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The ideal percussion instrument for a huge variety of music styles. You can play anything from energetic double bass, metal-style beats to massive trap beats and pumping techno grooves. All of the beats were recorded through top-level SSL gear for extra sonic analogue character.

The sound of a high-class classical piano, intricately sampled in one of the world's greatest concert halls. Bring the power and the detail of this incredible instrument, and the natural environment in which it was recorded, to your modern pop compositions.

This organ instrument was created by meticulously sampling an incredible-sounding instrument in a church near Venice to get a totally authentic and atmospheric sound. With all the drama and emotion captured on the original instrument, it is perfect for classical and modern productions.

You can play Urban Drums just like a hardware, pad-based beat maker, and its sounds are up there with the best. Ideally suited to hip-hop, dubstep and similar genres, programming stylish and contemporary grooves is easy, and it will really help give your tunes the edge.

Bring the atmospheric sound of the treated electric piano to your recordings with this wonderfully-evocative instrument. With the ability to really overdrive the sound and use other effects, Electric Piano is ideal for a range of styles including smokey jazz, blues and funk.

Rock Drums is big, bold and beautiful, as the best rock beats should be. Get everything from driving double bass metal beats to the sound of a live concert kit in full flow in the largest of arenas. Or simply ease back into a dry and clean studio sound, great for any rock style.

Get hands on with Drum Engine, with an interface similar to the legendary MPC. Program great grooves in a variety of styles, with a fantastic range of on-board sounds – everything from groove box samples to more modern pop beats.

If you have every dreamed of adding a choir to your compositions, then this is the instrument for you. Choose from female, male or mixed-voice choirs and use them either as up-front lead parts, or as incredibly atmospheric backing tracks.

This is a synth designed to produce driving sequences, delicate arpeggiations or thumping bass parts, and with plenty of on-board effects, you can produce a range of styles to soundtrack any contemporary film or TV show.

Analogue synthesizers are as popular as ever in all forms of electronic music, and this captures that true, brilliant, classic sound. With enough hands-on controls to tweak, you'll be producing everything from bubbling bass to tearing leads.

The organ has played a seminal role in music and has famously been used in sixties rock and more modern funk and RnB. With enough controls to shape its authentic sound, Vintage Organ creates great tones for all of these styles and more.

If you need deep, vibrant tones for any kind of music, then look no further than Electric Bass. It comes with plenty of ways to shape the sound to make the perfect bass tones for your tunes, supplying the perfect bottom end every time.

Jazz percussion can cover a wide range of styles, including laid-back grooves and abstract, more electronic beats. Jazz Drums offers a great range of jazzy beats so you can add this smoother side of percussion to your music.

Brass has always been a defining part of many different genres: from the sound of the roaring 20s, right through orchestral recordings, to modern Latino and RnB tunes. Pop Brass has all the tones you need, whatever your style.

Get the sound of a real orchestra in your recordings. Add brass staccatos, dramatic woodwind, driving percussion and soft, emotive string legatos to your music… without the hassle of a real orchestra!

With the sound of the analogue synth very much back in vogue – from synth wave to dance music – Analog Synths 2 offers perfect vintage synth sounds, covering deep bass thrills and hard, edgy leads.

Lead Synth produces incredible electronic sounds that will cut through any mix. With its virtual analogue heart, it can produce high-end, high-quality leads for all genres of music.

Concert Guitar delivers guitar authenticity and is great for incredible picking techniques, delicate slides or subtle finger sounds. It also caters for different playing styles, offers a huge range of presets and has a selection of effects to deliver fantastic guitar sounds for every occasion.

Create a huge amount of powerful guitar sounds with one instrument. Power Guitar has everything you need – huge power chords, squealing slides and powerful overdrives – backed by different playing techniques and an extensive sound library.

If you need cleaner guitar tones, then Century Guitar offers an unadulterated sound and the highest attention to detail. Melodies and accompaniments help deliver an authentic playing experience without you needing to be a guitar-playing expert.

Need to add a touch of rhythmic drama to a score? Soundtrack Percussion has a wide range of attacking sounds, including bells, drums, thunder bells, gongs and Taiko drums, so you can create complete percussive tunes or add interest to any soundtrack.

If you need emotive strings, then this instrument delivers the goods. It is perfect for powerful or delicate strings, and ideal for everything from classical recordings to more contemporary scores, laden with effects.

How low can you go? With Bass Machine the answer is: very! Create powerful bottom end, perfect basslines and cone-rattling tones with hands-on filters to shape the sound exactly how you like.

The upright bass is one of the most well-loved instruments, and can add character to everything from classical to jazz recordings. Upright Bass offers a powerful, dynamic and groovy backbone for any track.

Century Keys offers a 'best-of' in keyboard sounds, covering classic and modern pianos, so delivers the perfect keyboard sounds for many genres including soul, RnB, pop, jazz, rock and hip hop.

The saxophone offers a dramatic and varied accompaniment to any musical project, and Vita Saxophonia delivers its authentic tones brilliantly, with a powerful timbre and a wide dynamic range.

Need something out of this world? Space Pad takes you on incredible sonic journeys, delivering layers of atmosphere, complex sequences and beautiful organic synthesizer textures suited to all sorts of projects.

Explore icy, vast expanses of sound and create depth and tension with Cinematic Soundscapes. Most sounds here are encapsulated in a dark, almost oppressive aura, making this instrument the perfect choice for a variety of use cases.

Create a barrage of emotion with Bongo sounds, Congas, Cowbells, Guiros, Shakers, Vibra slaps, Tambourines and Timbales - waiting to be customized for exotic new rhythms.

Now you can make all of your main MIDI edits without opening multiple windows. Inline Editing allows you to make piano-roll note and drum-grid beat edits directly onto the ACID timeline so you can easily adjust notes, velocities, pitch bends and controller information.

With Drum Grid Mode you get a familiar grid in which you can place, edit, delete and move beats within a sequence. Make all adjustments directly to ACID's timeline to improve your workflow.

MIDI Track Freeze helps your computer work more efficiently by turning MIDI instrument tracks into audio. Doing this frees up any instruments that are running in real time, so saves processing power.

Editing of data on the ACID timeline is not confined to one track or part. Now you can select multiple MIDI parts and adjust everything within them, from velocity values to note duration, all in one go, thus offering the smoothest of workflows.

Envelope and Keyframe features are designed to give users smooth transitions in automation. MIDI continuous controller date – used to control pitch, modulation and more, plus the dials on software plug-ins – can be recorded and then edited with these transitions. They can be applied to individual clips or to larger, project-wide automation.

Drum Maps can be created and edited in ACID Pro Next so you can have custom templates for hardware or software MIDI instruments, including both synths and drum machines. All templates can easily be saved and recalled.