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Virtual Studio Technology (VST) is an interface for integrating software audio synthesizer and effect plugins with audio editors and hard-disk recording systems. VST and similar technologies use Digital Signal Processing to simulate traditional recording studio hardware with software. Thousands of plugins exist, both commercial and freeware, and VST is supported by a large number of audio applications. The technology can be licensed from its creator, Steinberg.

ReFX Nexus . NEXUS is a next generation rom synthesizer of highest quality that will make your dreams come true. Forget about the usual bread & butter ROM synthesizers whose sounds are boring, stale and lacking punch. NEXUS explores new territory and delivers complex, ultra-fat and up-to-date soundstorms that could not sound any better from the most expensive and best hardware - all at the tip of your fingers. NEXUS provides you with everything you need to create the new hit. Do you need the most powerful dance leadsounds to become famous in your club or a Gregorian choir to create the atmosphere of the next trance hit? Whatever you need, NEXUS will supply you with what you have always been longing for. Features like the freely programable arpeggiator, the versatile trancegate or the factory-library optimized for the most popular genres make this the best ROM synthesizer on the market. Even though the sound is first rate, your CPU is spared. You can expand NEXUS with new sounds by installing genre-specific expansion packs or customize the look of the GUI with our themed skins.

ReFX Nexus Dance Drums Expansion Pack . Finally, it is available - the drum expansion for Nexus! It contains more than 750 single samples and more than 720 drum loops and it supplies you with everything which you need for modern dance productions. HandsUp, Hardstyle, House, Progressive, Trance, BigBeat and even Gabba is included. All DrumLoops follow any tempo without the slightest quality degradation. Even the pitch of the drumloop is transposable over 24 notes in realtime without the usual timestretching artefacts. This is absolutely unique!

ReFX Nexus Psytrance Expansion Pack . Do you love psychedelic pads? Then you definitely need the new psytrance expansion! 128 super-fresh sounds in Goa style won't let you rest for some time. Breath-taking, organic sounds and inspiring sequences will overwhelm you. Of course, it is also useful for related styles, such as Dance, Trance and Chill. Get psycho!

ReFX Nexus Perpetual Motion Expansion Pack . This expansion shows the "soft" side of Nexus. It contains 128 ambient/chillout sounds, ranging from deep drones, moving pads, chilling bells to complex soundscapes, textures and moving 3d noizes. A must for all kind of ambient and film-music stuff. Catalogue of 20 $

ReFX Nexus Minimal House Expansion Pack . This expansion contains 128 ultra fresh minimal house sounds. Awesome deep basses, absolutely sick synthsounds, boings, bleeps, hits, warm analog leads and pads and electronic noises - in short: everything you need for a decent minimal / electronic house track.

ReFX Nexus House Vol.1 Expansion Pack . 128 funky house sounds. Have you ever wondered how those fat-sounding houseriffs are created? Just one hint: Common synthies are not involved...

ReFX Nexus Dance Vol.1 Expansion Pack . 128 absolute fresh dance sounds that will definitely set new club trends. This is not like anything you have heard before!

ReFX Nexus Dance Orchestra Expansion Pack . You will be impressed by the high quality of choirs sounding like angels, strings supporting a dramatic atmosphere, heroic brasses and timpani - you do not have to be in the film business to enjoy these.

Cakewalk Dimension Pro . Dimension Pro is the critically-acclaimed synthesizer that combines real instruments with advanced synthesis, giving you endless sound possibilities. The immense two DVD sound library that ships with Dimension Pro makes it the ideal go-to instrument for musicians, while its deep editing and sound generation capabilities have a natural appeal to sound designers. Dimension Pro offers an abundance of vital, usable sounds that range from pristine realistic acoustic instruments, thumping basses and cutting leads, to complex, evolving atmospheres. This wide tonal range can be attributed to both advanced sample mapping and a powerful sound-sculpting engine with analog sound generation that lets you mutate and recompose any sound you might imagine.

Samplelogic Ambience Impacts Rhythms .

