These are the releases we have encountered this week on the Loops and Samples front. Just like the quality of the audio software we use these days the quality of the content we use (loops and samples) equally matches the high standards of this software. Below is this weeks selection.
Reforge for iPad is the Swiss army knife for audio files on iPad. Edit the wave form directly just by touching it. Set selections to copy and paste within files or even paste from another file. Dynamically change volume for fade in effects or the remove unwanted clicks. Adjust stereo balance and set it to the far left channel for the beginning of the track continuously transferring over to the right channel for the end. Add stereo widening effects or bring it all to together to make is sound mono. Add high pass and low pass effects to start an intro, simulate a telephone conversation or just distort your sound.
As thrilled as Soundtoys are by all the love for Decapitator, they also thought it would be even better to create a new tool designed for the subtler side of analog. So meet Juice™, their upcoming analog input channel modeling plug-in.
The new Dr. Octo Rex Loop Player lets you load up to 8 REX loops into a single player but it’s so much more than that. This tutorial gets you up close and personal with the machine that will redefine how you use REX loops in your production.
FXpansion is proud to present City of Drums and Beats, a GURU expansion pack featuring an exclusive suite of sounds from Mike Acosta, a.k.a. DJ Michael Trance.
PreSonus announced that it is now shipping Studio One™ 1.5.1, the latest update to the company’s flagship music recording and production software. This is a free update for all registered users of Studio One Artist and Studio One Pro. To update their software, users should log into their PreSonus accounts and download the new version.
de la Mancha just announced that his plugins have been updated using SynthEdit version 1.1. This update eliminates any problems of multiple plugin instances with some multi-core CPUs. More details here.
This video shows the operation of the updated ‘Keep on disk‘ function to be available with FL Studio 9.5 (in testing). The new Keep on disk will allow FL Studio running on Windows 32 and 64 bit to load an almost unlimited Gb of sample data. Watch to learn more…
Adobe Audition for Mac, coming in a future release, will bring modern audio post-production to the platform of your choice. Familiar tools for audio editing, multitrack mixing and recording will meet expanded device support, greater workflow flexibility, and optimized performance. Plus, best-of-breed audio restoration tools make it easy to clean up production audio. With the essential tools you rely on for fast-turn projects, Audition for the Mac brings a fresh face to audio post-production. Adobe expect to make a public beta of Audition for the Mac available in Winter 2010.
112dB announces that Big Blue Limiter, a tube-modelling character limiter, is now available in native RTAS/AS/VST/AU format for Windows and Mac OS X at the introductory price of €99/$99. Big Blue Limiter is a character limiter. It is neither transparent nor intended to be. In fact it adds a little mojo to everything you run through it, if desired even when no limiting is taking place.Big Blue Limiter uses analog tube modelling in its limiting circuitry, which makes any limited warmer and fatter by adding a pleasing amount of coloration. And as if that weren’t enough it also features an independent preamp that just loves to be overdriven. With its versatile sound, intuitive interface, easy operation, and negligible CPU load Big Blue Limiter feels equally at home during a mix session and a mastering session.
Light Impressions is a bank of free 45 presets being the light variations of SubBoomBass of Rob Papen’s factory presets. The bank also includes the new presets as a foretaste of the commercial bank to be released late August.
You can download Light Impressions here: www.stawczyk.com/freebies.htm
The CS Vibes is a collection of 200 extraordinary sounds for Arturia CS80 V. It is the fifth in Musicrow’s succesful series of soundsets for Arturia vintage synthesizer recreations.
Steinberg released the free 5.5 update for Cubase and Cubase Studio – with a feature set that speeds up workflow and boosts creativity! The brand-new version delivers performance, automation and video enhancements, as well as refined beat tools and workflow improvements in key areas.
Peavey Electronics and Agile Partners are proud to announce AmpKit, the ultimate amp and pedal studio with full recording capability for iPhone/iPod touch/iPad, and AmpKit LiNK, a high fidelity electric guitar interface. AmpKit is a free app with a built-in Gear Store that will be coming soon to the iTunes App Store. AmpKit LiNK is available for pre-orders now!
Zoom takes its revolutionary R16 and turbocharges it with a sampler and drum machine, 8 additional recording tracks and 6 channels of phantom-power on the all-new R24. The R24 combines four production tools into one incredibly versatile device. In addition to 24-track playback and 8-track simultaneous recording using SD memory cards, the R24 is a digital multi-track recorder, an audio interface, a control surface and a pad sampler.