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The drum stuff seems new, but at first glance looks quite gimmicky. As a professional composer, the last thing I want to see is a picture of a drumkit and various performers in the middle of my DAW interface.

Yeah, that's what I mean - we already have the ability to easily create drum kits in Ultrabeat, that just seems like a simple interface for new users. Not sure if it's worth upgrading, personally.

You can write MIDI processing plugins using Javascript, that's pretty big. And most everything is now pushed to the iPad for touch editing.

The Javascript thing is pretty cool, I missed that!

And it looks like the finally removed the Environment completely!

[EDIT] Nope, the Environment is still there, my bad!