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CrossDJ Free is the most professional free DJ software. It is built on CrossDJ, the award-winning software developed by MixVibes for 10 years. Mix tracks intuitively, play with effects, loops, scratch and more.

What's New in Version 2.3.1:
- Redesigned, intuitive interface with a modular layout
- Bi-filter build straight into the mixer (low and high pass filters), inspired from the club standard DJM 800
- Audio performance enhancements.

Sounds+MIDI: House for Sylenth is the first in a brand new series from Producer Loops designed for users of the Sylenth VSTi. Packed full of infectious phrases and progressions, this awesome product takes a new approach to the traditional MIDI pack concept by including a patch library designed to integrate seamlessly with the MIDI loops.

Inside you'll find 128 patches for Sylenth 2.21 or higher, including 45 powerful bass sounds, 45 soaring leads, 16 pluck instruments and 10 rich chord & pad sounds. In addition to this, 48 MIDI loops are included. Each file is labelled to match the correct patch within the patch bank. You can also try them out with any of the 128 patches included to achieve your own sound.

Native Instruments today released TRAKTOR DJ – a unique, hands-on DJ app built from the ground up for iPad aimed at DJs of all levels from novices to touring professionals.

TRAKTOR DJ introduces the completely new Freeze Mode, which lets users slice up a waveform into playable parts for on-the-fly remixing and entirely new musical performances. The app also allows users to create beat grids in real time, intuitively mapping out a song's groove without having to stop the music. DJs are encouraged to discover the full extent of TRAKTOR DJ's capabilities at their own speed via the Notification Center, which tracks the user's progress through the app's features and unobtrusively offers tips, tricks, and techniques from within the app.

Dreamscape contains 148 presets ranging from lush and smooth pads to dirty screaming basses and otherworldly plucks and atmospheres. The set consists out of 71 main presets and 77 variations, these variations have different macro knob settings mostly resulting in radically different sounds.

It's highly usable for a wide range of music styles including: ambient, chill out, lounge, filmscore, electronica or even dance, trance, house and dubstep.

All presets have all 8 macro knobs assigned to the most useful parameters, allowing you to completely shape the sounds to your liking with very little effort.

The CMC Six-Pack is made up of all six controllers designed to offer users a modular controller experience. Arranging the units in a way that best suits the personal needs when using Cubase makes the CMC series a very customizable hardware control system. Each of the six slim-sized USB controllers provides tactile control over Cubase features.

- CMC-CH (channel controller)
- CMC-FD (fader controller)
- CMC-QC (quick controller with buttons)
- CMC-PD (pad controller)
- CMC-TP (transport controller)

The CMC-AI controller comes with Steinberg's AI Knob and ten function buttons for convenient volume level control, jog control, browsing and adjusting many plug-in and Cubase parameters.

Camel Audio announces Alchemy Player v1.55, a major update their popular free Alchemy Sound Library and SFZ player synthesizer.

Alchemy Player v1.5 is designed to keep inspiration flowing with a fully-featured preset browser, 200 presets, faster preset loading times, improved remote control from the Alchemy iOS app, and many more enhancements.