Intua announces BeatMaker which introduces a new generation of mobile instruments and music creation software. Inspired by hardware beatboxes, loop samplers and software sequencers, it combines them to turn your iPod Touch / iPhone into a unique, inspirational software instrument.

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Sinevibes announces a new line of sound expansion libraries for the Roland Fantom-G workstations. The GX Series covers a wide range of instruments, from drums to synth.

A total of 8 titles are planned with prices ranging from $29/€23 to $39/€29. You can pre-order the first 4 expansion libraries now, including Drums, Synth, Bass and Atmospheres, as well as a bundle for $79/€59 (37% off). The libraries will begin shipping starting from 20th June. Note that audio examples are available.

TL Audio unveils their latest offering in the new Ebony Series during the highly anticipated first annual London International Music Show (LIMS).

The latest product is a Discrete Class A 16:2 Summing Mixer, housed in a 2U rack unit and with an additional switchable and variable tube stage on the master output. Combining Balanced I/O on XLR and D-Sub connectors with analogue VU metering and balanced insert points, the beautifully named Ebony Summer is sure to impress.

More information on this product coming soon.

AudioWarrior has just announced the release of the Studio Drums Plugin, a collection of 24-bit stereo precision tuned and expertly programmed drums and percussion in a plugin that works in everything including a standalone version that requires no host sequencer.

Expensive hardwood acoustic kits, cheap trashy low-fi street kits, electronic kits, and world percussion sounds from Nepal, Africa, India, and Ireland in an affordable 32-bit studio quality state of the art plugin with built in effects, stereo to 5.1 surround output, and 256 voice polyphony.

Studio Drums Plugin is available now for Mac OS X and Windows in VST, AU and Standalone versions for a fee of $49.

Allen & Heath unveils the ZED-R16 which combines an analogue recording mixer with a FireWire soundcard, MIDI controls and 'home-studio' routing so you can build tracks in the studio, record live gigs, mix-down and remix.

The ZED-R16 can be employed as a standard analogue mixer while recording multi-track via FireWire or ADAT, a traditional inline mixer recording with send and return per channel via FireWire, or as a MIDI controller via switchable channel faders. It features 16 mono inputs, 2 stereo inputs, a high quality dual mic pre-amp, 4-band fully-parametric EQ, 4 auxes, a stereo bus, 2 stereo returns, and 18+18 FireWire I/O and 8+8 ADAT I/O.

The ZED-R16 can be employed as a standard analogue mixer while recording multi-track via FireWire or ADAT, a traditional inline mixer recor ...