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Time+Space has announced a new promotion: Buy Superior Drummer 2.0 in March and get a free SDX expansion pack worth £119.

Toontrack’s multi award winning drum sampler ‘Superior Drummer 2.0′ is a complete overhaul of the original dfh Superior engine with Toontrack having made painstakingly sure to lose nothing of the sound quality, attention to detail and musicality that has made the Toontrack® Music drum sampler line what it is.

Any customer that buys Superior Drummer 2.0 in March can claim a free SDX expansion pack worth £119! This offer includes:

• The Lost New York Studios
• The Metal Foundry
• Custom & Vintage

Simply purchase Superior Drummer 2.0 as normal either through Time+Space or a participating dealer and then send proof of purchase with the rebate form (downloadable from timespace.com/toontrack) to Time+Space and we’ll send the free SDX direct to you at no extra charge!

What better time than now to experience ‘the best drum ROMpler going’ for yourself!?

More information: Time+Space

KVR Audio has announced it is celebrating its 10^th anniversary with a Year-Long Giveaway.

In February 2010 KVR Audio is celebrating 10 years as the number one news and information resource for audio plug-ins! To mark this special occasion we are having a huge giveaway contest for the whole year (until the end of Jan 2011)! Every month we’ll give away a prize from a major software developer, gear manufacturer or educational institution.

All you have to do is fill out our quick survey once and you will be entered into the prize draw with the chance to win one of the prizes every month! Simple.

We’ve teamed up several leading software, hardware and sample library developers to bring you a fantastic selection of prizes – with a value of more than $8000! A big thank you to these companies for being so generous (with more still to come)!

Year-Long Giveaway prizes

• Ableton is offering one lucky winner a boxed version of Live 8, the fantastic composition, songwriting, recording, production, remixing and live performance app. A value of $550.
• Arturia is providing a plethora of prizes, including two copies of Hip Hop Producer and one each of their emulations of classic hardware synths: minimoog V, ARP 2600 V, CS-80V, Moog Modular V and Prophet V – a total prize fund value of $1,503 / €1,403!
• Big Fish Audio is offering a copy of MOJO: Horn Section, Vir2 Instruments’ flexible and innovative approach to pop, funk, jazz, and big band horns in a virtual instrument.
• FXpansion will give one lucky winner DCAM: Synth Squad, the plug-in suite that delivers the satisfaction of playing real analogue instruments in software! Advanced modelling technology carefully reconstructs the soul of dusty vintage circuits within your computer for the unmatched vibe of hardware at a fraction of the cost. A $249 value.
• Native Instruments has given us a copy of its flagship Komplete 6 plug-in collection. Komplete 6 incorporates the latest Absynth 5, Kontakt 4 and Guitar Rig 4 Pro versions, which add significant creative capabilities over their predecessors, complemented by Battery 3, FM8, Massive and Reaktor 5. A $499 value.
• Ohm Force is providing twelve (!) copies of its ALL-Live bundle (one each month). This fantastic plug-in bundle includes Quad Frohmage Filter Bank, Ohmicide:Melohman Distortion and Symptohm:Melohman Synth.
• Resonant Vibes is offering several rv_samplepacks, Resonant Vibes’ line of quality-driven sample packs. Typically ranging from 100 MB to 600 MB+, each pack is created by a handpicked producer. A $209 value.
• Toontrack Music is providing Superior Drummer 2.0, the professional virtual instrument for producing drums in a digital recording environment, together with its three SDX expansion packs: Lost New York Studios SDX, The Metal Foundry SDX and Custom and Vintage SDX. Over $800 in value.
• u-he is offering the u-he Complete Bundle, which includes, as its name suggests, all u-he plug-ins released to date (ACE, Filterscape, MFM2, Uhbik, Zebra + soundbanks), worth well over $700!
• Universal Audio is offering a “User’s Choice”: UAD-2 SOLO Powered Plug-Ins Card or a UAD-2 SOLO/Laptop Powered Plug-Ins Card. This single-processor PCIe card provides access to the World’s most authentic analog hardware emulations and audio processing plug-ins — including licensed emulations from Neve, Roland, BOSS, Empirical Labs, EMT, Fairchild, Harrison, Helios, Little Labs, Pultec, SPL, Teletronix and more.

More information: KVR Audio

Time+Space has announced the return of the “buy EZdrummer and get a free EZX” promo.

Toontrack’s award winning EZdrummer is a multi-microphone drum sampler designed for musicians and producers in need of a compact, affordable, easy to handle plug-in without compromising sound quality or control.

The visualized drums in the interface combines auditioning of sounds and drumkit construction and the extensive drag and drop midi-library (featuring 8000+ midifiles) enables users to create a great drumtrack in just a few clicks.

