Local role models launch new campaign to change young people’s life stories.

Dave Woodhall pays tribute to writer, broadcaster, campaigner and long-time friend Steve Beauchampe.

Digbeth’s font will be available to anyone who lives and works in Digbeth.

Expansion and diversion for Birmingham craft brewery.

Airborne bread delivery helps reduce impact on the natural world.

Million pound transformation project helps entrepreneurs launch Warm Beautiful Homes.

Expressing the sentiments of the industry, the National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI) said the 'logout' movement cemented the belief that the industry needed to take back control.

The Naukri JobSpeak is a monthly Index which calculates and records hiring activity based on the job listings on Naukri.com website month on month. The objective is to measure the hiring activities in various industries, cities, functional areas and experience levels.

“The idea of store-on-wheels is that customers should not feel suffocated that they can’t go out and shop, and feel the same pleasure right at their doorsteps,” said Vishnu Prasad, managing director of Future Lifestyle Fashions that owns Central and Brand Factory.

“The idea of store-on-wheels is that customers should not feel suffocated that they can’t go out and shop, and feel the same pleasure right at their doorsteps,” said Vishnu Prasad, managing director of Future Lifestyle Fashions that owns Central and Brand Factory.

Ueberschall has announced the release of Latin Brasil Beats, a new title in the Multitrack Drum Loop Series which provides the authentic vibrance and groove of Latin rhythms. The library is built from 10 GB of sample data and contains more than 3,800 individual loops divided into sixteen performance-based folders. Each folder features multiple parts […]

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Audified has released its new audio effect VocalMint Saturator, an easy-to-use single knob vocal saturator with powerful processing hidden under the hood. Most one-knobs do one thing and one thing only: they linearly mix in a certain effect to your track. However, VocalMint runs the track through its virtual signal chain and tunes multiple parameters […]

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Sugar Bytes has released an iPad version of its Looperator 16-step sample slicer and creative multi-fX sequencer. The wide range of effects, its quick and intuitive interface and extensive randomization make it easy to design subtle rhythmic enhancements or impressive effect pyrotechnics. Looperator chops up your audio and turns it into something new. In the […]

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Native Instruments has announced the release of three expansions for its Massive X flagship software synthesizer. Rush, Pulse, and Scene each contains 150 presets for the synth tailored toward a certain sound, created by expert sound designers who were involved in the development of Massive X and the creation of its factory library. Made for […]

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ADSR Sounds has announced its latest sound pack hellofi, a collection of samples and Serum synth presets with an upbeat take on lo-fi and indie pop. Take a deep breath and lets the vibes hit you like sunlight through an open window. ADSR’s latest Indie Lo-Fi offering –hellofi, brings together a colourful collection of beats […]

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The Unfinished has launched the Humankind 2020 promotion, a collection of limited edition charity synth soundsets. For those who don’t know, Humankind is a collection of synth soundsets (of 64 patches each), with 50% of the proceeds going to charity. This time around I have chosen The Trussell Trust, a wonderful charity who help provide […]

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Rob Papen has announced the release of the Quad software synthesizer in VST, AU and AAX plugin formats for Windows and Mac. The sonic palette is huge, through the vast modulation possibilities that QUAD has to offer. The sound sculpting tools start in each Oscillator and are the Phase Distortion and WaveShaper. These tools are […]

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Audentity Records has introduced its latest sample pack Boom Bap Hip Hop 4, a collection of over 200 loops and one-shots. Boom Bap Hip Hop 4 includes atmospheres, brass, fx, synth, guitar, keys, drums & percussion, strings, bass, and more. Our team spent weeks in the studio to bring you one of our best Boom […]

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Ugritone has launched a weekend sale on two of its virtual instruments. Assault Drums is a virtual drum instrument with the sound of 80s/90s Heavy Metal/Rock. Multiple routing options and advanced humanizing scripts give each and every drum a natural feel so you can dial tones from Assault Drums as if you were processing real […]

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Mammoth Audio has made available a free lite version of its Density cinematic toolkit for Native Instruments Kontakt. “It’s a tough moment in our history, but one positive has been producers getting back into music making with the spare time. We want to gift the creative community with something which would inspire them to stay […]

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No Dough Music has announced its new online House/Techno/Electronic music production hub The Archive, which features content from all of No Dough’s current sample packs repackaged with loads of new features. The Archive will offer sound packs, Ableton projects, production technique and how to blogs, podcasts, interviews, and video content. Available now, Underground Electronics is […]