Ueberschall Liquid Instruments The Voice Vol.2 . This is something revolutionary new: Vocal phrases of a choir with independently editable voices. For the first time ever it is possible to change a single voice within a choir - independently from the other lines - and to adjust it to your own needs. You can create basically every vocal harmony and every chord progression you can think of. Only Liquid Instruments "The Voice" gives you total control over each single voice and melody within a choir. Take a chord, change a line and create a new feeling in an instant! The unique Liquid Engine enables you to create everything from simple ad-libs to complex harmonic structures within minutes. Every vocal phrase is dubbed eight times by two (male and female) singers. That's a total of eight different tracks per vocal phrase for absolutely realistic sounding choirs. All vocal phrases can be combined with each other - a myriad of possibilities! The Voice vol.2 (non-verbal) contains melodic vocal lines from simple to sophisticated, not just the usual "Ah", "Oh" and "Uh" but much more. Beautifully sung lines with appealing melody and rhythm. A great range of different tunes for that extra spice in your songs. 300 vocal phrases between 2 and 8 bars. Focused mainly on pop, dance and RnB productions. All recordings were made acoustically dry without additional effects and filters. full 24 bit recordings 300 vocal phrases = 2400 vocal loops 3GB library Liquid Instrument Series (L.I.S.) offers you new ways to control and redo sampled lines and phrases! Fed up with the limitations of using sampled musical lines and phrases? here comes something new and exciting: ueberschall s Liquid Instrument Series (L.I.S.). In close cooperation with Celemony (makers of Melodyne) we have developed this hot new tool. L.I.S. offers you a whole new array of features to control and redo sampled material. Make your selected phrase sound the way you want it to! Enter a new world of music technology! L.I.S. opens up unimagined ways of controlling existing musical phases in realtime. Parameters such as single note pitches, formants, note lengths, scales, tempo, start and endings can now be edited easily and directly to suit your arrangement. Quick and simple access, just like having the studio musician right next to you, responding to your desires in expression and phrasing. Unchanged high-quality sound even after intense processing. In this combination of first-class samples with the unique Melodyne functions you can create countless variations - from simple licks and phrases to complete solo lines. In this new product series we employ only the best musicians, using high-end studio equipment to achieve state of the art sound quality. no additional effects e.g. compression or any other processors have been used in ueberschall's Liquid Instrument Series (L.I.S.) to ensure the purest results possible, thus giving you timeless and inspiring material to work with. Enter a new world of sample versatility - with Liquid Instrument Series (L.I.S.) from ueberschall .

Best Service Ethno World Complete 3 . This product is also available in Gigastudio format. Marcel Barsottis Ethno World 3 Complete is one of the biggest ethno libraries and contains 40 new rare ethnic instruments plus the complete content of Ethno World 1 and Ethno World 2. This collection contains a huge number of ethnic instruments and sets new standards in sound quality and in the technical playing styles of ethnic instruments. Within more than 5 Gigabytes of sample material, you will find instrument sounds in a variety of playing styles, loops in different tempi, licks and an enormous selection of special effects. EthnoWorld 3 Complete has amazing sound quality. Categories: Bell Type Instruments - Bowed Instruments - Gongs & Bowls - Key Instruments - Metal Type Instruments - Stringed Instruments - Woodwind & Brass - World Drums - World Percussion - Construction Sets . Marcel Barsotti is one of the most famous German film music composers. He composed the film music for Das Wunder von Bern (The Miracle of Bern) - Dolphins - Kebab Connection - Sirga the Lioness... He was nominated for the German Television Award in 2004.

Best Service Cult Sampler . World?s first Cult Retro Instrument! This unique library includes all these charming sounds of the late 70s to the early 80s. Because the samplers at that time suffered from severe limitations in memory capacity (RAM), excess artistic high level sound programming was a must. Pitching and stretching of sounds was obligatory and 8 bit sounds were mostly the standard. This resulted in sounds with very special character. A character that nowadays is missing in our hyper-clean 24 bit / 96 kHz world of almost unlimited RAM. The 2000 sounds and multisamples are perfectly laid out to play on your keyboard. Sounds of early vintage samplers like Orchestron, EMU II, Akai S-612, Ensoniq Mirage, Fairlight, Synclavier, Linn, Mellotron, Master Studio Coll., FZ-1, DSS-1. Each sound and multisample was produced on a highly professional level with the original samplers. Also on board are all these classic factory sounds. All this is combined with Native Instruments latest development, the Kompakt sample player. This plug-in is based on the latest technology and it lets you, should need arise, tweak the sounds according to your preferences. Choirs and voices, flutes and clarinets, violins, violas and celli, trombones and trumpets, bassoons and contrabasses, church/pipe/electronic organs, grand pianos, chorus pianos, world percussion and acoustic drums, guitar licks, 12string guitars, E-guitars, clavinets and harpsichords, contra basses and E-basses, Japanese koto and shakuhatshi, syn chorus/pads and syn choirs. Also on board a huge variety of electronic and synthetic sounds, noisy and distorted pads, ambient pads, voice & special FX.

