Are you ready to rock? Bang away on the drum kit to the beat of one of the biggest rock bands in the world INXS! Let s see if your speed and dexterity is a match for the band s Jon Farriss.

Drums on Demand is a complete collection that consists of 90 drum loops, 19 single hit sounds for applications such as sound effects, and 9 loop layers for building your own drum loops.

The loops are organized through Drums on Demand s unique and Patent-Pending Song Set system and are taken from Drums on Demand s popular loop packages. Unlike other free loop packages, these loops were recorded live by Drums on Demand s production professionals instead of being created through software-generated instruments.

Whats New in This Release:

· Mac OS X 10.1 or later
· GarageBand, Logic, or another application that supports AIFF-format samples

M-Audio s Drum & Bass Rig delivers a wide variety of bass and drum sounds in a single virtual rack. Compatible with most Mac and PC environments, Drum & Bass Rig incorporates four great sounding modules that can be used in stand-alone or plug-in mode.

The RD-5 Real Drums module serves up tons of sampled drum kits and percussion. The EB-6 Electric Bass delivers authentic bass fingering, picking, slapping and more. The LC-7 Loop Creator allows easy and flexible creation and playback of sampled loops. And the BL-8 Bassline is ideal for creating electronic music bass lines.

The master MIDI/Mixer section lets you route, split, layer and mix these four powerful modules in whatever way best suits your performance and recording needs.

A master effects section even allows for adding a common effect in addition to the individual effect section included with each instrument.

Beat It
The RD-5 Real Drums module features a comprehensive library of drum kits and individual drums in all styles, with control over tuning, tone, decay, panorama and level. Each kit also has adjustable overheads, room ambience and effects. All kits are GM-compatible and contain an additional standard percussion set.

Put Your Finger On Great Bass
The EB-6 Electric Bass module produces the sounds of authentically played electric bass guitars. This extensive collection includes a large selection of finger, pick, slap and fretless sounds featuring slides, dead notes and harmonics. The EB-6 also includes a built-in bass amp emulation with drive and tone controls, as well as an effects section for creative options. This electric bass collection is even topped off by a virtual analog synth bass model.

Get Loopy
The LC-7 Loop Creator is one of the most efficient and creative tools available for working with loops. Its pool of 250 source loops can be freely combined and flexibly manipulated by options such as slice-reordering, slice muting or group muting of ranges of slices. The LC-7 Loop Creator is designed for people who want their own loops but find it hard to create them from scratch. It also offers a vast range of real-time controls for dynamic playing/arranging.

Keep Em Steppin
The BL-8 Bassline module is a monophonic bass synthesizer combined with a powerful arpeggiator/step sequencer. Synth controls are straightforward and immediately accessible. An onscreen keyboard provides a familiar step-entry interface pioneered on vintage gear in this genre.

Multiple Effects
These virtual instrument modules each feature their own dual effects processors for delay, chorus, phaser and more. There s also a master effects section that further processes the combined output of all modules.

Flexible Mixing and Assignment
You get an internal mixer and assignment controls that allow you configure independent MIDI channels for each module. But that s not all you can easily create splits and layers for things like left-hand bass with right-hand drums and other performance configurations.

Use It Your Way
M-Audio s virtual racks let you use them as stand-alone instruments or with most host sequencers. Lots of people, for example, are just taking their keyboard and laptop to live performances. Compatibility with AU, VST and RTAS on also means that you can use it as sound sources for your tracks in Pro Tools, Logic, Cubase, Ableton Live, and, well, pretty much any popular music software.

Here are some key features of "Drum Bass Rig":

· four top-quality virtual sound modules:
- RD-5 Real Drums
- EB-6 Electric Bass
- LC-7 Loop Creator
- BL-8 Bassline
· use stand-alone or with a sequencer
· variable velocity and controller settings, optimized for M-Audio keyboards
· independent MIDI channels
· integral mixer
· split and layer modules for performance combinations
· dual effects processor for each module
· master effects section in addition to individual module effects
· compatible with most popular software including Logic, ProTools, Ableton Live and Cubase.

