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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Plugin Alliance has welcomed Fuchs with the release of two guitar amp plugins in native formats. Developed by Brainworx and officially endorsed by Fuchs Audio, these plugins expertly capture all of the nuances and tube-powered tone shaping of these legendary amplifiers. The Fuchs Overdrive Supreme 50 stands out at everything it does. From crystal clear […]

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Keep It Sample has released its new sample pack Energetic Hybrid Trap, a collection of over 260 loops and samples and 40 MIDI files for your next hybrid trap production. The pack is inspired by producers such as Maliboux, TYNAN & SHARPS, Eliminate, Medasin, Rickyxsan, Oski, Skrillex, Getter, Ghastly, Dirty Audio, Habstrakt, Eptic, Joyryde, JVST […]

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Impact Soundworks’ Andrew Aversa has published the second video in the Music Business 101 series of tutorial videos, taking a look at how you can make money with your music. The video is part of the Impact Soundworks Academy, which delivers lessons and tutorials on a wide range of music production, composition, and business topics, […]

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Plugin Boutique has launched an exclusive sale on the Atmos & SFX Bundle, featuring over 2,200 state-of-the-art SFX samples, loops and atmos by Sounds of Revolution and Audio Boutique. From robotic sound effects, complex impacts, mangled kick-free loops, mystic atmos and soundscapes, unique vocal fragments and much more, expand your sample collection with this unique […]

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W.A. Production has released the What About series Ambient for Imperfect soundset, a collection of 50 fresh presets that will bring ambience to your productions. This preset pack aims to unleash all of the capabilities of the ImPerfect synthesizer. Having been designed to make imperfections shine, what better way to get your hands and ears […]

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MusicDevelopments has announced the release of Melodya, an advanced motive editor and melody generator plugin for Windows and macOS. Melodya separates shape and rhythm and includes several melodic and rhythmic transformations. Melodya is an advanced motive editor and melody generator which is simple to use but at the same time it offers many detailed settings […]

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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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Thick Sounds has released its new sample pack Jungle Colossus 2, a new collection of loops and samples for Jungle and Drum & Bass, Breakbeat, Dub, Reggae and beyond. Inspired by sounds of Benny Page, Congo Natty, Serial Killaz and Run Tingz to name a few, ‘Jungle Colossus’ is designed for producers who’s looking for […]

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Apollo Sound has released a new sample pack titled Real Rap Vocal, a compact vocal pack for any Trap, Hip-Hop or EDM producer. The pack includes 226 royalty free vocal samples and loops. As a modern producer you can’t produce any track without good vocal shouts, rappin’ vocal hooks or pre-drop pitched vocal phrase. So […]

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Alonso Sound has released Revealed Bass House Kits Vol. 1, a sample pack featuring 5 construction kits. Each kit includes the WAV files of all the elements of the track; from bass, synths, leads, kicks, fills, fx, claps, percussion, and more. In addition, each Kit contains the MIDI files of all the melodic and bass […]

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Audio Plugin Deals is offering a discount of 80% on the Cinematic Keys sample library by Sample Logic for a limited time. Weighing in at over 8 GBs, CINEMATIC KEYS is a complete collection of 850+ traditional and mutilated Instruments & Multis derived entirely from recordings of keyboard instruments powered by Kontakt Player. CINEMATIC KEYS […]

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Noiiz has announced availability of Project-Unity, a sample pack featuring 5,604 loops and samples made by 96 different creators. This HUGE sample pack has been created by the generosity of our creators, partners and community and 100% of proceeds go directly to charity. It’s one of the most inspiring packs we have ever produced. We’ve […]

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Loopmasters has released its new sample pack Techno Oscillations, a collection of loops and samples by esteemed Techno guru Michal Jablonski. Filled to the brim with menacing audio tools, this collection is designed to build tension and cause sheer devastation in the dance. Michal has provided over 700MB worth of his freshest and most lethal […]

