E-mu are currently giving away their Proteus VX 2 synth
Free download of E-MU Proteus soft synth 
Ableton updates Live and Ableton Suite to v8.0.8 
MOTU compatibility with Windows 7 
Windows 7 has been available for a while now as the pre-installed OS on various new PCs, but the official ship date for accross-the-board availability is October 22.
Elysia announces the Mpressor software plugin 
Elysia informs us that the public beta of the software emulation of the Mpressor is starting in a few days.
Automap 3.3 released 
Novation have anounced the release of Automap to version 3.3. Version 3.3 now has the following features.
Apple updates Logic to 9.0.1 & 9.0.2 
Apple have anouced an update to Logic 9, well actually two but 9.0.1 first.
Online Audio Editor 
Your can remix music tracks and audio clips. Apply sound effects and record your own voice or instruments!
AmpliTube Power Group - 3 products for the price of 1 
Over 2,000 users have participated in IK's AmpliTube Power Group promotion in less than two months, and they have been rewarded with a 2x1, and now 3x1 by simply buying and registering just one “...
Step Sequencers in Live: How-to, Free Rack Download 
The Covert Operators and Bjorn Vayner have become my favorite go-to source for wild Ableton Live hacks.
A Velocity Sensitive Virtual Drum Machine For The iPhone 
Check this video out - Wave Machine Labs has introduced iGOG (App Store link) – a $4.99 massive multisampled drum machine for the iPhone that offers velocity sensitive response!
How does the music-identifying app Shazam work its magic? 
First, a short explanation of how Shazam works. The company has a library of more than 8 million songs, and it has devised a technique to break down each track into a simple numeric signature
Focal Professional launches CMS SUB
The CMS SUB by Focal is an active subwoofer designed to extend the frequency response of the CMS studio monitors.
Iosono, Todd-AO Launch First 3-D Sound Mixing Facility 
Iosono, Todd-AO Launch First 3-D Sound Mixing Facility
Audiomulch 2.0 released 
Three years in development and Audiomulch 2.0 has finally been released. Testing out the trail version is easy to see why it’s been a long wait.
Multitouch Sound Crunching with Gestures, 3D Waveforms 
What if you could mash, mangle, mush, and morph sounds with your fingers on a screen, watching the waveforms dance in response in three dimensions?
Sonnox introduces Restoration Plug-Ins at AES 
Sonnox is introducing a revolutionary suite of audio restoration plug-ins at their 127th AES Convention.
Music Created by Learning Computer Getting Better 
A retired professor of music at the University of California Santa Cruz, Cope has spent almost 30 years at the forefront of synthetically composed music.
Virsyn releases KLON - The Vocal Designer 
The heart of the vocal designer plugin KLON is a harmonic pitch shifter for natural pitch and formant manipulation of vocal sounds in realtime.
IK Multimedia releases GrooveMaker Techno and Trance for the iPhone/iPod Touch 
IK Multimedia has announced the release of two new applications for the iPhone/iPod Touch: GrooveMaker Techno and GrooveMaker Trance.
Jonathan Schmid-Burgk updates VisualVox polyphonic 
Jonathan Schmid-Burgk has updated VisualVox polyphonic. This new version manipulates notes completely in the frequency-domain.
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