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NatLife releases Trance & Progressive for Spire and Spire Trance Bundle Vol. 1

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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EarthTone delivers traditional melodies of Cura & Cumbush

EarthTone has announced the release of its sample pack Anatolian Cura, a collection of professionally played and recorded traditional cura melodies. “Cura” is a stringed Turkish folk instrument and most commonly played in Anatolia. The smallest member of the baglama family with the highest pitched sound. It has only three strings, small body and short […]

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Tone Empire’s Loc-Ness drum & percussion processor on sale for $29 USD

Plugin Boutique has announced an exclusive sale on the Loc-Ness drum and percussion processor designed to give your drum sound the classic crunch of analog. Drums…, the most crucial part of your mix that can make or break a track. For decades pro engineers have used various combinations of compressors, pre-amps ,eq’s and saturation to […]

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Soundiron releases Principessa, Kazoo 2.0 & Cacophony + Free Olympus Choir Elements Preset Pack

Soundiron has released its newest Vintage Keys Series sample library Principessa, a vintage 86-key synthesizer for Native Instruments Kontakt. This library captures the vintage and classic sound of the very rare “Princess” organ. This 2-tiered electric organ has a rich analog synthesizer tone with a creamy low and mid-range and soft rolled-off highs. We’ve captured […]

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Splice launches new sounds from Mario Luciano, Nicky Romero, Josh Pan and X&G, and !llmind

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 launches Fuchs Overdrive Supreme 50 & Train II guitar amp plugins

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 releases Energetic Hybrid Trap & Codes Future Pop

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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Atmos & SFX Bundle by Resonance Sound on sale at 70% OFF

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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MusicDevelopments releases Melodya melody generator & motive editor with intro offer

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 releases free guitar & mandolin instruments for Kontakt

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 releases Sci-Fi Whooshes, Stutter & Noises and more

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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Apollo Sound releases Real Rap Vocal pack for Trap, Hip Hop & EDM

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 releases Revealed Bass House Kits Vol 1 & Sylenth1 Plucks Vol 9

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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Loops de la Crème releases Magic 70s Drum Crew for Kontakt

Loops de la Crème has announced the release of a unique drum instrument that reproduces the sound of musicians grooving and improvising together. Magic 70s Drum Crew includes two separate full drum and percussion kits, and a big range of tasty sounds, including some wonderful congas. You get four percussionists (triangle, cowbell, tambourine and congas), […]

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Singomakers releases Drum & Bass Oblivion sample pack at Loopmasters

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 launches Weiss EQ1 & Gambit Series channel strip for Console 1

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 releases Studio Tenor Saxophone and Emotional Guitars + New Cajon & Bongo now FREE

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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Ugritone releases KVLT Drums II: Speed Metal, New IR & MIDI Packs and more

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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Audiaire’s Zenith MIDI controller & sequencer on sale at 30% OFF

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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DDMF releases MagicDeathEyeStereo tube compressor & EQ plugin

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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Digital Brain Instruments cMixer, Batch Pro & more 50% OFF at Plugin Boutique

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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House Bass for Bass Master & Future Bass for Khords on sale at 33% OFF

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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COVID-19: Significant stress likely on mall operators' cash flows in the near term, says ICRA

The global spread of COVID-19 since January 2020 is resulting in a slowdown in economic activity across the world. The impact on India has been limited so far, however, increasing spread of the pandemic in the country over the last few days and the preventive measures being taken by the central and various state governments have severely restricted business activities.




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PVR, Reliance Retail invoke 'Act of God', won't pay rent

"PVR has opted to insist on not paying any rent for the period of closure. PVR does not own properties and all of its screens operate on rent," said a source in Chennai-based SPI Cinemas which was acquired by PVR in August 2018.




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Shopping centres' body seeks moratorium on loan repayments till March 2021

It can be noted that shopping centres and malls, which tend to attract a lot of crowds, have been shut since mid-March, much before the lockdown was announced and if the social distancing strategies continue post lockdown as well, such facilities are unlikely to open.




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Major malls to ignore tenants' appeal for flat income sharing

Last week, 195 retailers and restaurants including Future Group, Aditya Birla Fashion, Arvind Brands, Domino’s Pizza, Adidas and Levi’s wrote a common letter to mall owners for a “collaborative dialogue” between shopping centres and tenants.




