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iZotope's Iris software is a sampler with a difference. As well as allowing you to load in samples and manipulate them, Iris is also an amazing tool for sound designers, as it allows you to pick out the exact elements of a sample that you would like to hear and eliminate others. It does this using an intuitive draw tool. It's probably best to see it in action in order to fully understand it, so check it out in the video below!

From now until the end of November 2013, you can grab Iris for just £119 (usually £155)!

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Native Instruments have released an updated 2.0 version of their Maschine software, which provides a number of powerful new updates and tools for working with their popular Maschine, Maschine Mikro and new flagship Maschine Studio controllers. In this article we're going to look at what new features have been introduced in Maschine 2.0...

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Sampling technology really started to come of age with the development of computer based sampling systems, such as the Fairlight CMI, in the mid to late eighties, and there was a plethora of sample based records to prove it! However, at one end of the scale, you had the highly creative and individual likes of Peter Gabriel and Jean Michel Jarre, who really explored the technology to create interesting and exciting sounds... but at the other end of the scale, you had records with dogs barking the tune, only to be interrupted by the odd 'Meow'!

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Get in! It’s time to test out another piece of Rob Papen software! Punch now joins up with my other Rob Papen Audio Units to make a team of SubBoomBass, Blue, Albino and of course Punch itself. Pretty tasty, I’m sure you will agree! I now have one piece of Rob Papen software that is perfect for creating those extreme low-rumbles in my songs (SubBoomBass), one piece of software that does… well… pretty much everything else, from bass to leads and pads to effects (Blue), a piece of software that provides a little bit more dirt (Albino) and now, finally, a Rob Papen instrument that is dedicated to drum and groove creation!

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