VTC.com recently released a tutorial titled: Apple's Logic Pro 9. The course is an in depth look into the latest version of Logic Pro and covers all of the exciting new features.

To celebrate the release, Practical Sampling is offering a free copy of the CD-ROM to the 100th email submission. Submissions are being accepted at www.practicalsampling.com and only one submission per email address is allowed. The tutorial is over 10 hours long and features 100+ individual movies. Practical Sampling will announce the winner when the 100th submission is received and will contact the winner to arrange shipping. The price of shipping will be paid for by Practical Sampling.

Now you can get all Soundprovocation products for the discounted price - up to 50 %.

Also, Soundprovocation wants to return the favor to all customers of this year, and offers a FREE download of "Holiday Gift Pack", which contains five previously unreleased EXS24 and KONTAKT instruments/patches.

If you have already purchased any product from Soundprovocation this year, you'll get the e-mail message with download instructions soon.

Every new buyers until 2010 January 15, besides discounted prices, will also get the "Holiday gift pack" for FREE!

The "Holiday Gift Pack" contents :

1. "Flux" - pad synth.
2. "Ruler Bass" - inspiring bass synth.
3. "Rusty Violin" - fat and charismatic instrument.
4. "Drums of life" - drum set, made of living room sounds.
5. "Ancient Freshness" - one more unique synth.

Sample format: 24 bit 44100 Hz .aiff

Package size: 93 MB

You can listen how it sounds here :

MusicLab has released RealLPC, a new virtual guitar instrument plug-in which aims to bring the Les Paul Custom Guitar sound to your studio, virtually.

RealLPC is a sample-based virtual instrument with an innovative approach to guitar sound modeling and guitar techniques emulating on a standard MIDI keyboard. It provides incredible playability based on the unique performance modes and easy-to-use keyboard layout as well as the advanced key/pedal/velocity switch system allowing a keyboardist to perform guitar parts with a whole new level of realistic expression. RealLPC covers practically all sounds, articulations, and techniques a professional guitarist can produce on their Les Paul, including mute, bridge mute, harmonics, pinch harmonics, unison bend, strumming, picking, chord chopping, ...

Waldorf announces the release of Waldorf Largo V1.5.0.

This free update for all Largo customers comes with a completely new Browse page for easy sound administration, a new 6-stage Chorus effect, new parameters in the Oscillator section and in the Arpeggiator. Furthermore it fixes several bugs reported by beta testers and customers and Largo now runs in Pro Tools with the FXpansion VST2RTAS Wrapper. Included are more than 450 new sounds from highly acclaimed sound programmers.

Cableguys has released version 2.0 of VolumeShaper, adding a free-running option for its LFO and a refined user interface.

VolumeShaper is an innovative VST plug-in that lets you automate the volume of any signal in a flexible way, yet very precise and easy to use.
The plug-in allows you to easily draw your own waveforms with precision and ease. Using the waveform drawing tool, you can construct your own modulation curves in an intuitive manner.

Accurate and hard-synced cuts to your audio signal can be done just as well as long evolving transitions.

Small corrections, modifying the volume shape of any input signal, such as isolating, fading or muting a piece from a drumloop, can all be done in a second. VolumeShaper 2 also makes an excellent tremolo unit, or can provide the typi ...