Get total control of your ACID, Apple Loop, and REX 2 drum loops and samples with SL MultiTracks. Each library includes fully mixed stereo loops and individual drum and cymbal loops (Kick, Snare, Hats, Overheads, and Toms).

With SL MultiTracks drum loop libraries you can easily mix the drums so they're a perfect match for your song projects. You have total control over the mix of your drums. You can change the volume of individual tracks, add reverb to just the snare, EQ just the Overheads, etc.

Independent app designer Dante Varnado Moore of Paragoni, LLC today announces Songwriter's Pad, a suite of free and paid apps for iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Songwriter's Pad is a professional song writing app used by Grammy award winners and novices alike. It includes chord notation, a rhyme dictionary, thesaurus, digital audio recorder and a unique idea generator designed to inspire creative expression and eliminate writer's block. Users can write, arrange and store all of their lyrics in one app.

Native Instruments today announced a 7-day sales special on three of the instruments that have helped to define the bass music genre: MASSIVE, RAZOR, and FM8. From June 18th to 24th, 2012, the three synthesizers will be available exclusively at the NI Online Shop for half price - or as a bundle costing $199 / 179 EUR.

The BASS INVADERS products have become absolutely essential tools for many bass music producers. MASSIVE is renowned for its heavy basses, utilizing Wave Scanning oscillators that generate sounds of both a digital and an analog aesthetic. RAZOR, developed by Berlin artist Errorsmith and Native Instruments, has an architecture based on additive synthesis, with a precise and aggressive sound perfectly suited to contemporary bass music. FM8 completes the trio with its instantly-recognizable dynamic and digital character.

MAGMA utilizes Virtual Studio Rack (VSR) technology to achieve new levels of creativity and flexibility. MAGMA's breakthrough design defies convention by allowing users to stack interchangeable effect FX in an infinite amount of combinations, all in one easy to use plug-in. MAGMA allows you to mix and match effects, create & recall unique chains and process your audio in ways previously unimaginable. When you use MAGMA it's just like having a Virtual Studio Rack with an infinite amount of effects at your fingertips.

KEY FEATURES:

MAGMA includes 65 high-quality, ALL NEW custom rack FX that each have their own unique flavor. Categories include:
- Dynamics
- Equalizers
- Pre Amps
- Distortions
- Reverbs
- Delays
- Modulation
- Filters
- Special FX
- Guitar FX

Future Rack Effects of MAGMA will also support:
Take your effects processing to another dimension when you load the special "MFX-Chainer" FX to create chains within chains.
MAGMA will also support 3rd party VST plug-ins in "MFX-Chainer" FX, so you can mix and match your favorite VSTs.

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:

- 8 Arps
- 14 Basses
- 8 Chords
- 13 Drums
- 4 Keys
- 20 Leads
- 22 Pads
- 3 Sequences
- 8 Synths.

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

Registered users of SynthMaster 2.5 can purchase the expansion pack at KV331 Audio web site.