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VINTAGE HEAT provides a warm and meaty sound character based on samples from vintage analog gear combined with creative, modern recording techniques, perfectly in tune with contemporary, cutting-edge production standards. All samples were lovingly hand crafted by the renowned New Zealand sample guru Goldbaby, and consist of 51 kits including drum and percussion samples as well as multi-sampled melodic synth sounds and dedicated pre-programmed patterns for each kit.

TRANSISTOR PUNCH contains a premium selection of drum hits, melodic synthesizer sounds, advanced multi-effect chains, and pre-programmed patterns full of dancefloor bounce.
Developed by Surround SFX, over 900 samples of one-shot drum and multi-sampled instruments were created using modern and vintage drum machines and synthesizers as source material - plus unusual sources such as metal whisky boxes, glasses full of coffee beans, and ancient Swiss cowbells. The results are a MASCHINE EXPANSION that adds a carefully-crafted set of new and instantly useable sounds to your MASCHINE library.

Korg has teamed up with the hugely popular and globally successful virtual band Gorillaz to create a new dedicated beatbox for the iPad: The iELECTRIBE Gorillaz Edition. A limited run of 10,000 units released at a very special price of US$9.99. *Sales beyond 10,000 units are yet to be determined (as of April 18, 2011).

While retaining the intuitive beat-making features of the iELECTRIBE, the special Gorillaz Edition is a new machine customized to generate Gorillaz samples from their fourth album "The Fall" which allow the user to create music in a wide variety of musical styles. The iELECTRIBE Gorillaz Edition features: a unique design and synthesizer engine including 128 new sounds created by Gorillaz; and 64 ready-to-use pre-programmed patterns by the sound team Gorillaz, Stephen Sedgwick, and Korg.

TWITCH has Touchstrips which enable you to grab your tracks and 'swipe' them backwards and forwards as you would on a touchscreen. The Touchstrips, 16x Triggerpads, Fader FX and more, have been designed to allow digital DJs and Controllerists to take hold of their music.


- Serato ITCH software can beat match tracks so you can focus on performing
- Swipe tracks backwards and forwards as if you were touching the screen
- You can instantly 'Drop' into a tune at any point in the track
- Slicer allows you to chop-up beats in time and re-arrange them on the fly
- 2 x 8 large Triggerpads let you to play eight rolling beat slices in any order
- Balanced outputs, ultra-reliable audio/MIDI drivers and microphone input
- Add different effects to either or both channels with TWITCH's FX section
- Use both channel faders for super-fast FX moves and tricks

Crysonic have started their Easter No-Brainer Deal and it will end on the 25th of April 2011. Until that date their CryEverything Bundle comprising of 7 Audio DSP Plug-ins such as Spectralive NXT V3.5, SINDO V3.5 and others plus two bonus plug-ins with MSRP of 814 for only $59, which is a 94% saving. All other individual plugins are also reduced by 75%, The No-Brainer Deal will end on the 25th of April 2011.
The CryEverything NO-BRAINER BUNDLE DEAL + 2 Bonus Plug-ins include the following; Spectralive NXT V3.5, SINDO V3.5, nXtasy V3, newB V2, SpectraPhy Pro, SpectraPhy LE, Spectra C1 and two BONUS PLUGINS Cry'Q and Spectra'Q
Four of the plug-ins in the bundle are available for both PC and Mac the others are PC Only (Mac OS versions will be free upgrades when they are released).

Tone2 are pleased to announce the 1.2 update of Warmverb, a modular multi effect plugin with routable
modules and 38 types of effects. Warmverb gives you the flexibility to program and combine effect chains
using high quality effects and up to four effects per multi-effect program.

With an easy to use graphical user interface, an intelligent 'Randomize' button and 150+ presets giving
you instant access to vocoders, pitch shifters, distortion, modulators and a large selection of essential
effects, new sounds and inspiration are just a click away.

New features:
- 64 Bit support
- SSE2 support
- Improvements:
- Slightly improved performance
- Improved compatibility for Windows7 and Vista Systems
- Smart installer which automatically fixes possible Win7
- VST folder compatibility problems
- Improved host compatibility
- Important pop-ups are always displayed on top
etc.
Fixed high CPU usage with Mac demo version
Fixed a possible crash on Mac

Big Fish Audio has joined forces with the engineers at Vir2 to create RiG - a Kontakt-powered virtual instrument that has been designed to create instant inspiration for producers of Urban music.

Featuring over 1200 patches and 26GB of samples, RiG contains multi-sampled instruments plus a wide variety of loop-based instruments all divided into seventeen categories: Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Drum Banks, Drum Loops, Electric Guitar, Ethnic, Horn Section, Keyboards, Orchestral Hits, Organs, Percussion and Harp, Percussion Loops, Piano, Sliced Loops, Strings, Synths and Vocals.

The RiG interface is really easy to use placing all parameters right at your fingertips allowing quick customisation of your sound. RiG includes a custom synth step fx editor allowing limitless combinations of gate effects, arpeggios, sequenced pan effects, attack and decay, and low and hi pass filters. You'll also find a loop playback interface allowing you to access and edit individual slices of the included loops.
RRP: £129.00 / €149.00