News - Software - February 2009

Designed for superior quality and tone, the HM Import Series features a revolutionary phenolic fretboard, providing the ultimate surface for fast riffs, runs and arpeggios.

This hand-built and individually tweaked pedal sets a new standard for 'articulate' distortion with unequalled clarity and definition.

The GuanZi (also called a Bili) is a double reed wind instrument since Zhou Dynasty.

Bollywood Elements uses the same melodic instruments and styles typically featured in songs, background scores of films of the genre.

Used by Sound Designers and FX Editors for searching, filtering, auditioning and organizing their sound libraries.

These DigiDesign Pro Tools tutorials are a complete guide to making music with Pro Tools.

The all new Retro Pack Bundle, Emerald Pack 4.0, Channel G Compact and Channel G Surround are now shipping.

Cinematic Synths is a collection of 4 separate beatpacks that equal to 64 royalty free loops.

Soniccouture have released their epic Balinese Gamelan in two new, smaller products.

The company will focus development on the Apple platform.

After two years of intensive research in acoustic models, electro-acoustic models, and algorithms MODARTT proudly presents the long awaited and much improved version 3 of PIANOTEQ.

Wivi Band includes a variety of wind instruments, ranging from brass to saxophones and woodwinds.

These plugins fill basic studio needs as well as making more advanced production techniques easy to perform.

Featuring the tone, craftsmanship and playability that today's leading artists have come to demand from super high-end world percussion.

The new collection provides a wealth of inspiring sounds based on the powerful semi-modular sound engine of the acclaimed ABSYNTH synthesizer.

Caffeine by Status is a set for everybody who is into trance/electro or electronica.

The Allen&Heath Xone:4D control mixer is now certified for advanced integration with TRAKTOR SCRATCH PRO.

"Deadly Dub Constructor" is a fresh sample that explores the darker edge of Dubstep, Garage, Grime and Urban music production.

This superb library features over 1.9Gb of the most cutting edge and innovative dance music samples in the world all in pristine 24bit audio quality.

This brand new collection of fresh synth loops will appeal to Trance, Techno, Minimal, Electro and Breaks producers.

All purchases of the interface now include a download of either ABSYNTH 4, FM8, MASSIVE, or PRO-53 depending on the user's choice.

IK Multimedia announces free worldwide mastering/mixing clinics, featuring techniques from today's top talent.

Earth Tone: World Percussion is a warm, enthusiastic library full of diverse and classic ethnic percussion instruments.

Topics ranging from miking and mastering workshops to songwriting and demo preparation will be presented by top industry professionals.

The PEQ5 is a high performance digital equalization algorithm that simulates the sound and feel of the world-renowned parallel parametric equalizers.

Shure has decided to extend its U.S. trade-in rebate offer to the Canadian market.

Novation's unique Automap 3.0 control software has includes major new features.

Packed with 100% original sounds, Percussion Store contains more than 150 percussions coming from all over the world for a total of more than 6000 samples.

With nine (9) complete Groove Sets™, Drum Werks XIV will be your go-to disc for the classic Bossa and Samba grooves.

This melodic construction style loopset delivers 330+ loops derived from 27 multi-track construction loop themes.

Voices brings a wide collection of vocal, choir and vocoder sounds, including 330 original samples, 30 multisampled instruments and 50 patches.

MoReVoX DRIVEDRUMS has been developed by generating distortion through different kind of devices.

LoopCache produces innovative Electronic loop and multisample products in Analog, Glitch and other styles.

Equinox Sounds 'Bad Ass Hip Hop' is a collection of authentic Hip Hop grooves.

Ranging from slower radio-friendly tracks to full-tempo club house, these rhythms are strong and propulsive.

Power Chord Academy™ is excited to announce the addition of two new Summer programs!

Club Lovers is the ultimate collection for the electro, dancefloor and progressive scene with many original drumloops, electro & synth loops, synth, bass, electro and drum samples

CoreBass Pear is an upright bass sample library for Kontakt 2 and 3, providing a new standard for highly-realistic, playable upright bass samples.

Already noted for its excellent after-sales backup, DPA Microphones has extended the warranty period on all its Standard and Compact mics.

Minimonsta's 'Raw Feedback' Bank features 24 meta-patches, each patch containing 12 individual patches, totalling 288 sounds.

ADK Media Group LLC acquires Sonica Audio Labs, manufacturer of high-performance computer systems optimized for the pro-audio industry.

Garritan, Vienna Symphonic Library and Sonic Reality to support VST Expression.

This new sample collection features over 600MB of sounds.

ProducerLoops.com has today announced the official release of 'Electro House Generation' and 'Abstract Electro House'.

Battery Backup Prevents Data Loss and Regulated Shutdown of Equipment in the Event of a Power Outage.

The first two in the series are called "MainStage 101: Core MainStage" and "MainStage 105: Creating Guitar Rigs."

Adds editing capabilities to company's 32-bit/64-bit sample engine.

More oscillators, ring modulation, a new delay effects section and virtually unlimited modulation possibilities make FabFilter Twin 2 much more powerful.

MOTU FireWire/USB2 audio interfaces now support Windows Wave RT driver model.

The Double Neck Bich Electric Guitar is one of the most outrageous B.C. Rich Production models in their 40 year history!

Tibetan Bowl SampleSet contains multi velocity Bowl hits, loops, swirls and effects.