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Aiming to seek, support and celebrate the impact of female drummers on contemporary music and the worldwide drumming community, leading drum equipment manufacturers Crush, TRX, Vater, Evans and SKB, along with major drum media companies including Drum!, Tom Tom Magazine: A Magazine About Female Drummers, Alfred Music, Drum Channel and the Enter Music Network, are joining together to sponsor “Hit Like A Girl 2012”, the first ever drumming contest for girls and women.

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Expanding on the successful launch of its ICON Series in 2010, the TRX Cymbal Co. is proud to announce the introduction of the DARK ICON micro-series. Available in a limited range of sizes and types, the new cymbals are characterized by a heavily-hammered, natural playing surface with a lathed, brilliantly finished underside. The line is further distinguished by its extra thin weight— all of which combine to create an extremely deep, dark, vintage tone, lightning-fast response and unconventional, two-tone appearance. In addition, each DARK ICON cymbal includes an innovative series of small holes at strategic locations to facilitate the installation of rivets, jingles and other increasingly popular sound-modifiers and effects.

DARK ICONS are available in 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 23˝ models and 13, 14 and 15˝ matched Hi-Hats. Jingles, rivets and other sound modifiers will be released at a later date.

The TRX Cymbal Co. is proud to announce release of the TRX Digital Cymbal Studio (DCS), a groundbreaking new collection of Virtual Instruments featuring studio-quality samples of dozens of handcrafted TRX cymbals. Produced by Ample Libraries using state-of-the-art recording equipment, cutting-edge conversion software and proprietary production techniques, DCS is an expansion pack for Kontakt 4 and 5—  the industry-leading, industry-standard, sound replacement and enhancement plug-in from Native Instruments— and is intended for use in a variety of studio and live situations. TRX Digital Cymbal Studio incorporates these advanced technologies to allow greater control of the recording and performing processes while providing programmers, composers and engineers as well as drummers and other musicians with greater control of the creative process.

The TRX Digital Cymbal Studio includes a diverse yet complete collection of nearly 100 cymbal sounds from TRX’s popular Original and ICON series. Because each cymbal was custom-crafted by a master Turkish cymbalsmith and specifically selected for the project, DCS offers a unique palette of sounds that are refreshingly different both from commonly available acoustic instruments and previously available digital libraries. In order to allow the most dynamic, realistic musical performances, samples of multiple playing areas (bell, face, edge, etc.) are provided for each instrument.

The TRX Digital Cymbal Studio includes the following collections of TRX cymbal sounds:

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