Lots of new goodies have arrived from our friends at EMU. The sampler of all samplers has arrived in the form of the E4 Platinum. The Platinum has 128 voices, 128 MB of RAM, a 20 GB HD, RFX 32 card (also new in stock) installed, 16 balanced outputs, six inputs, ADAT I/O, and includes a ‘starter’ set of 20 CD ROM’s! And you can quickly add to that huge library with the new in stock Orchestral Sessions Volume II ROM Card. We aren’t finished. We’ve also received two great new modules from them. The Mo Phatt wins the funky name award for this fall. It is packed full of killer beats and sounds so phatt you’ll think you need a forklift to move it. But if that’s not enough you can beef it up even more by adding the new Xlead sound card to it. The Xlead is a 32 MB ROM card containing all the sounds of their awesome Xtreme Lead 1 module and makes a perfect addition to the sound set of the Mo Phatt. Call your Sweetwater Sales Engineer for some sweet package pricing.
Another great deal from Sweetwater. If you’ve been looking for an 88 key instrument with a wide range of great sounds you should take a close look at the Alesis QS8.1. We’re running a special on these through the end of the year where we will include any one of the optional sound cards FREE of charge. This is in addition to the FREE card you get from Alesis with your purchase. So yes, you are getting two FREE cards with the purchase of a QS8.1 when you buy it at Sweetwater. Choose any two of the following: Classical, Classical Piano, Eurodance, Hip-Hop, Jazz Piano, Sanctuary, Techno, and Vintage Keys.
MOTU is releasing FreeStyle 2.31 for Windows (95, 98, Me, 2000, NT 4.0 or higher) and Mac with an identical feature set across the board. This includes event list editing, step record, system exclusive recording and editing, support for over 275 MIDI instruments and more. Freestyle is known as an intuitive program with many innovative twists on traditional sequencing features that make it very easy and fun to use.