Leading electronics experts Kenton are well known for their rock-solid products that form the hub of many a recording studio worldwide. Now with the introduction of the Merge 4 theyre ensuring MIDI merge capabilities are within the reach of those on even the tightest budgets.
The MATRIX Vocoder is now compatible to the new VST3 standard, the next major revision of Steinberg’s Virtual Studio Technology. The new side chaining capabilities in VST3 makes the handling of MATRIX much easier.
Steinberg is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the 4.1.2 service release for Cubase 4 and Cubase Studio 4. The new update includes a range of minor enhancements, and incorporates feedback from Cubase customers. The new update also officially supports Apple’s Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system. The new Cubase Essential 4 will already ship as version 4.1.2 on its release.
The Renoise Team is pleased to announce the first ever public Renoise demo for Linux. As a Linux user you may come to appreciate Renoise’s hands-on and fundamental approach to music production. For those on other platforms, now is the chance to experience Renoise on the operating system that has become famous for its flexibility and stability.
The version 1.6 of the ELS Vocoder brings a smaller interface option which allows using the ELS Vocoder with laptop screen resolutions more comfortably.
You can now switch between both sizes with a simple option, and you need to reload the ELS Vocoder to apply the GUI settings.
With the small interface size, you can access the same modules than with the normal size interface, by clicking on the corresponding tab.
Magic Vox uses the beautiful sonic qualities of guitar harmonics (flageolets), as a basis for the creation of a totally new playable and expressive musical instrument, with a distinctive sound.
H.G. Fortune just released the new 4.0 version of the X-Wheel of Fortune. X-Wheel of Fortune 4 (X-WoF 4) is a multipart integrated algorithmic VSTi music system for creating tracks based on 8 instruments-parts. Each patch/preset may be a complete musical track, a track for backing a live performance etc. This can be arranged in using the algorithmic Wheel mode for free floating or the Scale step mode for harmonically prestructured tracks.
Inspired by a combination of several old school beat boxes and the circuit-bending culture that revolves around cheap, and old, hardware musical instruments (such as the ‘toy’ Casio and Yamaha keyboards of the 80s), Broken Drum Machine brings the lively, ‘ever changing’,
circuit-bent drum machine sounds to your DAW.
Gladiator is one of the most powerful synthesizers ever. Based on the Harmonic Content Morphing (HCM) Synthesis. Tone2 today released update version 1.2.2. for PC and Mac.
Prosoniq are happy to announce the immediate availability of an AudioUnit demo version of their award winning morph plug in. This is not a standalone demo application like their previous VST demos, this is a demo plug in that integrates just as easily with Logic and GarageBand (and any other AU host) as the real thing.
ManyBass is a bass guitar sample based synthesizer which comes with a large collection of bass guitar samples intended to form the foundation of your day to day bass instrument needs. This extensive range of sounds has then been coupled with a highly efficient sample playback engine with a powerful FX rack.
NEXUS is a next generation rom synthesizer of the highest quality from reFX, which just recieved an update (version 1.3.9.)
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.