Hitsquad News for Musicians

Avid's Tom Graham, Brian Carter and Gil Gowing will share professional tips in tracking with Pro Tools|HD Native system and Icon D-Control.

Korg continues to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Micro with the Mega Micro Giveaway, where they will be giving away a Micro series product every month.

Dubstep Destruction Tools feature four Dubstep music production software from Sonivox, including Wobble, Vocalizer, Twist and Pulse.

Urban Dreamz is a sample pack by Prime Loops designed for creating contemporary pop style music.

Radio Max is a 814MB sized loop library that contains over 200 Pop Radio music loops, 600 files in 3 formats (WAV/AIFF/REX2).

Skanner XT is a Komplete instrument library and sound resource with a focus on unconventional tone and expression.

Ueberschall's Reggae Dub is a sample library that gives you a fusion of Roots Reggae and modern Dub vibes.

Native Instruments launches "Dual Brains. Wanted. " - a major recruiting campaign with a new online career center.

Blue Cat Audio released and updated their free audio plug-ins bundle for Mac and PC - Freeware Pack II.

Steinberg's Dark Planet Add-On features new loops and instruments that are designed for cinematic scoring and ambient background music.

PG-Music updates the Mac version of their music accompaniment software, Band-in-a-Box 2012, with over 50 new features and 101 additional RealTracks.

Image-Line wants to break into live music and performance territory with FL Studio v10.5 beta - featuring a cool Performance mode.

Native Instruments drops the price of their 6 channel audio interface - Komplete Audio 6.

Sonivox is giving out five boxed copies of Wobble - their Dubstep grime generator synthesizer.

Micro Kits 02 is the second twisted drum kits sample pack from Twisted Tools, for use with Maschine, Kontakt, Battery, Reaktor and EXS24.

The HDJ-1500 by Pioneer is designed to deliver quality sound reproduction in a stylish look designed for pro DJs.

Celemony updates their professional recording restoration software Capstan to version 1.1 with multiple track fixing and a new rental model.

Soundation Studio, a web browser based DAW, is adding community and social features to their service.

Show off your microKorg skills and win prizes with the microMadness video contest.

Ableton celebrates their SoundCloud teamup with a music making contest and by giving away free 5 month SoundCloud Pro accounts to Live users.

Traktor Pro 2.5 with Remix Decks is set for a May 30, 2012 release, coinciding with the arrival of its partner DJ controller Traktor Kontrol F1.

AudioThing's Pipes is a collection of pipe sounds for Kontakt which includes cardboard tubes, aluminum spray cans, dreamcatchers and PVC pipes.

Musicrow packed 44 ensembles in one package with the Golden Ensembles 3 for Native Instruments Reaktor 5.

Nuendo Live is a multitrack recording solution fine tuned to capture live performances - be it small clubs or big concert events.

Rack Extensions improve the compatibility of the Reason rack, by allowing third party developers create instruments and effects for Reason.

Avid has bundled their portable audio interfaces - Mbox and Mbox Mini with Pro Tools Express software at no additional charge.

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The free grant service Good Maker currently has a challenge called 'Make Music' where they are giving away a $2500 grant to whichever project gets the most votes.

Pioneer RMX-1000 is a DJ remixing system that features remix effects and rhythmic sampling.

Analog Anomalies is a free Live Pack for Ableton's Analog Instrument.