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Line 6, Inc. introduces two additions to the James Tyler® Variax® family. The new JTV-59P and JTV-69S guitars provide new pickup configurations and a variety of finish options, expanding the sonic capabilities of the James Tyler Variax family to meet the needs of even more guitar players.

The single-cutaway, set-neck JTV-59P features two P-90 soapbar pickups for a classic look and vintage tone that is ideal for classic edge-of-breakup blues, modern rock and more. JTV-59 is available in Gold Top or Black.

A nod to the traditional format, JTV-69S features an SSS pickup configuration complete with three vintage-voiced single-coil pickups that are loaded with alnico magnets and wound to James Tyler's specs. JTV-69S is available in Three-tone Sunburst, Black, Shoreline Gold or Olympic White.

Soundsdivine has released Event Horizon, a new collection of 108 presets for Xils-Lab's Oxium.

Featuring psychedelic arpeggios, big phaser pads, dreamy chillwave synth sounds, polyrhythmic tremolo pads and dark soundscapes. This soundset makes extensive use of Oxium's LeMasque sequencer, making many of the sounds highly expressive and slightly unpredictable.

Event Horizon is currently available for the introductory price of €17.50 (+VAT) until 20th October . RRP is €25 (+VAT).

KV331 Audio has released a new preset expansion bank for their all-around software synthesizer plug-in SynthMaster 2.5: Nori Ubukata's "Historic Synth Giants Vol. 1".

The bank consists of 52 high quality presets designed by Nori Ubukata, in the following categories:

- 4 Basses
- 5 Brasses
- 6 FXs
- 21 Leads
- 2 Organs
- 5 Pads
- 1 Pluck
- 4 Sequences
- 2 Strings
- 2 Synths

After the cross-platform release of SampleRobot Pro from now on SampleRobot Multi-X is also available for Mac OS X.

With an attractive pricing and many important sampling features SampleRobot Multi-X is the ideal sampling solution for all musicians and sound designers who want to enhance their productions with self-sampled sounds.

It's new, it's awesome, and it's FREE until October 1st! So what are you waiting for?! The Pulsar Dual LFO is one of those devices that causes many people to go from "What does it do, exactly?" to "How have I lived without this!?" Pulsar is a versatile sound sculpting powerhouse that will spice up your existing patches and even function as a synth in its own right.

The best part is that until October 1st Pulsar is a free download from the Rack Extension shop. If you're a Reason 6 user, the upgrade to 6.5 is also free so run, don't walk, to get your free copy of Pulsar before it's too late.

The Track Limiter offers three different limiting algorithms and a manual view. Available formats and platforms are Audio Unit (AU), RTAS, VST, VST3 for Apple OS X 32bit/64bit and RTAS, VST, VST3 for Windows PC 32bit/64bit.

This unit employs very advanced limiting algorithms. The Track Limiter can control your audio levels and prevent distortion. Gorgeous tools don't need to have complicated user interfaces.