Solid Sounds is an exclusive Live Pack created in collaboration with premier content provider
Loopmasters. This free download includes over 400 MB of content, featuring 400 loops, 128 Simpler
presets and 12 creative instrument Racks in a variety of musical styles.
Note: Solid Sounds is available for all registered Live/Live LE users. You will need to be logged in to your Ableton user account to download Solid Sounds.
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Native Instruments today announced TRAKTOR PRO and TRAKTOR SCRATCH PRO, the next versions of its groundbreaking digital DJ solutions with MIDI and time-code control. Based on years of software evolution, the latest TRAKTOR generation offers superior creative workflow, an extremely functional user interface, powerful sound shaping features, advanced syncing and control functions, and much more. TRAKTOR PRO and TRAKTOR SCRATCH PRO were designed with a strong focus on efficiency and ease-of-use, making them outstanding performance tools for DJs of all styles and experience levels.
With computer-based DJing solutions finally established as …

After suffering the wrath of the DJ world with his “They’re f***ing c**ts” comment, Canadian upstart Deadmau5 has moved to clear things up on his Myspace Blog.
The man in the mouse head said: “Okay, to say ‘all djs are… etc etc’, to be taken literally as this article did, was just painfully stupid on their behalf.”
“I’m not a total fucking idiot and I recognise talent when I see it… and there are many talented DJs out there for sure In my eyes, those would be the individuals who utilise technology …

Shakir Stewart (34) has been found dead at his home in Atlanta after committing suicide, Shakir was Jay-Z’s successor as the label’s President as from June this year, he was also a Senior A&R for the entire Island of Def Jam Group and in the early 90’s he was the guy responsible for you knowing Beyonce.
Def Jam paid tribute to him, saying: “Shakir was an amazing man in every sense of the word.”
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Stanton have recently introduced their new Online E-Magazine combining Electronic Music, DJing and Lifestyle “For Life”
This new e-zine will be issued periodically to bring our DJs interesting articles, all our latest gear, and even a special “city guide” that focuses on a different city each issue and highlights all our favorite spots. We’re excited about this new venture, and hope that you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed creating it! This issue features the new SCS.3d controller, artist Richard Devine, an insider guide to Seattle, and more! Check …

Following on from last year’s expansive (and mind warping) compilation Light Sound Dance, the Bang Gang DJs return with a new double disc mix, D Is For Disco, E Is For Dancing. Included on the CD is a specially commissioned remix of Kicking & Screaming, the opening track on Apocalypso, The Presets’ ARIA Award winning album.
Bang Gang’s E Is For Edit remix introduces a new level of dimensioneering and trance travel to your ears. Later this month you will also be able to buy the exclusive remixes from the D …

SSL Wishes all of us to have a happy Halloween, and they don’t just wish, they take action for it to happen and deliver! A free plugin to manipulate audio samples in order to make them spooky or horror sounding, so if you are in the proper timezone, download fast, and record some spooky music and vocals to freak out the kids coming to steal your yummy candy away from you just when you much really hard! The plugin is called X-Orcism (I guess exorcism, and apparently, it does the …

A new study of Dutch ecstasy users has recommended that providing consistent harm reduction messages is the best way to protect young people, after noting that few users quit the drug because of health concerns.
“During use, users applied a host of harm reduction strategies, albeit inconsistently and sometimes incorrectly,” researchers Gjalt-Jorn Y Peters, Gerjo Kok and Herman P Schaalma noted in a study published in the BMC Public Health journal. “Most users appeared to cease ecstasy use automatically because of loss of interest or changing life circumstances (eg – a …