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Who's going to be the first in your area to experience the brand new JUPITER-80? Will it be you? Check out exclusive debuts to see an unprecedented leap in synthesizer technology. Roland's Scott Tibbs, known for making music with everyone from Beyoncé to Bruce Springsteen, will showcase the JUPITER-80 and its amazing mix of expressive acoustic instrument sounds and powerful synthesizer textures. Scott's heart-pounding, film-scoring style multimedia performance and his nostalgic dash through iconic synthesizer driven hit songs is not only jaw-dropping, it highlights the coolest of the cool in the JUPITER-80's seemingly infinite musical palette. You won't want to miss this!
- Hollywood: Aug. 18 7:00 p.m
- Miami Lakes: Aug. 23 7:00 p.m.
- Atlanta: Aug. 24 7:00 p.m.
- Charlotte: Aug. 25 7:00 p.m.
- New York City: Aug. 29 7:00 p.m.
At Sam Ash Music Stores.

For this new adventure Sonokinetic is leaping forward onto new territory within the Sonokinetic Sampling realm. Cinematic sound effects, ambiences and spheres, big booms, crashes and swooshes, kinetic rhythmic drones and crackles, you name it, it's probably in there. In Project Infinity, intelligent sound design is combined with a composer's view on producing music for film and game environments.

5 Main categories, 141 sound groups (build-in patches)
- Atmospheres
- Loops
- Pads
- Processed
- Spheres
- 12 customizable and mappable FX to twist and distort the sounds to your liking.

OP-1 Drum Utility is designed for creating Teenage Engineering Op-1 DrumKit files (custom .AIF files) by merging together one-shot samples you have on your hard disk.

Op-1 Drum Utility accepts sounds via drag-and-drop. Some VST/AU Host programs have internal file browsers, which is recommended, as it is often the most convenient way to audition sounds. You can also Sort and Preview the sounds...

Camel Audio is pleased to announce the release of Ian Boddy:
Analogica for Alchemy and the Free Alchemy Player.

Analogica features over 800MB of new sounds from a
drool-worthy synth collection including modular setups from
Analogue Systems, Doepfer, Roland and Serge, and classics
such as the VCS3, Minimoog and Moog Voyager. Ian Boddy has
been at the forefront of the UK Electronic scene since 1983,
with a formidable reputation as a sound designer, and a host
of album and sample CD credits.

Ian Boddy: Analogica contains 150 presets and costs just 59USD /49EUR / 39GBP.

This MIDI pack comes with an array of jazz drums - from subtile big band swing and waltz to rowdy blues.

- Full song categorization
- Two individual performances in each song folder: basic and intermediate
- Leading instrument categorization in full 8 bar or more loops
- Rudiment and ending sections
- Big Band, Bossa, Blues and Samba styles in straight and/or swing feel

All played masterfully and with impeccable nuance and timing by jazz legend in his own right, Morgan Ĺgren.
Morgan's soulful and awe-inspiring drumming has received praise and accolades in prestigious publications as well as from business peers such as Frank Zappa, Steve Vai, Gavin Harrison and Mike Keneally.

Bx_meter will show you Peak and RMS values of your mixes, and in addition to that it will show you the relation between both with the centered DYNAMIC LEDs.

bx_meter has a Mid / Side mode (Sum and Difference) in addition to the standard L/R mode, and it offers 3 different weightings to be used to display the dynamics. Just like all the other Brainworx tools you will find several solo switches and nice extra features like the floating dynamic LED mode.

The vertical layout will make it easy for you to place bx_meter on the right side of your screen without burying other plugins or important sequencer data, and the size of the meter is big enough to show you even the slightest details.
On sale: August 22nd.
List price: 99 EUR / 145 US$
Intro pricing will be announced.
Public beta is avalaible to downmoad.