When I first heard that BBE were to release their Sonic Maximizer (again) in plug-in format I got interested. I have never had the chance to try the Sonic Maximizer, neither in hardware or software form, and wanted to know what the fuzz was about.
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Ueberschall has announced the availability of the follow-up to Trance ID. Trance ID2 incorporates elements from Neo-, Electro-, and Tech-Trance, as well as Progressive and Minimal.
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Time+Space is running a summer special with “buy one, get one free” on selected products.

Check out the full list at Time+Space website.

The wait is over, Superior Drummer 2.0 is now finally shipping. The same day I asked the good people at Toontrack when it starts shipping I also happened to get a press release from Time+Space that it has started shipping.

Toontrack

Overloud has released version 1.5 of Breverb, and I haven’t even tried the first version yet! Here’s the new features (according to their website).

• New set of dynamic, level driven, parameters
• Standalone version both for Mac OS X and PC
• New additional presets
• Improved automation on the 6 sliders
• Improved stability of RTAS Mac

Overloud

Pettinhouse has annonced WarmJazz guitar, the a guitar sample library dedicated to Jazz, smooth jazz, bossanova and old funk for Kontakt 2 or 3.
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Native Instruments has announced the release of Urban Arsenal, a collection of sound aimed for contemporary hip-hop and similar music styles. Urban Arsenal provides a assortment of hip-hop grooves, drum kits and instrument sounds for use in Kore 2 and the free Kore Player.
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Native Instruments has launched a special offer called “Hot Summer Special”, giving people the opportunity to purchase the DJ software Traktor 3 for half the regular price.

The “Hot Summer Special” offer for TRAKTOR 3 is valid from July 1st to September 30th, and is available from authorized dealers and in the NI Online Shop for a suggested retail price of $119 / EUR 99.

Native Instruments

A software Tenori-On? My first thought was “meh”, but since I didn’t find any fun news to update with (which was what I was supposed to do) I figured I’d put blogging aside for this morning and instead try this version of the Tenori-On called Weepr… And also speculate a little about what we can use from this.
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Digidesign has announced that the full version of Transfuser is now available. Transfuser includes nearly 2 GB of loops and phrases to get you started with, but as you know if you’ve used the public beta you can also load your own loops to it.
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