Big Fish Audio brings you the latest addition to their World/Ethnic section with Earth Tone, a warm, enthusiastic library full of diverse and classic ethnic percussion instruments, including the bata drum, frame drum, hydraulic triangle, steel slip drum, talking drum, timbau, hadjini, large ocean drum and many, many more. Add a splash of the Middle East to your hip hop tracks, or a hint of South America to your jazz tunes. Earth Tone is a gateway to all things ethnic percussion.

Contents :

- 6.1 GB on Disc (2.47 GB of 24-bit WAV files)
- 922 WAV loops on Disc
- There are 12 loop performance folders in tempos ranging from 72BPM to 200BPM.
- Format : Apple Loops/REX/WAV/RMX/Acid

Earth Tone is available now at a price of $99.95. Note that an audio example is also available here :

Dramastic Audio unveils the Obsidian, a stereo buss compressor for the 500 format. We don't know much about the specs for now, only that it will have transformers on both inputs and outputs and stepped controls.

Check out this kick overview :


The Obsidian will carry an MSRP of $2495.

Future Retro has just announced the release of the Orb sequencer.

The Orb is an easy to use, single track, step-based digital sequencer, ideal for controlling Future Retro's XS semi-modular synthesizer as well as other analog CV/Gate or MIDI synthesizers. The Orb is also a perfect solution for controlling 303 clones which often lack the essential sequencer.

Housed in a rugged aluminum chassis, the Orb continues Future Retro's tradition of hand-building quality products renowned for their unique sound, innovative design, and modern style. Unlike linear-style step sequencers, the Orb's circular interface makes it easy to divide a measure of music into equal parts, as well as intuitively display patterns as cyclic loops playing forward, in reverse, or remixed.

There are 256 recordable patterns available, each recording note duration, pitch, accent , glide, loop point, time signature, and swing amount. Pattern editing features include copy/paste, pattern shifting, pattern transposing, multiple pattern cueing for chaining patterns together live, and LED chase. In addition, all pattern editing and recording can be done while the sequencer is running, and it will automatically save all your edits so you don't have to stop creating !

The Orb is available now for $550 USD.

Cluster Sound launches Minimalogic, a multi-format library designed for Minimal productions: 500 Mb of worldclass loops & samples, throbbing basslines, fluid percussion loops, micro breaks, incisive construction loops, electro rithms and much more. In addition to the loops the library contains also their sliced versions (Rex2 / Live Drum Racks), unusual sets of stylish multi-sample synthesizers and amazing drumkits that will allow users to create customized sequences.

Specification :

- Size: 490 Mb (Zip: 375 Mb)
- Content: 510 Wav — 220 Rex2 — 440 DRacks — 400 instruments
- 60 MLog Kicks loops (20 x WAV/REX/Dracks)
- 60 MLog Snare loops (20 x WAV/REX/Dracks)
- 60 MLog HHat loops (20 x WAV/REX/Dracks)
- 60 Fluid Perc loops (20 x WAV/REX/Dracks)
- 60 Low Synth Perc loops (20 x WAV/REX/Dracks)
- 60 Micron Beat loops (20 x WAV/REX/Dracks)
- 60 Cycled Synth loops (20 x WAV/REX/Dracks)
- 60 Electric loops (20 x WAV/REX/Dracks)
- 90 Minimalogic loops A (30 x WAV/REX/Dracks)
- 90 Minimalogic loops B (30 x WAV/REX/Dracks)
- 288 One shot WAV Samples
- Impulse: 100 Devices & Clips
- Simpler: 90 Synth Instruments
- Sampler: 90 Synth Instruments
- Kontakt: 30 Compatibility Synths / 47 Drumkits
- NN-XT: 30 Compatibility Synths
- ReDrum: 20 Drumkits

Minimalogic is available now for €24.95. For more info and demo samples please visit the link below :

Nugen Audio has just updated Visualizer, its audio analysis tool.

Changes in v1.6 :

- Secondary level meter margins added to the level meters (RMS/Peak/K) when the secondary level meter option is active.
- A minor graphical refresh problem in Ableton Live has been fixed.
- The licensing system on Pro Tools within VST to RTAS wrappers has been improved.