Until 28 February 2010, when you buy EZdrummer from Time+Space or a participating dealer, you can claim any one of the following nine EZXs for free:

• EZX Claustrophobic
• EZXDrumkit From Hell
• EZXElectronic
• EZXFunkmasters
• EZXJazz
• EZXLatin Percussion
• EZXNashville
• EZXTwisted Kit
• EZXVintage Rock

EZdrummer is available to purchase from Time+Space for £99 GBP / 119 EUR.

More information: Time+Space / EZdrummer promo

Toontrack Music has announced the official Superior Drummer 2.0 tutorial.

The tutorial, presented by Mattias Eklund Toontrack Music Head of sound design and founding partner together with Pat Thrall, Neil Dorfsman and drummer NIR Z, the team behind the recordings for Superior Drummer® 2.0, features a thorough walkthrough of all aspects of working with Superior Drummer® 2.0 to gain professional results.

As an added bonus Neil Dorfsman also goes through Toontrack drum replacement app Drumtracker® explaining its feature set.

Superior Drummer 2.0 tutorial

• Getting started — Setting up Superior Drummer in your DAW.
• Sound good quick — Walking you through how to get a great drum sound from Superior Drummer in a matter of seconds!
• Construction Window — Explaining the different functions from Left to Right inside the Construction view of Superior Drummer.
• Mixer — Demonstrating the Mixer of Superior Drummer and its functionality.
• Multichannel to host — How to setup Superior Drummer as a Multiple Output plugin.
• Combined Presets — What Combined Presets are and various ways of implementing them from within Superior Drummer.
• Bounce / Render to audio — There are many options when looking to export your drums from Superior Drummer. The guys guide you through the process.
• Drumtracker / S 2.0 Tutorial — Drummer Nir Z jams and the team uses Drumtracker to render his live audio recording to MIDI as well as showcasing the possibilities when using the retrieved MIDI in Superior Drummer.
• Interview with the N.Y. Recording Team — An interview with the team behind the N.Y. recordings for Superior Drummer. With Pat Thrall, Neil Dorfsman, Nir Z & Mattias Eklund.

The tutorial is available on-line at the Toontrack website.

More information: Toontrack Music

Platinum Samples has announced the release of Joe Barresi Evil Drums SDX, an expansion pack for Toontrack Music’s Superior Drummer 2.0 software.

Joe Barresi is one of the busiest producer/engineers working today with an impressive list of credits including albums by Tool, Wolfmother, Queens Of The Stone Age, Weezer, Clutch, Pennywise, Turbonegro, Bad Religion, and many more.

Featuring 6 full drum kits, 6 kick drums and 6 snares the Evil Drums Expansion Pack is unlike any other expansion pack available. Recorded to analog tape at two legendary rock studios using compression and EQ, Joe Barresi has captured a diverse ensemble of drum sounds with unprecedented detail and full bleed to create a unique and exquisitely evil expansion pack. Evil Drums also includes MIDI grooves performed by Pat Wilson (Weezer, The Special Goodness).

Joe Barresi Evil Drums SDX features

• 24-bit professionally recorded multitrack drum samples with full bleed and unprecedented detail.
• 64 drums and cymbals plyaed by Bobby Jarzombek (Halrod, Spastic Ink) and MIDI grooves performed by Pat Wilson (Weezer, The Special Goodness).
• Manufacturers include: Gretsch, Tama, Pork Pie, Ayotte, Drum Workshop, Zildjian/Noble & Cooley, Ludwig, Zildjian and Paiste.

Joe Barresi Evil Drums SDX is available to purchase for $199 USD.

More information: Toontrack Music / Platinum Samples / Joe Barresi

Toontrack Music has released Library of the Extreme – Blasts & Fills, a new Metal MIDI Pack featuring drummer Dirk Verbeuren.

Ever felt like having one of the worlds best Metal drummers a mouse click away, at your beck and call, 24/7? Enter Dirk Verbeuren (Soilwork, Scarve, Aborted) and the Library of the Extreme – Blasts & Fills; a collection of more than 1000 individually played MIDI files, executed with such a razor-blade perfection and ingenious brutality that it will hit you like a 20 ton wrecking ball of sheer metal.

This library is undoubtedly your one-stop shop when looking to have world-class, impossible-to-program blast beats and fills only seconds away! Your songs will sound like a million bucks in no-time!

Library of the Extreme – Blasts & Fills features

• All material categorized by Style, BPM and Leading Instrument.
• Both Straight and Triplet variations available.
• Works with EZdrummer®, Superior Drummer® (optimized for 1 or 2 kicks, 1 snare, 2 toms, 1 floor-tom, 2 crash-cymbals, 1 china and 1 ride-cymbal).
• Includes Dirk Verbeuren custom Kit Selections for The Metal Foundry SDX™ and Superior Drummer 2.0® core library N.Y – Avatar.

Library of the Extreme – Blasts & Fills is available to purchase for 15 EUR.

More information: Toontrack Music / Library of the Extreme – Blasts & Fills