Zero-G and Xfonic present LUMINOSO Live Violin Phrases Performed by Martin and Kate Richardson, two world-class violinists from the Liverpool Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and recorded in Liverpool's famous Parr Street studios, Luminoso: Live Phrases is a 15GB collection of thousands of live recorded 6-bar looped phrases compressed down to 7GB using Kontakt's lossless compression technology.

Despite recording only two players, the instrument cleverly layers up to 6 different bars in real-time for the effective sound of a 12-piece string section, or if you wish, you can dial it down to the sound of a solo violin.

An unprecedented gift to TimeFactor users, Dave Kilminster, lead guitarist for Roger Water's The Wall, and previously Dark Side of the Moon Live, has generously provided Eventide with the presets from Roger Water's The Wall Live which are now included in new TimeFactor units and free for current users.

Also, the best-selling Space stompbox now includes the Freeze function which allows users to freeze the reverb and continue to play on top of infinitely sustained reverb. Also included in this comprehensive upgrade are additional new sounds and system enhancements for ModFactor and PitchFactor as well.

All updates are free to existing users and will be included in new units shipped from Eventide.

Great news:

Sonnox is very close to releasing its first two AAX plug-ins:

- Oxford EQ
- Inflator.

We're in final beta stages; keep an eye on the Sonnox website or Facebook page for the release announcement.

Zynaptiq GmbH and Prosoniq Products Software GmbH announce they have recently struck an agreement that grants Zynaptiq the exclusive and transferrable usage, licensing, modification and intellectual property rights to various Prosoniq products and technologies that were put on hold during the transition to MacOS X.

The agreement includes:

- Rayverb
- Magenta
- PANDORA
- APEM
- IRIDIUM.

KV331 Audio has announced the release of Rob Lee EDM Expansion Pack 2, a new soundset for their SynthMaster 2.5 software synthesizer geared towards electronic dance music production.
The expansion pack contains 100 new high quality presets designed by Rob Lee, in the following categories:

- 7 Arps
- 18 Basses
- 5 Chords
- 20 Drums
- 17 Leads
- 20 Pads
- 4 Sequences
- 9 Synths

The expansion pack is compatible with SynthMaster v2.5.4.132 and above.