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BFD3 is the third generation of FXpansion's flagship software acoustic drum studio: new levels of realism and ground-breaking features in an intuitive redesigned engine.

With stunning new kits with mix-ready presets and modelling technology for tom resonance and cymbal swells, BFD3's audio engine delivers uncompromising detail. The revamped interface has a new mixer and sound browser for the easiest BFD experience yet.

BFD3's all-new library is recorded in two fantastic rooms by engineers including Andrew Scheps, Rail Jon Rogut and John Emrich, giving you a diverse palette of drum tones out of the box. The sounds include a brushed kit and processed drum presets for fast custom kit-building. BFD3 also contains a powerful built-in environment for pattern creation and editing, complete with a range of performances by legendary drummers for effortless production of drum tracks indistinguishable from the real thing.

- 7 new kits recorded in 2 world-class studios
- Includes rock, metal, jazz and brush kits
- Tom resonance and cymbal swell modeling
- New effects and Groove construction tools
- More efficient engine with streamlined workflow
- VST 2.4, AU, RTAS, AAX64 and standalone application for Mac OSX 10.6.8 or later & Windows 7 or later.
Price: $349.00, €269.00, £229.00.

Eowave crew is proud to announce the release of the Spatiolab Capsule TITAN, also available in individual modules. Because Titan has a thick atmosphere able to carry sound waves, the moon is a noisy place…
For a long time, we’ve imagined the music of the space to be a sweet song of gods, crystalline magical sounds. And we thought that the space was a silent place, cold and empty. Since 2004, the Cassini-Huygens mission has recorded some sounds of the space, different from everything we’d imagined before, shock of particles launched in the space at a prodigious speed, a deep chaos, unexpected, which the ESA/NASA has sometimes called « alien sounds »… The Cassini-Huygens mission started the exploration of Titan in 2007.

Since 2000, Eowave designs instruments for electronic music. The Titan Capsule is a fascinating and immersive experimentation mixing space mysteries and music. It will make you explore sound dimensions that are still unknown.

Titan has a very thick atmosphere able to carry sound waves. With the Capsule TITAN, we’ll get onboard to explore how the sound goes across Titan orange thick atmosphere. In a way, the Capsule Titan is a simulation station able to reproduce the journey of the sound waves crossing Titan’s atmosphere and offer the possibility to modulate parameters like the thickness of the haze, the ionisation of the magnetosphere, Titan’s magnetic glow, or low frequency zones.
Price : 699 euros incl VAT / 549 euros (without case, no MIDI interface, no patch cables, no PSU).

The library Shred Guitar is the 14th release of Ueberschalls successful Instrument Series. It contains Shred Guitar Loops from Genres like Rock & Metal. Shred Guitars shines with its expertly played guitar licks. Faster, louder, higher!


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The guitar loops in Shred Guitar have a length of 4 to 16 bars. The tempo varies between 100 BPM (Double Time), 120 BPM and 160 BPM.
Each loop is available in three versions:

- Distorted
- Clean Amp
- Clean Line Signal.

The clean signal can be edited with additional effects.
All guitars licks were played on Gibson, Ibanez or Fender Guitars.

EPIC features hundreds of killer performance loops, organised into 24 different Kontakt construction kits making it fast and easy to compose Action, Suspense, or Horror cues when you're on a tight deadline.

What's more, EPIC also includes multi-sampled versions of all of the drums used in the performance loops, so you can easily create your own fills, rhythms, and sounds, or mix and match pre-generated loops with your own custom material.
A huge variety of ethnic drums and percussion were recorded for this library including Chinese drums, taikos, African drums, frame drums, small and large gongs, cymbals, quints, a complete set of five Roto-Toms, and a massive, studio-shaking 39" nagada drum from India. You'll also find hundreds of high-quality cinematic sound design elements, such as thundering Hits, Impacts, Metals, Risers and Whooshes.

RRP: £125.00 / €159.00.

Blue Cat Audio has released several updates for Blue Cat's MB-7 Mixer 2, their multiband processing plug-in with VST hosting capabilities.

The updates mainly improve compatibility with additional VST plug-ins (including VST Shells), adds support for virtual instruments hosting, tempo synchronization and more (full list below). A free add-on skin is now available for download to streamline the usage of the plug-in in single band (broadband) mode.

The plug-in can be purchased alone or as part of three bundles: Blue Cat's Energy Pack, Blue Cat's MB Dynamix Pack or Blue Cat's All Plug-ins Pack, the complete Blue Cat Audio collection bundle. The special introduction offer (20% off) is still available until september 30th.

Demo versions are available for download on www.bluecataudio.com, in VST, RTAS, AAX, Audio Unit and DirectX formats, for both Mac and PC (32 and 64-bit).

In addition to the unveiling of the forthcoming Nectar 2, iZotope have announced a huge limited time 70% price drop on Nectar Elements!

Nectar Elements is the ideal solution for those of you who want to treat your vocals to award-winning processing, professionally-designed Style presets and intuitive controls for dialing in your ideal vocal sound without diving into the advanced controls and features of the full Nectar.

Rapidly audition different vocal sounds with professionally-designed Style presets and personalise your sound with easy-to-use controls that drive sophisticated vocal processing.

For a limited time you can buy Nectar Elements for just £29.00 / €34.00 (normally £99 / €115) - that's a huge 70% off!