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.
Logic Pro 9.1 is an update to Logic Pro 9, which is part of the paid upgrade to Logic Studio
(2009).
Arturia announces THE ONE, a single-box containing every Arturia software instrument and a single license to activate one of them. This product comes from a simple observation: in stores, it may not always be possible to find the title you want. Dealers may have one instrument in stock, but not all products by the company. The idea with THE ONE is to make sure all titles are in one box and the user decides which one he will authorize.
Pioneer released a new version of their rekordbox™ music management, which enables DJs to connect their laptops directly to the CDJ-2000 and CDJ-900 decks. It launches alongside an essential firmware upgrade for both players that adds several major new features and improvements (firmware v3.00).
nXtasy is considered to be the leading and best sounding multi-octave Harmonic Tube Saturation inducing DSP plug-in in use by many Audio professionals today. V3 improves the magical results attained by its predecessor V2 in a brand new product bringing many new and very exciting features including core enhancements, performance enhancements together with a completely new gorgeous UI revamp to match.
Celemony Software GmbH is pleased to announce that Melodyne editor, the first product to offer the patented DNA Direct Note Access technology, will be updated to version 1.1 in April. The free update improves the sound quality, performance and reliability of the software, optimizes numerous functions, and fixes a number of bugs. At the same time as the Melodyne editor update, updates will be appearing for Melodyne assistant and Melodyne essential RTAS.
The State of Art expansion is an expansion pack for Gladiator 2, designed by professional sound designers: Bastiaan van Noord, Bryan ‘Xenos’ Lee, Alusio de Lima, Dajan Izzo, Massimo Bosco, Marco Scherer, Patchen Preston and Markus Feil.
Allen & Heath will be launching a new club installation product, the Xone:PB patchbay, and the XD-40 monitoring headphones at Pro Light & Sound, Frankfurt (MusikMESSE).
Now with two amazing new plug-ins, Decapitator and PanMan, SoundToys V4 brings even more realistic analog sound and unique creative effects to your favorite audio production system. For mixing, sound design, remix and more, SoundToys is the industry standard in professional audio effects plug-ins.
In our Messe preview we have talked already on the possibity of a new Elektron machine glooming at the horizon. For weeks the Elektron forums are buzzing with rumours and ideas. The new product would probably getting its introduction at the coming Messe next week. Elektron have covered themselves in mystery and are replying with the appropriate “no comment”. However … the video below shows us someone making buttons (for the Messe?) that reveals the name of an unknown Elektron product: the OCTATRACK! Be sure to watch the video till the very end by the way…
da la Mancha has announced the release of GTS plus updates for GTO, GTX and GTA (to rev. B). dlM has also announced the launch of a new Group Buy for these four plug-ins plus QB-3 in the Vintage Colour Bundle Group Buy.
rekordbox™, the digital music management software collaboration between Pioneer and MixVibes – the ©iTunes for DJs – is being now being made as a free download to all DJ’s after the successful launch of their new club standard CDJs.
Introducing TRIGGER, the next generation of drum replacement by Slate Digital. TRIGGER introduces new features and advancements not found in any other drum replacement plugin. At the heart of TRIGGER is a revolutionary new triggering engine with Slate Digital’s ADVANCED ALGORITHMS. The engine also contains the AMG humanization algorithm. AMG is a physically modeled triggering algorithm that allows the triggered drums to play with an extremely realistic and natural response. Even ghost notes and complex drum fills can now be retriggered with ease, naturally.
And there it is, after a few weeks of teasing Toontrack has announced BeatStation. It plays percussion pads, lead instruments and melodic basses. Beatstation uses a flexible and skinnable open playing surface. It handles custom samples, midi grooves and .rex files. Apart from the video on their website there still isn’t much information but it looks like it is a VSTi that can be whatever you want it be. Although it is firmly planted in the Toontrack legacy of designing the best percussive virtual instruments Beatstation marks a departure for Toontrack, introducing melodic instruments, REX support, and recording capabilities making it the ultimate open surface sampler for sound designers, producers, musicians and songwriters alike.