Following eSoundz most successful Group Buy, the Ultimate Studio Drums bundle now has a sequel. The follow up title bringing you even more Drum Masters 2 Signature Kits, more Midi Grooves and more Convolution Studio Ambience all to expand your Infinite Player/Kontakt Player set up.

• 0 - 20 : $149.00
• 21 - 50 : $139.00
• 51 - 100 : $129.00
• 101 - 150 : $119.00
• 151 - 200 : $109.00
• 201 + : $99.00

What You Get :

Everything in the "Ultimate Studio Drums Bundle II: The Sequel Group Buy" is downloadable.

• 25 Drum Masters 2 Signature Drum Kits featuring drum kits of legendary drummers such as John Blackwell (Prince, Diddy), Jerry Marotta (Peter Gabriel), Danny Gottlieb (Pat Metheny Group), Bill Bruford (Yes, King Crimson), Nick D Virgil ...

Steinberg announces that its prices for both the MR816 CSX and MR816 X FireWire interfaces have been lowered by about 20% in selected countries*. While the pair have witnessed a remarkable success since their introduction in 2008, an increase in efficiency of production was noted over the last year which allows Steinberg now to adjust the pricing accordingly and pass the benefit on to its valued customers.

The pro-audio MR816 units combine FireWire interfacing with Advanced Integration technology and are the focus of latency-free recording and monitoring environment, taking full advantage of Steinberg's renowned Cubase music production system.

* Selected countries are Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Norway, Finland, Denmark, UK & Ireland, France, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Austria, South Africa, Poland, Israel, Russia, Greece, Turkey, Slovakia, Czech Rep, Portugal, Cyprus, UAE, Hungary, Lithuania, Estonia, Croatia, Slovenia, Iceland, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, Bosnia, Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Malta, Lebanon , Mexico, India, Kazakhstan, Martinique and USA.

Waves Audio unveils the HLS Channel and PIE Compressor, developed in association with legendary producer/engineer Eddie Kramer. In modeling the vintage Helios console channel and Pye compressor, Waves has recreated two essential elements of the recording chain at London's acclaimed Olympic Studios, where Kramer engineered and produced scores of historic recordings that are now considered part of the essential classic rock canon.

HLS Channel
The HLS Channel was carefully modeled on a Helios mixing console just like the one Kramer used for sessions at Olympic Studios. (In fact, for the modeling, Waves actually managed to get their hands on the Helios from the Rolling Stones mobile truck, which was

Serafine FX Tron is an Infinite Player virtual instrument powered by Kontakt that works as stand alone software for the Mac or PC or as a plug-in for every major DAW such as Logic, ProTools, Cubase and many others. It comes with a broad range of sound effects for film, tv, games, radio, music and any multimedia project all in one powerful "Sound Effects Workstation".

From classic sci-fi FX Frank Serafine created for movies like "The Hunt for Red October", "Lawnmower Man" and "Tron" to a wide assortment of first call sound effects that multi-media producers are looking for this workstation has it all. Within the included Infinite Player software sounds can be layered, processed, manipulated and "performed" from a midi keyboard to create an infinite amount of effects for any media or mus ...

Plogue has announced that it has released demo versions of its Chipsounds software synthesizer and updated it to v1.0.0.3, which offers an improved set of presets now covering an even wider range of classic video games sounds and tones.

The demo limitations are :

• Silence after a 15 minute session.
• No Save.

Chipsounds is currently available for Windows and Mac OS X in stand-alone and VST, AU and RTAS plug-in formats for $95/€65 (excl. VAT).