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Comic Ivo Graham talks to Veronica Lee.

Brian Donaldson talks to comic Simon Evans.

Return of the all-womens comedy night at arts centre.

A cheeky take on Jane Austen’s classic comedy of manners tickles Richard Lutz’s ribs. 

Digbeth’s font will be available to anyone who lives and works in Digbeth.

How a warden's intervention put a life back on track.

Region’s best visitor venues honoured with awards in fifteen categories.

Richard Lutz reports on another blighted week in Old Blighty. 

Star shining bright at media awards.

Villa's defeat at Leicester leaves them in relegation trouble. Dave Woodhall reports.

Dave Woodhall wonders whether football and footballers are getting an unfair press.

Dave Woodhall looks back at this weekend in Villa's history.

Midlands leaders encourage businesses to join search for global investment.

Birmingham entrepreneur to back prestige ceremony.

Aston station adoption planting project helps local people grow.

£25 million awarded in 25 years.

The survey which covered over 1,300 HR professionals across sectors, aimed to understand the impact of the lockdown on the country’s employment scenario. More than 72% hiring managers said companies are devising new job roles that will be limited to remote working only.

Currently, owing to the ongoing lockdown, kirana (corner) stores on JioMart serve limited inventory. But that will be a thing of the past once restrictions are lifted.

Toontrack has announced the official list pricing information for EZbass as well as a new video presenting an in-depth look at the features of the program. As announced earlier, EZbass will be available on May 19th and is Toontrack’s highly anticipated bass software instrument as well as the next core title in the company’s widely […]

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Looptone has released its new sample library for epic-scale trailer soundtrack production Leviathan Hybrid Trailer, a collection that combines orchestral and electronic sound design techniques. The pack is aimed at anyone looking to evoke that modern trailer sound, be it for actual soundtrack scoring or as a flavor enhancer in dance and pop production. This […]

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Ampify is the name behind the iOS apps Launchpad, Blocs Wave and Groovebox, which have together amassed over 15 million downloads. Ampify now brings you its latest music-making software, Ampify Studio, available for free on MacOS and Windows. After announcing Ampify Studio at NAMM 2020 in LA and releasing as public beta software, Ampify Studio […]

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Impact Soundworks has launched its free video series Impact Soundworks Academy, delivering lessons and tutorials on a wide range of music production, composition, and business topics, created by professionals and experts. The series aims to give you immediate, practical, and actionable knowledge you can use to improve your music, your workflow, and your career. In […]

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Erica Synths is one of the few manufacturers that uses vacuum tubes in its Eurorack modules — and those who are familiar with tube-based modules know that tubes can push the sound to extremes, or transform it into deep and saturated tones. Three new Fusion series modules have been announced: Fusion VCF3
, Fusion Modulator 
and […]

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The Unfinished has launched the Humankind 2020 promotion, a collection of limited edition charity synth soundsets. For those who don’t know, Humankind is a collection of synth soundsets (of 64 patches each), with 50% of the proceeds going to charity. This time around I have chosen The Trussell Trust, a wonderful charity who help provide […]

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Plugin Boutique has announced a flash sale on the Tonelux Tilt plugin by Softube, offering a 44% discount on the tilt equalizer for a limited time. Created in collaboration with original Tonelux designer Paul Wolff, the plugin allows you to get the basic sound in place with a single knob. Go from shimmering bright to […]

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Freaky Loops has released a new sample pack titled Hip Hop Paradise, a collection of loops and samples for new and old-skool Hip Hop productions. Contains a variety of fresh and inspirational sounds; from wonky drums to hiphop melodies, smokey basses to shimmering instruments sounds, punchy snares to inspirational combi files, percussions, vox, fx and […]

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Kilohearts has announced a sale on selected plugins, offering a 50% discount for the next few weeks. We are offering 50% off some of our most popular effects (VST/AU/AAX/Snapin). Trance Gate, Tape Stop, Reverser, and Resonator are all HALF-PRICE for a limited time. Chop your sounds up, wind them down, flip them over and make […]

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Organic Loops has released an immersive selection of authentic flute parts with Indian Bansuri Flute, a royalty free sample pack featuring a huge range of keys, tempos and playing styles. This is a huge, 2.26GB helping of flutes from legendary recording artist KV Balakrishnan (AKA KV Balu). You’ll hear riffs, melodys and hooks played in […]

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UJAM has announced an exclusive bundle deal, offering a 42% discount on the NEO Finisher audio effect and MOK Waverazor software synthesizer from Tracktion. NEO stands for bold exploration of new frontiers. It’s the first of its kind and a sheer endless source of inspiration for modern, epic, action-packed and thrilling audio effects. Forward-thinking sound […]

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SampleScience has announced the release of its free instrument plugin Analog Waveforms, featuring the basic waveforms of the Mopho analog monophonic synthesizer from Dave Smith Instruments. Each waveform has been sampled note by note across 7 octaves (each sample being 10 seconds in length) which gives an accurate and genuine sonic representation of an analog […]

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Frontline Producer has launched its new sample pack Stoner and Garage Rock, a collection of hard rock music parts that can be used to craft and reinforce your own groove-laden, riff-filled and harshly distorted jams. Stoner and Garage Rock is aimed at all music producers who want to enlarge their possibilities of expression with real […]

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Sound Magic has announced the release of Neo Erhu, a hybrid modeled virtual instrument featuring an enhanced version of the Erhu aka Chinese violin. Neo Erhu uses Music Domain Synthesis, a new technology that can create a digital instrument from scratch, removing the limitation of sampling and modeling. Through Music Domain Synthesis technology, Neo Erhu […]

