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The DM7 USB Kit has a total of eight, natural-feeling, velocity-sensitive drum and cymbal pads. Drummers will immediately appreciate the DM7 USB Kit's large snare pad, which has three zones, enabling head, rimshot and cross-stick triggering. Drummers will also notice the crash cymbal, which enables them to stop or "choke" the sound by grabbing the pad with their hand. The DM7's responsive rubber pads are also both quiet and resilient for all-day and all-night music making without disturbing neighbors.
The heart of the DM7 USB Kit is its DM7 sound module. The DM7 provides drummers with a library of more than 400 drum, cymbal and percussion instruments in 80 kits. Drummers can play the 50 preset kits for extensive sonic flexibility, and they can custom-create 30 of their own. Drummers will also like the DM7's intuitive, easy-to-use controls adjusting instruments' pitch, panning and reverb level. The DM7 drum module provides drummers with valuable tools such as practice exercises, a metronome, 52 play-along songs and a 1/4-inch mix input for playing along with external music sources.

Starting in 2004, Korg introduced software creations of their most coveted synthesizers, as various titles of their Legacy Collection series. Now, each of those titles is available as a separate download at a considerable savings. With access to the original circuit diagrams and sound programming, Korg has recreated these coveted classics in a way that is completely faithful to the original model.

Each soft synth utilizes Korgs proprietary CMT (Component Modeling Technology) to perfectly reproduce the sound and response of the original. CMT also reproduces the character and response curve of each parameter, for results that are completely faithful to the original model.

Now available for download are software recreations of the following classic Korg synths:
- M1 Music Workstation
- Mono/Poly
- Wavestation
- Polysix
- MS-20 - http://www.korg.com/LegacyMS20

In addition to being powered by Kontakt 4 player, Broadway Lites uses the same groundbreaking midi-processing technologies as well as a select portion of instruments and audio content used in Fable Sounds' award winning and critically acclaimed Broadway Big Band.

Broadway Lites is a virtual instrument with an attitude. A fusion of sound, music and technology. It features 15GB of multi-sample content, with over 20,000 unique samples of saxophones, trumpets, trombone and clarinet. Price: 449€

Auto-Align is an automatic microphone / DI time alignment plug-in.

New in version 1.2.1:

- RTAS and ProTools 9 compatibility
- New, easy-to-use, host-independent bus routing system, eliminates the need of using side-chain
- True stereo alignment in Pro Tools and other hosts that support mono side-chain only
- Improved, automatic management of stereo-to-mono and mono-to-stereo alignment
- Improved detection algorithm
- Improved graphics accuracy

Fixes:
- Fixed a bug that made Auto-Align produce erroneous results in Pro Tools HD systems.

Blue Cat Audio has released new versions of its flagship audio analysis plug-ins. The update includes a new look and feel, many user interface improvements and 64-bit VST format support on the Mac for all plug-ins as well as individual enhancements and new features detailed below.

These audio analysis tools are available as a single bundle (Blue Cat's Analysis Pack) or separately, in VST, RTAS, DirectX or Audio Unit formats for Windows and Mac OS X. The bundle contains a versatile audio level meter, spectrum and stereo field analyzers with 3D viewing capabilities, and a multiple tracks oscilloscope.

The sound set is divided into 6 categories. "Bass", "Lead", "Pad", and "Piano" (one-shot, tonal sounds) each contain 10 patches, "Drums" consists of 30 patches which cover all drum kit components, and "Inharmonic" is comprised of 30 patches which are further divided into two subcategories "Sustaining" and "Non-sustaining".

PC's Users, Please be Carefull: THIS SOUND SET WAS DEVELOPED ON AND CURRENTLY TESTED ONLY WITH REASON 4 ON MAC SNOW LEOPARD.