Buy 1, Get 1 Free from Best Service! BUY any of the following BEST SERVICE products between July 1 and July 31, 2008 and get one of equal *or* lesser value FREE* by filling out and mailing in this rebate form. PURCHASE ANY OF THESE PRODUCTS: ETHNOWORLD 4, GALAXY II PIANOS, CHRIS HEIN BASS, CHRIS HEIN GUITARS, STRINGS ESSENTIALS 2ND EDITION, ARTIST COMPLETE, LATIN WORLD, COMPLETE CLASSICAL COLLECTION 2ND EDITION, ORIENT WORLD. Academic versions are not included in this promotion. - Kelly

EastWest is launching weekly specials, and this week they have Quantum Leap Ra on sale for a great price. Ra is a massive collection of 14 GB of ethnic and rare instruments. It is a great way to add interesting and unusual instruments to your music. - Kelly

Get a free Lacie 120GB USB Hard Drive from NI when you purchase Traktor Scratch before the end of June. See rebate form for details. - Kelly

Free DVD Tutorial! Purchase any product made by Propellerhead between June 1st and August 31st, 2008 and you'll be eligible to receive a Brainwerks tutorial DVD! That's a $59.99 value, yours for free! Valid only in the US, see rebate form for details. - Kelly

PG Music recently released Band in a Box 2008.5 with a number of new features focused on their RealDrums and RealTracks technology. RealTracks and Realdrums now take up 1/8 the space that they used to take since they now use compressed WMA files instead of WAV files. RealTracks also generate faster and have a wider tempo range. They''ve added "RealStyles" which allow you to use audio recordings for all instruments in a style instead of MIDI. Other new features include the ability for soloist to solo over different chords than the song, crescendo soloing, and the ability to save a single part to a WAV file by right clicking. - Kelly

From now until May 29th, save 10% off on East West software. Take advantage of this special offer to get a great deal on their popular sound and sample libraries. - Kelly

Order a Sibelius 5 or Groovy Music Site License for your school or district and receive one of the following Site Licenses (of equal or lesser value) at no additional charge!* - Groovy Music Shapes - Groovy Music Jungle - Groovy Music City - Instruments - Compass - Rock & Pop Sound Library - World Sound Library - Choral Sound Library ORDER SOON! This offer ends June 30, 2008 Remember, Site License copies can be shared around all the schools in your district. For example, if you order a Sibelius 5 Site License for the high school(s) you can get a free Site License of Groovy Shapes for the elementary school(s). NOTE: *Offer applies to Site License purchases between May 1, 2008 and June 30, 2008. Applies only to new Site License purchases or add-ons of 11 seats or greater. The free Site License must be for the same number of seats and of equal or lesser value. Please add the free Site License (priced at $0) to your Sibelius or Groovy PO. Some restrictions may apply. - Kelly

Purchase an Edirol R-09 portable digital recorder between April 1 and June 30 2008 and receive a $50 rebate and a free leather case with tripod mount from Roland, by mail in rebate. See rebate form for details. Offer valid only in the US. - Kelly

If you purchase and activate KORE 2 full version between April 1st and May 31st, you get additional NI software and sounds from NI when you activate on-line. KOMPLETE 4 owners will receive the KOMPLETE 5 update plus MASSIVE EXPANSION VOL. 1 - for free. All other KORE 2 full version purchases include the acclaimed MASSIVE synthesizer and MASSIVE EXPANSION VOL. 1 at no extra charge. - Kelly

Buy 1, Get 1 Free! Purchase any of the following East West products before April 24th, and receive a second product from the list free from EastWest! Shipping charge applies, see rebate form for details. Purchase any of the following and receive one of equal of lesser value free: FAB FOUR; GYPSY; MINISTRY OF ROCK; VOICES OF PASSION; COLOSSUS; SYMPHONIC CHOIRS; RA; EWQLSO GOLD BUNDLE; EWQLSO GOLD PRO XP; EWQLSO PLATINUM BUNDLE; EWQLSO PLATINUM PRO XP; EWQLSO SILVER; ADRENALINE; STORMBREAKZ; PERCUSSIVE ADVENTURES 2; PERCUSSIVE ADVENTURES 2 LE; STORMDRUM; HARDCORE BASS XP. Check out the complete list of EastWest products - just click on the title you are interested in to download demos, get pricing or order on-line. - Kelly

If you have a Finale site license, you can upgrade to a Sibelius 5 site license for less than $100 per computer! This is a limited time special offer until the end of April. Please contact us for details, or find out more on-line. Be sure to check out the great Sibelius add-ons available, including video tutorials, sound libraries and more! - Kelly

We don't have one very often, but when we do, our clearance sale deals are amazing! Until April 4th, take advantage of some big discounts on popular products, including Sibelius and M-Audio, along with extra special savings on a few close-outs we found at the back of our warehouse. There are even a few academic savings to be had. The sale runs until April 4th, or while supplies last - check it out! - Kelly

Buy a FireStudio and get a free MSR Remote from Presonus. Offer valid only in the US, see rebate form for details. - Kelly

