Ableton has updated Live 8 and Suite 8 to v8.0.2.

For more details upon the several bugfixes and improvements, please follow the link below :

Sweetwater Sound Inc., the third-largest music instrument and pro audio retailer in the world, has launched a donation campaign designed to provide music gear and instruments to people of limited means who have a genuine interest in music. Sweetwater regularly receives requests for donations of gear from soldiers overseas, disaster victims, foster parents, and nonprofit organizations. Named GearGift, the donation program encourages musicians from across the country to donate old instruments and recording and performance equipment. Sweetwater plans to refurbish the donated gear and ensure that it finds a new home with a deserving individual.

Those making donations to the program will be encouraged to designate the kind of recipient - a soldier, a child, a nonprofit, etc. Recipients, in turn, will be asked to respond with a thank you note and a photo or two. These responses will be forwarded to the donor.

For more information, please visit :

Tone2 are pleased to announce the 1.1 update of Warmverb, a modular multi effect plug-in with routable modules and 38 types of effects.

New features :

• Additional serial routing scheme.
• Bypass knobs for the effect modules.
• Three reflection effects: early reflection, reverse reflection and gated reflection.
• Aliaser effect.
• Trancegate effect.
• 43 new presets.

Changes and fixes :

• The vocoder is now MIDI controllable.
• Improved sound for 'Reverb large' and 'Reverb Ultra' effects.
• Improved performance.
• Stereo enhancer's left and right channels were swapped.

Warmverb Multi-FX is available for Mac OS X in VST and AU formats at a price of $79. The update is free for all registered users.

Detunized.com releases DTS002 - CINEMATIC, a collection of endlessly sustaining textures. Extension includes instruments specializing in the background colors of the soundstage.

Also introducing in this release : TICHRO, the Timevariant Chromatic Envelope Modulation principle. TICHRO instruments allow you to easily create :

- cluster sounds
- crossfade effects
- out-of-tune drones
- twinkle-melodies

DTS002 - CINEMATIC is available for Ableton, Reason and FL Studio via Paypal-Subscription or Paypal-Instant-Buy. More infos and sound examples at :

E-MU Systems has just announced that their new PIPEline wireless stereo audio transmitter/receiver system is now shipping. PIPEline can be used as a wireless transceiver for a guitar or keyboard, or as the basis of a wireless In-Ear monitoring system for a band.

Features :

• Mobile wireless, transmit or receive - Each PIPEline can be configured as a transmitter or receiver
• Audiophile quality sound with 48 kHz sample rate and 96dB signal-to-noise ratio of uncompressed audio
• PIPEline offers low latency so essential for live music applications. (6.6 ms in dedicated pairing mode /10ms in broadcast mode)
• 15 Meter (49 feet) Range
• The rechargeable battery lasts up to 10 hours in receive mode and 5 hours in transmit mode
• Analog/Digital inputs or outputs - The audio Flex-Jacks can be configured as inputs or outputs and they can also be setup to send or receive analog or digital S/PDIF
• Broadcast mode allows one transmitter and multiple receivers - In this mode, one transmitter can broadcast to multiple receivers
• PIPEline can be used as an "In-Ear" monitor system for your band, or broadcast to a class of students using headphones
• Power adapter/charger, cables and skin included

PIPEline is available at an estimated street price of €99.99/£99.99/$99.99 (including VAT).