Loopmasters and Monster Sounds are very proud to present a fresh collection of royalty free Rap Acapellas from some of the best MC's in NYC!

The pack weighs in at 779MB and includes 483 Rap Samples recorded in pristine 24 Bit. You get 302 Loops between 96 - 140 Bpm, and 181 Single Shot vocals. Also included are 5 ready to play patches packed with the vocal one shots for Reason NNXT, Halion, EXS, SFZ and Kontakt soft samplers. Apple Loops, Reason Refill and Ableton Live versions are also available to purchase separately.

Elastik Inspire Series - Funk & Soul keeps the authentic feeling of Funk & Soul music. Live recorded guitars, funky real drum loops, bass licks with 100% groove and many more soul material. All loops are 4 bars long. 400 drum and single drum tracks, all easily combinable. Create over 100.000 funky drum grooves within seconds.

More than 700 loops from instruments like electric bass, synth, brass, clavinet, e-piano, guitar, organ, piano and many more. All made ready for the „Elastik Inspire Series".

Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH today released the 1.1 update to its popular LoopMash app as well as presenting a free version of LoopMash for iPhone and iPod touch users with iOS4 to try out the eminently entertaining approach to mangling beats and tunes. Available through the App Store, LoopMash is available for EUR 2.99, GBP 2.39 and USD 3.99 while LoopMash Free is free of charge.

LoopMash compares and replaces similar musical elements, blending up to four two-bar loops together. The app comes with over 250 audio loops from different music styles plus more than 50 factory presets as well as an unlimited number of user presets. Each preset includes eight scenes; each scene blends up to four loops together.

Kreativ Sounds announces a major update of the popular ABYSS Pro-53 Sounds to Version 3.
ABYSS Pro-53 Sounds - Version 3 Features:
- 202 outstanding presets in NATIVE (p5p, p5a), FXP and FXB format for Native Instruments PRO-53
- the same 202 presets in KSD format for Native Instruments KORE 2 Workstation
- Each KORE2 preset has macro knobs assigned and all 8 pad variations (202 presets x 8 variations = a stagering 1616 sound variations)
- PRO-53 KORE2 template for creating very easy your own sounds with pad variations
- Each preset features velocity and modulation wheel information for more control over the sounds.

Propellerhead Software today unveiled Balance, its first audio interface and foray into hardware. Integrated with Reason Essentials Software, Balance is at the heart of Propellerhead's complete music making solution.

Balance, a two-in by two-out audio interface for Mac and Windows, is designed for the single person operated home/project studio. Fully USB 2 powered with separate volume controls for monitors and headphones, it contains 8 input connections to keep all instruments, mics and devices connected and ready to record with the press of a button—without software pop-ups or control panels. The included Reason Essential packs in all the recording editing, effects, instruments and mixing tools needed to create great sounding tracks.