East West has just released Quantum Leap Ministry of Rock, a huge 18 gigabyte collection of rock drums, basses and guitars.

Features :

- Legato bass and guitar samples
- Legato and staccato repetitions
- Truly playable rhythm guitars and leads, clean and distorted release samples
- Guitars and basses recorded in dual amp configurations
- Software allows the user to choose amplifier, or mix the sound from both amps
- Dynamic bass that can play everything from ballads to the most hardcore music imaginable
- Round robin bass drums, snares, toms and hats
- Performance drum hits extracted from live playing
- Approximately 18 gigabytes of rock drums, basses and guitars recorded in the EASTWEST Studio 2
- Superior reverb impulses recorded by Prof. Keith O. Johnson and Nick Phoenix

Ministry of Rock is available now for Mac OS X Universal Binary in VST, AU and stand-alone formats and has an MSRP of $495 (€370.00), plus tax. For more information, please visit the link below.

Ohm Force has released Mac OS X updates for their entire plug-in range (excluding Ohmicide). The new versions bring the following improvements:

- Corrected a memory leak in standalones.
- Some crash possibilities in case of host misconduct removed.
- UB plug-ins now supports PowerPC and Intel based platforms running Mac OS X 10.3.9 and later.
- Corrected 10.4.9 AU bug.
- Corrected GUI problems on VST & RTAS.
- VST support improved.

ChocolateAudio announces Mock Bass, an advanced electric bass library. Sampled from a liuther's custom made electric bass made by Jacaranda, this download-only product is available in two packages :

- Mock Bass DI : features the DI sound only, recorded Apogee converters and Millennia TD-1 direct to digital at 96 Khz, released at 44.1 This set weighs about 335 MB and requires just 38 MB of preload in Kontakt 2.2.

- Mock Bass Production Pack : features the DI sound altogether with a Rock and a Round sounds (different sample packs).

Mock Bass Rock is reamped using an Ampeg rig with a Neumann mic to a Focusrite pre and into an Apogee converter at 96 Khz while Mock Bass Round is reamped using a Mark Bass rig with an AKG mic fed into a Focusrite pre and an Apogee converter at 96 KHz.
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MHC has announced a 50% discount on all their products in June through a "Coupon code". MHC is the editor of several virtual instruments (Industrial Tones, Pianos, Ambient Keys, Fatsondo...) and also effect plugins such as Space Effect, Voxynth, etc... They are available as VST and AU formats.

Average price of one plugin : $139.
MP3 demos are waiting for you on their website.

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