This library was born out of the want for a down and dirty guitar lib – one that can be loaded, and used quickly – no fuss, no hassle. And one that has a very small RAM footprint. Perfect for creating intricate guitar parts with alot of movement, or just doing simple sketches.

The Down & Dirty & Clean Guitar lib consists of two sections: distorted (mic'd w/amp), and clean. Both sections are mirrors of one another; both have single notes, and chords. The notes are 2 velocity layers, and either mono and round robin x2, or stereo, split l/r. 4+ octaves are covered – from the low B0, up to the highest E5. The chords as well are 2 velocity layers, and either mono and round robin x2, or stereo, split l/r. They cover an octave and a half, starting at the low B0, and working up to Eb2. Chords have two strumming patterns – fast and slow, and are both major and minor.

Celemony's new music restoration program Capstan is now available, a demo version online. Capstan removes wow and flutter from musical material of all kinds and commends itself therefore to professional restoration and mastering studios. The program runs as a stand-alone application under Windows and Mac OS and supports all common two-track formats.

Capstan is capable of removing wow and flutter from musical recordings – whether on tape, compact cassette, wax, shellac or vinyl. Capstan detects wow and flutter by analyzing the musical material itself, so the medium is of no relevance. In this, Capstan is clearly superior to solutions such as bias tracking, because Capstan still works even if the tape has already been copied several times or digitized only in low resolution.

Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH today announced the release of a fully functional Cubase Elements 6 trial version. Users with a MySteinberg account now can evaluate the comprehensive feature set of the smallest Cubase retail version for a full 30 days, immediately available as download from the Steinberg website.

Also available as native 64-bit version and cross-platform compatible with Windows 7 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Cubase Elements 6 runs up to 64 MIDI tracks and 48 audio tracks in full 96 kHz/24-bit DVD quality.

Trance & Progressive Essential Pack Vol.1 from Klems is now avalaible For es2 Apple.

Overview:

- 127 high quality trance/progressive/minimal/house sounds by Klems
- Massive modulation possibilities
- all rhythmic elements synced to tempo
- carefully sorted into categories (Basses, Pads, Leads, FX etc.)
Requirements: Logic Pro 9 /Logic Express 9