From now on all students and teachers can benefit from special rebate conditions for SKYLIFE SampleRobot, SampleRobot Essentials and WaveRobot products. There are also multi licenses available for universities, audio and film schools. The request can be sent via www.samplerobot.com.
MODARTT releases Pianoteq add-on Celeste which includes a celesta and a glockenspiel. These instruments are appreciated for their pure, bell-like sound, and are still popular today, appearing in everything from marching bands to jazz ensembles.
The Global Konnekt Project started out in London, went on to Denmark, the US and Canada, and now, it is back in London to get mixed by UK producer, Robbie Bronnimann. Get all the best mixing tips from one of the greatest producers around.
FREE upgrade for all users. Stripped down to only 2 parameters and an intuitive graphic design these tools enable you to tune, attenuate or boost the impact of your bass drum sound – even in a final mix(!) or a complete stereo drum-loop.
Steinberg is excited to announce the release of the premier VST Workstation HALion Sonic, the long-anticipated successor to the highly acclaimed Hypersonic 2, which lets you work more productively than ever before. HALion Sonic excels in the studio as well as on stage, featuring a state-of-the-art sampling and synthesis engine, a world-class library and an intelligent user interface.
With a total of 181 new sounds in the Nord Sample Library, this addition gives a whole new perspective for the Nord Electro 3 and Wave users. With sounds from some of the most appreciated vintage synthesizers and string machines, even the hardcore analog fans will have plenty to choose from.
The StringPort very carefully processes, converts and conveys to the computer the polyphonic audio from industry-standard hexaphonic pickups (like the GK, Graph Tek, Zeta and RMC models) through high speed USB2. We have written custom drivers with extremely low latencies and all our applications take full advantage of multi-threading and multiple cores. High resolution (24bit) converters and impeccable design provide greater than 92 dB SNR from analog in to analog out.
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.
PSP Audioware is pleased to inform that new versions of the Lexicon PSP42 (v. 1.6.0) and PSP 84 (v. 1.6.0) have been released. The update is free for registered users. Due to technical limitations newest version of the PSP 42 and 84 are available in the non ilok version only.
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.