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Olympus unveils its new portable audio recorder, the LS-11, which is a follow-up to their LS-10 handheld audio recorder.

Like its predecessor, the LS-11 is capable of recording 24-bit/96kHz stereo WAVs, as well as MP3- and WMA-format files. It's got the same on-board microphones as the LS-10, as well as the rear-mounted speakers for quick auditioning of recorded material. New features include 8GB of internal memory, instead of the 2GB found on the LS-10, and the facility to work with SD cards of up to 32GB in capacity. What's more, the two memory drives are viewed as one storage destination, so the LS-11 can address an impressive 40GB of data in total (if using a 32GB SD card).

The LS-11 features a Voice Synchronize Recordin ...

Propellerhead Software announces the Record Open Beta experience.

Musicians can testdrive Propellerhead's new Record Software for free until September 9th, 2009. Just visit the following link and request an invite code or get an invite code from a colleague who has already gotten a Record Open Beta.

Solid State Logic is proud to announce the release of Duende V3 and new X-Verb plug-in.

Duende V3 doubles the power that the Duende platform can be upgraded to with the introduction of an entirely new audio engine. Duende's new Hybrid Core Processing engine combines all of the advantages of dedicated DSP with use of your computers CPU processing power. V3 enables users to upgrade Duende Mini to 64 channels and Duende PCIe

After Mr. Sax T. (Tenor), Sample Modeling extends its family of Saxophone virtual instruments with two brand new brothers: Mr. Sax A. (Alto) and Mr. Sax B. (Baritone), exploiting the same technology, but based on completely new sample material, with a lot of new added features and supplied with Native Instruments' Kontakt 3.5 Player.

The Alto and Baritone Sax are completely new instruments, designed and programmed for the new NI Kontakt 3.5 Player. The current version is 1.51.
As in Mr. Sax T, v1.02, the main panel allows for monitoring and inputting control data. It includes a drop down menu for Keyboard, Breath-controller, Yamaha and Akai wind-controller input, symmetrical and asymmetrical pitchbend response, velocity or CC c ...

Rob Papen has just released its new reverb plug-in RP-Verb.

RP-Verb is an algorithmic, musical, reverb that aims to bring dimension and fullness to your mixes. It has a straightforward, intuitive interface that puts all the most essential parameters right at your fingertips and offers presets that range from intimate venues to abstract, surreal spaces.

Main section:
• Dry / wet control with FX bypass button.
• HQ Mode on/off.
• ECS (external controller setup).
• ? brings up the 'Quick Manual'.

Preset section:
• Uses sound banks composed of 128 presets.
• Preset handling with copy, paste, clear and compare function.
• 'Quick Browser', 'Recently Browsed' and 'Favorite' functions.
• Presets are stored in clear categories banks.

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Mike Massberg and Dave Gamble proudly present Harmony Box, a free virtual synthesizer that has the rules of modal jazz built-in : you press a key, it plays the right chord. You just pick the key and the mode. An alias-free oscillator drives a self-oscillating filter and it has LFOs and Envelopes for fatness. Harmony Box was created especially for the Music Hack Day 2009.

Harmony Box is free and is available for Windows and Mac OS X in VST and AU instrument plug-in formats.