Imagine for-filling all your live drum sounds needs in one sample pack, imagine that pack crammed with the funkiest and grooviest drum beats, drum fills and drum sounds. Well this is what you get with 'The Funky Live Drummer', 1036 samples and loops spanning a huge 1.2GB all delivered in perfect 24 bit wav goodness and labelled for superb ease of use, sounds good right, well check this out.

'The Funky Live Drummer' supplies all the drum tools you need for Breaks, Dubstep, Electro House & Drum & Bass. The drum beats beats have been supplied both with and without audio trails, in various bpm groups of 105bpm, 140bpm & 174bpm so as you can see these incredible live drum loops have been crafted perfectly for breaks ,dubstep and of course d&b producers.

The Soundcraft Vi4 can now handle 96 inputs to mix, bringing it fully into line with the Vi2 and Vi6 models, and show-files are now fully compatible between Vi2, 4 and 6 consoles, so settings can be quickly and easily moved between consoles from a USB memory stick.

To take advantage of the 96 inputs to mix on the Vi4, 3 DSP cards must be fitted to the local rack, so exiting Vi4 owners can upgrade very easily. Vi4 consoles with only 2 DSP cards will be uplifted to 64 inputs to mix, from 48. Similarly, rental companies with inventories of both Vi4 and Vi6 can now standardize on local racks.

Maul: last chance for introductory offer!
This Halloween, do some terrifying things to your audio with Maul, FXpansion's new plugin for slaughtering your sounds.

Until 31 October 2012, Maul is available for the very un-scary price of $70, €55, £48 inc. VAT for all registered owners of Geist, DCAM: Synth Squad, Tremor, Etch, DCAM Dynamics, BFD2 and BFD Eco (and customers purchasing Maul at the same time as any of these products).

Guitar Ballads consists of ten extensive construction kits containing a total of 562 loops of instrument licks, riffs and drums.

Each construction kit is a complete arranged song with a main theme and some added variations.

Virsyn updates KLON to V3.0 Native 64bit Version for Mac OS X.

New Features in version 3.0:

- VST3 / AudioUnit 64-bit version for Mac OS X.
- Total number of choir voices doubled to 32 ( 4 groups with 8 voices each ).
- Monophonic MIDI playing mode added.
- New MIDI mode using 4 different MIDI channels.
- Further reduced latency to about 10 ms.
- CPU load reduction.

Avid and Gobbler, the purpose-built cloud for digital media creators, announced today an upcoming integration with Avid Pro Tools, creating an easy and reliable way to exchange and back up Pro Tools sessions.
The Gobbler integration will enable you to send files, mixes or entire sessions directly from the Pro Tools interface, reducing steps and eliminating errors. Other unique capabilities, include:

- Automatically locate and back up all of your local Pro Tools sessions to the cloud. You can sleep easier knowing you'll never lose a session again.
- Locate, back up and send all the media files your session requires, regardless of where they're stored. You can be confident you're sending complete sessions.
- Continuous backup of sessions as you work. Your sessions will be ready to go when you're ready to go home.
- Gobbler knows when your Pro Tools system is working, so it never interrupts your creative flow.
- Gobbler knows which files have already been uploaded and downloaded, avoiding wasted storage and minimizing transfer times.
- With no file size limits, you can send any size session to anyone, as easily as sending an email.