Coincident with the opening of the Winter NAMM, Eventide has launched a new state-of-the-art Eventide website that will serve as a venue and forum for users around the world.

Steinway And Sons, maker of the world’s finest pianos, and Garritan, makers of the world’s finest music soundware, announce a new venture to create a series of Authorized Steinway Piano sample-based software instruments.

MOTU debuted Electric Keys ($295), a cross-platform virtual instrument that delivers authentic sounds of 50 classic, vintage electric keyboard instruments from the last 40 years. This massive 40GB sound library includes over 20,000 meticulously crafted 24-bit 96 kHz multi-samples of legendary electric pianos, electric organs, clavinets, Wurlitzers, tape
samplers, string machines, keyboard basses and other rare and exotic electric keyboard instruments.

Every Flux plug-in now features an Automation button managing the A/B Morphing slider. When engaged , only the Morphing slider is used to control the host automation in read and write modes. No other plug-in parameter is managed by the host automation.

Strum Acoustic GS-1 is an acoustic guitar software synthesizer based on the latest AAS physical modeling technology. Strum provides an impressive collection of steel and nylon acoustic guitars and includes elaborate voicing and strumming modules for the realistic reproduction of a guitarist’s playing techniques. Chords played on the keyboard are automatically voiced for the guitar while strumming and picking actions are reproduced by an auto-strum function, special strumming keys, or MIDI loops. EQ, multi- effect, and reverb modules complete the package.