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Vintage Vibe is the latest Kontakt-powered virtual instrument from Big Fish Audio and offers a huge collection of multi-sampled instruments.

From rare, collectible and one-of-a-kind pieces to cheap knock-offs and banged up stuff found in junkyards - all the instruments have a unique character and vibe that is often absent from the 'meticulously recorded' and 'pristine' sampled instruments of today.

Featuring a huge choice of live and open drum sets with snares that crack and ring and toms that thunder, untamed by gates or compressors, Vintage Vibe also delivers keyboards that range from 'classic' to 'borderline psychotic', basses and guitars covering many musical genres and even a psychedelic staple of the late 1960's – the electric sitar.

In a new tutorial feature devoted to the creative use of Melodyne, Celemony is focussing on remixing. Melodyne is known as a great tool for the correction of intonation errors and the optimization of vocal tracks, but is capable of much more.

A series of video tutorials now shows how Melodyne helps to separate a vocal part from its accompaniment, how to produce crazy echoes and other effects with Melodyne's characteristic audio notes and how to use audio-to-MIDI to double or replace sounds. Fundamentals, such as how to adapt loops fast to new musical contexts and the more efficient use of Melodyne in a DAW, are also dealt with.

UVI has released a Demo Version of their Electro Suite collection dedicated to Electro, EDM and Dance music.

The 5 instruments of Electro Suite - DrumShaper, DirtyMONO, CarminePoly, SweepMachine and MissionControl - come packed with nearly 4.5 GB of sample material carefully recorded from over 2 decades of choice equipment at 24-bit / 96 kHz and then professionally mastered. Giving you a huge palette of sounds ready to go straight away.

The Demo Version includes 2 tools in Electro Suite: DrumShaper and MissionControl. They can be auditioned with no iLok required.

Blue Cat's Liny EQ is an 8 bands linear phase graphic equalizer with very low latency and comprehensive visual feedback: it processes audio signals without phase distortion, with an unusually short latency (less than 3 milliseconds).

Version 5.0 has now a brand new, fully customizable user interface, and includes many new features and enhancements: premium visual feedback with EQ curves, spectrum and spectrogram displays, new EQ shapes, single and dual channels modes, a new presets manager, Windows AAX support, multiple display sizes, new MIDI and automation mapping capabilities, and much more

Psytrance Bass X1 is bassline synthesizer that allows you to create perfect sounding bass within one minute.

While very simple synthesizer, it allows you to create hundreds of different sounding basslines thanks to 4 oscillators, phase knob, osc saturation, 4 different low pass filters and more.

From Monday, May 20 through Friday, May 31, 2013, Nomad Factory's Magnetic II Bundle is on sale for $99, normally $258 if both products are purchased separately.

Included in the Magnetic II Bundle are two of Nomad Factory's most unique plug-ins, Magnetic II and Echoes.