 

Cakewalk Rapture . Combining power, elegance, control, and unbeatable sounds, Rapture is one of the most exciting synthesizers to hit the market in years. Capable of producing rich, hypnotic, and rhythmic basses, leads, and pads, Rapture is perfect for performing and designing the modern synthesized sounds igniting today’s pop, dance, and electronic music. Rapture's non-aliasing resampling engine technology sets a new standard for sound quality, and produces pristine, high-resolution rendering and playback. Its advanced modulation capabilities include over 40 Step Generators per patch, providing an intuitive interface for generating rhythmic sequences. With its beautifully designed interface and extensive sound manipulation capabilities, Rapture is capable of producing the rich, hypnotic, and rhythmic basses, leads, and pads destined to put the spirit back into your music.

Native Instruments FM8 . FM8 delivers unsurpassed depth, brilliance, and dynamism - perfect when it comes to crystalline sounds for melody and percussion. Native Instruments has harnessed the power of FM synthesis. The strengths of digital are manifest in FM8’s powerful audio engine which generates breath-taking, brilliantly dynamic FM sound in pristine quality. Picking up where its award winning predecessor, the FM7, left off, the FM8 takes FM synthesis to a new level. With its emphasis on ease-of-use, the FM8 brings a high degree of simplicity to the otherwise intricate process of FM synthesis.

Native Instruments KORE . KORE 2 stands for unique sound - in no time. Transform your computer into a Super Instrument - find, play, combine, and create sounds with unparalleled speed, power and ease. KORE 2 produces an ocean of sound right from the start by integrating the most powerful Native Instruments audio engines with more than 500 KoreSounds® included. Furthermore, KORE 2 is infinitely expandable with any Audio Unit™/VST®-plug-in.KORE 2 makes finding the desired sound a breeze - simply choose its musical characteristics in the new and expanded KoreSound® Browser or use the text search function. In KORE 2, software generated sound acquires the tactile feel of hardware. The KORE Controller's high resolution, touch-sensitive controls guarantee tangibly direct analog-style sound manipulation.

Native Instruments Massive . MASSIVE is a sonic monster – the ultimate synth for basses and leads. The analog concept belies the contemporary, cutting-edge sound it generates. The high-end engine delivers pure quality, lending an undeniable virtue and character to even the most saturated of sounds. The interface is clearly laid out and easy to use, ensuring you will have MASSIVE generating earth-shuddering sounds from the very first note. This unique synthesizer has its own uncompromising character that produces the most distinctive of sounds. From the deepest low end, MASSIVE is capable of the creamiest, punchiest basses to give your tracks a solid foundation. Razor-sharp leads that cut through the mix, even with grit and dirt piled high, set MASSIVE apart among analog style soft synths. And just beneath the surface, MASSIVE’s overwhelming array of wavetable oscillators, versatile modulation options and bountiful filter and effects sections offer a sonic spectrum as broad as it is inspiring.

Native Instruments Battery 3 . BATTERY 3 is the professional standard for drums and percussion. The latest version of the acclaimed drum sampler fuses an extensive library with functionality and simplicity. A powerful new engine and a host of sound shaping options deliver tight, punchy drums while the user-friendly interface guarantees instant access and complete control. Whether electronic or acoustic, BATTERY 3 will have your drums rolling in no time. BATTERY 3 is armed with an extensive sample library. Over 100 professional kits cover an incredibly broad spectrum of musical styles. From authentic acoustic kits to contemporary electronic collections and ethnic percussion from all over the globe, every genre is represented. Compatibility with most standard sample formats allows seamless integration of virtually any third party libraries. BATTERY 3 is the definition of drums.

