Translator™ Windows Build 108 Released
After several months of heavy testing and programming, Translator™ Windows version 2.9 Build 108 has been released.

Registered owners can download the new update using the Auto Update function within Translator or by going to the Update Area (as listed in the Help File).

• Added 6-8 new source and destination formats
• Converts into Native Instruments Battery 2 - 3 (Kit and Cell)
• Convert in and out of Native Instruments Kontakt and Battery Monolith formats
• Converts into ->Akai MPC-1000
• Converts out of VSampler 2, Emulator X/X2, Emu Emax, Native Instruments Battery 2/3 (Kit and Cell), FXpansion DR-008, Akai MPC-1000, Ensoniq ASR-X
• Full Kontakt 2 support
• Supports Slice File conversions; ACID, AppleLoop, BeatQuantizer, Kontakt, Recycle. Converts between these and out of them to any format
• Advanced Recycle-> export; writes loop and/or slices
• New advanced Script Mapper functions

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Apple Mac News
Our programming staff has been converting our entire code base to Macintosh-compatible code, in order to release a new line of products that work natively in Apple OSX as Universal Binary. This includes Translator™ and couple others we've previously announced.

We'd like to announce the release dates, but we are not sure of them yet. Suffice it to say we are nearing end of development (finally!), and when these products are released we will make an announcement.

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Fix References Handy Tool
Translator™ is the ultimate in file conversions, but it's internal tools are just as powerful. Our function Fix References allows you to repair or edit the sample links between your sample files and instrument files, within formats such as EXS24, Kontakt, SFZ, and more.
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Yellow Tools Independence Support
A new less-talked-about but highly powerful software sampler is Yellow Tools Independence. One of the few truly modular samplers, Independence uses a powerful modulation matrix and excellent sample handling facilities.

Translator™ exclusively can convert into this powerful format.
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Favorite Product Focus
Our good friends from Pro Audio Vault have produced a piano beyond belief, called the Blüthner Digital Model One™.

Called "A stunning grand piano virtual instrument", it is presented in the powerful Native Instruments Kontakt 2 Player for maximum performance and compatibility.

It is officially licensed by Julius Blüthner Pianofortefabrik, GmbH, Leipzig, Germany, as the offical digital version of the

Blüthner is one of the great old world pianos, and has been played by Arthur Rubinstein, Claudio Arrau, Carl Reinecje, Wilhelm Kempff, Alexander Paley, Artur Pizarro, Petronel Malan, and Mikhail Pletnev. Notable recording artists include The Beatles, Marlene Dietrich, and Neil Diamond. Composers who have used the Blüthner include Bela Bartok, Carl Orff, Peter Tschaikovsky, Dimitri Schostakowitsch, Gustav Mahler, Claude Debussy, Johannes Brahms, Franz Liszt, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninov, and Richard Wagner.

Not only is the Blüthner Digital Model One™ exceptionally recorded and programmed, it features a broad range of impulse response designed to make the piano sound in many different timbres and textures. It essentially becomes 250 different pianos!
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