Electronic Musician

Session Strings—for Kontakt 4 and the free Kontakt Player—re-creates a string ensemble comprising four violins, three violas, two celli and two double basses, captured and produced in one of Germany's most renowned recording studios by sampling expert Thomas Koritke's new sound design house e-instruments.

For just two more days, today and tomorrow (June 15), users can save 50 percent on all TC Electronic plug-ins for PowerCore and Pro Tools, plus a few additional ones.

The Galaxy II Grand Piano Collection has been upgraded to Galaxy II K4, which includes the new Kontakt Player 4, a new user interface, new features, better performance and additional samples.

Mark 7 electric piano is now available as a virtual instrument for UVI users. While sharing the same electro-mechanical design with its ancestors, this piano also offers new features.

Based on the same core engine as Denon DJ’s DN-X1700, the DN-X1600 is an affordable and versatile 4-channel digital mixer with a variety of features geared for DJs and electronic musicians. The DN-X1600 provides a MIDI control UI area for functionality and ease-of-use.

This bundle is a collection of Lexicon’s four most popular reverbs—Chamber, Hall, Plate and Room—with more than 220 studio presets from Lexicon’s library of sounds.

Sony Creative Software announces new versions of its consumer software product line. The new software lineup includes Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 10 video editing software, DVD Architect 5 DVD and Blu-ray Disc authoring software, Sound Forge Audio Studio 10 audio editing and production software and ACID Music Studio 8 music creation and mixing software. Along with the individual software applications, Sony has also introduced two specialized software bundles that provide comprehensive production tools, including the Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 10 Production Suite and the Imagination Studio Suite 2.

This handheld, easy-to-use, and affordable compact digital recorder provides crystal-clear audio quality, enhanced recording and editing features, and an extended battery life of more than 16 hours of recording time.

This collection of dark and inspiring samples from Jack Dunning (aka Untold) features a collection of beats, basses and sampled sounds with low-fi swing and cinematic atmospheres.

This special offers a 50-percent discount on all software updates and upgrades across the NI product range in June.

Session veteran and drummer behind the Songwriters Drumpack, Ricard "Huxflux" Nettermalm is back with a useful and well-played collection of more than 500 1-2 bar fills in different tempos and styles.

Stockholm, Sweden (May 28, 2010) – Propellerhead Software today announced it has started beta testing for Reason 5 and Record 1.5. This is the company’s biggest overhaul to its Record - Reason application family so far, introducing new instruments, effects, sequencing and more for composing, beatmaking, loop-mangling, vocal treatment, songwriting and music production.

The iPhone/iPad/iPod touch version of the PolyTune guitar tuner will be available on the App Store soon.

This high-quality sample collection with electronic and synthetic drum sounds is geared for club sound. Compiled with Battery 3 and Kontakt 3, these samples offer internal effects such as reverb, delay, compressor, bit-crusher, EQ and more.

The next release in the company's video tutorial series, "How to Make Dubstep in Cubase" features lessons on how to create ground-shaking sub-bass coupled with morphing distorted synth patterns in this step-by-step course.

VocALign Project 3 is a new VST 3 plug-in that integrates with Cubase 4 and 5, as well as Nuendo 4 and 5. VocALign automatically synchronizes two audio signals at the touch of a button.

Designed for use with Line 6's MIDI Mobilizer hardware accessory, MIDI Surface gives iPhone and iPod touch owners the ability to quickly and easily build their own fully customized MIDI control surfaces. Seamless touchscreen control of MIDI-enabled instruments such as keyboards, drum machines, software synths and more is now available in the palm of users' hands.

Designed for use with Line 6's MIDI Mobilizer hardware accessory, MIDI Surface gives iPhone and iPod touch owners the ability to quickly and easily build their own fully customized MIDI control surfaces. Seamless touchscreen control of MIDI-enabled instruments such as keyboards, drum machines, software synths and more is now available in the palm of users' hands.

For Windows and Mac, this first major update since 2004 of the popular low-cost software sampler turns the computer keyboard into a low -latency digital audio performance tool and playable instrument.

This effects processing suite for use with Kore 2 and the free Kore Player focuses on intense and intricate frequency manipulation to transform audio material.