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Tracktion has announced availability of Waveform Pro, the eleventh version of the affordable, award winning, fully featured digital audio workstation. Designed for the needs of modern music producers, this deeply capable DAW is a suite of tools that is powerful, intuitive and very user friendly. The latest evolution includes new features developed to harness the […]

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Sonixinema has announced the launch of the Sound of a Brighter Future Composing Competition, an opportunity to share your positive outlook and win store vouchers. Positivity, hope, and unity are surrounding us like never before. It is allowing us to experience life in a new way, and is the perfect time to do what we […]

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Spitfire Audio has announced a new LABS series instrument titled Tundra Atmos, featuring atmospheric textures. While on various shoots in the Northern hemisphere for Albion Tundra, we captured the natural sounds of near-silent environments — lava flows in the volcanic hinterlands of Iceland, a lapping Scottish loch, and a dense Estonian forest — treated and […]

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Ugritone has announced the release of Dazuul, a simple, but powerful de-esser effect plugin for Windows and Mac. The plugin is designed to fix problems with sibilants and remove even the strongest of Es’s with vocal clarity staying intact. While essentially a De-Esser plugin, Dazuul retains the natural sound, not just harshly compressing the content, […]

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Vocal Presets has released Stargaze, a collection of vocal presets for the Auto-Tune 8 and Auto-Tune Pro vocal processor plugins by Antares. Deep, Dark, Twisted… Stargaze is our most aberrant vocal preset yet. Hard smashing limiters combine with soul crushing saturators to turn your vocals into that bold authority you need to command your audiences […]

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Impact Soundworks has announced the release of a new sample library with a collection of modern electronic sounds. Cyclops includes over 1,000 one-shots, drum loops, MIDI files, and over 350 presets for the Serum synth by Xfer Records. The library includes drums, playable 808s, arps, basses, leads, pads, poly keys, plucks, fx, and more. This […]

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Cinesamples has launched the World Series Week, offering a 40% discount on a collection of cultural instruments from around the world. World Series instruments are perfect for adding unique and transformative sounds to your scores. In the film composer repertoire, instrumentation is one of many tools that can transform a simple piece of music. At […]

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Organic Loops has released an immersive selection of authentic flute parts with Indian Bansuri Flute, a royalty free sample pack featuring a huge range of keys, tempos and playing styles. This is a huge, 2.26GB helping of flutes from legendary recording artist KV Balakrishnan (AKA KV Balu). You’ll hear riffs, melodys and hooks played in […]

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ADSR Sounds has announced a flash on the Underground Master Bundle, a collection of 10 sound packs from Chop Shop Samples for only $20 USD. Get down and dirty in the studio with over 3,500 samples and loops for Deep Tech, Minimal, Tech House, Techno and House! Featuring Drum loops, vocal loops, bass loops, synth […]

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Blue Cat Audio has released a free update for its multiple tracks audio analyzers Blue Cat’s FreqAnalyst Multi, Oscilloscope Multi, and StereoScope Multi. These special audio analysis plugins can communicate between instances: It is thus possible to visualize the spectrum, stereo image and waveform of multiple audio tracks on a single graph simultaneously. These tools […]

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ModeAudio has announced its 2020 Spring Sale, offering a 30% discount on all samples and synth presets for a limited time. Our first sale of 2020 is finally here, discounting every last one of our royalty-free sound packs by a tasty 30%! From treasure troves of vintage drum samples & intricate synth presets to loop […]

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Audiofier has announced the release of VenKatt, a multi-layer ambient machine for ambient/electronic productions and film scores. The Kontakt instrument offers 4 sound layers with unique features: Attack, Sustain, Reverse and Rhythmic. The Attack layer includes only transient sounds. The Sustain layer includes only sustaining sounds without transients. When combining two different instruments’ characters, brand […]

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Meldaproduction has released its new audio plugin MSuperLooper, the next generation looping tool designed for live performances, capturing ideas and getting creative. Live looping is all about workflow. MSuperLooper is quick and efficient, lets you do all the tasks you need to do, attach it to any MIDI controller, and control various aspects of the […]

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XLN Audio has partnered with leading music production platform Splice to make one of its most popular production tools available at a more musician-friendly price point for the first time. XLN’s RC-20 Retro Color is now available to producers for the introductory rate of $4.99 USD/month (for 20 months) through Splice Rent-to-Own, a unique, musician-friendly […]

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Applied Acoustics Systems has released its new sound pack Kicks & Snares, a collection of 100 drum sounds for the Ultra Analog VA-3 synthesizer and AAS Player plugin. You can never have too many kicks and snares! Resident sound designer Adam Pietruszko signs off on an expertly crafted and clever collection of punchy bass drum […]

