Ueberschall has released Caribbean Flavors Vol.1, a versatile and very colorful production tool with a pristine sound which is focused on 32 live-recorded Construction Kits from the Caribbean. This upscale production offers many styles of the modern and traditional Latin music culture such as:

• Bachata,
• Buleria,
• Merengue,
• Salsa,
• Porro,
• Champeta,
• Cumbia,
• Montuno,
• Guaguanco,
• Guajira,
• Merengue.

All material provides the live-emphasized essence to aid in production realism, artistry and identity. Sessions were recorded with world-class musicians from Puerto Rico, Columbia, Cuba, Venezuela and Germany. Arrangment and ideas come from the famous musician, percussionist and Grammy Award winner Nené Vásquez; ...

The Covert Operators announced a series of videos that are a complete guide to Ableton's MIDI Devices.

In 25 minutes time, you will learn what these devices do and in some cases you will see an example of how to put the features of a device into practice.

The Video Pack covers :

• The Chord Plugin (1:45)
• The Velocity Plugin (3:28)
• The Scale Plugin (4:10)
• The Note Length Plugin (7:00)
• The Random Plugin (4:29)
• The Key Zone Editor (2:39)
• Using a 3rd Party MIDI LFO in Live (1:43)

Pricing : 10€

Voxengo has updated its mastering limiter plug-in Elephant to version 3.5.

Changes :

• Issues with DP/Mac OS X fixed.
• Popup windows appearing behind the main window in Logic 9 fixed.

Propellerhead introduce Record U, the University of Recording. Record U is a series of articles created for those who are new to Propellerhead Record, or recording in general. All you need to follow along will be a full or demo version of Record, and — of course — something to record.

Recording Electric Guitar is the first article in the Record U series – this article will teach basic techniques for recording electric guitar, with information about mic'ing guitar amps, and also recording directly into Record with no microphones or amplifiers at all, using Record's built-in Line 6 Guitar Amp device.

Vienna Symphonic Library's suite of nine audio processing tools, Vienna Suite, has just been released as a boxed edition.

Up to now, it has been available as a download product only. Both the download product and the physical product contain exactly the same software, now at version 1.1, that includes Vienna's brand-new Convolution Reverb. Vienna Suite is the only boxed plug-in suite with full 64-bit capability. It retails at €445/$665 and is now available from the company's worldwide network of distributors and dealers.