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Malls, cinemas & retail shops may be allowed at night in green zones

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.




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Two big trends - local grocer, ecommerce: HUL's Sanjiv Mehta

"There are two big trends emerging. One is the relevance of the humble grocer and people have realised that they are so close to you… proximity, and (that’s) such a big benefit. The second would be on ecommerce. With people becoming more averse to stepping out, they would like to place the order from home and receive it at home. "




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Didn't anticipate India to shut down like this, says Colgate-Palmolive CEO

Over the past few weeks, chief executives of Unilever, Mondelez, Hershey's Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola and Kimberly Clark have said India’s Covid-19 lockdown protocols had led to severe supply chain disruptions and labour shortages, hurting business in the key market.




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Tata Consumer Products ties up with Domino's Pizza, Zomato to deliver essential goods

These channel partnerships have been done in a phased manner, with Flipkart being the first e-commerce platform to enable the availability of its essential products in Mumbai, Bengaluru and Delhi.




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Biden is turned down on request for Senate records search over staffer's complaint

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.





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New Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows mixed reactions to Biden's handling of Tara Reade assault claim

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





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Trump blasts 'human scum' who investigated his administration as Justice Department drops criminal case against Michael Flynn

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. 





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Exclusive: Obama says in private call that 'rule of law is at risk' in Michael Flynn case

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.





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Amazon whistleblowers call Bezos 'out of touch,' say they were fired for trying to protect warehouse workers from coronavirus

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.





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Restaurants are giving out fake recipes to keep the customers' craving alive amid Covid-19 lockdown

How to keep customers’ cravings alive has become a challenge for restaurants.




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McDonald's to reopen 15 outlets in UK this month, fast food fans relieved

The company said it would announce the locations of the restaurants next week, with plans to open them on May 13.




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Liquor stock in excess of Rs 10 crore to expire: Maharashtra Hotels & Restaurants request for permission to liquidate stock

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.




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Impossible Foods to sell plant-based burgers in Kroger's 1,700 stores

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.




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McDonald’s North & East seeks rental waivers

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.




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Domino's Pizza to join S&P 500, despite pandemic's impact

While withdrawing its forecast for two- to three-year sales growth, Domino's said U.S. same-store sales were up 7.1% in late March and much of April, as diners under lockdown ordered home delivery more often.




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FirstCry's sales rise, as do its losses

FirstCry, run by Brainbees Solutions, posted net sales of `174 crore during FY15-16. The company had net sales of `118 crore with net losses were ` 63 crore a year ago.




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Johnson & Johnson to buy Actelion for $30 b

J&J, already the world's biggest maker of health-care products, is fulfilling its goal of gaining a new drug category with the transaction and dealing a blow to France's Sanofi, which had also courted Actelion.




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Himalaya launches exclusive mom and baby store to take on market leader Johnson & Johnson

The Bengaluru-based company plans to open 25 such 600-1000 square feet stores over a span of 12 months.




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FirstCry parent's revenue rises to Rs 239 crore in FY17

The total revenue was Rs 239 crore for the period, a jump from Rs 173 crore the year before.




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UK's Mothercare shrinks to survive as losses widen

The first-half loss reflected an 11.1 percent slump in underlying sales in Mothercare's home market, which it blamed on wider market uncertainty and "negative press coverage" of its financial restructuring.




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A mother's love inspires a whole new eco-friendly category of diapers

The eco-friendly startup commenced operations in early 2016 out of Utagi’s spare bedroom with a personal investment of Rs 24 lakh.




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Suresh and Priyanka Raina's brand Maaté marks its offline presence

Maaté will offer free samples to all the expecting parents and to the parents who come for a regular check-up for their kids.




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Diné College sees record 53 bachelor's degrees ahead of May 8 graduation

In lieu of an in-person graduation on May 8, the college announced it would recognize for a month on its website 176 graduates receiving associate's and bachelor's degrees, a press release said.

       




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Arizona's school counselors struggle to keep kids safe remotely

Arizona has the highest student-to-counselor ratio in the nation, and the coronavirus is making a tough job tougher.