Camel Audio have released the second in their series of add on sound banks for Cameleon 5000 additive synth. The add on sound bank is called Biomechaniks, and was programmed by designer Kolin Biomechanoid. It comprises of a collection of 128 futuristic sounds. The bank includes textures, effects, basses, pads and atmospherics.

Biomechaniks costs $24.95 or 19.95 euros. You also can download free demo presets or listen to an MP3 at the Camel Audio website.

It's new, it's fun ! Apple today unveils iPod socks. Now you can dress your iPod up in any one of six vibrant color socks (green, purple, grey, blue, orange, and pink). This set of knit socks provides a stylish, fun, and practical way to protect your iPod.

They cost $29.

Bass Tuner is an easy, hands-free way to tune your bass guitar. Listens while you tune and visually guides you through the tuning process. This is an all-new rendition of Rustle Laidman's famous Bass Tuner, completely rewritten for Mac OS X. This new version features : added Low-B and Hi-C and pdated the eSellerate engine.

XA1 is aN AudioUnit plug-in made by Peter Mark. Unlike the wast majority of analyzers that use FFT for analyzing the audio, XA1 use bandpass filters as most of the hardware devices. Therefore XA1 has a very musical display, the algorithm used for analyzing has the same resolution across the spectrum, so the response in the low end of the spectrum is just as fast as the high end response unlike FFT based analyzers that has very bad timing in the low end.

This new version fixes several bugs. It's available in the MM softwares section.

Here is a great link for Ableton's Live user's. They are free and intuitive tutorials on how to use Live in different situations. Many users just don't know there are many ways to use this powerful software. here you can see how a guitarist, a DJ or a Reason user would approach Live. Technically speaking, you can use Live as an arrangement tool, an effect device, or for creating ambient guitar loop collages. And this is just the beginning of what is possible.

Read tricks like :
- Get Your Guitar Groove On
- Routing: Creative Flexibility
- DJing with Live 3
- A Loop is what you make of it
- and many more...

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