Purchase Sibelius 5 from February 15, 2008 to April 30, 2008, and get up to $100 back via mail-in rebate! Take advantage of this special offer and save $100 on Sibelius 5 Professional-Single Copy OR save $50 on Sibelius 5 Educational-Single Copy! See rebate form for details. - Kelly

Looking for some good sounding bass synths? Don't want to pay a lot - how does free sound? Check out the Sonart Bass Box! - Kelly

Teaching Music with Reason has been a popular tool for teachers wanting to teach composition and music production. Based around a specially adapted version of Reason, Teaching Music with Reason is a series of lessons that form an introductory level curriculum for creating music with Reason in the classroom. Designed for use in secondary and high school music classes and college introductory modules in Music or Music Technology, it meets national curriculum requirements and music teaching guidelines in many territories. Originally developed around Reason 2.5, Propellerheads has decided against updating the excellent curriculum for Reason 4. Fortunately, they have released the curriculum, including the teacher guide and student workbooks in the public domain. You can now download the materials free! Of course the curriculum is free, but you will still need Reason or Reason Adapted. Reason 4 is available for purchase, while Reason Adapted comes free with many soundcards. - Kelly

Right on schedule, PG Music recently announced Band in a Box 2008. New features include RealTracks, Multi-Styles, updates to the Audio Chord Wizard, RealDrums Style changes and a lot more. Band in a Box 2007 introduced the highly effective concept of RealDrums - using real recordings of real drummers instead of MIDI tracks. Now they've extended the concept to other tracks as well with RealTracks. Real Pedal Steel, Real Acoustica Guitar and Real Tenor Sax (only for soling) have been added to make playback even more realistic. You can now have up to 24 substyles within a style, you can change RealDrum styles within a song, and you can now change the key signature anywhere in a song. There are lots of other great new features, and if you already own Band in a Box, you can purchase an upgrade. If you don't already own Band in a Box, be sure to check it out today! - Kelly.

Academic versions of Sonar Producer Edition and Sonar Studio Edition now include SONAR Music Projects, a set of materials aimed at secondary school Music classes up to GCSE. The 10 projects introduce some of SONAR's easy-to-use features and help students develop a range of musical and technical skills. Each project contains teacher notes and student project sheets in PDF format, along with SONAR files. A SONAR Skills Guide provides easy reference to the program features used in the projects. The SONAR Music Projects CD-ROM also includes a "starter" set of audio clips to inspire ideas. - Kelly.

Due to the strength of the Canadian dollar, we've been able to lower even more of our Canadian prices. We haven't got through everything yet, so if you find a price that you think should be lower, please let us know, or try our "Name Your Price" feature. Keep in mind that Kelly's Music Canada can't always offer the same price as Kelly's Music USA. In some cases, the Canadian distributor hasn't lowered their prices to the same as the US, so we have to charge a bit more. In other cases (such as M-Audio), the distributor is very good at keeping up with price changes and our Canadian prices are very attractive. As well, if we have to import an item from the US, we pay the extra shipping, duties, customs fees and brokerage for you - sometimes that means that an item imported from the US may sell for more in Canada than the US. However, since you usually get free shipping, and don't have to pay the brokerage or duty, the total price of ordering from us is still much less than ordering from the US. We are here for you, so please call or e-mail if you have any questions about our pricing or the products we sell. - Kelly

Not only have we been able to drop some of our prices on Presonus products, there are also some great mail in rebates to be had! FireStudio - purchase a FireStudio and receive a free FaderPort! Central Station - buy it now and get a free CSR-1 Remote! Eureka - get the AD192 free! Firebox - send in the rebate for a free sample and loop library disc. Offers are valid until January 30, 2008, see rebate forms for details. - Kelly

Propellerheads is now shipping the long-awaited Reason 4.0. Adding a new synth, and an arpeggiator, Reason 4 also sports a new sequencer with multiple track lanes, vector automation and more. The ReGroove Mixer offers realtime, 32 channel timing and groove handling - you can apply any groove to any track non-destructively. Very cool! Already own Reason? Reason 4 Upgrades are available now! - Kelly

If you use Finale or Encore and have been thinking of switching to Sibelius, now is the perfect time to do so! The Sibelius Competitive Upgrade is on sale for less than the cost of a Finale upgrade! Public school teachers in Ontario also qualify to purchase the Sibelius 5 Competitive Upgrade - contact us for details. - Kelly.

