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Theta Music Trainer Unveils New Games for Online Ear Training and Music Learning
Theta Music Trainer, an online game site for musicians and singers of all levels, unveiled five new music games, two new training courses, and several new features for music teachers.

The newly expanded site features a total of 25 games and 500 levels for ear training and music theory, designed specifically for musicians, teachers and students.

The Wavetable expansion features an inspiring selection of 200 presets for ElectraX programmed
by a team of professional sound designers using new wavetables.

The expansion focuses on ElectraX' capabilities to import and resynthesize oscillator shapes to
deliver a wide palette of action packed sequences, multi-layered arps, complex soundscapes,
deep pads, gritty basses and rich synth sounds.

Wavetable ships with 236 new waveforms ready to be imported into ElectraX' wavetable oscillators
and further shape modulated using its PW feature. The bundled waveforms are also compatible
with your favorite sound editor and other plugins that support wav import.

It fixes some issues and is a little kinder with your CPU. Here is what we fixed :

- Protools : notes hang when transport is stopped.
- Arp and glide parameters now work fluently at all sample frequencies.
- up/down arrow to browse (increment or decrement) presets (Dependent on your DAW abilitties).
- CPU charge improved (refresh GUI, no more free running in polyphonic mode, 5- 8% calculation saving without lost of quality)
- Chorus : a new mode position to smooth eventual clicks when oscillators were driving the Chorus Special Synthex mode.
- Hung Midi notes below C0 is now fixed.
- PPC/10.4 compatibility
- iLok version OSX 10.7 (Lion) compatibility.

Epic Build-Ups & Breakdowns 2" gives you 1.5GB+ of intros and breakdowns that are not only epic but also intricate, multi-layered and mysterious and provides you with a total of 200+ instrumental loops, over 150 one-shots and 16 full mixes for each and every intro and breakdown construction kit.

All audio files in "Epic Build-Ups & Breakdowns 2" are laden with modern sounds that are produced and mastered at 24Bit quality to bring you a massive arsenal of skilfully constructed pieces that will make any production shine on the dancefloor.

Ulse Code is proud to announce the release and immediate worldwide availability of their first major update for Rhythm Studio. The broad collection of virtual instruments such as full 808 drum machine, 303 synthesizer, sample based synthesizer, XY style control pad, and mixer with FX is now expanded with the DR-9, the 909 style drum machine and the Hornet ribbon synthesizer.

Right after the initial release, Rhythm Studio has been well received in the world music community and became number one music application for the iPad in 12 countries and stayed at the top of the iPhone and iPad charts for weeks upon release. This time Rhythm Studio presents to its users a wide range of new features such as export to audio paste, emailing song file, locking song, and linear knob control. All these new additions provide users with even more satisfying music experience and make the whole creative process a breeze.

Native Instruments today announced DAMAGE, a new instrument that provides hard-hitting cinematic percussion for professional movie scoring and high-impact music production. Created by premier sound design house Heavyocity and powered by the latest KONTAKT 5 engine, this unique sonic resource expertly combines industrial sounds and orchestral percussion to add true wide-screen character to any dramatic piece of music.

DAMAGE contains over 700 beat-sliced percussive loops as well as 58 multi-sampled kits, including an arsenal of unique "Damage Hits" for distinctive stings and transitions. Loop Menus can be mixed and matched easily to create complex layered rhythms, while Single Loops offer detailed playback control for intuitive sound tweaking.