FXpansion BFD Percussion Expansion Pack . Featuring everything from latin, world and drumkit-centric percussion to junk and kitchenware via all manner of outlandish strangeness, the sprawling diversity of BFD Percussion is inspirational. BFD Percussion literally contains the Kitchen Sink - in full BFD multi-sampled, multi-articulated form! The instruments are recorded with up to 46 velocity layers, using multiple articulations and multiple mic channels including lush, stereo ambience. As always, carefully-selected high-end mics, preamps and converters were used for the sessions. The resulting sounds faithfully capture the musicality, expressive depth and dynamic scope of this eclectic percussion collection, and are perfect for use in a variety of musical styles and genres.

Native Instruments Absynth 4 . A legend in its own time, ABSYNTH returns in a more powerful, creative and intuitive guise than ever before. Renowned for its organic, evolving soundscapes that range from sublime pads to complex sonic textures, ABSYNTH 4 continues to build on its exceptional reputation. The addition of new features combined with an optimized workflow and user interface brings fluidity and simplicity to the creation of intricate and intriguing sounds. The unique blend of inimitable effects with multiple synthesis and sampling techniques is the defining element of the ABSYNTH sound, now more than ever before. The signal flow is far more flexible and a revolutionary wave morphing feature has been added. Both the master effects section and the modulation concept have been greatly enhanced. All these enhancements further sweeten ABSYNTH's already distinctive sonic flavour.

Toontrack Drumkit From Hell for EZdrummer . aka DFH was originally created to address Toontrack Music?s own needs for better and heavier drums in musicproduction. As a result the Toontrack productionteam decided to record a drumlibrary with the best musicians and producers available in Swedish heavy metal. Little did they know what they had started. Drumkit From Hell was awarded 5 of 5 in Sound on Sound and an EQ Magazine Exceptional Quality award and launched Toontrack Music and the DFH brand in a major way into the sample business enabling the development of the Superior and EZdrummer samplers. To celebrate and signify the importance of Drumkit From Hell Toontrack has decided to re-release it as an EZX expansion pack for EZdrummer. The DFH EZX contains the essence of what Toontrack is originally all about. The commitment to excellence through collaboration with the best players and producers aimed at helping you to make better, more inspired music. This version of DFH includes both the original DFH release and the Add-On pack that was released subsequently. The sounds for DFH were played, recorded and produced at Dug Out studios by Tomas Haake, Daniel Bergstrand, Mattias Eklund and Fredrik Thordendal. All sounds have been re-mixed at Toontrack Studios by Mattias Eklund and we?ve added custom MIDI files from the diabolically gifted musician and guitar player of Meshuggah, Fredrik Thordendal plus MIDI played by Tomas Haake of Meshuggah, Owe Lingvall of Nocturnal Rites, Mattias Grahn of Naglfar and Efraim Juntunen of Persuader. Metal at its best. Rock on dude.

Native Instruments Kontakt 2 . KONTAKT 2 embodies the future of sampling. No other software or hardware sampler offers such a comprehensive set of features, so much flexibility and performance or such a high degree of compatibility. From authentic library playback of virtually any format to the intuitive creation of new instruments, from profound sound design to lively and dynamic surround sound mixes - KONTAKT 2 opens the doors to creativity.

NI Kontakt 2 Samples Library . The new KONTAKT 2 sample library contains over 15 Gigabytes of professionally recorded and edited samples - all meticulously programmed into KONTAKT 2 instruments. Professional sample developers have contributed to the KONTAKT 2 library, among them Vienna Symphonic Library with a small Orchestra, Zero-G with lots of specially designed loops, Sonic Reality with a full 5.1 Surround Cathedral Organ, Post Musical Instruments with a Steinway D piano and many more.

E&W Quantum Leap Colossus . COLOSSUS is a massive 32 Gigabyte (not Megabyte) Virtual Instrument, that includes 160 instruments, and covers all of the basic musical genres, the way a keyboard workstation attempts to, except COLOSSUS offers much higher quality instruments and dynamics than any keyboard available today. "Colossus was the clear choice for our Future Music Magazine Virtual Instrument of the Year A.C.E. Award." said Editor-in-Chief James Rotondi. "Its massive, comprehensive library of instruments, coupled with its top-tier, pro-level sound quality, made it the stand-out all-around virtual instrument of 2005."

East & West Quantum Leap RA . Quite simply, RA is the best collection of world or ethnic sampled instruments I've ever used. Ideal for anyone with an interest in these music styles, it ought to be of particular appeal to TV and film composers." - SOUND ON SOUND "Ever wanted to fit the world of music into your audio sequencer? Now’s your chance. Quantum Leap has applied their insanely meticulous methodology to bring us RA, a highly musical collection of instruments from a wide variety of music cultures from around the world. Quantum Leap has another winner on their hands with RA." - KEYBOARD MAGAZINE

East & West Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra Gold Edition . East West's most popular virtual orchestra blending unparalleled realism with an amazing price.

