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Created for both musical use and sound design, Fractured: Prepared Acoustic Guitar is an innovative new collection of instruments featuring creative and esoteric samples and manipulations of various acoustic guitars. Following the tradition begun by Violence, Vir2's virtual dismembering of a solo violin, Fractured features 2.3GB of compressed samples and more than one hundred new instruments with numerous variations and effects built into each. Each patch features the organic goodness of the acoustic guitar, but stretches its timbre in new directions to create previously unheard musical effects. Drum kits were made from such varied techniques as hitting the guitar with a mallet, scraping strings with fingernails, cardboard, or copper, and for one patch, rice was poured over the guitar. Lon ...

Hand-held field recorders have been hot commodities for musicians, recording engineers, and sound designers for years. Today, the mercury rises in this dynamic market with the debut of the game-changing R-26.

This innovative recorder is portable yet loaded with first-class, professional features, the likes of which the industry has not seen before. There are two types of stereo microphones built into the R-26, plus a pair of XLR/TRS combo inputs for external mics, and an input for a stereo plug-in powered mic.

Arturia announces the release Spark 1.4, a major update to their Spark Creative Drum Machine.

Version 1.4 brings 50 new kits / 448 instruments built by 5 contemporary electronic and hip hop producers. Ranging from deep electro house to the finest urban sounds, the expanded 1.4 library also integrates new faithful recreations of vintage drum machines.

To complete this arsenal, Spark embeds 5 new powerful FX's such as the Destroyer, the Space Pan and the earth shaking Sub Generator.

Until December 31th, get 40% off on the full Xils-lab Synthesizers : use CHRISTMAS2011 at the end of the checkout

XILS 3 : 89€40 instead of 149€, save 59€60 !
PolyKB II : 89€40 instead of 149€, save 59€60 !
Synthix : 101€40 instead of 169€, save 67€60 !

Synthax, the new Synthix soundsets is released. Until January 15th,get the two banks for only €29 (save €11).

Apogee annouces the release of Symphony I/O to version 4.1

New Features:

- Low latency mixer for Symphony audio interface mode.
- Full support for the Mic Pre I/O Module
- Apogee Maestro 2.5.30 (included in this release) is compatible with all current Maestro compatible products - Ensemble, Duet FW, One, Duet USB and Symphony I/O.

When using multiple Apogee devices, install the most recently released software last, to ensure that the latest version of Apogee Maestro is installed.
As of December 2011, this Symphony I/O release is the most recent.

SKANNER – our holiday gift for you: Stephan Schmitt's raucous and exciting new synth is available for download now.

SKANNER can be used either with the latest version (5.6.2) of the free REAKTOR 5 PLAYER, or REAKTOR 5.6.2.

Play samples like a synth – SKANNER will rip through your holiday lethargy.