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The Chime Tree is essential in most music productions for adding sparkle and motion. Chimes Collection has 54 24-bit stereo WAV files in different directions and speeds. In this library you will find the right Chime samples to fit the production.

You could use the WAV files in any host supporting the WAV format. We have also made mappings for HALion, Kontakt and Gigastudio (16bit) if you rather use a keyboard to triggering the sounds.

All formats are included when you buy the library.

Chimes Collection costs $19 (+$11 if you want it on CD-R).

For more information, visit their web site at www.precisionsound.net.

Yamaha Corporation of America is set to reveal their award-winning new music-making technology, Tenori-on, for the first time in the United States with launch events for the public and press in New York on April 16 and San Francisco on April 18, 2008.

Recently earning PC Magazine’s 25 Most Innovative Products Award at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Tenori-on literally means “sound in the palm of your hand” and is a twenty-first century digital musical instrument that is part art-piece, part must-have music gadget for the iPhone generation. The brainchild of Japanese Media Artist Toshio Iwai, Tenori-on emanates from his experiments with light shows and musical boxes, resulting in a hand-held, burnished magnesium-encased matrix of 256 LED buttons that glow as you access different sounds and textures (’Layers’) over an infinitely repeating sequence of notes. Read the rest of this entry »

iZotope, Inc., a leading innovator in audio signal processing technology, has released iZotope RX™ audio restoration plug-ins, featuring the essential tools for cleaning and restoring audio. Available for VST, Audio Unit, MAS, ProTools (RTAS, AudioSuite), and DirectX, the plug-ins are now included with the award-winning standalone version for the same price of $349. Current RX customers will be able to download the update free of charge. Read the rest of this entry »

The Carl Martin Echotone gives you 1200 milliseconds of vintage echo, foot-switchable Tap or Manual time settings, insert loop and switchable trail function at bypass. Imagine switching from a Manual time setting to a Tap time setting right at your feet, so you can play with your favourite slap-back echo on rhythm to a Tap (tempo) set echo for that massive lead or solo! Combine this with flavouring your echo by installing a chorus, flange or even distortion pedal in the insert loop, and the switchable trail function at bypass, and you have what our test players are calling ‘the best echo they have ever heard’! Read the rest of this entry »

30 hard hitting multi-velocity professional kits cover an incredibly broad spectrum of musical styles. From authentic acoustic kits to contemporary electronic collections and ethnic percussion from around the world.

Complete and PERFECTLY TUNED world famous Maple & Birch Drum Kits with DEEP Bass Drums, Toms, Side Sticks, ChinaCymbals, Splash Cymbals, Ride Cymbals, Crisp-SnappingSnares, Rim hits, and more. Add to that 12 WORLD PERCUSSION DRUMMING SOFTWARE instruments: Read the rest of this entry »

Orange amps, as part of their 40th anniversary in 2008 have re-created their iconic Orange Psychedelic logo from their original new Compton Street shop front. This is the first time the logo has been used in any form since the shop closed in 1973.

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Based upon Focal proprietary driver technology, the new CMS 65 and CMS50 are two new active nearfield studio monitors that offers outstanding performance and exceptional versatility in a price segment that rarely sees any breakthrough innovation.

The superbly finished aluminium die-cast cabinets are bringing unconditional rigidity while internal damping and bracing sets the monitor free from unwanted colorations. Read the rest of this entry »

SKB Corporation, a leader in the protection and transport of musical instruments, electronics and gear, has begun shipping its new 6U 20″ rolling Shock Rack case (model number 3SKB-R06U20W). The new unit enhances previous SKB offerings by adding wheels and a sturdy pull handle, as well as updated TSA lock trigger latches and upgradeable elastomeric shocks.

As with all SKB shockmount cases, the rolling Shock Rack provides a rotationally molded tough shell with integrally molded valiance, and it comes standard with eight elastomeric shocks (load range 40 to 150 lbs). The load range can be enhanced by adding an additional shock on each mounting point (load range 300 lbs). Read the rest of this entry »

DiGiCo will exhibit at the upcoming at NAB Show 2008, Las Vegas, NV (April 14-17 2008), Booth #N9133, along with its U.S. distributor Group One, Ltd. Spotlighting the compact Soundtracs DS-00 digital console, NAB will also be the first unveiling in the U.S. of DiGiCo’s progressive SD7 system featuring ‘Stealth Digital Processing’. Hailed as the future of digital mixing technology, come see what the media has been buzzing about since the console’s preview in Europe last year.

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The downloadable sample collection set features the most recording drums of all time — the Yamaha Recording Customs. The Birch shells offer crisp highs and a tight low-end, without a touch of processing. Not that any was needed with these beautiful sounding drums, made only better by a great drum room. An ideal kit for all styles of rock, country and country-rock music, but equally at home for rock and alt-rock styles. Read the rest of this entry »