USB X-treme FX . UVI Soundcard X-Treme FX is a virtual instrument dedicated to sound effects, foleys and atmospheric sounds. For sound designers it means having a brand new soundbank and the ability to work faste than ever with a great set sound shaping tools (layers, filters, envelopes, LFOs...). This means it will be easier and faster to build complex sounds. And it's perfect to trigger the included sound effects easily.

Zero-G Altered States . ALTERED STATES is an instrument that will inspire you!! First, it is absolutely VAST (over 5 Gb, and thousands of unique source sounds). Second, it is a plug-in virtual instrument powered by a custom high-performance NATIVE INSTRUMENTS interface for shaping and manipulating the sound. Third, the source material is extremely organic, unique, ultra-creative, and virtuoso sound design. And the diversity and flexibility of this stunning resource has to be experienced to be believed.

Spectrasonics Stylus RMX Burning Grooves . Killer Kits and blazing live drum grooves laid down by L.A. slammer Abe Laboriel Jr. (k.d.lang, Seal, Jeff Beck, Steve Vai, Joe Sample, Scritti Politti) with extreme re-mixes by producer Eric Persing.

Sonic Reality Sonik Synth2 . Sonik Synth™ 2 is the ultimate all-around SYNTH WORKSTATION for composing and performing music in a wide variety of styles from R&B to Techno/Electronic to Classic Rock and more.

BFD XFL Expansion Pack . BFD XFL is an expansion pack for BFD offering a hugely varied pallette of sounds to add into your BFD installation. BFD XFL shares the same room at California's Eldorado Studios that gave BFD its unique, authentic character. BFD XFL's library of rare and sought-after instruments, many of which are played with brushes and mallets. Rides with bells and crashes with edge hits sit alongside a diverse range of splash, china, accent cymbals and ultra high-resolution hihats There's even a selection of kit-oriented percussion such as cowbells, jamblocks and tambourines. All this, recorded at up to 93 velocity layers, results in a 22GB library that takes your BFD-based productions to new heights of detail, realism and variety.

Zero-G Sounds Of Polynesia . SOUNDS OF POLYNESIA is a wonderful and unique virtual instrument for everyone who would like to discover the rich sounds of the South Pacific and use them in their music. The sample library was produced by Airileke ('Airi') Ingram who recorded a host of indigenous instruments. There are also village ambience tracks from Airi's village Gabagaba in Central Province of Papua New Guinea and Munum village in the Morobe Province, and spoken and chanted vocals. Most of the instruments featured in this amazing product come from Papua New Guinea ('PNG'), a nation in the western region of the South Pacific Ocean, to the north of Australia. It is one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world with over 800 languages and over 3000 dialects!

Broomstick Bass . Super VST.

Zero-G Sounds Of The 70s . We are excited to announce SOUNDS OF THE 70s, one of our best releases ever, which is sure to become an absolute must-have production tool. A unique new Virtual Sound Module powered by the Native Instruments INTAKT interface, featuring a huge and uniquely inspiring sound library, which captures the TRUE essence of the 1970s!

Spectrasonics Stylus RMX . Stylus RMX is a completely new groove-based virtual instrument plug-in for Macintosh and Windows. Stylus RMX is the first product to offer the combined power of Groove Control™ with Spectrasonics Advanced Groove Engine (S.A.G.E.™) technology giving users dramatic new control over groove production and performance.

Ultra focus . Imagine one instrument where you can find all the synth sounds you love. One instrument with a huge diversity of sound, with simple access to the presets, and great sound shaping tools: Ultra Focus is that instrument.

East & West Drumkit From Hell . The sequel to the award-winning multi-sampled drum library DFH. DFH SUPERIOR includes all new drumkits with even more realism and user control than DFH, and it includes it's own built-in audio engine and interface for MAC and PC. FACTS: Multiple DVD's with approx. 35GB data 60.000 Soundfiles (single hits only, no loops) Easy customization from our "EASY TO USE" software sampler interface No pre-processed sounds, all sounds have been recorded without any pre or post processing of the sounds.

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