West Midlands Railway reminds passengers to make only essential journeys this Easter.

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Transport firm raise record amount for childrens charity.

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A well known local businessman is lending his support to a competition for artists at Coventry University.

Local role models launch new campaign to change young people’s life stories.

Dave Woodhall pays tribute to writer, broadcaster, campaigner and long-time friend Steve Beauchampe.

Final call for Digbeth Business Forum event attendees.

Star shining bright at media awards.

Million pound transformation project helps entrepreneurs launch Warm Beautiful Homes.

Centrick unlocks virtual viewings to tackle COVID-19.

Solihull development to inject over £1.3 million into local services.

Famous Brummies show their support for #SIFASurvives.

The data could get worse, which “should be expected as the lockdown continues to get prolonged,” CMIE chief said. “Initially, a lockdown only hurts the most vulnerable labor that is informally employed in unorganized sectors. Gradually, it starts hitting the more secure jobs. Startups have announced lay-offs and industry associations have warned of job losses.”

The Naukri JobSpeak is a monthly Index which calculates and records hiring activity based on the job listings on Naukri.com website month on month. The objective is to measure the hiring activities in various industries, cities, functional areas and experience levels.

According to staffing company Genius Consultants '9th Hiring, Attrition and Compensation Trend 2020-21', around 81 per cent of the respondents have shown interest to carry on with existing manpower and retaining them.

The survey was conducted by MindMap Advance Research with 560 India Inc. employees across small, medium and large enterprises in major metro cities of Delhi-NCR, Mumbai and Bengaluru.

It further said that although 2020 is a lost year, in terms of trade, India can think long-term and build relations so that it can occupy the space vacated by China.

Production cuts will be most in premium product portfolio as companies expect consumers to curb discretionary spending as the impact of the Covid-19. Manufacturing orders fall by up to 40% year on year as they expect much of current stock to remain unsold till then, company executives said.

Production cuts will be most in premium product portfolio as companies expect consumers to curb discretionary spending as the impact of the Covid-19. Manufacturing orders fall by up to 40% year on year as they expect much of current stock to remain unsold till then, company executives said.

HighLife Samples has announced the release of a new sample pack by Planet Samples. Trance Vocals Vol. 2 includes 5 vocal construction kits for your next Trance production. The royalty free pack includes dry and wet vocals for each kit, over 20 instruments loops, and 20 MIDI files. For producers looking to simply drag and […]

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Audified has released its new audio effect VocalMint Saturator, an easy-to-use single knob vocal saturator with powerful processing hidden under the hood. Most one-knobs do one thing and one thing only: they linearly mix in a certain effect to your track. However, VocalMint runs the track through its virtual signal chain and tunes multiple parameters […]

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Sugar Bytes has released an iPad version of its Looperator 16-step sample slicer and creative multi-fX sequencer. The wide range of effects, its quick and intuitive interface and extensive randomization make it easy to design subtle rhythmic enhancements or impressive effect pyrotechnics. Looperator chops up your audio and turns it into something new. In the […]

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W.A. Production has released its new audio plugin Punchy Worm, a one-knob punch and saturation effect with a dancing worm. At W.A. Production they’re serious about music and over the last few years, they’ve created many top-quality plugins with finely tuned controls and pro studio features. But sometimes they just like to go a bit […]

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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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Softube has introduced its new Preset Collection, bringing various improvements to the tool to organize your Softube presets. There is more to a great plug-in than the sound quality it imparts on your tracks. Workflow and user-friendliness are arguably equally important. To that end, we are proud to finally announce the completely overhauled Preset Collection, […]

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IK Multimedia has announced the launch of its Spring Strings Krazy Deal, offering a 73% discount on two of its virtual instrument for a limited time. Get the “bread and butter” virtual instrument sounds you need for your next song or project with SampleTank 4 SE or compose with a living, breathing orchestra with Miroslav […]

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Audentity Records has introduced its latest sample pack Boom Bap Hip Hop 4, a collection of over 200 loops and one-shots. Boom Bap Hip Hop 4 includes atmospheres, brass, fx, synth, guitar, keys, drums & percussion, strings, bass, and more. Our team spent weeks in the studio to bring you one of our best Boom […]

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Ugritone has launched a weekend sale on two of its virtual instruments. Assault Drums is a virtual drum instrument with the sound of 80s/90s Heavy Metal/Rock. Multiple routing options and advanced humanizing scripts give each and every drum a natural feel so you can dial tones from Assault Drums as if you were processing real […]

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Mammoth Audio has made available a free lite version of its Density cinematic toolkit for Native Instruments Kontakt. “It’s a tough moment in our history, but one positive has been producers getting back into music making with the spare time. We want to gift the creative community with something which would inspire them to stay […]

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PluginFox has launched an exclusive sale on two audio plugins by Tokyo Dawn Labs, offering a 50% discount for a limited time only. NOVA Gentleman’s Edition MKII is a parallel dynamic equalizer. Appearing in the familiar layout of a parametric equalizer, the plugin also includes flexible dynamics processing options allowing the coverage of an impressively […]

