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Native Instruments today introduced ACTION STRINGS – a phrase-based instrument featuring a 60-piece string orchestra. Running in KONTAKT 5 or the free KONTAKT PLAYER, ACTION STRINGS delivers driving string phrases and short motifs with an extremely natural and expansive sound. The flexible instrument provides producers of all skill levels with a inspiring resource for adding drama and movement to film and game scores, as well as rock, pop and urban tracks.

Performed by the FILMharmonic Orchestra Prague, Action Strings provides producers with over 14GB of musical phrases, carefully sampled by renowned score production company Dynamedion. The orchestra is made up of a high ensemble featuring 22 violins, eight violas and six cellos, as well as a low ensemble containing ten violas, eight cellos and six basses. The phrases range from basic rhythmic patterns to intricate melodies, each recorded live in every key, and in two dynamic levels.

Every sample in this pack has so much grunt and power that you have a 100% peak time rush rate when using these samples. Even the bass hits have been pushed to their absolute peak to deliver what is (as we believe) the best Main Room sample pack out there, it really doesn't get any better than this.

Here's what you get:

Bass Hits - 30, Basslines - 50, Drum Beats - 150, Drums - Kicks - 20, Drums - Hi Hats - 20, Drums - Snares - 25, Drums - Big Snares - 20, Drums - Toms - 20, Drums - Percussion - 17, FX - Deck Stop Hits - 11, FX - Drum Glitches - 20, FX - Synth Glitches - 10, FX - Vox Glitches - 30, FX - Various - 40, Snare Drum Rolls - 9, Synth Hits - 30, Synth Loops - 80.

Fresh, modern and huge, DUNE is quickly becoming a main-stay of trance production because on its capabilities. Tundra Vol.1 for DUNE makes entensive use of its complex modulation capabilities to give you intricate pads and complex arpeggios and at the same time provides inspiring and classic trance sounds.

There are aggressive, smooth and sharp basses. Ethereal pads & big trance leads and much more.

Features:
- 128 patches for Synapse Audio DUNE
- Modwheel allocated

Returns, AES in one 64x64 expansion slot and another 64x32 expansion slot offering enough expansion to use every one of the 64 mono inputs for a possible total of 80 inputs to mix.

Each input channel has dedicated processing for high pass filter, input delay, gate, compressor and parametric EQ. Keeping you in control are 8 VCA busses, 8 mute groups, FaderGlow and colour backlit name displays on every channel so you are never lost...

Combining the passion for music with the power of the Internet, MyMusic.com, the online destination for all things music, today announced the launch of its new service.

Rather than endlessly searching multiple sites across the Web for bits of content, music lovers now have one place where all the greatest content is delivered to them. MyMusic gives people a fresh way to express their music personalities.

That add 64-bit compatibility to the Mac and PC VST versions and to the Mac Audio Units version. (And when we say "we," we especially mean the engineers who have been working on this project for over a year.) So if you've been waiting for 64-bit compatibility to move up to the latest version of the worldwide standard in professional pitch and time correction, the wait is over.

These upgrades are free for anyone who has registered a copy of Auto-Tune 7 in the last 30 days. For other owners of previous versions of Auto-Tune 7, the regular upgrade price will be $79, but for the next 64 days (through December 3, 2012), the price is only $64. And when you upgrade from a previous version of Auto-Tune 7, you'll also receive a coupon good for a $64 discount on any future Antares web store purchase!