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Singomakers has launched its new sample pack Drum & Bass Oblivion, a collection of loops and samples for classic drum and bass, liquid and atmospheric drum and bass to rolling, techstep and neurofunk. Drum & Bass is amazing music, often plunges us into Oblivion when listening. Sometimes it is just necessary to shut out everything […]

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Softube has announced the availability of the Weiss EQ1, a line-by-line code port boasting 1:1 accuracy of the pioneering original hardware, known as the standard of digital mastering EQs​. The Weiss EQ1 plugin offers increased functionality of the original algorithms, plus 32-bit/192 kHz operation and updated ergonomics. It comes with easy manual recall of presets […]

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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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ADSR Sounds has launched a new sample pack by GHST PRJKT titled The Weekdys, a collection of loops, samples, MIDI files and Serum synth presets inspired by The Weeknd. Taking inspiration from past albums and his production evolution to his current sound, GHST PRJKT is proud to introduce The Weekdys – our take on The […]

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Serato Studio pays homage to the classic 1990’s arcade fighter games with BeatFighter, letting you compete with beatmakers from across the world for ultimate victory in a global online tournament. Interactive, public judging via Instagram is to decide who takes the grand prize each month. “BeatFighter is a really epic combination of gaming and music […]

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Spitfire Audio has announced the release of BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover, a universal starting point to explore and create with 35 instruments impeccably performed by the world-famous BBC Symphony Orchestra, brought to life inside a beautifully designed, easy-to-use plugin. A whole orchestra of the highest quality at your fingertips. Designed to make orchestral scoring accessible […]

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W.A. Production has released its new audio plugin Vocal Compressor, an easy to use compressor designed especially for vocals. Capturing that perfect vocal take is difficult, but knowing how to process vocals can be even trickier. The first step in the chain is often compression, but with so many different types of compressors to choose […]

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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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SampleScience has announced the release of Toy Keyboard v2, a new revamped version of the Toy Keyboard rompler based on the sound of a ’90s Yamaha PSR-78 home keyboard. Version 2 of Toy Keyboard features 72 sounds and 1 drum kit. The plugin has multiple modulation routing possibilities and only weights 39 MB. Toy Keyboard […]

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Plugin Boutique has announced a sale on the Zenith by Audiaire, offering 30% off regular on the advanced MIDI processor plugin. Zenith allows any continuous controllers in a device to be modified by an independent sequencer lane, with each lane running at a unique rate and number of steps. As a feature-rich MIDI processor with […]

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Loopmasters has released the Guitar Bundle by Image Sounds, a collection of 4 guitar sample packs at a 60% discount. The bundle comprises Funky Guitar Vol. 1 and 2, Acoustic Guitar Vol. 1, and 60s Guitar Vol. 1, for a total of 1,883 guitar loops. Always loved songs like “Le Freak” and “Kiss”? Then Funky […]

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DDMF has announced the release of MagicDeathEyeStereo, a tube compressor with an integrated EQ circuit designed especially for mastering. A faithful emulation of their stereo master buss compressor and equalizer, MagicDeathEyeStereo is the second product of the ongoing collaboration with MagicDeathEye. We have taken everything we’ve learned from the first version and created a true […]

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Plugin Boutique has launched a sale on the Pumped: Serum Psytrance Essentials soundset by W.A. Production, offering a 50% discount on the collection of 90 presets for the Serum wavetable synthesizer by Xfer Records. Do you draw inspiration from such artists as Astrix, Astral Projection and Juno Reactor? Ever want the most cutting edge and […]

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Plugin Boutique has announced an exclusive sale on Digital Brain Instruments, offering a 50% discount on its interactive audio tools for sound designers, musicians, audio engineers and game developers. The sale includes Multiplex Vocoder 2, Talkie Box 2, Voxpat 2 and the more recent cMixer and Batch Pro real-time processing and recording tool. Batch Pro […]

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Plugin Boutique is offering a 33% discount on two expansion packs for the Bass Master and Khords virtual instruments by Loopmasters. House Bass for Bassmaster features a fresh set of expertly synthesized audio parts, recorded direct via hi-end A/D converters and treated with hi-end analog modeled EQs, tape and pre-amps. Get ready for warm, fat […]

