PC and Music News

From February 12-28, McDSP offers Emerald Pack Native for just $999, that's a $500 savings! Emerald Pack Native contains the 6030 Ultimate Compressor, Analog Channel, Channel G, Channel G Compact, CompressorBank, DE555, FilterBank, FutzBox, MC2000, ML4000, NF575 and Revolver.

HD and HDX users can purchase Emerald Pack HD for just $1995(!).

Figure, Propellerhead's best selling music making app for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, has integrates SoundCloud, enabling quick sharing of tracks with friends or the world. In addition using Audiobus, Figure users can now bus their audio to other effects and recording apps in real-time.

Directly in Figure, users can easily share their tracks privately with their friends or publicly to blogs, sites and social networks using SoundCloud soundcloud.com, the world's leading social sound platform. It takes just a click to share sounds to Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook and Foursquare.

Ik multimedia announce the release of iLectric Piano, a studio-quality electric piano app for iPad, now available on the App Store. iLectric Piano offers over 40 classic electric pianos, electric grands and clavinets, all carefully sampled from the original instruments.

From clean and icy-cool to sharp and staccato to growling and distorted, iLectric Piano faithfully recreates the gamut of classic electric piano sounds – tones heard on countless hit songs, iconic jazz recordings and classic rock albums. The sonic quality of iLectric Piano rivals that of the best electric piano instruments for Mac/PC.

The KORE 64 ROM option represents a complete expansion and reimagining of the PC3 and PC3K's sonic potential.

Pushing the limits of V.A.S.T. synthesis for both realistic and experimental electronic sounds, KORE 64 adds over 300 new programs, including stunning new Synths, Electric Guitars, Horns, Drums and Percussion. With KORE 64 installed, the PC3/K built-in program library now totals over 1400 presets! KORE 64 ROM is user installable.

Boasting XX MB of contemporary pop guitar samples with a crisp acoustic tone, this vast collection of 24-bit samples will please producers across a wide range or genres.

Comprising of 3 folders, ACOUSTIC POP GUITARS offers a selection of delicately strummed chord progressions, rigid staccato strumming patterns and finger picked arpeggios, all available in both Dry (unmodulated) and Clean (modulated) sample form! There's even one whole folder dedicated to dual guitar samples, comprising of both rhythm and lead guitar in one loop! These samples are available as separate loops too.

Plugin Alliance LLC announce availability of noveltech VOCAL ENHANCER, an all-new native version of Alliance partner company noveltech Audio's unique vocal processing plug-in.

noveltech VOCAL ENHANCER gives vocal recordings unprecedented clarity and crispness without unwanted side effects, thanks to Finnish high-quality audio technologies developer noveltech Audio's patented IAF (Intelligent Adaptive Filtering) technology that lies at its very core. Unlike conventional enhancers, it dynamically boosts the 'desired' characteristics in audio recordings, rather than statically boosting set frequencies, like an EQ, or artificially adding harmonics.