Native Instruments Kontakt 2.2
Native Instruments has released Kontakt Version 2.2, an update for its flagship sampler. The new version promises a wide range of functional enhancements and optimizations, ranging from improved loop handling and group management to extended KSP and Universal Import functionality, as well as compatibility with Intel-based Macintosh computers. MORE

Zaxcom STA100
Zaxcom is shipping the STA100, a new stereo adaptor interface for its wireless recording systems. The STA100 plugs directly into the company's TRX900/TRX900AA digital wireless transmitters or ZFR100 recorder, allowing users to transform their existing single-channel system into a 2-channel device. MORE

Avlex Superlux WB-383
Avlex has announced that the Superlux WB-383 ($130) clip-on instrument microphone is now shipping. A low-profile, cardioid condenser microphone designed for use with brass, woodwinds, strings, snare drum, toms and other instruments, the Superlux WB-383 is designed to easily attach to variety of surfaces. MORE

Smart Loops Phat to Phreaky
Smart Loops has released its Phat to Phreaky hip hop loop library in Apple Loops and REX2 formats. Previously, this collection of contemporary and old-school grooves was available only in Acid format. MORE

EdgeSounds Genevoice GM64Pro24
EdgeSounds has released the Genevoice GM64Pro24, a 64MB, 24-bit quality General MIDI (GM) SoundFont bank. The bank includes 6,436 raw stereo samples with total volume of more than 1.5 GB. An additional 950 samples were edited, looped, balanced and added to the collection. MORE

New 'Remix' Website
The newly redesigned Remix Website marks a massive leap forward in the Remix user experience. Highly interactive, visually rich and designed to change with our visitor's input on a daily basis, remixmag.com is a creative and technical explosion of must-have, easier-to-access information.

Xoom Entertainment Announces Soundtrack Competition
Xoom Entertainment has announced its open submission for the International Music Competition dedicated to the film score for The Camel Wars. The film, directed by Sohrab Mirmontazeri, follows an Iraqi-American soldier's tortuous journey in Iraq, exposing myths about the Shiite-Sunni civil war and laying bare the complexities of the American presence in Iraq and loyalty during war. MORE

Fairlight Introduces the Dream II Partner Program
Fairlight has initiated its Dream II Partner Program for manufacturers to streamline the integration of third-party software applications into the open architecture of its CC-1 powered Dream II family of products. MORE

Cakewalk Offers $7,500 Holiday Giveaway
Cakewalk is offering a prize giveaway with a suggested retail value of $7,531 that includes a Dell Precision 390 Workstation fully loaded and configured with Cakewalk software, along with a 20-inch widescreen flat-panel monitor. In addition, one winner will also receive SONAR Power Studio 660, Project5 Version 2, Dimension Pro, Rapture, Z3TA+, Kinetic 2, Pyro 5, every Cakewalk loop library and an Edirol PCR-1 controller. MORE

Audiofile Licenses iZotope DSP Technology
Audiofile Engineering has licensed iZotope's sample-rate-conversion, dithering and time/pitch technologies for use in its document-based audio editor, Wave Editor 1.2.7. Designed in Cocoa from the ground up, Wave Editor takes advantage of CoreAudio, Quartz and other Mac OS X features and incorporates standard audio-editing features with the latest advances in interface design, speed and stability. MORE

Mason Media Group Installs SSL C100 Digital Broadcast Console
Production company Mason Media Group has chosen a Solid State Logic C100 Digital Broadcast Console as part of a facility-wide upgrade to high definition for the District of Columbia Office of Cable Television and Telecommunications. MORE

Apogee Converters Used for ADR Mixing in ABC's 'Lost'
Tony Hugar, the ADR mixer for ABC series Lost, re-creates the dialog for the show at the Audio Resource Honolulu studios using Apogee DA-16X and AD-16X converters with X-HD cards that are connected to his Pro Tools rig. MORE

Ken-Del Studios Hosts Benefit for Kids
Ken-Del Studios has played host to a Mid-Atlantic all-star recording for the Toys for Tots benefit CD, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. The session, produced and engineered by Ken-Del's Paul Janocha, was a remake of John Lennon's classic "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)". MORE

'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition' Uses Holophone H2-PRO Mic
When the production crew of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition set out to cover the demolition and renovation of the Llanes family home in Bergenfield, N.J., they were faced with a challenge. During a typical episode, the family goes on vacation during the weeklong home makeover. While away, they receive a tape of the demolition and construction of their new home. MORE

SonicPool Announces Concert DVDs With John Fogerty, Seal, Cheryl Crow
Hollywood-based post facility SonicPool -- specializing in audio and video finishing, edit suite rentals and media duplication -- has announced its latest concert DVD projects. The announcement was made by John Frost and Patrick Bird, co-founders/supervising sound mixers at SonicPool. MORE

Cups 'N Strings Restores 'Live From the Record Plant'
Chris Stone, founder of Record Plant Recording Studios, has contracted Bruce Maddocks of Cups 'N Strings Studios to restore and archive 50 live radio shows recorded at the Record Plant's Sausalito studios in the 1970s. The live concerts include performances by such artists as Jimmy Buffett, Boz Scaggs, Santana, Fleetwood Mac and a Jim Keltner jam with John Lennon. MORE