Splurgo Audio announces the release of two new sample packs in odd timings: Hard Rock Ballad Guitars (6/8) and Progressive Rock Guitar Loops (5/4 and 7/4). All loops were recorded with a Gibson Les Paul and have been dubbed to create a fat stereo sound.

Hard Rock Ballad Guitars
– Get ready for some heavier riffs and chord patterns in 6/8 timing. This pack contains 64 guitar loops recorded at 100 bpm (6/8). All files are available in Acid Pro Wav and Apple Garageband AIFF. The Hard Rock Ballad Guitar Loops samplepack can be purchased for $ 8.95 USD.

Progressive Rock Guitar Loops
This sample pack has 65 modern progressive rock guitar riffs and chord progressions recorded at 100 bpm and will show you that there's more to explore in 5/4 and 7/4. All files are available in Acid Pro Wav and Apple Garageband AIFF. The Progressive Rock Guitar Loops samplepack can be purchased for $ 8.95 USD.

Learn drumming step-by-step from beginning to intermediate levels. Improve your sight-reading with the Notation Screen, and enjoy drumming with Game screen. Enhance the V-Drums experience in the home as well as for private lessons and music schools.

Some features

- 60 preset songs and 57 basic drum patterns to build drumming skills.
- Notation and game screens teach you how to play drums.
- Colorful correction mark and scores display timing accuracy.
- Dynamic Bar Graph displays stroke balance.
- Easy installation of your favorite SMF data for custom practice.
- Specifically designed for V-Drums; compatible with any Roland V-Drums kit.
- Compatible with Mac and Windows.

The 36-channel USB&FireWire audio interface is not just a smaller version of the award winning UFX, including HFX-Core and the complete 192 kHz effects engine.

The UCX continues the tradition of RME's tremendously successful compact interfaces, and combines it with the great usability of the successful Babyface through the included remote control.

On top of it: the UCX is the perfect partner for every Apple iPad.

Frequency Transformations contains 40 Patches which also have an extensive use of the sound browser. This grants a perfect integration of the library in Native Instruments FM8 and ensures that every sound can be found fast and easily.

All patches have been developed by 9VOLT MEDIA with lot of detail and deepness in synth programming.The patches are tagged with specific attributes to find them easily in the soundbrowser and show intense use of the morph controls which are available for each patch.

Turning, for the first time, to its stompboxes for inspiration, Eventide recently announced the Blackhole Native plug-in for AAX, AU, and VST.

Now, you can enter to win one for your very own: Go to link below (learn more...) and watch the video for two clues and instructions on how to enter. Enter by midnight on April 10 and register to win one compliments of Eventide. Three winners will be drawn at random on April 11, 2012.

Chances to win are determined by the number of entrants. Only one entry per person will be accepted. Winners will be announced on eventide.com.