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Plugin Boutique has announced an exclusive sale on the Mandoline by Cinematique Instruments, offering a 30% discount on the virtual instrument featuring the sounds of a flat back soprano mandolin from Ireland, tuned like a violin in G-D-A-E. Our main focus was to create an Mandolin instrument which delivers a natural and organic feel. Our […]

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Sub51 has launched a new Kontakt instrument that blends the origins of electro with 21st century drum sounds. Mechanic is designed to produce rhythmic loops that combine stunning clarity with a contemporary feel, all controlled via an intuitive, user-friendly interface. Formatted for use with NI Kontakt 6.2.2, Mechanic comes with 100 tempo sync’d loops which […]

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Prime Loops has announced the release of two new value bundles. The Lo-Fi Bundle comprises 6 of the best Lo-Fi Hip Hop packs from Prime Loops and XXL Audio at a 70% discount. With over 2.3GB of Crisp & Crunchy Flagship Sounds, you’re sure to love this mammoth collection! This Exclusive Speciality Bundle contains 6 […]

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Kuassa is celebrating a great decade of its vision for a palette of inspiring technology for musicians with the release of Amplifikation 360, a virtual “playground” for stacking pedals, amps, and cabs to create the perfect sound for guitarists. Amplifikation 360 allows you to combine every Kuassa product you own with ease. Try routing Matchlock’s […]

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NatLife Sounds has announced the new Trance & Progressive for Spire soundset, a collection of 40 presets by Eximinds. Trance & Progressive for Spire is another great package from a great Armada and A State Of Trance artist – Eximinds. In this soundpack you can find a high quality variable sounds for your music production. […]

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Plugin Boutique is offering an exclusive 40% discount on the Session Keys Grand Y virtual piano instrument by e-instruments. Session Keys Grand Y captures the clear, transparent and dynamic sound of a Yamaha CFIIIS Concert Grand Piano. Rich overtones, sparkling high end, and a powerful bass are the tonal fingerprints of this outstanding Kontakt instrument. […]

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Plugin Boutique has launched a sale on the Organetta Kontakt library by AudioThing, featuring the sounds of a small portable reed organ made in the late 50s by the German company Hohner. The sound is generated by an electric fan that blows air into a set of brass reeds hence the sound is reminiscent of […]

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Eventide Audio has announced the release of its new dual-voice pitch shifter plugin for Windows and Mac. MicroPitch is the latest incarnation of an iconic effect originated by Eventide in the 1970s. With each generation, Eventide has added to, refined, enhanced and built on its legendary predecessors. MicroPitch is a fine-resolution pitch shifter providing effects […]

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Splice has launched some new samples and presets on its Splice Sounds label. Mario Luciano Sample Pack Vol. 2 — Musician, composer, and arranger, Mario Luciano is back with his second volume of sounds for Splice. Using 100% all-analog keyboards, instruments, and vintage mixing equipment to craft his samples, you’ll find some truly unique gems […]

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Jakob Reinhardt has released the US Dream Guitar, a free Kontakt instrument library featuring the sounds of a rich clean American solid body guitar. The instrument library features 51 velocity sensitive pitches and unlocked Wav files are included for use in your favorite sampler or DAW. This is a sample library of a clean American […]

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SFXtools has released its latest sound effects collection Sci-Fi Whooshes, a new “Film Audio” series pack featuring 64 high-quality unique sounding whoosh sound effects. Full of whoosh, swoosh, swish, passbys, flybys and movement sounds to spice up your sci-fi projects, trailers, cut scenes and movies. Every sound in the folder designed and delivered in industry-standard […]

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Overloud has announced the release of two new rig libraries for its TH-U custom guitar amp and effects suite. Choptones Brit 800ZW comes with 129 rigs. Brit 800ZW is the TH-U expansion library, created by Choptones, seeking to recreate the sound of a Marshall JCM800 2203ZW Zakk Wylde. Basically it is a normal 2203, so […]

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HISS and a ROAR has announced the release of Scaffolding, a new sound library that features recordings of a scaffolding support structure. While musicians relish playing their instrument, gaining access to a new sonic playground for a sound FX recordist is a heavenly joy! So it was a pleasure to eventually find a scaffolding company […]

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8Dio Productions has announced its new sample library Studio Tenor Saxophone, a deep sampled saxophone for Native Instruments Kontakt. The instrument comes with advanced controls and layered legatos, and chordal legato. The Studio Tenor Saxophone has its own fully capable mixer with functions such as Solo, Mute, Output Routing, Volume, and Panning. All featured alongside […]

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Audio Plugin Deals has announced a flash sale on the Veevum Trilogy by Audiofier, a bundle of three Kontakt instruments designed for creating interesting textures and ambient sounds. VEEVUM Trilogy offers 3 instruments at once in one bundle: VEEVUM ONE (LO-FI Sampling), VEEVUM A/D (Analog & Digital Synths Sampling) and VEEVUM REAL (Acoustic and Hybrid […]

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Ugritone has announced the release of KVLT Drums II: Speed Metal, a new expansion pack for the KVLT Drums II virtual drum instrument. For this new expansion, the KVLT Drums II virtual instrument has been updated with improved loading times, less CPU consumption, and tuning options. KVLT Drums II is a Drum Sample Library catered […]

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Plugin Boutique has launched a sale on Inphonik, offering discounts of up to 50% off on its plugins for a limited time only. The RX950 Classic AD/DA Converter effect plugin is designed to perfectly mimic the whole AD/DA conversion process of the Akai S950 in order to give your music this vintage, warm and crunchy […]

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