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Pro Tools Instrument Expansion Pack

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Digidesign will introduce and reveal the new Pro Tools Instrument Expansion Pack at this weeks NAMM. Thanks to the AIR Users blog we have the details for it.

Features summary

  • Very low price (TBA NAMM 14-1-10)

  • One installer

  • One activation code for all instruments

  • 55 GB of linear (uncompressed) sound content – time to buy ANOTHER hard drive!

  • Bug fixes – Pages of them!

  • Lots of performance improvements

Strike:

  • Enhanced Style editor

  • Improved MIDI export, (MIDI-Record button for easier handling, only one PT MIDI track needed instead of up to 15 in older Strike versions)

  • User Sample Import (YES you import your own samples)

  • Over 10 GB of new content (25 GB total):

  • 2 acoustic new Drum Kits, recorded in Nashville Blackbird Studios (these consist of two full drum kits plus 2 kick drums and 4 snare drums – all sampled in high definition with a vast variety of playing styles and sub-instruments)

  • New Instruments: Bongo Hi, Bongo Lo, Chimes, Drum Sticks, Finger Snaps Single, Finger Snaps Group, Hand Claps Single, Hand Claps Group, Tambourine, Cowbell, Metallic Perc

  • 3 new electronic drum kits

  • 55 new styles

  • 3-D drum animation

Structure:

  • Giga-Sampler format import

  • Kontakt 3 import

  • Added EXS modulation matrix support (Structure now imports also LFO and Modwheel assignments)

  • Enhanced database (improved usability, automatic re-scan)

  • Digidesign Basic Orchestra (new orchestral content: Digidesign’s own orchestra and it’s beautiful)

  • Digidesign Piano B (new content: custom-made Digidesign grand piano for Structure),

  • Nashville Signature drum kits (From the Nashville sessions at Blackbird studios)

  • Orchestra control features (special MIDI control features to create ultra-realistic simulation of playing styles)

Velvet:

  • New Reverb FX module, (Three reverb types: Ambience, Spring, Room

  • DX Tine Sounds now built in with 9 new tines

Transfuser

  • New “Roland 303” like bassline module

  • New 6-band Parametric EQ effect module for accurate frequency surgery on your loops

  • New Electronic drums created by AIR

  • New Loops from BigFish audio

Hybrid

  • 2 New waveforms for oscillators 1 and 2 (Multi-Saw and Multi-Square)

  • New waveforms for noise oscillator (Blue, White, Mod, Crackle) – Cool for R&B Bass and percussion

  • 256 new patches

 

 

 

 

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