide availability of gbTouch 3.3, an upgrade to their popular Delora line of iPad music controller applications. gbTouch offers control surface and remote control capability for the Apple GarageBand music application on the Mac.

New Features & Benefits
The Delora gbTouch 3.3 app adds a performance mode that can be used to play and record notes for GarageBand's software instruments. Two different controllers are available: a standard piano-style controller, and a drum pad controller.

Future Progressive House Vol 1 starts off a brand new series from The Madison and Producer Loops of hard-hitting, melody driven House Construction Kits.

The Madison boasts a distinctive production style, recognisable by his trademark delicate melodies, vocal glitches and unapologetic, cone-trembling basslines. By experimenting with state-of-the-art production techniques, while combining the genre's signature elements, he has created a versatile collection of Kits sure to become a staple in any Progressive producer's arsenal.

The update is warmly recommended for all users and platforms.

What's new in this version:
- Fixed crashes in Windows
- Fixed Sync Errors
- Improved CPU usage
- Improved latency behavior with Pro Tools 9.

Detunized's lead sound designer Stephan Marche picked out the best presets from his releases "Casiopeia", "Binaries", "Phase Facets", "fTable", "Composite Keys" and "4op".
Alltogether they form a palette of Live Packs that feature such gear like a TX81z, a WSA-1, a Rapman, an OPL-3 FM chip and both of the famous Hohner sampler/synth devices.
All Digitals is built around a 3.1 Gig sample pool that consists of nearly 5000 samples. Each of the 222 included Live Racks has fine-tuned Macro controls and is ready to play right out of the box.

All Digitals is currently available for an introductory price of 15.00 Euro, regular price will be 39.00 Euro.

Ohm Force has announced its 21st Ohm Studio Collab Friday taking place on December 7.

This time, speed is key: each participant will be required to contribute to 4 projects at least, spending no more than 15 minutes for each. Given the collaborative nature of Ohm Studio projects, this should be enough time to quickly build (many) song ideas.

All you have to do is download and install it, create an account and log in between 8 PM (GMT) and at least 2 AM. Then contact Red_Force or Jamie57lp on the channel.

Native Instruments today introduced ABBEY ROAD VINTAGE DRUMMER, a new KONTAKT instrument that features the sound of two vintage drum kits from the 1940s.

Both kits were recorded with a combination of state-of-the-art equipment and period microphones at Abbey Road Studios in London, providing a natural, open sound suitable for contemporary productions. For the first time in Native Instruments' successful ABBEY ROAD Series, VINTAGE DRUMMER includes brush articulations especially recorded to provide the authentic sound and style of the swing/big band era.