Image-Line has announced the first FL Studio Remix Contest, with prizes up to $1,000 USD.

For our first remix contest we managed to get our hands on the vocals & guitar part of ‘One Day’ a song from DJ David Latour featuring DeMarco.

How to enter?

1. Download the samples : Rar (13mb) or Zip (18mb)
2. Create a remix (in FL Studio) using these samples.
3. Upload it to our (or your own) servers before September 30th.
4. Post the link to it in this thread (you need to be registered at the Image-Line forums).

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eSoundz has announced Ultra Sonic Refill 4 Series, a collection of refills for Reason 4.

For this weekend’s big Labor Day SALE eSoundz releases the sequel to Sonic Reality’s popular Sonic Refill series : The Ultra Sonic Refill 4 Series done specifically for Reason 4! Thousands of Thor patches, new Rex Grooves and killer Combinator and NNXT instruments, ReDrum Kits and more. Your chance to get them even before they’ve hit the stores! Each Ultra Refill title is a bundle of 6 brand new sound collections making a total of 18 HOT Reason 4 refills you can download TODAY!

Ultra Sonic Refill 4 Series features

• Ultra Electronic Refill : The Ultra Electronic Refill is part of a new Ultra Sonic 4 Refill Series from Sonic Reality. It is a bundle of 5 new refills for Reason 4 plus a bonus Thortronic Refill featuring over 500 Thor patches for Electronic Music all together making up 6 brand new Sonic Reality refills for one great price.
• Ultra Hip-Hop Refill : Designed specifically as a sonic toolkit for Hip Hop styles this refill bundle has a wide range of material to fill almost any musical need for modern Hip Hop and R&B music creation. From over five hundred unique new Thor modular synth patches to new powerful Combinators, NNXT multi-samples, ReDrum Kits, Rexes for Dr. Rex, construction kits and more we’ve packed in over 5 gigabytes of new material exclusively for use with Reason 4.
• Ultra Symphonic Refill : Designed specifically as a sonic toolkit for Hip Hop, Pop, Rock, Jazz, Classical, Video Game Music, Film Scoring and other styles this refill bundle has a wide range of material to fill almost any musical need for many styles of music creation. From over 150 unique new Thor modular synth patches emulating orchestral instruments to new powerful Combinators, NNXT multi-sampled instruments and ensembles, Orchestral Rexes for Dr. Rex, construction kits and more we have packed in over 4 gigabytes of selected material from the archives of Miroslav Vitous exclusively for use with Reason 4.

The Ultra Sonic Refill 4 Series refills are available for download for $129 USD each.

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Time+Space has announced four new Big Fish Audio products which are now available to download: Jazz Hedz, Junk Box Percussion Vol 1 & 2 and Mosaic: Synthetic Groove Pak Vol 1.

Big Fish Audio download products
Jazz Hedz: Acid Jazz Download Pak contains six packed acid jazz construction kits. These retro sounds will fill your taste for jazz styles infused with an urban groove. Each kit will bring you multiple takes and variations of each instrument. You won’t find anything tame about the music here. It’s nothing but serious music played by serious players. The players for this product are seasoned pros who have played with the likes of Miles Davis, Wynton Marsalis, Ron Carter and many others.

Junk Box Percussion Vol 1 and Vol 2. Ever experimented with household objects as percussive instruments? Well, Big Fish have with Junk Box Percussion Vol 1 and Vol 2 both of which give access to some surprising and quirky sounds and grooves. Each Volume contains 10 construction kits for your experimental percussive needs. Who would have thought using a spoon on a glass bottle could make such a sweet groove?

Mosaic: Synthetic Groove Pak Vol 1 contains synthetic grooves created to fit a wide variety of musical styles and settings. Whether it´s electronica, hip hop, industrial, or a film score, MOSAIC has you covered. These grooves have been organized into nine folders within which are loops that were specifically created to work perfectly in sync with each other, but they will also mix well with other loops in the Pak, or from elsewhere.

All these Big Fish Audio download titles are available for £14.95 each.

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Groove Monkee has released Power Rock, a collection of 600+ four and eight-bar MIDI loops for modern hard rock music.

Power Rock features

• 600 Royalty Free Loops played live by Chicago session drummer Chris Morrow.
• Intro, Verse, Chorus, Bridge And Outro arrangement.
• 4 and 8 measure loops.
• 6 variations and fills per beat.
• Over 140 extra 1 and 2 bar fills.
• Immediate access to ALL formats (ready for Addictive Drums, BFD, BFD2, EZdrummer and Toontrack Superior).

Groove Monkey Power Rock has an introductory price of $29.95 USD (regular price $39.95 USD).

Visit Groove Monkey for more information.