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ESI has announced that the MIDI keyboard KeyControl 25 XT is now available.

Features :

• 25-note MIDI keyboard
• velocity-sensitive keys
• pitch-bend wheel and modulation slider
• four endless rotary encoders that can be programmed to send your choice of CC numbers
• octave buttons
• input for a sustain pedal
• USB powered
• Cubase LE 5 and Toontrack's EZ Drummer Lite included

Pricing : £79

BIAS is shipping SoundSaver - a new software solution for Mac and Windows computing platforms that greatly streamlines the process of converting and restoring LPs and tapes. Simply connect, record, clean, and export — directly to iTunes, as MP3, or uncompressed WAV files for CD/DVD burning.

Easily Record and Define Tracks:
• Records from tape decks, turntables, mobile devices, etc - with included free cable (boxed version only)
• Record at HD quality (up to 32-bit/96kHz)
• Record timer sets recording duration
• Set input level automatically or manually with precision meters
• Define tracks manually or automatically
• Retrieves artist, track, and album info from the Internet

Intuitively restore & enhance:
• Remove pops, clicks & crackle ...

The Deep House library is another new Ueberschall release which includes 24 Construction Kits providing 3.2 GB of full-range Deep House sounds and songs, taking its inspiration from sounds straight from the clubs around the world.

Features :

• 24 Construction Kits including a main part, variation, intro/outro and some Vocal addons
• tempo range of 119 bpm to 127 bpm
• more than 1100 loops and samples
• drum loops, synth patterns, voices, bass lines, chord progressions, atmospheres, percussion and fx sounds
• Elastik Soundbank for Mac/PC/AU/VST/RTAS/StandAlone
• Elastik Player included — no sampler required!

Available now for €99.

Apogee Electronics officially announces today the end of production for its X-Series and Rosetta 800 converters.

While production will continue on Rosetta 200 and all X-cards, the torch will be passed to Apogee's new flagship interface, Symphony I/O, as the historic X-series and Rosetta 800 converters step down from their notable place in Apogee's 25-year history. Full customer support service for the X-Series and Rosetta 800 converters will continue as usual.

Current owners of these legacy product converters can feel free to contact technical support at support@apogeedigital.com, or contact sales for information on upgrading to Symphony I/O at askapogee@apogeedigital.com.

An Omnichord is an electronic musical instrument, introduced in 1981 and manufactured by the Suzuki Musical Instrument Corporation. It typically features a touch plate, and buttons for major, minor, and diminished chords. The most basic method of playing the instrument is to press the chord buttons and swipe the touch plate with a finger or guitar pick in imitation of strumming a stringed instrument.

Puremagnetik has taken the Omnichord concept to a new level, building a sophisticated adaptation of a truly classic instrument.

Digital Strumming - To emulate bi-directional strumming, Ultrakord has the Harpomatik instruments with key down and release strum samples. Seven One-Finger-Chords are mapped across seven octaves to make them all available in every key.

Accompaniment - Ultrako ...

Professional video editors know that first impressions are lasting impressions. With producers and clients focused on every frame, even your rough cuts have to win them over. That means when you hit play, what comes out of your speakers has to be every bit as good as what's up on the screen.

With the new Waves Video Sound Suite of audio plugins, now you can sound as good as you look, quickly and easily. Using the same plugins as the industry's leading movie and game audio professionals, you can do it all: Reduce noise. Clean up and enhance dialog. Smooth out and maximize volume. Re-create room acoustics and more.

Video Sound Suite integrates seamlessly into Avid Media Composer 5, Apple Soundtrack Pro, and Sony Vegas. Because they're real-time plugins, it's no longer necessary to rend ...