Gladiator 2 delivers a revolution in synthesis!

The award winning Gladiator gives you a groundbreaking approach to sound generation. Its exclusive HCM synthesis technique, covers new and unique aural territory, only possible with Gladiator. The innovative synthesis, design and unmatched sound quality, make this not only the perfect instrument, but also one of the best virtual synthesizersand go-to instruments for all those looking for the ultimate creative tool.

Gladiator 2 ships with an inspiring library of 1105 outstanding presets from top sound designers plus the ´Electronic Expansion´ with additional 300+ patches. All sounds are arranged into categories for easy access to the sound you require.

The ´Electronic Expansion´ is a preset and feature expansion pack for Gladiator 2 with more than 300 sounds, new add-on features, skins and additional effects. It is included in this boxed version of Gladiator2 Complete.

RRP: £198.00 / €198.00

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Chris Hein Horn series is complete!

“The musical content and execution are second to none — add some classy reverb, and these horns will shine!” – Sound on Sound

Chris Hein has delivered exceptional virtual instruments over the years and this latest release – Chris Hein Horns 4: More Brass & Woodwinds – completes the Horns series.

Featuring flugelhorn, saxophone, clarinet, tuba, cimbasso and alphorn, each has approximately 2,000 samples covering 18 different playing techniques. The unique user interface incorporates 72 control features in 11 different edit pages allowing you to customize any aspect of sound shaping and playability.

RRP: £399 / €399

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The release of this new title subsequently brings a new version of Chris Heins Horns Complete which now includes all four Horns libraries for just £899/€899, (would normally be £1596 if bought separately).

With 54 extremely detailed solo instruments and 32 sections, Chris Hein Horns Complete is the largest available Brass and Woodwind library for Jazz, Pop, Funk & Big-Band. With its large sections and high dynamic sound, CHH also works great to spice up your orchestral productions. For an extremly low bundle price for CHH-Complete you get aprox. 80,000 samples and 44GB content.

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50% off selected Best Service virtual instruments!

Still seeking Christmas gift inspiration or looking for a new virtual instrument to keep you busy during the festive holidays? Best Service have made things that little bit easier with a 50% discount across many of their titles until 4th January 2010.

The offer applies to the following products:

Convolution Space
Drums Overkill
Ethno World Professional 4
Xsample Chamber Ensemble
Galaxy Steinway II
Chris Hein Horns Vol 1.5
Chris Hein Horns Vol 2
Chris Hein Bass
Chris Hein Guitars

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DONT FORGET! There’s free worldwide shipping on all orders over £75 until Christmas Eve. Just select the ‘FREE WORLDWIDE’ shipping option when you checkout.

New Accordion, Dance and Urban titles from Best Service…

German developers Best Service have had a busy 2009 which has seen some great reviews for many of their new titles not to mention the release of the massive TITAN back in August. Their range of titles continue to expand with the release of three new libraries…

Accordions
Produced by Eduardo Tarilonte, Accordions is the definitive accordion sample library. Designed and scripted to perform in real time ultra-realistic accordion melodies and chords. All the subtle sounds from an accordion have been carefully captured to increase the realism of your performance, like key and button noises.

8 different Accordions where sampled in high detail, being one of them a real A-A (Alfred Arnold) Bandoneon from the 1930´s with an incredible tone. Just the same model Astor Piazzolla used. Also included are 8 perfectly balanced Multis with meticulously made combinations to create new ready to use registers.

RRP: £129.00

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Production Tools Vol 2
35 Production Tool Kits including single samples (drums/ sounds), drum and instrument loops, multi formatted instruments/ synth presets and midi files! Complete with arranged song ideas and sounds ready to go for your new productions. All Wav files are available as Apple Loops and Rex Files too, so that you can select your own tempo.

Each kit contains multisampled instruments/ presets ranging from lead, bass or pads, sfx to enable full realization of your ideas. With over 5 GB of content available you are able to create those ideas imagined using high quality audio material!

RRP: £74.95

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Black Pearl
Black Pearl is the sample collection for the Hip Hop, R´n´B or Media producer looking for that modern original sound of today’s urban music.

This sound library contains 35 construction kits (63bpm to 120bpm) inspired by the hottest urban producers like Timbaland, Kanye West, Swiss Beatz, Darkchild, Danjahandz and Polow Da Don. The sound content includes bangin’ drum loops, monster kicks, hard hittin’ snares, fresh claps, crunchy snaps, ethnic percussion, hihats, cymbals, shakers, synth and electric basses, keyboards, pianos, electric pianos, orchestral instruments, string ensembles, brass ensembles, hits, acoustic and electric guitars, new age instruments, bells, arpeggios, synths and modulated synths, morphing atmospheres, leads, noises and special fx-sounds.

RRP: £74.95

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Chris Hein delivers another outstanding brass instrument library…

Chris Hein Horns 3: Muted Brass is an outstanding virtual sampled brass instrument library offering 8 Solo Trumpets, 8 Solo Trombones, 7 Trumpet Sections and 5 Trombone Sections with a unique user interface plus 72 control features in 11 different edit pages allowing users to customize any aspect of sound shaping and playability.

Up to 8 dynamics have been sampled for each playing technique enabling complete control over the dynamics and providing a greater amount of variation per note. To avoid the machine gun-effect in repetitions simply adjust the velocity in your sequencers editor or use the programmed hot keys.

Chris Hein Horns 3 comes with a full licence of the famous Kontakt Player 3.5 from Native Instruments.

RRP: £386.60

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Best Service present K-Size Electro libraries…

German-based Best Service has teamed up with K-Size Audio to deliver ´K-Size Edition´ –  a series of sample libraries in Wav, Acid, Rex2 and Apple Loops formats for producers of Electro music.

TechHouse Edition and Minimal Edition both include more than 2800 high quality loops and sounds with kicks, claps, cymbals, FX, basses, percussion, snares and synths all available as single sounds and sampler patches. The loops are split into the categories Full, Add-on, Hi-Hat, Percussion, Synth and Sidechain.

Immerse yourself in thousands of loops and create your own original Techhouse and Minimal tracks!

RRP: £79.00 each

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Best Service unearths some Oriental gems…

German-based Best Service deals with all aspects of music software software and sound libraries. The company’s latest offering – Diamonds of Orient – features percussive gems played by native top musicians Natik & Xeyam, Nistemann Sansar, Celal Sansar, Emrah Sansar, Oezkan & Efkan Durmaz.

This acoustic journey takes you from the Caucasus to Balkan, with sonic stopovers in Azerbaijan, Turkey, Persia, Chechenia, Turkmenistan, Bulgaria, Greece, Iraq and Macedonia!

With a huge variety of oriental and ethnic percussion styles this multi-format collection from Best Service includes 113 construction kits & 846 single instrument loops.

RRP: £74.95

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