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As every year, Linplug looked for something special for you for this cold winter season, to warm your hearts :) This year we picked up some type of special offer, that we last had 6 years ago, a long time: A bundle of instruments
for everyone (read on):

"The Synth Bundle", including
- The LinPlug CronoX 3 Sample Synthesizer ( 129• / 149US$ )
- The brand new LinPlug MorphoX Synthesizer ( 99• / 129US$ )
- The Rob Papen Albino 3 Synthesizer ( 149• / 179US$ )
- The Octopus FM Synthesizer ( 99• / 129US$ )
- The Alpha Classic Synthesizer ( 79• / 99US$ )
- The LinPlug ElementP Percussion Synth ( 29• / 39US$ )
- The Ian Boddy Soundset for the Alpha Synthesizer ( 39• / 49US$ )
- The Summa Soundset for the Octopus Synthesizer ( 39• / 59US$ )
including altogether more than 5500 preset sounds Instead of 662 Euro / 832 US$, now for just: 299 Euro / 399 US$

This pack is designed for French House, Itilaian disco etc.
Mini Construction Kits: 23 inspiring kits containing all their breakout parts for full creative control. Inspiration straight from the box courtesy of ready made kits mixed and primed for dance floor destruction.

- Base Loops: 50 deep and dirty baselines all dripping in low-end squelch.
- Synth Loops: 50 inspirational melodic motifs including, creamy analogue chord riffs fused with crisp clean inspiring progressions.
- Drum Loops (incl. Rex2 files): 80 precision-programmed drum loops presented as both top loops (no kick) and full loops (with kick).
- Drum Hits: 60 choice kicks, snares, hats and hits all optimized for modern electronic drum programming.
- One Shots: 60 razor sharp synth shots ready to be fired up in your favorite sampler.
- Vox Twists: 15 unique twisted vocal loops.
- Fills: 15 tightly programmed drum fills to inject movement and energy into your tracks.
- FX: 15 quirky loop based SFX beds
- Plus, a bonus folder containing retro drum machine loops.

Arturia announces that Analog Laboratory is now shipping. Analog Laboratory is an extremely powerful software synthesizer solution. It offers 3500 legendary classic synthesizer sounds with a unique interface to tweak them all as well as the ability to edit each of them in depth, in the original synthesizer. With the addition of 200 scenes organized by genres, including drum loops and advanced arpeggiation melodies, Analog Laboratory is likely to become the reference synth workstation.
3500 synthesizer sounds selected from the Arturia Classic Synths (minimoog-V, Moog modular V, CS-80V, Prophet-V, ARP2600 V and Jupiter-8V).
INTRODUCTORY OFFER: The first 1000 units are sold at discount price: Buy Analog Laboratory for the price of Analog Factory. Instead of $299/Eur269, pay $249/Eur229.

The PolyKB II is a polyphonic subtractive synthesizer based on two waveform morphing, aliasing free oscillators and a self oscillating 4 poles low pass filter. The amazing oscillators take a large part of the sound of this synthesizer while the filter recreating a standard analog chip of the 80's (with the help of very complete modulation sections), allows the PolyKB II to create incredibly warm sounds from gorgeous basses to slowly evolving pads, through aggressive leads and thin crystal keyboards as well as a huge range of incredible special effects that all sound designers will love to use...

Responding to requests from customers the world over, Eventide today announced the posting of V3 software for TimeFactor, ModFactor and PitchFactor stompboxes for public beta.
Two significant features have been added to all three stompboxes: the ability to name presets, and the ability to adjust the output level from -20dB to +4dB in 1dB increments on each preset in order to facilitate seamless gain matching. Additional MIDI control refinements have also been added.

Sonic Timeworks has announced the release of the remade Equalizer V1 plug-in, now available for Windows VST 2.4 32- and 64-bit, Mac OS X VST 2.4 32-bit and Mac OS X AU 32- and 64-bit. There is an introductory offer of $99 until January 15th, 2011, and current DirectX customers can upgrade for $39. A fully functional 14-day demo is available.
Equalizer V1 is a remake of the classic Sonic Timeworks plug-in from around the beginning of this millennia, offering a unique analogue-ish design. Unlike most other digital eq's the frequency response does not go towards zero dB when approaching half the sample rate ("Vintage" algorithm only). This is achieved without the use of oversampling.
Equalizer V1 has two algorithms, six bands (two of which are switchable between shelf and bell curves), a low-cut, and a high-cut filter. The interface is divided into two pages, the first having all the controls in a classic setup with sliders, and the second having an EQ response curve laid on top of a frequency analyzer.