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Whether you're a musical prodigy or just love creating your own walls of sound, GarageBand for iPad gives you all the tools you need to lay down fresh tracks and record music anywhere you go. It's an 8-track music workstation with a collection of instruments, effects, recording and editing tools all of which are optimized for touch operation. The great thing is you can also open your projects with GarageBand on your Mac and take them further, making the iPad an ideal sketching tool.

Sinevibes, the world's leading manufacturer of Roland sound expansions, announced a pricing change aimed at making their products more affordable. Discounts are up to 50% and cover sound libraries for all supported Roland synthesizer series, including Fantom-S, Fantom-X, Fantom-G, JUNO-G, JUNO STAGE, SonicCell and V-Synth. For example, the Fantom-G Giga Pack with over 1100 individual sounds can now be purchased for just $119 (previously $179), and Fantom-X Giga Pack with over 900 sounds can be had for $99 (previously $159). Customers who bought any one of these products from 1st February for a previous price, can e-mail to receive additional downloads for free, or big discounts towards the full packages.

We'd like to introduce you our good friend Nijel Rawlins, who produces very nice smooth jazz music. He's a seasoned saxophone player and uses Roland's Fantom-G on all tracks in his latest two albums, Christmas with Hymn and The Love Project. Nijel just brought his new website online, and you can listen to his music there, as well as purchase it on a CD or as a download.

We are pleased to announce that the Roland Clan forums have been converted to a new, more capable communication platform. From now on, you can enjoy many new features such as faster search, private messages, user avatars, and more. All previous forum sections and posts were retained, and you can use your existing login and password.

Sinevibes, the leading third-party provider for Roland gear, has just introduced it's completely new website. It has been redesigned from the ground up, and now offers a much more easy and pleasant experience for it's visitors - plus, it automatically scales content to tablet and mobile devices. Make sure to check out the Sinevibes website if you're interested in getting more out of Roland instruments - on offer are dozens of sample and patch libraries, as well as guidebooks for how to create great sounds yourself. The supported gear includes Fantom-S, Fantom-X, Fantom-G, V-Synth, JUNO-G, JUNO STAGE and SonicCell synthesizers. And you will find interesting AudioUnit effects for Mac computers, too.