Electronic Musician

Soulful Pop musical library delivers more than 3.8 GB of authentic, high-quality pop arrangements spiced up with a breeze of soul. The 18 song-oriented construction kits (including an intro, a main part, two variations and an outro) have a musical spectrum that ranges from slow soulful songs to smooth pop songs up to classy pop rock songs.

This library offers complete song-structure MIDI organized as separate songs, featuring several full intros, verses, pre-choruses, choruses, bridges and fills.

Muse Research and Development has announced a major overhaul of its www.plugorama.com website, which supports the company's Receptor 2 line of dedicated hardware plug-in players.

VOX Amplification is now shipping the new AC4TVmini ($300 MSRP). Extremely portable, the AC4TVmini is ideal for recording, jamming with friends, rehearsals, and more.

The Native Instruments Battery 3.1 update is now available for free download. On the Mac, it requires an Intel Mac and Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).

Griid is now available on the iTunes store for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. This app provides an interface to the Ableton Live Clip grid that allows users to control Ableton Live (running on a desktop or laptop) from the iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. Griid uses specially developed touch objects and simple gestures.

Debuting in April 2010, GrooveMaker for iPad now comprises 12 style-based versions including Free, Hip-Hop, House, Progressive-Tech House, Drums 'n' Bass, Club, Techno, Trance, Electro, Rock, Reggae and Reggaeton. All the packs for the iPhone are now optimized for the iPad.

Toontrack Music has teamed up with Steven Slate to offer producer presets designed by Steven Slate for the sample engine and core sound library of Superior Drummer 2.

The HD I/O, HD OMNI and HD MADI offer customers flexible configurations to support a variety of analog and open digital formats for audio recording, mixing and playback. Additionally, new HEAT (Harmonically Enhanced Algorithm Technology) software allows customers to add the realism of vintage analog sound to the Pro Tools mixer via a single global control.

This 4-channel/eight-source stand-alone digital DJ mixer with MIDI interface and internal sound card offers real-time channel matrix operation, a slim tabletop design, state-of-the-art solid-steel chassis construction and quality sound. Also acting as an audio interface (with a 2-in/2-out stereo soundcard included), the DN-MC6000, when paired with the user’s software of choice, is a turnkey control solution for mobile DJs and party DJs.

The Wi-Tune Chromatic Tuner uses Korg's Wireless Tuning System™ to provide new freedom for the musician, eliminating the need to swap cables or patch in and out of the tuner during performance.

Created and produced by Doug Rogers and David Fridmann, The Dark Sideis a 40Gigabyte collection, including dark and eerie instruments and highly processed drums and percussion, basses, guitars, ethnic, keyboard, strings and effected instruments.

Presented in WAV file format, Artificial FX offers 119 sound effects, including explosions, glitch sounds, rumbles, impacts, circuit sounds, noises, organic FXs, synthetic textures, transition elements and more.

This new FM plug-in instrument includes Neuron Sequencer, which can trigger seven percussion-tuned FM voices and easily creates rhythms and patterns. Axon offers onboard effects and mixing, and full MIDI I/O capabilities (in the VST version only).

In this guitar software, the guitar player has been transformed into a step-sequencer system that allows control over playing styles, chord progressions and song structures. Guitarist can also be played live.Users can choose from factory chords or create their own on the fingerboard. The Action section allows users to tweak the sequence in real time and apply time-stretch, looper or other effects.

This extended version of the CabGrabber accommodates larger amps and cabinets. Constructed of durable aluminum tubing, the CabGrabber-XL is light weight but capable of holding microphones securely and firmly in place, including large-diaphragm condenser mics weighing up to 16 ounces.

Created by some of the most respected producers from a wide range of genres, each DJ MixTools package is broken down into long "progressive" mix stems including drum grooves, percussion tops, synths and bass lines

This 8-input, 6-output FireWire audio interface is designed for home-studio musicians wanting a simple but high-quality I/O device for a Mac or PC. Featuring two Saffire mic preamps, flexible I/O routing and 24-bit/96kHz AD/DA conversion with JetPLL jitter-elimination technology, it's capable of providing studio-quality recordings . 


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