Sound Technology, UK distributors of Propellerhead's Reason software, are offering a free laptop bag (worth £49) to anyone who buys Reason Premium Edition between the 1st and 31st March 2009.

How it works :

1. buy Reason Premium Edition from a retailer in the UK or Eire
2. print out a claim form and return to Sound Technology with a dated copy of your receipt
3. sit back and wait for your bag to arrive !

Applied Acoustics Systems announces that its Modeling Collection bundle will be expanded to include their upcoming Strum Electric GS-1 electric guitar track production plug-in to be released next April. With this new addition, the Modeling Collection will bundle six Professional Series instruments and will retail for $599.

Starting today, and until the release of Strum Electric GS-1, all customers purchasing the Modeling Collection at the current price of $499 will receive a free copy of Strum Electric GS-1 when it will be released. This prerelease promotion also applies to the various Modeling Collection upgrades.

Visit the Modeling Collection page at the address below for all the details :

SoundLib has released G-Player, the first native Giga player for Mac OS X. G-Player was designed to play the large orchestral sound libraries and supports disk streaming, dimensions, keyswitches and layered instruments.

G-Player is available in VST, AU and Standalone versions for $129. A demo version is also available.

For the latest open beta release of MusicBeam, more beta testers are needed.

MusicBeam is an AU/VST plugin for online music collaboration. By using MusicBeam users can automatically exchange what they recorded in their sequencer and hear everyone elses tracks in sync to their own sequencer. No more bouncing, compressing and emailing your tracks to your bandmates ! MusicBeam does it all for you, in near-real-time.

Register as beta tester, download the latest version and help improving the software at :

WaveMachine Labs is proud to introduce its first official Drumagog sample library. Created by the same people who developed Drumagog, Percussion eXtras is a GOG-format collection of percussion instruments from around the world. Use them as stand-alone replacement sounds, or mix them with your existing drums for unique sonic combinations. From delicate triangles to the thunderous low-end of an 18" Djembe, Percussion eXtras offers new artistic flavors to the Drumagog user.

Produced by WaveMachine Labs and John Emrich, Percussion eXtras contains 44 individual GOG files, with 78 different positional groups. All together the library contains over 1600 individual percussion samples, each performed, recorded, and edited by John Emrich.

$59.95 retail price, available for both Mac and Windows in GOG-format only.

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