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Lunatic Audio has announced the release of Retro Pong, a free plugin that brings the video game from the 80s to your DAW. Lunatic Audio debuts with a ground breaking revolutionary plugin that is taking the industry by storm! As the name suggests: yes it is a straight up 80’s pong video game wrapped in […]

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Numerical Audio has announced availability of the MM-1 Mute Master app for iOS, a unique AUv3 effect plugin designed to create automated or generative arrangements by automatically mixing multiple tracks inside a DAW. MM-1 allows you to create modular style arrangements where individual tracks are brought in and out based on a set number of […]

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Joué has announced the launch of a Kickstarter campaign for its next-generation Joué Play expressive music instrument that aims to enable anyone to start making music. Joué Play builds on the MIDI controller that was released three years ago. Four pads are available for the Joué Play, which come with professional sound banks ranging from […]

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Audentity Records has announced the release of Big Room 2K20, a sample pack featuring a collection of energetic melodies, chords and driving basslines. The pack has a great mixture and balance between Progressive House and EDM, it has all the sounds needed for that Future Progressive House feel. Included are presets for Spire, midis and […]

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Heavyocity has announced the release of #StayHome, a collection of homemade loops to benefit those impacted by COVID-19. The pack includes over 80 melodic and percussive loops, recorded and processed at the homes and home studios of Heavyocity’s employees. We hope this message finds you safe during this unprecedented time. Heavyocity is headquartered right in […]

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Magix has announced the release of Samplitude Pro X5, an update to the complete audio production bundle for professionals. The update includes ARA2 to integrate Melodyne more seamlessly than before, MIDI Polyphonic Expression support, a new section for simplifying monitoring, tempo track functions, automation shapes, Convology XT Complete vintage reverb units, and coreFX VolumeFormer. Samplitude […]

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Acustica Audio has announced a sale on its Purple 3 equalizer collection, offering a 65% discount for a limited time. The Purple suite was just updated to Core15, bringing the latest in VVK Technology. It now also includes a brand ‘new’ filter for a total of 6 processors. If you are tired of looking around […]

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Spitfire Audio has announced availability of Cinematic Percussion, a new Originals series instrument for the Spitfire Audio App. Epic swells and hits, performed by London’s best percussion players and recorded at AIR Studios — home of blockbuster film scores. Cinematic Percussion features London’s best percussion players. Recorded at London’s AIR Studios, home of blockbuster film […]

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Ghosthack has announced the release of Tesseract Universal Cinematic Sounds, a huge 12 GB collection of samples and construction kits for filmmakers and music producers. Tesseract covers a wide range of different cinematic styles: No matter if you’re looking for some 80s synthwave in the style of Stranger Things, aggressive trailer music, dark horror sound […]

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Tone2 has announced the release of a new soundset for the Icarus2 synthesizer workstation instrument titled Sparkle. Suitable for Drum & Bass, Trap, Dubstep, Electronic, Dance, Cinematic, Synthwave, HipHop and many other genres, the soundset includes bass, wobbles, arps, keys, leads, pads, atmos, chords, sequeneces, synth sounds and more. Sparkle features 166 patches. Created by […]

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Triple Spiral Audio has announced the release of Paradox Lost Redux, a unique Kontakt instrument library by Beautiful Void Audio based on strange, beautiful, and bizarre soundscapes, drones and “simple” tones. At times the sounds capture a fitting, paradoxical cross between evolving and static, beautiful and dirty, dark and light. Some sounds will seem familiar […]

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Plugin Boutique has announced an exclusive sale on the Leapwing Audio StageOne, an effect plugin that enhances the soundstage of your stereo mix, and even bring your mono recordings to life. Need to open up a stereo mix, individual drums, piano or guitars and making them wider without sounding phasey and keeping mono-compatibility? Or add […]

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AudioFB has launched a channel strip effect plugin developed for all styles of mixing. Daga’s StripTeaser was developed in collaboration with producer brothers Adriano and Giu Daga. Stripteaser’s multi-effect rack features: 4-band equalizer, where the extreme bands can be switched to bell or shelf types, ‘high pass’ filter with option of 12db / octave or […]

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Softube has launched a Mastering May sale, offering discounts on everything for your final stage, from quality compression to exquisite EQ, tasty tape to lovely limiting. The sale includes the Weiss series plugins, Chandler Limited Zener-Bender and Germanium Compressor, Drawmer S73 Intelligent Master Processor, Tape, and more. The mastering stage that can take a good […]

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