Imagine being able to harness the power of Machinedrums synthesis engine with your Mac. This dream is now a reality! MD Machine Lab allows you to create, tweak, and save individual machines (drum sounds) on your Mac!
MD Machine Lab provides a slick, easy-to-use interface, giving you complete control over your sonic design.

Here are some key features of "MD Machine Lab":

· Randomize
· The randomize feature of MD Machine Lab gives you the ability to set machine parameters to random values. Additionally, you get to choose which parameters get randomized!
· Internationalized
· Speak a language other than English? No problem! MD Machine Lab supports many different languages, including French and German.
· Fast and Lightweight
· I developed MD Machine Lab on a 400 MHz iMac DV SE. While its not THE slowest machine out there, its still pretty freakin slow! Therefore, ensuring that my programs run as efficiently as possible is a top priority. MD Machine Lab is a Cocoa application, written entirely in Objective-C. Furthermore, its multi-threaded, and includes optimizations for both the G4 and the G5.
· Undo! Undo!
· Make a mistake? No worries: MD Machine Lab features unlimited levels of undo and redo! This means you can tweak all you want, without fear of losing a precious creation.
· Randomize!
· The randomize feature of MD Machine Lab gives you the ability to set machine parameters to random values. Additionally, you get to choose which parameters get randomized!
· Internationalized
· Speak a language other than English? No problem! MD Machine Lab supports many different languages, including French and German.


Whats New in This Release:

· fixed a major bug in "Import From SysEx File..." where parameter values werent being set correctly for any machines with less the 8 synthesis parameters. Thanks goes to Jin Lee for the bug report :)
· hitting command-alt-w now closes all windows.

160dB: The Drum&Bass Interface offers Breaks, Upright Bass licks & FX, Basses, Atmospheres, Drum Hits, Misc. FX, Gated FX, Musical FX, Live Drum Loops, Rhodes lines, riffs, FX and patterns, Sax riffs & chops, and Analog Synth FX for Garageband.

Whats New in This Release:

· Multi-lingual support - English, German, French & Italian - and a few fixes.

Funky Drums from Hell - Apple Loops provides a really diverse and funky collection of 320 Apple Loops in total. 5 distinct sounds are featured - Mellow Antique, Hard Funk, Dry Studio, The Basement Tapes, Natural Room.

Recorded and mixed at Metropolis Studios by Grammy-winning engineer, Daniel Lazerus. Also features a selection of specially recorded Funky Hi-Hats section with solo hi-hat patterns.

Neil Conti is one of Londons hottest session drummers. He played at Live Aid, laid down the groove for Prefab Sprout for many years and has also worked with the likes of David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Annie Lennox, Thomas Dolby, Cher, Primal Scream, Deep Forest, Steve Winwood, Youssou NDour and many more.

Whats New in This Release:

· Multi-lingual support - English, German, French & Italian - and a few fixes.

Classic Rock for GarageBand takes you on a trip to the heyday of rock. From the thunderous, fat sound of the 70s, through the sharp pop-rock 80s to the aggressive metal of the early 90s. Not only echoing the sounds of the greats from Led Zep to Metallica, this collection also reflects the classic rock flavour of many of todays bands like The Darkness and Jet.

With tempos ranging from 60bpm to 170bpm, and styles ranging from mellow acoustic to full-on drop-tuned metal, this collection covers every base. If youre looking for a full song kit or just a blistering solo or a big fat drum loop to throw into the mix, look no further... This is Rock like it should be!

Here are some key features of "Rock for GarageBand":

· 1100+ loops in total including 12 song construction kits
· 340+ drum loops (beats and fills in different styles and kits)
· 130 keyboard loops (Rhodes, Hammond and Synth licks and riffs)
· 640+ guitar/bass loops (riffs, solos, chords, squeals, noises and other hits).


Whats New in This Release:

· Multi-lingual support - English, German, French & Italian - and a few fixes.

Band-in-a-Box is an automatic accompaniment program for Macintosh.

You type in the chord symbols to any song, using standard chord symbols like C, Fm7, Cm7b5 etc. choose a style and press PLAY. Band-in-a-Box then generates a pro quality 5 instrument accompaniment of bass, drums, piano, guitar and strings in over 100 styles of music.

