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Are you a songwriter, do you program your own MIDI or do you use one or more of the great packs in the Toontrack MIDI Collection? Are you short on some pro-played fills or need a creative booster? If so, look no further! Session veteran and drummer behind the Songwriters Drumpack, Ricard "Huxflux" Nettermalm, is back this time with a really useful and well-played collection of more than 500 1-2 bar fills in different tempos and styles!

- More than 500 individually played fills
- Swing/straight in 4/4 and/or 6/8
- Short fills with lead-ins
- Long fills with lead-ins
- Single fills

It works with EZdrummer, Superior Drummer (optimized for 1 kick, 1 snare, 2 toms, 1 floor-tom, 2 crash-cymbals, 1 ride-cymbal). Songwriters Fillpack is priced 15€ and available now from the ToonTrack website.

Crysonic have extended their No-Brainer Deal of the century sale. Until the 15th of June their CryEverything Bundle comprising of 7 Audio DSP Plug-ins plus two bonus plug-ins with MSRP of $706 for Only $58. Which is a 94% saving.
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 (VST and AU), the others are PC Only (Mac OS versions will be free upgrades when they are released). The No-Brainer Deal will end on the 15th of June 2010.

PocketSync is a real-time SMPTE (LTC) generator for IPhone/IPod touch/IPad that outputs the timecode stream through the headphone socket and supports 24/25/29.97/30 drop/non drop frame rate and selectable 44.1/48kHz sample rate output.

Specs:
- real-time Linear (Longitudinal) Time Code generator.
- Selectable 24/25/29.97/30 drop frame/non drop frame rate.
- Selectable 44.1/48kHz sample rate output stream.
- Selectable time offset.
- Output the timecode stream through the headphone socket.

PocketSync is available as a download from the App Store at 15.99 EUR / $19.99 USD.

Getting a vocal performance right means so much more than hitting the right notes at the right time. Sometimes you get that almost perfect performance with perfect feel and presence, but the singer might have missed a few notes. That's when Neptune can save the day. Neptune is an advanced pitch adjuster, audio transposer and voice synth for Record 1.5.

Watch this video to discover the leading effect of your next sumer's hit:

Nuendo 5 represents a new production environment tailored to top-flight production studios in post production, live recording and audio production. The wealth of new features includes an ADR toolset, new sound design features such as the unique Clip Packages system, new plug-ins as well as a range of mixing, routing and automation enhancements. Supporting Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 as well as Windows 7, Vista and XP, Nuendo 5 will be available from authorized Steinberg dealers from June 2010 and will cost €1799.00/£1531.00.

Marcel Blum released Soundplant 39 for Windows and Mac, the first major update since 2004 of the popular low cost software sampler that turns the computer keyboard into a low latency digital audio performance tool and playable instrument. Ultra-optimized for the standard QWERTY keyboard, Soundplant allows the assignment of sound files of unlimited size onto 72 keyboard keys, for hours of instantly-playing audio with no need for extra hardware.

New version 39 adds several major features in response to user requests, including support for virtually all audio file formats in existence, a 'background key detection' mode that allows Soundplant to continue receiving key input even while minimized or hidden, waveform display, detailed playback progress indicators for all channels, precise fading control, and randomization settings. Soundplant 39 also marks the first official Mac release after several years in beta on that platform.