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PreSonus has released the first dedicated wireless control software for a small-format digital console: StudioLive Remote software for the Apple iPad®. At last, you can have wireless remote control of any PreSonus StudioLive-series digital mixer's channels, auxes, effects, subs, Fat Channel processors, and more. Not only can these functions be controlled from anywhere in a venue by the front-of-house sound person, but custom aux mixes can be simultaneously adjusted by any performer with an iPad.
StudioLive Remote is a true iPad app, not a port. It provides multiple views of the key StudioLive mixer controls. The Overview displays the most-used parameters, such as channel levels, mutes, panning, EQ curves, and more for multiple channels at once. Click for a close-up view of Fat Channel processing,
Available from the next winter Namm

With 140 audio loops in three different formats (that's 420 audio files) and the full MIDI sequences, you can arrange, re-arrange, remix and replace any instrument with any virtual instrument that your DAW provides. Just drag and drop the MIDI files for each arrangement into a midi track in your DAW (Ableton, Logic, Cubase, Reason etc) and you'll see the raw midi sequences ready for you to play with. Not interested in MIDI? That's OK, just drag the audio loops on to your audio tracks and start putting together your arrangement. We even included fully mixed audio examples of what you can do when you put it all together. Tempos range from 91 bpm to 132 bpm.

Or the first time ever, the German manufacturer bundles hardware and software products into two different packs, which will be available until the end of the year. Choices include hardware products to place in the signal path before or after your computer.

SPL offers a "Front End Pack" and a "Back End Pack." Each pack includes free licenses for some of SPL's own Analog Code® plug-ins. If you buy a Track One you get a "Front End Pack,"which includes the EQ Rangers and TwinTube Analog Code® plug-ins. If you go for the SPL 2Control instead, you get a Vitalizer® plug-in as part of the "Back End Pack."

Universal Audio today announced the release of the
long-awaited, Solid State Logic-authenticated, SSL E Series Channel Strip and G Series Bus Compressor plug-ins for the UAD-2 platform.
The SSL E Series Channel Strip plug-in
for UAD-2 is the result of Universal Audio's painstaking circuit emulation of the esteemed SSL 4000 console, complete with both the Type E "black knob" and "brown knob" four-band EQ — widely held to be the favorites in SSL's signal processing lineage. Other features include high and low cut filters, and independent Expander/Gate and
Compressor/Limiter.

E-MU Systems has announced the release of their new 0204 USB, 24-bit digital audio interface for the Macintosh and PC. The 0204 USB is the successor to E-MU's celebrated 0202 USB 2.0 adding another pair of 24-bit outputs and improving the already outstanding audio specifications ( record until 192kHz).

The headphone outputs are of the same high quality as the main outputs and can be used as two completely separate channels for a total of four.
The E-MU 0204 USB is compatible with Macintosh OS X, Windows 7/x64, Windows Vista/x64, Windows XP.
Price: 129,99$, 129,99£.

Instantly accessible by taking advantage of Steinberg's MediaBay and VST Sound technologies through the Prologue polyphonic subtractive synthesizer featured in the fourth and fifth versions of Cubase and Sequel 2, the new add-on holds over 180 VST 3 sound presets and more than 200 MIDI loops conveniently arranged in categorized construction kits. Created by professional sound designers in collaboration with Steinberg's in-house planners, Prologue Discoveries is an expansion set that will pique the interest of both aspiring and tenured producers of dubstep, glitch-hop and grime, but also holds a wealth of sounds for electro, techno and minimal.