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Electric Guitar Chord Kit contains a massive 4.98Gb sampler instrument playing 800+ chords and 460 notes. Includes both up and down strums. Enables easy song writing by using the included 'Intelligent Chord Instruments' and chord progressions. Developed solely for song writing, 'Electric Guitar Chord Kit' is a new advanced guitar sampler instrument that re-creates guitar strums. Play any Major, Minor, Diminished, 7th, 9th Power chords and single notes in five guitar tones up and down strokes. Implements interval-based legato sampling. Enables you to play all up-and-down chromatic scale steps up to an octave.
Includes a kontakt script playing up and down strum groups. 'Electric Guitar Chord Kit' has full real time control over all expressive factors like dynamics, bend direction/speed, bend type, and vibrato.


Some features
Size: 4.98Gb
5x Guitar Tones
808x Chords
460x Notes
Interval-Based Legato Sampling
Over 100+ Nki Instruments
Intelligent Chord Instruments
Up & Down Strums + Script
24 Bit 44,100hz Wav
Kontakt 2+

TC Electronic adds dual radar display to the LM6 loudness radar meter algorithm for TC TouchMonitors with software version 1.11. Now loudness can look twice as good!
In essence, TC TouchMonitor TM7 & TM9 is the ultimate loudness meter solution, featuring touch screen, an extremely consistent loudness readout and compatibility with e.g. American, European and Japanese broadcasting standards.

The TC TouchMonitor TM7 & TM9 is a full-featured stereo and multichannel loudness and true-peak level meter, which is perfect not only for broadcast ingest and transmission, but also for post, film and live production. To comply with a given international broadcasting standard, the numbers representing loudness are paramount, and these all-important digits are displayed instantly on the large color touch screen.

Softube is pleased to announce two new offerings that extend its partnership with audio hardware legend Tube-Tech. The ME 1B Midrange Equalizer plugin and the Classic Channel now join previous Softube Tube-Tech releases, allowing musicians, engineers and producers affordable access to more of this faithfully-modeled, vintage audio gear than ever before.

The new ME 1B midrange equalizer plugin, a clone of Tube-Tech's classic mid-range EQ, joins the Softube/Tube-Tech CL 1B compressor and PE 1C "Pultec" equalizer to round out this collection of complementary sound sculpting tools. Each plugin has been painstakingly programmed to capture that true analog tube mojo and indefinable mystique that Tube-Tech commands.

The Custom Shop is an entirely new tone shopping experience that is like visiting a real guitar store, but one that is open 24/7 right in the comfort of your own studio. The AmpliTube Custom Shop has the widest offering of legendary, officially certified brands and a price model affordable to anyone for building your truly custom tone.

Every new user can start by downloading a FREE, fully functional version of AmpliTube 3 – both a standalone application and plug-in – with a collection of 24 gear models (9 stomp boxes, 4 amplifiers, 5 cabinets, 3 microphones, 2 rack effects and a digital tuner) for recording and mixing in their favorite Mac/Win DAW, for playing on stage or practicing at home.

Then with the new Custom Shop feature – directly accessible within AmpliTube using an online connection – over 200 gear models of stomp boxes, amplifiers, cabinets, microphones and rack effects can be browsed, auditioned and purchased à la carte.

Avid has identified an incompatibility with the early 2011 17" MacBook Pro (model MC725LL/A with Thunderbolt port) when used with a Magma ExpressBox1 expansion chassis and a Pro Tools HD Native Card.

The following error message, "Unable to find an Audio Interface attached to the first HD card", is seen when launching Pro Tools HD 9 with an Apple MacBook Pro (early 2011 model) and Pro Tools HD Native hardware.

There is currently no workaround with this configuration. Avid is currently investigating this issue, and will update this article when more information is available.

DirectEMX is a VST plugin that makes it possible to use your Korg Electribe MX in your host. It is now available on Mac OSX.

The DirectEMX features are:
- Control and automation of all the EMX parameters from your DAW. That includes Synth, drum and common/fx parts.
- Pattern import/export in fxb/fxp standard format.
- Reception of pattern bank sysex dumps, that makes it possible to import all the internal patterns of the EMX in DirectEMX.

With DirectEMX you can use your EMX like a Virtual instrument in Cubase, live, fl studio...

- Save/Load your project without worrying about the state of the EMX, the plugin will ensure the sync.
- Automate all the parameters to create new evolving sounds easily. Why not simulating an LFO on your filter cutoff for example?
- Copy/paste parts or patterns
- Use a clean interface that shows the "real" knob values. That includes the mix view and oscillator model shape, while keeping the same approach as the original hardware.
- See the knobs movements in real time, for the host automation but also for the EMX internal motion sequences.
- Edit and reverse-engineer patch more easily.

DirectEMX is available now on OSX and Windows for 25€.