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Harmony Systems, Inc. announced the worldwide availability of Delora rsTouch, an iPad application that offers control surface functionality for the Propellerhead Reason music application on a Mac or PC. rsTouch emulates Reason's Mixer and transport functions, allowing nearly complete operation of Reason's transport controls and Main Mixer from the iPad.

rsTouch expands the Delora Software line of music controller apps for iOS devices, including lpTouch for Logic, gbTouch and gbRemote for GarageBand, and vKiP and vKi for Kyma.

BandFriend is a free social networking app for iOS with a simple goal: connecting musicians of all levels. The app makes it very easy to search for new band members or people that just want to hang out and jam. BandFriend can even help music students by finding someone to practice with.

Features:

- Find local musicians that match your interests and skills
- Invite musicians to connect
- SoundCloud Integration
- Share status updates with your musician friends
- Highlight skills, instruments and much more with your profile
- Showcase your instruments and photos
- Beautiful, hand-crafted user interface

The app is available now on the App Store in the U.S, Canada, United Kindom, Australia and other countries.

He 1951 New York Steinway D with its exceptionally pure and clear tone and a remarkably expressive dynamic range is lauded by some of the world's greatest concert artists and Synthogy has exquisitely captured every nuance of this piano for the newest addition to the critically acclaimed Ivory II family.

Delivering a sublime playing experience with a truly stunning sound, Ivory II American Concert D, with its 49GB library, is Synthogy's largest single piano to date boasting even more detail with up to 20 velocity levels, more soft pedal samples and more release samples. What's more, the American Concert D possesses a naturally long sustain, which is captured in its entirety to the final decay with some of the notes ringing longer than two minutes.

MiniNova is a compact, super-cool studio and live synth with the same sound engine as its big brother; UltraNova.

It comes with 256 incredible onboard sounds that you can tweak with five knobs, or totally warp with eight 'animate' buttons. It has up to 18 voices with as many as five synth effects on each sound. MiniNova also has an onboard VocalTune effect as well as a classic vocoder so you can recreate iconic vocal sounds from hip hop, urban and electronic music.

Addictive Keys is being released as a 'Studio Collection' bundle which includes the 'Studio Grand', 'Modern Upright' and 'Mark One' instruments.

This bundle will be available worldwide throughout XLN Audio's retail distribution network. Additionally, the individual instruments will be made available in XLN Audio's own webshop with more instruments available in the near future. The Addictive Keys engine is included in all offers.

Absolutely FREE, drum & fx samples from my Roland u-220 rompler module from 1989. It is rack version of Roland U-20 keyboard.

Provided sample pack includes additional latin and fx sounds from expansion card number 2. It contains all drum and fx samples with different pitches, effects off, long decay and relase set. Samples were originally recorded at 24bit 48khz by Motu 2408 mk2 interface, then denoised (removed few db of noise floor) and converted to 16bit.[p]