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Until Jan/2nd/2012, be extravagant! Enjoy the amazing collection of Complete Toy Museum at only $299*. Save up to $300 this Holiday Season!

Complete Toy Museum features tons of marvellous "ready-to-play" presets from more than 300 musical toys. A massive 20 GB library containing 21 000+ samples and loops, carefully recorded in 24 bit / 96 kHz with the best sounding gear.

In the collection:

- Acoustic Toy Museum (Regular price $349)
- Electric Toy Museum (Regular price $249).

LIVKONTROL is the most effective and affordable Ableton Live remote controller ever!

Simple yet powerful Ableton Live remote controller for iPad.
It features an incredibly fast response and an extremely simple configuration, all for maximum control and performance on your Ableton Live based live acts.

Korg puts the thrill of the analog synthesizer into everyone's hands, with the monotron, the monotron DUO, and the monotron DELAY

Go Anywhere Analog: That was the theme behind the remarkable battery-powered and palm-sized Korg analog synthesizer dubbed the monotron.

The powerful and fun-to-play monotron analog synthesizer has been joined by two siblings. The Dual Oscillator monotron DUO offers X-MOD capabilities for generating even more extreme sounds. The monotron DELAY features a Space Delay that can produce intense, analog-like echo effects. Best of all, they're a blast to play. Each is equipped with a ribbon keyboard and a live, ready-to-be tweaked front panel offering five knobs and a single switch. This simple operation and ease of use invites hours of enjoyment and musical exploration.

The sound designers at Puremagnetik had a rare opportunity to sample this magic beast and have now released the first in a series of B-System Micropaks, this one focusing primarily on the synthesizer's percussion generation capabilities.

Customized for Ableton Live, Kontakt & Logic

B-System Percussives for Ableton Live includes ten full 2 octave kits (over 650 individual samples from The Buchla 200e, modular analog synthesizer) programmed with advanced Macro integration and effects mapping. Utilizing multi-velocity zones for the ultimate in expression and playability each kit is sonically charged for instant electronic gratification! The Ableton Live version also includes 40 Live Clips of preprogrammed material, each one expertly tailored with effects racks and advanced Macro controls.

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.