Sugar Bytes has just announced that their Crazy Studiopic Competition has just started : people shall create crazy pics of themselves in the studio and the 10 best posts will win !

Send them your craziest studio pic and win some phantastic prizes from the Sugar Bytes product line. And that's not all : Each post will win a 20% discount code for the Sugar Bytes shop. Do it on your own, with your band or your posse, just let it flow ! But you have to do something special since boring pics and double posts will definately be ignored.

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Goldbaby has released Tape Drum Machines Vol 2 for Battery, Guru and Sample Pack. This new volume contains: 10 Drum Machines and 3 Tape Machines for a total of 1838 x 24 Bit drum samples, plus a bonus set of 36 x CR-78 Rex file loops...

Also released is a FREE samples pack: The Tape TR-66 and a set of CR-78 Rex files not included in TDMVol2.

For more information, please visit their website.

"MOTU is a company that has an uncanny ability to jam pack every single audio-visual in/out you can think of into a neat little portable Swiss-army-type black box. They're also known for their excellent digital converters and flagship sequencer, Digital Performer. Electric Keys is a sample-based vintage keyboard player, adding to their growing line up of software instruments, such as the MX4 synthesizer, Ethno Instrument, Mach Five, and Symphonic Instrument. Adding a vintage keyboard emulator to the list seems like a practical next step to help round out things."

Stanton unveils the SCS.3d a.k.a. DaScratch, the latest addition to the Stanton SC System control surface line. Basically DaScratch is a new touch sensitive MIDI controller especially designed for DJ. Long story short, if you want to learn more about this strange unit, better watch this video on 440tv.

DaScratch will be available soon at an estimated street price of €250.

D16 Group unveils Decimort, the next addition to its "Silver Line" of products.

Basically Decimort is a bit crusher plug-in. Electronic music producers have always been aware that classic samplers had a character and sound of their own. They added a "grit" and "colour" to the samples and loops they played back which made them sound "Fat" and sit well in a mix. This sound colouration was due to the encoding techniques, lower sample rates, lower bit rate and conversion circuits which these early samplers used. Decimort aims to recreate this colouration in order to add the vintage sampler magic to any loop, bass line or sound played through it.

Decimort will be available on the first week of October for both PC and Mac in VST and VST/AU formats respectively. It is currently available for pre-order priced at €29. Note that audio examples are available.