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Celebrate John Cage's 100th birthday by playing the John Cage Piano app on your iPad. One of the many ingenious innovations of American composer/writer/artist John Cage was his creation of the "prepared piano", in which he placed objects beneath and between the strings of a grand piano to create an entirely new instrument.

The sounds of John Cage's prepared piano are now available for you to play on your iPad with this innovative app. Play meticulously sampled sounds of a piano prepared with the actual materials used by John Cage in the preparations for his Sonatas and Interludes (1946-48) as sampled under the supervision of the John Cage Trust.

Packed full of vocal pads, vocoders, rhythmical sections, human beatboxes and sound effects, Vocaloid shows the versatility of ElectraX's powerful wavetable synthesis and sampler features.
Over 240 individual presets with new wavetables and samples, each created by professional sound designers
to inspire and fill your vocal effect section with new ideas, from an ambient choir to a nasty growl, the Vocaloid
soundset unleashes the true power of ElectraX.

Voxengo TransGainer version 1.4 is now available
for download. Voxengo TransGainer implements an audio signal
envelope adjustment algorithm that reacts on transients rather than
on a signal's loudness level.

TransGainer is available in AudioUnit
and VST plug-in formats (including native 64-bit support), for Mac
OS X (v10.5 and later), and Windows computers.

Strings is a collection of sampled string instruments processed through the incredible features of iZotope Iris to get a wide range of new sounds. This soundset includes synths, pads, soundscapes, drones, and many effects derived from strings samples.

Details
- Introduction Price: $12 (goes $15 on September 14th)
- 50 Paches/Instruments
- 44.1kHz / 24Bit Samples
- 145 MB (Kontakt) / 94 MB (Iris).
Available for Navite Instruments Kontakt 3.5+ or iZotope Iris

With a completely new design, the Gigaport HD+ replaces ESI's popular Gigaport HD to become one of the best value multichannel playback solutions on the market today.

Providing 8 independent outputs (and full 7.1 surround sound support), 2 independent stereo headphone outputs and excellent audio quality supporting up to 24-bit and 96 kHz, the Gigaport HD+ is perfect for DJs on the move with a compact design that measures just 12cm x 7cm x 2cm.

Simply use your favorite DJ software and Gigaport HD+'s eight outputs as up to 4 different stereo channels, enabling you to mix, cue and add effects! Monitor and pre-listen to your signals via the two built-in headphone outputs.

Ineardisplay Launches SicknDstroy, a multimode lofi plug in.

Features :

- Pre Filter with lowpass, highpass and bandpass modes.
- 4 processing modes :
- Bitcrushing and samplerate reduction are chained (classic mode)
- Bitcrusher and samplerate reducer outputs are separated and mixed together
- Bitcrusher and samplerate reducer outputs are separated and ringmodulating
- Samplerate reducer output is subtracted from bitcrusher output
- Mix switch to combine the processed signal and the unfiltered part of the input signal.

SicknDstroy is available for Windows as VST(32 and 64), and for Mac as VST(32 and 64) and AU(32 and 64).
On Mac, you need Os X 10.6 or higher.