Whats New in This Release:

· This patch is a general maintenance release.
· It also updates a few styles, and adds support for the latest Styles Sets (to Styles Set 62), Soloist Sets (to Soloist Set 18), and Melodist Sets (to Melodist Set 8).

Band-in-a-Box 15.0.2 which does your job as fast as you can is an automatic accompaniment program for Macintosh. You type in the chord symbols to any song, using standard chord symbols like C, Fm7, Cm7b5 etc. choose a style and press PLAY. Band-in-a-Box then generates a pro quality 5 instrument accompaniment of bass, drums, piano, guitar and strings in over 100 styles of music.

When you film a tv screen or monitor, the result often has a horizontal band scrolling down. This happens when the screen s refresh speed is not tightly synchronized with the camera s shutter speed. Band disturbance is a special effect that mimics that effect.

You can use Band Disturbance whenever you want to simulate a filmed tv transmission or monitor.

Here are some key features of "Band Disturbance":

· area of effect: define the area of the clip you want to be affected by the plug-in. all other parts or the clip remain untouched.
· brightness: this slider controls if the disturbance is brighter or darker than the picture (and how much). you can go from -50% to +50%
· severity: this controls how thick the band will appear.
· speed: this slider controls how fast the disturbance moves down.

Pet Rock is a small widget that allows you to have a little rock friend on your dashboard.
Three moods are available for the pet rock.

Band Aide is an Adobe Photoshop filter plug-in that reduces or eliminates luminance noise. Band Aide was originally created for the "banding" noise that plagued high ISO photos from early versions of the Nikon D1 digital camera.

However, it is still very useful for removing more common types of noise such as "shadow noise" from underexposed photos, increased noise from high ISO photos, and "long exposure" noise that is created by taking long exposures lasting seconds or more.

Types of Noise

Shadow noise occurs in the dark areas of photos (the shadows). If a photo is underexposed and then later brightened in software with operations such as "levels" or "curves", the overall noise of the photo will be increased. However, this noise becomes especially apparent in dark and/or flat areas.

High ISO noise occurs when the ISO setting in a digital camera is increased to the higher range of its available ISO settings. However, the amount of high ISO noise depends on the camera model and especially the sensor that is used (CCD, CMOS, etc). In general, a camera that has large pixes (the area of each pixel sensor) should create less noise for a given ISO than a camera with small pixels, but other factors affect the amount of noise. An example of a sensor with large pixels would be a large sensor (e.g. for professional SLRs) with a small megapixel count (e.g. 2 megapixels). An example of a sensor with small pixels would be a small sensor (e.g. point-and-shoot digital camera) with a large megapixel count (e.g. 8 megapixels).

Long Exposure noise (or "dark current" noise) occurs when the time of exposure or the temperature is increased. This noise is really a per-pixel "noise gain" factor, and the noise pattern should be consistent for a given camera, exposure time, ISO, and temperature. One way to help reduce this noise is to subtract a "noise reference" photo taken by the camera at the same ISO, exposure time, and temperature, and in complete darkness. However, this can be a challenge to accomplish and manage.

Band Aide is designed to remove large amounts of luminance noise. Some cameras dont have much luminance noise, but rather color noise. Camera Bits recommends using the Quantum Mechanic Pro filter plug-in to remove color noise. Quantum Mechanic works differently and has only minimal effect on significant amounts of luminance noise, which is what Band Aide is designed to handle.

Noise and Sharpening

One of the biggest problems with luminance noise is that sharpening the photo will make the noise worse. This is especially true in the shadows or dark areas of a photo. Since the sharpening of photos is bound to happen at some point during pre-press, it is always a good idea to minimize the noise before sharpening your photos. In fact, the effects of reducing noise by Band Aide are most noticeable on photos that are sharpened afterwards: noisy photos sharpened directly are much worse than noisy photos that are filtered by Band Aide and then sharpened.

Here are some key features of "Band Aide":

· Cleans-up Shadow Noise
· Maintains Edge Detail
· Improves Post Sharpening.


Limitations:

· 20 uses or 2 weeks trial.