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IK Multimedia's new Core MIDI interface for iOS devices, iRig MIDI, is now available!

Mark your calendars, the 2012 Linux Audio Conference (LAC) is happening on April 12 to 15 at CCRMA Standford University.

Wavetable expansion for ElectraX released by Tone2 Audiosoftware Tone2 Audiosoftware released a Wavetable expansion for ElectraX, shipping with 236 new waveforms.

"Drum Sound and Beat Creation" Video Tutorial was released by Samplerbanks for Ultrabeat users.

TC-Helicon together with Brett Manning's Singing Success will give away the "Ultimate Vocal Rig" to one lucky Facebook user.

John Hornby Skewes & Co. Ltd announces the arrival of new Kinsman Headphones designed for all types of music lovers.

New Celemony Melodyne Video Tutorials and Artists Interviews Celemony has uploaded new Melodyne video tutorials and video interviews with Hans-Martin Buff and Jason Phats.

Cakewalk now with SoundCloud Integration Cakewalk joins forces with SoundCloud to make sharing your music as fast and easy as possible.

Studio Devil Plug-ins now compatible with 64bit Mac OSX Studio Devil updates their plug-ins, now compatible with 64bit Mac OSX.

Sample Magic has released The Producer's Manual by Paul White, a complete music production guide from recording to final mastering.

Maratone Buys a Stake in Addictive Drums developer XLN Audio Leading music producers Maratone, led by songwriter Max Martin, have purchased a stake in XLN Audio, building a new partnership with the developer of Addictive Drums which is one of the most popular plugins here on SMM.

Sonic Studio to showcase the New Amarra at the 8th RMAF Sonic Studio will showcase the new and improved Amarra at the upcoming 8th Rocky Mountain Audio Festival in Denver.

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Now is your chance to win a free BCD3000 DJ Controller, PMP Behringer mixers and C-1 mics, join Behringer's Fall 2011 Sweepstakes - “We Need You to Be Heard”

Sound Magic introduces the Fazioli Brunei, a piano for Kontakt, based on the Fazioli F308 grand piano.

UPDATE: Maschine Mikro is now available in stores worldwide

Making Your Mark in Music by Anika Paris, published by Hal Leonard Anika Paris shares her professional stage performing secrets with you in her book with DVD - Making your Mark in Music published by Hal Leonard

Orion v8.5 announced by Synapse Synapse has updated their DAW Orion v8.5, adding new effects, features, workflow improvements and skin customization.

Distrho has updated the Togu Audio Line (TAL) and Arctican Linux plug-ins Distrho has taken it upon themselves to update a number of Linux based plug-ins.

SONiVOX has announced the release of Wobble, a Dubstep Grime Generator virtual instrument slated for an October 1st release.

Mark Zuckerberg said today at F8 (Facebook's Conference), "It's been a lot of fun rethinking how music works".

Propellerhead is about to release Reason 6 on September 30, 2011, and has announced the "Pay What You Want" upgrade promo for users that have both Reason and Record.

Pioneer comes up with a the new DJM-250 2-channel entry level DJ mixer. It is a compact DJ Mixer with eight inputs, 2 channel Filter Effects and XLR balanced outputs.

Tape, Tubes and Transistors is a bundle of three plugins from the joint effort of Waves Audio and Eddie Kramer.

Beat100.com is a new video sharing network with integraded social networking features, available for music lovers of all backgrounds.

Cakewalk has just released two add-ons and a bundle package aimed at SONAR Producer users, or would be users. It adds more features to the already extensive toolset and will help your music productions gain new delivery options.

Focusrite have delivered the Scarlett 2i2, the newest member of it's compact USB recording interface range.

Melodyne Editor finally goes up a notch - getting an important update along with Melodyne Assistant and Melodyne Essential, the other single track audio editors of Celemony.