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LFO Store has announced the release of 50 Analog & Ambient Sounds, a collection of patches for the iconic Korg M1 synthesizer and music workstation from the 90s. It sounds fantastic but many of the sounds was overused in years & we didn’t find any modern recreations around the globe. So we made a challenge […]

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discoDSP has announced an update to its Bliss performance sampler with built­-in VST host and VSTi sampling. Changes in Bliss v1.8 Added Export Program to mapped WAV files. Added Linux JACK support for standalone. Added Windows ASIO support for standalone. Auto glide mode enabled by default. Delay default value SYNC SYNC 3 ticks. Delay FX […]

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ProducerSpot has announced the launch of its 2020 Spring Sale, offering a 30% discount on all sample packs for a few days only. The sale features hundreds of titles, including some of the latest releases: Hip Hop Essentials by Diginoiz. Uzi Nation by Smemo Sounds. Fast Life by Studio Trap. Osiris Future Chillwave by Certified […]

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Audio Plugin Deals has launched a sale on the Fresh+Dark Bundle by Sampletraxx, offering over 80% off on a collection of three sample libraries. Powered by the full version of Kontakt 5.8, this bundle features the latest sample libraries from SAMPLETRAXX: BRAAMS vol. 2, Rituals and Antisystem. This bundle is perfect for horror, sci-fi and […]

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Hy2rogen has launched its new sound pack Bass House for Serum, a collection of handcrafted presets for the popular Serum software synthesizer. The pack includes 100 bass sounds for Bass House, Hybrid Trap, Dubstep, and more. It’s been a while since we’ve had some brand new presets over here at HY2ROGEN and now we’re back […]

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Sonixinema has announced the launch of the Sound of a Brighter Future Composing Competition, an opportunity to share your positive outlook and win store vouchers. Positivity, hope, and unity are surrounding us like never before. It is allowing us to experience life in a new way, and is the perfect time to do what we […]

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Voxengo has announced an update to the Tube Amp free tube overdrive effect plugin for Windows and Mac. Tube Amp is a free audio effect plugin for professional music production applications that applies asymmetric tube triode overdrive usually found in single-tube microphone pre-amp boxes. The sound this plugin produces varies from a mild “warm” overdrive […]

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Impact Soundworks has announced the release of a new sample library with a collection of modern electronic sounds. Cyclops includes over 1,000 one-shots, drum loops, MIDI files, and over 350 presets for the Serum synth by Xfer Records. The library includes drums, playable 808s, arps, basses, leads, pads, poly keys, plucks, fx, and more. This […]

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Indossa has announced the release of Classic Synths for OP-Z, a collection of samples from some classic ’80s ‘odd-ball’ synths, programmed for the OP-Z multimedia synthesizer and sequencer from Teenage Engineering. The pack also comes with some bonus 808 sounds and drum samples. 80’s Synth Waves programmed for OP-Z! Mount your OP-Z in content mode […]

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Cinesamples has launched the World Series Week, offering a 40% discount on a collection of cultural instruments from around the world. World Series instruments are perfect for adding unique and transformative sounds to your scores. In the film composer repertoire, instrumentation is one of many tools that can transform a simple piece of music. At […]

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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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Apollo Sound has released the fourth part of its chill oriented series of guitar packs. Chill-Tempo Jazzy Guitar features the sounds of a hollow body electric guitar performed by gifted chillhop producer and professional session guitar player Michael Melkumian. This guitar is considered the standard in lofi, chillhop, jazz music & has it’s own unique […]

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Ghosthack has announced the release of Ultimate Midtempo Attack, a collection of over 590 sounds for Midtempo productions. Pioneered by producers like REZZ, Gesaffelstein or Aglory, midtempo is quite arguably the hottest new shit out there. Defined through a shredded, thoroughly industrial sound design, dubstep-like bass signatures and tempos around 80-115bpm, in the last years […]

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Plugin Boutique has launched the exclusive Unique Vocal Production Bundle, a collection of three plugins for vocal processing at 55% off the regular price. You will often find vocals at the heart of modern music productions, and while achieving a professional vocal sound is paramount to creating a successful record, adding a touch of uniqueness […]

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Plugin Boutique has launched a sale on the Armory drum instrument by Stagecraft, offering 80% off for a limited time. The plugin comes with ADSR, cue points, independent tempo and pitch-shifting for any sample, effects chaining, and a massive catalogue of drum sounds. As with all of Stagecraft’s plugins, the displays they add are in-depth […]

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Loopmasters has launched a sample pack by Dubmatix and turntablist The Hip Assassin titled Hip Hop & Beatbox – The Style Bots Arrive, a collection of dark synthesized bass sounds, original tight beat box grooves, sci-fi effects and disturbing alien vocals. This unique collection introduces the Style Bots – robots from either the future or […]

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