Toontrack unveils a new virtual instrument called Beatstation.

Not much information available yet but as you will see on the official website, Beatstation plays percussion pads, lead instruments and melodic basses. It uses a flexible and skinnable open playing surface and it handles custom samples, MIDI grooves and .rex files.

Supreme Styles by Ueberschall is a library of urban music focusing on guitars for a range of styles such as HipHop, R&B, Club and Dancehall, as well as other surrounding genres.

Each of the 30 Construction Kits delivers a composed track, (including a main part, variation, intro/outro), which consist besides its instrument and drum and percussion loops, of several guitar loops. With a range of 58 bpm to 127 bpm, you'll find unique tracks, which have their own tension, feeling and style.

The 4GB package has more than 1600 loops and samples. Since the main focus of this library was set on guitars, there is a range of acoustic and amped guitars, such as rock guitars with and without distortion, flamenco guitars, classical nylon guitars, also guitars with wah-wah effect and more.

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MuTools announces that a pre-release version of Mu.Lab 3 is now available for download for Windows and Mac OS X.

Mu.Lab is an alternative, state of the art software application for OSX and Windows, transforming your computer into a rich virtual music studio.

New features :

• Function shortcuts: Map a key or MIDI event to almost any function.
• Step Recorder.
• Integrated virtual MIDI keyboard.
• Compressor Module.
• Sub Tracks.
• MIDI Clock Out.
• Relative audio file paths - easy to move sessions to another system.
• "Open Recent".
• Line tool for velocity beams.
• Improved sequence loop system.
• New comfortable editor zooming & scrolling system.
• New mouse tool system.

The latest addition to the Milab product family is the DC-96C, a side-addressed large membrane microphone designed mainly for studio work, but also for many live applications. The DC-96C is the latest version of the classic DC-96 series — originally released in 1967 — and has been updated with the latest technology. It shares most of its components, including the capsule, with the DC-196, but like previous DC-96 versions, it is cardioid only and has a single layer mesh grid.

The DC-96C is suitable for a wide range of applications, including studio vocals, acoustic guitar and piano, hi-hats and overheads, guitar amps and more.

Features:

• Hand built in Sweden
• Cardioid
• Large rectangular condenser capsule
• 12 dB(A) self noise
• Transformerless
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Waldorf has released the TechnoTrance Soundset for Largo.

Designed by Rob Lee, this soundset contains128 brand new presets and consists of Arps, fat basses, House and Techno chords, searing leads, evolving pads and more, thus giving you all the tools you need to start producing quality Techno and Trance music. The download package contains the soundset as FXB bank as well as all single sounds in FXP format.

Available now for €30.