PreSonus has just released a demo version of its long-awaited new music creation and production application for Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista : Studio One.

This version will allow you to try Studio One Pro for a period of 30 days, after which the software will require purchase and activation to continue running. You will not be able to save documents or export audio in the Demo version. Otherwise, you will be able to explore all of the features Studio One Pro has to offer.

Please note that Studio One is still unavailable for purchase. You can make a request for the Demo version at :

"Ethnic Horns" by Soundprovocation is a sampler instrument, made from sampled full set of ancient wooden Lithuanian horns. The main goal was to recreate natural sound and subtleties of these instruments.

The idea was successfully realized by recording 225 different samples total.
Each note of two recorded octaves has 9 variations of around five-second sample. Every time you press a single note, you will hear a different variation. This gives natural feel of the instrument.

"Ethnic Horns" is dedicated to movie, theatre soundtrack producers and composers with special needs to add something unordinary and extra natural to their creations.

"Ethnic Horns" is available for samplers EXS24 and Kontakt at an introductory price of €9.99 instead of €14.99. This offer is valid until the end of September.

Allen & Heath is proud to be shipping the new Xone:22, a 2-channel analog DJ mixer offering high quality audio and a professional feature set at a price of $399. The smallest and most affordable Xone mixer to date, the Xone:22 is equipped with Allen & Heath's characteristic sound and build quality, plus professional-grade features that would normally be found in the booth of a top-rated club.

At the heart of the feature set is a "lite" version of the analog Voltage Control Filter (VCF) system offering low-pass and high-pass filters, frequency sweep and 'mild to wild' resonance control. There is also a soft-switched effects loop to bring in external effects, which are routed back in through the filter system.

The new mixer has two stereo channels with dual phono/line inputs, and th ...

Lexicon announces the release of new Windows and Mac software drivers for the I·ONIX Series of Desktop Recording Interfaces.

With the new 64-bit Windows driver, these interfaces now operate seamlessly on computers running Windows 64-bit XP and Vista operating systems. The new Mac driver improves performance and now supports all Mac computers operating on OS X 10.4.9 or higher regardless of whether they are based on a PowerPC or Intel processor.

After releasing Cubase 5 and Cubase Studio 5 in the first half of this year, Steinberg now is also introducing the fifth version of Cubase Essential.

Offering a streamlined feature set that offers newcomers to Cubase a comprehensive set of composing, recording, editing, and mixing capabilities, the new version includes a range of functions from its sibling, Cubase 5.

Supporting Mac OS X 10.5, Windows Vista, and Windows XP, Cubase Essential 5 ($195.99/€149.75) will be shipping to European dealers and international Steinberg distributors, so availability may vary regionally. Cubase Essential 5 may also be purchased through the Steinberg online stores.