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Interested in a user-friendly, shockproof hard drive with a full terabyte of memory? Throughout July, the Transcend 1TB shockproof external hard drive is available at a considerably reduced price. The Transcend 1TB shockproof external HDD mobile USB3.0 combines a shockproof construction with high transfer speed, and is remarkably easy to work with. All you have to do to back up your files is press a button on its rugged housing.

In collaboration with Oliver Heldens, Spinnin' Records has organised a remix contest. This is your chance to win the koala suit Oliver Heldens wore in the Shades of Grey video! That's not all, however. The best remix is officially released by Spinnin' Records or one of its sub labels, and the winner also gets two Pioneer CDJ 2000 Nexus players. For the runner-up there's a set of Pioneer RM-05 speakers, and the second runner-up receives a pair of Pioneer HDJ2000 headphones. All prizes are made available by Bax-shop.

Previously released under the name Reon DriftBox, and soon available as a Roland product: the Roland DriftBox-R. This analogue tabletop mono synthesizer is perfect for endless hours of sound experiments.

The SansAmp Character series of pedals by American company Tech 21 is highly popular among bass players, thanks to its successful method of emulating the sound of various famous amplifier brands. That got Tech 21 thinking: why not just build a complete bass amp head around one of these famous pedals? And that's exactly what they did! Allow us to introduce the VT Bass 500.

Yamaha introduces the new CVP-700 series, which is part of the popular Clavinova line of digital pianos. The introduced models are - in ascending order of features and sound quality - the Yamaha CVP-701, the CVP-705 and the CVP-709. You won't find better clavinovas anywhere.

With the P5 Wireless headphones, the renowned British hifi company Bowers & Wilkins has issued their first wireless Bluetooth model. Five years ago, B&W introduced the successful P5 headphones, which were later succeeded by the P5 Series 2 model. The P5 Wireless headphones deliver the same outstanding audio quality as the P5s, but add the Bluetooth technology of the B&W T7.

A few weeks ago, we told you about the PSR-S670. As good news never comes alone, it's about time we also introduced you to the brand new Yamaha PSR-S770 and PSR-S970!

Good news: In 2015, SE Electronics celebrates its 15th anniversary. Of course, they want you to share in their joy, so they are giving you the chance to win free SE products!

Serato has issued a number of stylish new slipmats. Available in both white and black, they come as a set of two and are a great match for your Serato control vinyl.

MOTU, which is renowned for its high-quality audio interfaces, is also responsible for Digital Performer, a professional 64-bit DAW software package. Under the moniker DP9, MOTU has now issued Digital Performer 9. This ninth version of the software offers more functions and plenty of new plugins, and is more user-friendly than ever.