Our Canadian customers will be glad to hear that we've dropped our pricing on a huge number of products over the past few weeks given the strength of the Canadian dollar. Keep in mind that when we source products from US vendors, we still have to pay customs charges, including duty, brokerage, and taxes. Of course shipping from the US can be expensive, so we have to account for all of these costs when setting our selling prices in Canada. In other cases, we source products from Canadian suppliers (such as Steinberg Canada or Roland Canada), and often they are slow to adjust their prices (if they adjust them at all) to reflect the current exchange rate. If you see an item that you think isn't priced fairly, compared to the US price, please let us know and we will see what we can do for you. - Kelly

Cakewalk is now shipping Sonar 7, the latest release of their popular DAW software. Returning to their roots, Cakewalk has focused a lot of attention in beefing up their MIDI tools, including the innovative new Smart MIDI Tools a powerful new step sequencer, and pitch to MIDI conversion using V-Vocal 1.5. Other new features include a true linear phase mastering plug-in, delay compensation for external gear and lots of enhancements to workflow and mixing. Current Sonar users can order their upgrades on-line - please be sure to indicate the version and serial number of your current Cakewalk program. - Kelly

East West has some amazing deals until the end of the month on bundles of their most popular products! In many cases, these are while supplies last. - Kelly.

The popular Gold Bundle suite of audio plug-ins from Waves is 20% off until the end of August. Waves is well known for top-notch audio plug-ins that can make the difference between a good or great recording. If you already have the Waves PowerPack or Renaissance Collection, you can also save 20% off the upgrade. - Kelly

Notion 2.0 is now available, with some great new features that make Notion a viable notation program for anyone who wants realistic playback and complete control over the playback of their score. New features include real-time Note Audition, which use the high-quality samples from the integrated playback sound library or any of the 10 Sound Expansion Kits. (When you click a note in the score, you hear it using the built in sound library. You can now click and drag notes, symbols, articulations and more, making it much faster to edit your score. NOTION 2.0 also offers improved Music XML handling, MIDI Import, and WAV file mix down. It is now easier to write for percussion, add chord symbols and record from a MIDI keyboard. - Kelly

Looking for lesson plans? Check out Connect with Music for 30 free interdisciplinary lesson plans that utilize multimedia, music, and technology to aid in the instruction of Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science at the middle school level. Included with each lesson plan are all of the associated materials to implement the lesson successfully, comprehensive scoring rubrics, links to standards in music, technology, and each subject area, and many useful links that enhance the lesson plans. While each lesson plan can be taught on it's own, there are many that are linked together, providing each subject area with multi-faceted, classroom-tested, technology-rich interdisciplinary lesson plans. It is our sincere hope that you use these materials in your classroom, and that you share this new resource with your colleagues and administrators. - Kelly

It may seem that July is a strange time to have a Year End Clearance Sale, but July is our fiscal year end. We want to clear out as much inventory as possible before we do a count so we've got some great prices on a long list of products. The sale is until July 30th, or while supplies last.

Teachers: IK Multimedia is offering grants to teachers who want to add IK Multimedia software to any course. You simply need to purchase one copy of any of their programs at the educational price, complete a form and they will send you 9 more licenses for the same software! It may be hard to believe, but it is true! Buy one copy, and get 9 free! Details: Representatives of accredited educational institutions in the U.S. and Canada who submit course information and purchase one copy of any IK Multimedia product at the academic price will receive nine additional licenses free. More licenses can be purchased at quantity discounts to equip an entire lab or department. Applications must be submitted on school stationary, and must include a statement that the software is being introduced to a course, the instructor's name, school name, address, course title, credits, and dates. - Kelly

Ahead of schedule, MakeMusic recently announced Finale 2008. One of the most exciting features is the ability to record an audio track or import a wave file to playback along with score! After importing the audio file, you can use TempoTap to line-up the audio file to the notation. With Kontakt 2 included with Finale 2008, you can easily use sounds from multiple NI compatible sound libraries. So you don't have to fiddle with other sound libraries if you don't want to, there are now more Garritan sounds included as well, such as saxes and choirs. Although most people probably won't need to use it very frequently, Finale has a handy new feature that can merge multiple scores into one file. This would allow you to import multiple movements into a single document, or merge a bunch of individual parts into one score. There are a host of other new features, but if you want to upgrade, you have to purchase the upgrade directly from MakeMusic, as they don't sell the upgrades through dealers. However, if you are a first time Finale buyer, you can buy Finale 2008 now. - Kelly

Wavelab is an incredibly powerful and very popular audio editing and mastering program. Recognizing that not everyone needs all of features found in Wavelab, Steinberg released a "cut down" version called Wavelab Essentials a while back. They recently decided to lower the price even further, making it an incredible value for anyone who just wants to do basic audio editing. Check out Wavelab Essentials for a great value priced audio editor. - Kelly

For a limited time, Cubase LE owners can upgrade to Cubase 4 or Cubase Studio 4 for almost 50% off the regular price. Not sure if you own Cubase LE? Well, you didn't buy it - it is included free with many different soundcards. So, if you haven't checked the software that came with your soundcard, now is a good time to see if Cubase LE was included! - Kelly

Save $50 US! Receive a $50 US mail in rebate from Sibelius when you purchase a Sibelius Pro Tools Kit, Sibelius Pro Tools Keyboard Kit, or a Sibelius Pro Tools Complete Studio before September 14th. Valid in USA and Canada only, see rebate form for details. - Kelly

It has been a long wait for Vista users, but M-Audio has finally released 32-bit Vista drivers for most of their popular products. You can find the list on their website. - Kelly.