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The question is: When iOS and OSX will merge?

With over 4,000 new APIs and bold new technologies, iOS 8 lets you create custom app extensions, utilize exciting capabilities like HealthKit, HomeKit, and CloudKit, take advantage of advances in gaming like Metal, SceneKit, and SpriteKit, and more. Download the SDK to explore these new features as well as Swift, the innovative new programming language for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch.

OS X Yosemite gives you the power to extend the OS X experience with app extensions, enabling access to app features and services from almost anywhere. And with the innovative new Swift programming language and advances in game technologies, Safari, iCloud, and more, your best apps are yet to come.

Five years ago, MASCHINE changed beat production forever. Now, with its strongest lineup ever, MASCHINE's giving you one more reason to take your grooves a giant leap forward. Celebrate this month with special pricing on the whole MASCHINE family.

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- MASCHINE STUDIO for 799,00 €
- MASCHINE for 499,00 €
- MASCHINE MIKRO for 299,00 €.
Join the beat revolution. Offer ends May 31!

Creative Junk is a 1.03GB, 2050 sample, experimental and tuned percussion collection for Kontakt. It features 100 multi-sampled objects with up to 7 velocity layers recorded in 3 mic positions: 'Close' (mono), 'Overhead' (stereo) and 'Room' (ambient stereo).

The Instrument was recorded in the revered Studio 2 live room of Paper Stone Studios, Nottingham, England, using purely audiophile quality signal paths. Our most ambitious, comprehensive and versatile offering to date, Creative Junk is a goldmine of unique hits, quirky sounds, and inspirational tones, all multi-sampled in our converted cinema auditorium live room.RRP £49.99 intro price through MAY 2014 £34.99

With SPARK 2, Arturia has taken the opportunity to update the look and feel of SPARK to allow for faster workflow, while creating a layout that allows it to grow well into the future and secure its longevity — no easy feat in today’s here today, gone tomorrow’s world of rapidly disposable developments. New tabbed pages provide a cleaner look, more screen space, and faster access to the most needed features — features like an all-new MIXER window (with level, pan, and insert effects and sends — to 14 unique professional-grade effects, no less), expanded PATTERN edit screen, and enhanced LIBRARY page for better data management.

SPARK 2 also adds 50 new kits — including no fewer than 800 new instruments — that span many more musical genres than ever before, including trap, hip-hop, tech house, and nu disco, to name but a few modern electronic music styles, as well as acoustic drum kits capably spanning modern rock, funk, R ’n’ B, pop, vintage rock, and latin percussion. Vintage drum machine enthusiasts are also well catered for with ear-opening emulations of the likes of Roland’s TR-808, TR-909, TR-707, TR-606, and CR-78; LinnDrum, Linn 9000; Oberheim DMX; E-mu Drumulator; Sequential Circuits Drumtraks; Yamaha RX5; and Simmons SDS-V — analogue and digital classics all. And all kits come complete with 32 patterns that can be used by themselves or form the basis of user-programmed beats.

Bringing up the rear, SPARK 2 sees SONG mode updated, too. Song segments can now be configured and then replayed at the touch of a button. Users can create song sections that will play from one pattern to another and then recall these sections via the step buttons on the SPARK Creative Drum Machine and SparkLE Creative Drum Machine controllers — perfect performance enhancements!

Sounds from inside computers

Detunized has released Electromagnetic - a collection of ReFill Combinators and instrument patches that source their sounds from various computers upon booting, reading from CD-ROM, accessing WiFi, formatting hard disks or floppies.

All these often unwanted and disturbing noises where captured with several contact microphones and induction coils that revealed a deep look into the streams of electrons and bits. Once pulled to daylight it shows that these serenades of hums and crosstalks have far more potential than just producing a wall of buzz. So a good amount of the sourced noises is even capable of forming tunable sounds, rhythmic structures and sophisticated beat patterns.

Including 70 Combinators that are built up of 198 subpatches with access to more than 150 samples Electromagnetic addresses to sound designers and composers likewise.
The chromatically mapped "All-Combinators" provide an instant overview of the source material but at the same time they invite for thrilling explorations of what is going on noise-wise in everybodies computer.
The "Autorun" Combinators offer exciting patterns that reside at the borderline between rhythmic structure and otherworldly soundscapes.
The "Beat and Bass" section hosts beefy bass sounds and synched drum patterns that lay the foundation of rock solid IDM tracks. Beat and Bass also contains two fully staffed Kong Kits with single hits that range from versatile to funny.
The "Boots and Drones" Combinators are the perfect starting point for background layers whenever it comes to the scoring of thrilling moods, eerie ambiences or depressing atmospheres.
Once having mastered this dark area of sound fields there is still the "Keys and Pads" section to discover. This is the right place where a selection of lovely keyboards and evolving pads is awaiting deployment.

ReFill specifications:
70 Combinator Patches with multiple mapped controls and switches
2 Kong Kits
32 Kong Modules
158 NN-19 Patches
6 NNXT Patches
158 Samples (24 Bit, 44.1 kHz)
230 MB overall content (extracted)

Audio: https://soundcloud.com/refills-by-detunized/sets/electromagnetic-refill

Electromagnetic ReFill is available to purchase as download for 29.00 Euro at the Propellerhead Shop.