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Prime Loops has launched a collection of over 340 analog Trap drums, samples and loops with its new sample pack titled Bally: Beastmode Trap Beats. With this analog Trap release, we’re giving you some heavy-weight Trap ammunition to load up your arsenal with and create some earth-shattering riddims! Sinister synth melodies, huge music ensembles, tech […]

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Sources across cinema chains have confirmed to ET that they had individually written to the landlords and mall owners seeking waiver of rent under the ‘force majeure’ clause of their contracts. The clause excuses companies from meeting some obligations in case of certain unusual circumstances.

The government feels this will allow shopping and leisure activities to start up while maintaining physical distancing as traffic will be less than usual and easy to control. On Wednesday, Madhya Pradesh notified retail stores to open from 6am until midnight.

Disney Springs vice president Matt Simon posted Thursday on the official Disney Parks Blog that the area will reopen May 20 with enhanced safety measures to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

The company which retails Savlon range of sanitisers, has stepped up production at the facility in Himachal Pradesh to produce an additional 1.25 lakh litres.

The maker of Dettol and Lizol disinfectant reported best ever global sales growth for the March 2020 quarter as customers stocked up on hygiene products amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, with like for like growth up 13%, higher market share and strong growth in e-commerce.

I believe in empathy. Part of empathy is understanding that every life we meet goes beyond the small part we see. One day, seven years ago, my family and I learned this life lesson together while on a family walk. To everyone outside, it looked like we were on an idyllic family stroll. In truth, we were walking to the hospital where we would learn whether I could survive my brain cancer. Just like the people who saw us, we too had no idea about the invisible struggles anyone else on the sidewalk faced. This experience has helped us have empathy for others. Before that, when I was wronged, my knee-jerk reaction was judgment. But now, I’m learning to have patience and to imagine what the other person might be going through, from roommate conflicts to a lost internship. This new perspective saves everyone involved unnecessary grief and bitterness, leaving room for happier things. Many behaviors change from condemnable to understandable with additional information. For example, a misdeed

Secretary of the Senate Julie Adams has turned down presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s request to search for records of any complaint filed by his former staffer Tara Reade, citing legal advice that she has “no discretion” to release such materials, because they are confidential under current law.

Nearly half of people polled were “not satisfied” with Biden’s response to Reade’s allegations. Only 19 percent said they were “very satisfied.”

President Trump excoriated the administration of President Barack Obama as “human scum” who attempted to undermine him by “targeting” former national security adviser Michael Flynn. 

This report comes as a pair of cases among White House staffers close to Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have put the West Wing’s coronavirus security procedures in the spotlight.

Former President Barack Obama, talking privately to former members of his administration, said Friday that the “rule of law is at risk” in the wake of what he called an unprecedented move by the Justice Department to drop charges against former White House National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.

Two web designers say they were fired by Amazon for organizing a virtual town hall to hear from the company’s low-paid warehouse staff.

With this partnership, MTR products such as masalas, spices, Ready-To-Eat meals and breakfast mixes will be accessible through MTR stores and kirana tabs on Swiggy.

The survey, conducted by YouGov, an Internet-based market research and data analytics firm, showed that between March 15-April 16 this year, Zomato witnessed a weakening customer base from 46.3 to 41.7 whereas for Swiggy, the scores were from 48.8 to 42.4.

40% Restaurants Face a Permanent Lockout; some entrepreneurs tweaking business models, selling DIY meal kits, attempting delivery.

The association has stated that allowing liquidation of the unsold stock will minimize the losses and introduce working capital by encashment of the existing liquor stock.

Impossible Foods expects to expand its retail footprint fifty-fold this year, it said, as demand for plant-based meat soars both in retail and restaurants among health and environment conscious customers.

The US burger and fries giant has joined other restaurant chains including Jubilant FoodWorks-operated Domino's Pizza, Tata Starbucks and Speciality Restaurants in seeking waivers from landlords and mall owners.