Sonic Reality unveils a new expandable studio instrument plug-in : Infinite Player. Powered by Native Instruments' Kontakt Player, this new plug-in and stand-alone music software is made to be infinitely expandable with fresh new sample content from Sonic Reality including the Studio ProFiles series multi-track drum kit and groove collections.

Infinite Player features high resolution 24 bit fidelity, virtually unlimited polyphony, up to 64-part multi-timbrality, advanced surround capabilities and integrated effects including convolution and master effects. It also has the unique ability to read Sonic Reality's proprietary multi-channel Rex 2 files which are mapped across the keyboard in Kontakt's Beat Mode which offers for the first time real audio drum grooves with both the ability to lock to your host's tempo and also the ability to mix the discrete mics of the recorded drums. Users of Kontakt software can also read Infinite Player libraries inside full Kontakt and the individual rex grooves can also be read by any software that supports Rex 2 files such as ProTools, Cubase, Logic, Stylus RMX, Reason, Project 5 and more.

Infinite Player will be available world-wide as a download before the end of the month, it can be purchased in combination with Sonic Reality sound collections such as the Studio ProFiles Drum Masters Silver, Gold and Platinum packages and others at a variety of prices ranging from $199 to $995.

CME has announced latest version 2.0 firmware for their UF series MIDI keyboards. The major changes of the firmware are :

- Adds Pro Tools modes in U-CTRL function,
- Adjusts the MIDI Route.
- Optimises the keyboard's velocity sensitivity.
- Optimises the keyboard's operating and display manner
- Rectifies the bank number errorwhen sending the tone data
- Stabilises the pitch bend transferring data.
- Fixes known bugs and errors

The full update is free. Users can download it from CME website and select the relevant model to upgrade.

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British hardware manufacturers DAV Electronics have just released the Broadhurst Gardens No. 7 (or BG7 for short), a 1U rackmountable channel strip that features a mic and instrument preamplifier, plus a compressor/limiter section.

Derived from the designs of the Decca Record Company, the BG7 compressor/limiter section is a replication of the Decca 1977 circuit, "brought up to date" by DAV. The features of the microphone amplifier consist of low noise and low distortion. It offers switched gain controls for high accuracy level setting (4 dB steps), D.I. Input (high impedance), level indication, high pass filter (switchable), 26dB pads (switchable), phase reversal and 48v phantom supply (switchable).

The BG7 is available now at a suggested retail price of £599 ($880/€700).

Audjoo has released Helix, a Wave-Table-Shaping, Phase modulation, Virtual Analog, Physical Modelling Hybrid Synthesizer with high sound quality, massive modulation, creative audio-routing and many built-in effects.

Features :

- CPU-friendly.
- 800+ Presets from BigTone and others.
- up to 64x Unison per voice.
- Wave-table-shaping oscillators.
- 17 filter types.
- 10 distortion types.
- All stereo signal path.
- Deep Modulation.
- Arpeggiator.
- Built in effects.

Priced at $149, Helix is now available as a VST instrument for Windows and Mac OS X Universal Binary.