The legendary Alan Parsons, renowned for his work with The Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Hollies, Al Stewart, Paul McCartney, the Alan Parsons project and so much more, is coming to visit SAE Institute London. Alan will present a masterclass to SAE students and members of the SAE Alumni association on Thursday 6th November at SAE Institute in Kingsland Road. He will talk about his past and current work and techniques, enriched with examples. There will also be the unique opportunity to interact with Alan Parsons in a Q&A session.

Only a limited number of places are available for members of the public for £50.

Virtuasonic has just released Choir Breath, a new sample library consisting exclusively of choral breath samples, produced for composers that already own a choir library and are in search of tools for improving the impact of their MIDI mock-ups with additional details.

Specifications :

- Mixed Choir, Women, Men, Young Choir.
- Close/Far presets.
- Sampling rate: 24-bit / 44.1 KHz.
- Total size: 190 MBytes (over 420 samples).
- Formats: KONTAKT 2 / 3, WAV 24bit.

Pricing : €17.95 (excl. VAT), $24.95

FracturedSoftware has announced the immediate availability of Rondo 2.8, an update to its award winning MIDI Player for OS X. This latest version of Rondo has a number of interface improvements, an integrated help file and the ability to specify the absolute rate at which a MIDI file plays.

Rondo is unique among MIDI players as it has been designed to help non-score reading musicians follow the music as it plays. Its horizontal live-playing pianos located directly over vertical scrolling note columns make it very easy to see what notes are about to play while the innovative visual track filter allows you to visually isolate a track without affecting the audio. Users who just enjoy listening to MIDI files will also find Rondos simple and uncluttered interface a delight to use. Rondo has a set of intuitive controls to play, pause, fast forward and rewind your music while individual track muting allows you to switch off unwanted tracks. Other features include the ability to jump to a specific bar or section and play through an external sound module or keyboard connected to your computer.

GenoQs has released v1.60 of the operating system for their hardware sequencers Octopus and Nemo.

The new OS is a significant leap forward and it includes numerous new features, and workflow improvements. Too many to list here really, but all minutiously captured in the latest release notes document. Their main page links to all that information and more.

Discover what those units are able to do on these videos at 440tv...

Do you remember few month ago when I was talking about the Korg DS-10, a music-creation software for the Nintendo DS based upon the famous Korg MS-10 synthesizer ? Well, this little software is now available in Europe !

Wanna know how it sounds like ? Take a look at those videos on 440tv then...