PC and Music News

Garrigus.com has announced the release of the SONAR X2 Power!
book (ISBN: 978-1-285-19894-1) by Scott R. Garrigus (author of the Cakewalk
SONAR and Sony Sound Forge Power book series). SONAR X2 Power! is the first
comprehensive guide to deal exclusively with Cakewalk's SONAR X2 MIDI and
digital audio sequencing application.

This new edition offers top-to-bottom detailed coverage of the SONAR X2
software (Producer, Studio, and Essential). The book's comprehensive
treatment begins with the basics and takes you from setup to final mix with
clear, step-by-step instructions and exercises.

Hollywood hotshot sound designers Larry Hopkins (The Following, Vampire Diaries, Revenge), Alan Howarth (Poltergeist, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Back To The Future II), and Mark Mangini (Die Hard, Star Trek, The Fifth Element) have pooled their considerable creative resources to create Hollywood Essentials.

As such, it features an attractive library of 30 earcatching kits with 480 instruments and 960 patterns ranging from field recordings made in the likes of auto body shops and dentists to ethereal sci-fi soundscapes and action sequence percussion ensembles fit for any adventurous blockbusting Hollywood motion picture!

IK Multimedia announces that iGrand Piano for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, and iLectric Piano for iPad is now Audiobus compatible, allowing players to use these apps with their other Audiobus-compatible music apps like AmpliTube and GarageBand.

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Dirty Razor has arrived.

Grimy, dirty and aggressive is what this bank is all about. With almost no banks out on market for this amazing reaktor synth from NI; sound designer/remixer/producer Mike Heymans sought out to harness the power of this forward sounding synth while telegraphing the best analog synths of yesteryear.

Mostly centered around Dirty Electro and Dubstep genres, these 64 patches are also immediately useable for Complextro, Trapstep and Electro Productions.

Bank info: 64 .NKRT patches compatible with Reaktor 5/Reaktor Player.

When you need tech house sounds to deliver powerful groove ideas, deep intrinsic basslines, rich and sexy synth lines and sprinkling of shiny fx then this is the deep tech house preset pack for you.

Yielding 109 presets in total you know you're not going to be running out of dedicated tech house presets for a very long time, and with the Zenhiser seal of quality you know these presets will be the best you can find. There is such a great collection of new inspiring sounds in Massive Deep Tech House that we are sure you'll be stoked with the collection. We even think the pack needs an honourable mention for it's outstanding subby basslines and incredible synth stab like presets, they really do take this preset pack to a whole new level.

Italian electronic instrument manufacturer Studiologic announced that a free firmware update is available for their popular Sledge analog modeling synthesizer ($1599 MAP).

The upgrade, which effectively doubles the instrument's polyphony from 8 voices to 16, is already in all new units, and is available for units already in the field as of spring 2013.