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Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH announces the release of their Absolute VST instrument collection, comprising six state-of-the-art Virtual Studio Technology (VST) instruments that provide thousands of presets and sample content of electronic sounds.

- Padshop Pro
- Zero Gravity
- Retrologue
- Hypnotic Dance
- Triebwerk
- Dark Planet

The full retail version of the Absolute VST instrument collection is available from Steinberg resellers and through the Steinberg Online Shop. The price is 299 euros, including German VAT.

These new bundles allow you to tailor make your collection of presets whilst saving you up to £137!
If you've had your eye on Toontrack's award winning mixing plugin, the EZmix 2 and Preset Packs Bundle is a great value introduction to Toontrack's EZmix product line as it includes the EZmix 2 software plus six expansion packs of your choice for just £159.00 / €199.00

Alternatively, if you already own EZmix 2, the Presets Bundle gives you the opportunity to choose six EZmix expansion packs for a total price of £94.95 / €129 - that's a saving of over £90 / €104!

Synfire is a comprehensive software for computer aided composition and arrangement. Thanks to applied AI-techniques, it is able to understand, manipulate and interpret music at a high level of abstraction.

The standalone software for Mac and PC hosts VST and AU instruments and synchronizes with a DAW via ReWire. By loading remotely controlled "Drones" into the tracks of a DAW, Synfire integrates tightly with most popular sequencers.

Carefully crafted GORE soundest (by Status) has been designed for the soundtrack composers willing to enrich their compositions with the dark and depressing moods. The set contains 200 presets meant for a creator of any gloomy movie or a game soundtrack.

- 56 dark atmos,
- 23 drums from beyond,
- 27 alarming keyboards,
- 67 creepy synthesizers,
- 27 fearsome special effects.
Price: $20

The set uses internal waveforms of Cronox4. All the bank presets have Modwhele, Pitchbend and Aftertouch action mapped.
(AT not included in drum presets).

Announcing the release of the "Analog Delay," the first delay designed and created exclusively for the 500 series pro audio format.

The Analog Delay is a 100% analog signal path module that features 800ms of delay time, front panel MIDI control, and an assignable Tap Tempo/CV jack on its front panel. Included with each unit is a free VST/AU/RTAS editor for easy implementation into any recording, live, and performance situation.

140 original sounds programmed from scratch to showcase the dark side of Saurus, with a clear focus on the harder edged sounds for genres such as Drum and Bass, Complextro, Dubstep, Grindcore and Electronica.

Dark Toxic covers the entire dirt range, from cone trashing basses to club smashing leads and pads, all to bring you the best in raw dark synth power.