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Arturia releases Version 1.6.1 of SPARK, the latest software update to its SPARK Creative Drum Machine and SparkLE Creative Drum Machine hybrid hardware/software beat production centres, on March 25...

SparkLE Creative Drum Machine owners benefit from an added accent button in the GUI and an added latch mode for the instrument FX Pad, which, when activated, assigns the P1 and P2 knobs to the instrument parameters (Volume/Pan, Cutoff Resonance, Aux1/Aux2), while pressing any of the three XY Instrument buttons turns off latch mode (returning the P1 and P2 knobs to their previous assignations).
Joint benefits also abound for SPARK Creative Drum Machine and SparkLE Creative Drum Machine users, including improving the MIDI Clock output, together with several bug fixes.

Now, thanks to Version 1.6.1 of that already super-smart SPARK software engine, Arturia has improved the functionality of both SPARK Creative Drum Machine and SparkLE Creative Drum Machine as follows.

Musikmesse 2013 Frankfurt:
The international fair for musical instruments, sheet music, music production and music business connections.

The Musikmesse is the world's leading trade fair for the world of music. Here, you will find a complete range of products with everything required for making music, not to mention innumerable workshops, concerts, demonstrations and discussion events.

Be there from April 10 to 13, 2013 when the doors open for
Musikmesse 2013 – spirit of music!

Patchbanks & Sound Co. presents an all-new collection of non-stop R&B Dance loops for today's modern producer whose creative limits are none.

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64 new killer patches for Lennard Digital Sylenth1, in FXB format

These sounds were crafted by sound designer Stanley Van de Meent, and cover Big Room, Electro, Dance and Trance.
In this bank you will find only the most cutting edge and current sounds for sylenth that will definitley inspire and spark new creative ideas.
Included are 64 patches compiled in .FXB format.

Bigroom and Complextro at it finest! This bank contains 65 patches for Ni Massive in .NSMV format by producer/sound designer "Bassrock".

This bank contains huge basses, wobbles, massive leads, synths and fx crafted for your next complextro, electro and bigroom production. These sounds are amazing and will surely provide
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Please note: There are no .KSD presets included with the release currently, but we are working on it and will update the download link shortly with .KSD compatibility.

Recently Presonus made a series of videos with John Mills (VP of Morris Light & Sound in Nashville/ System Engineer for Kenny Chesney) showing an overview of UC 1.7 and how-to videos on using the Smaart wizards.

See the video below: